Chapter 570 - 569: Leaving Without Saying Goodbye
William Griffith put down his fork and suddenly stood up, moving closer to her. Looking up, Cherish Turner saw him bend down to gaze at her, reaching out to touch her face. She looked at him wide-eyed, only feeling a prickling pain in her ear as something was put on. She didn’t usually wear earrings, butshe knew what he had put on her.
Cherish touched it with her hand; a slick, hard object was attached to her ear.
Feeling a kiss on her forehead, Cherish looked up dazedly and saw his deep eyes. He spoke in a low tone, "Cherish, don’t take it off."
Cherish nodded squarely. William Griffith patted her hair, "Good girl, go soak in the hot spring."
The men’s and women’s baths in the hot spring were far apart, so as per tradition, they would meet at the pavilion after bathing.
Warm spring water soaked her body as Cherish took out her phone to snap a photo of her earring. As the flash went off, she saw the image of a black gem on her screen. It was an utterly clear black gem, so stellar that despite the blurry picture, its preciousness was evident. She could faintly see a carved pattern in the black gem.
Tenderly stroking the earring, Cherish suddenly thought of what he said at the airport, "Let’s end where we began."
As if afraid or anticipating something, she surged up out of the water, robed herself and sprinted out of the bath.
There was no one waiting in the pavilion, Cherish raced there.
She sat in the pavilion, waiting and waiting.
People kept coming and going, but that one person did not reappear.