Who Is The Real Boss?

There was no signal in the middle of the sea.

Annabel wasn't sure whether the distress signal would reach her grandfather.

"Of course he'll receive it," Rupert said reassuringly, as though he read her mind.

Truth be told, Rupert had never seen such a signal transmitter before.

Was Annabel's grandfather really just an old man from the countryside? How could he have given Annabel something so high- tech? There was a trace of curiosity in Rupert's eyes as he looked at the woman in front of him.

It seemed that there was more to his fiancee than met the eye.

But he decided against asking her about it.

It was better if Annabel took the initiative to tell him.

What he liked was her, not her identity or her family background.

And now wasn't the time to think about these things.

They were getting closer and closer to the sea surface.

Annabel craned her neck to look around, and she found that there were a few small islands in the distance.

Her eyes lit up excitedly.

Before she could tell Rupert her findings, he spoke first.

"Anna, look over there! It's an island!"

"Yes!"

Annabel nodded.

"I was just about to point it out!"

Chuckling softly, Rupert whispered in her ear, "It seems we have a connection..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he nibbled on her earlobe playfully.

A wave of electricity spread out from her earlobe, making her body go limp.

Annabel's cheeks turned as red as tomatoes.

How could he still flirt with her at a time like this? "Stop it."

She turned her head to look at the island in the distance.

If there was fresh water on the island, they would have a chance at survival.

But she didn't know how long it would take for them to swim to the island from here.

Could the food Rupert packed be enough for them? Would her grandfather receive her distress signal and save her? Annabel was in deep thought when Rupert's voice suddenly pulled her back to reality.

"Can you swim?"

"Yeah."

Annabel nodded.

a life-vest from his backpack and help Annabel put it on

there as soon as we hit the

like a plan,"

would be lucky enough to be spotted by a passing

two of

the white peaks of the waves

the sea

and stirred up

this, Annabel

all

hit the

Rupert perfectly timed it.

tied his life-vest to

each other tightly, the two

filled Annabel's mouth,

"Anna, are you okay?"

turned to look at Annabel

"I'm fine.You?"

her struggle to stay afloat.She couldn't help but grab his

took this as an opportunity to

forehead, he said gently,

go of Annabel and started swimming towards

the wound on his arm

few days ago, in protecting Annabel, he was stabbed in

wound started to

now, the wound cracked open again after being soaked in the

managed to

support.He couldn't afford to show

worries on her

Annabel was oblivious to his pain and swam behind him as best

waves seemed to get bigger and

were dragged by the

to keep

shocked to find that it seemed to be getting farther

I think the waves

Rupert already knew this.

were swimming

best, the waves kept pushing them

while, he said, "Okay.Stop swimming first.We need to conserve our strength.When the wind stops, we can

only way," Annabel said

stopped swimming and leaned

life-vests, so they didn't

kept roaring, and the wind whistled

gritted her teeth and held onto Rupert's

after wave came towards Annabel