Chapter 1119 — Valentine's Day Special: Xiao Ning's Story, Part 4
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Still, having Wei Zhao hold her in his arms was genuinely a little mortifying, and the girl also feared that carrying her this way might put him to inconvenience. She hesitated, then said, "Would you... carry me on your back instead?"
"Heh... very well." It was Wei Zhao's first smile since the enemy had closed in, and it caught the girl completely off guard.
"You can smile? I thought you couldn't - that you were simply born with a cold, sour face!" The girl and Wei Zhao had not been on good terms before, for he was the only retainer who never stooped to flattery, and whatever proposal she put forward he mostly opposed. In his view, the whole purpose of this journey to the small European country was to conclude the business negotiations; anything beyond that was superfluous!
So she had always taken Wei Zhao for a man without the feel of human courtesy, forever pulling that fierce poker face, incapable of bending an inch. Only now did the girl finally understand: everything Wei Zhao had said before had been for her own good!
In a foreign land such as this, her attendants had not the slightest experience in handling trouble, while Wei Zhao's experience was plain for all to see. As with before - had she only listened to him and kept her wealth out of sight, they would never have brought this calamity down upon themselves.
Wei Zhao did not answer her. He simply turned around and let her mount his back.
Sixteen was not so very old an age, yet the girl's figure had already begun to fill out rather nicely. Lying against Wei Zhao's back, she could not help pressing her breasts into him, and the thought of it filled her with shame - though in a situation like this she could hardly concern herself with such things!
Just as Wei Zhao had said: if those men discovered her, she would be ruined if she survived at all!
So the girl did no more than hesitate briefly before she clambered onto Wei Zhao's back and looped her arms around his neck.
When Wei Zhao straightened up, he had no choice but to hoist her bottom with his hands; had he simply let the girl hang from his body, she would have strangled the breath right out of him!
The girl's face flamed at once - but she was behind Wei Zhao, and he could not see. The feel of her bottom was soft and pleasant, and his back could still register the yielding of her breasts against it; yet Wei Zhao could not afford to dwell on such things now - escaping with their lives came first!
Wei Zhao bounded over tree after tree, and a good half hour passed before he finally stopped and dropped from the bough. He had by now covered a great distance; ahead lay a range of mountains, and they must already have passed beyond the armed militants' zone of control.
Wei Zhao set the girl down from his back and said, "That should be far enough. We ought to be out of the enemy's reach. Do you have a phone? Contact the embassy and have them send an aircraft to rescue us."
"Mine's in my backpack - I didn't bring it with me. Don't you have one?" Set down, the girl's cheeks were still burning. Lying against Wei Zhao's shoulder a moment before, his strong masculine scent had sent her heart racing.
Wei Zhao frowned, drew out his own phone and glanced at it, then said evenly, "There's no signal for mine here. Only your satellite phone will connect!"
The phone Wei Zhao had brought was a domestic model, able to use the local networks - but they were at the border now, and this should be a dead zone where no signal reached. Only a satellite phone could communicate with the outside world, and the girl did not have hers on her!
"Ah!" The girl started, and at once a flicker of guilt crossed her face. "I... I didn't know. That satellite phone is too heavy, and I thought everyone's phone would work, so I left it in the suitcase... I'm sorry..."