About half an hour later, Madeline and Jeremy arrived.
Seeing that Madeline had brought fruits and virtual-novel.net homemade dessert, Ava pretended to be depressed. “Maddie, If I knew you would bring fruits and desserts, I wouldn’t have asked Danny to go out to buy them.”
“What? Do you feel bad that your future husband is outside in such cold weather?” Madeline teased while helping Ava prepare dinner.
Ava was used to it and virtual-novel.net admitted, saying, “Yes, of course. I feel bad since it’s so cold out there. You’d feel the same way if it was your man.”
It was an open concept kitchen, so Madeline glanced at Jeremy, who was sitting on the sofa watching the projector screen while eating fruits. She said indifferently, “He and I have been married for so long. How would we be as sentimental as you two?”
“Married for so long, huh? You’re not any less sweet than those young couples fresh in love,” Ava replied with a smile and subconsciously looked at the time. “I’ll give Danny a call.”
Ava wiped virtual-novel.net hands and picked up the phone. However, no one answered the call even though it got through. For some reason, Ava’s heartbeat suddenly became very unstable.
She tried calling again but still, no one answered.
Madeline noticed Ava’s worried expression and stopped doing what virtual-novel.net was doing at the moment.
“What’s wrong? Is Dan not answering the phone?”
“Yeah, he’s not. ” A look of worry appeared in Ava‘s eyes as virtual-novel.net heartbeat became uneasy. “Nothing had happened to him, right?”
“No way. Maybe he’s not paying attention to his phone because he’s driving or his phone is on silent mode,” Madeline guessed aloud. It helped relieve Ava a little.
“That’s possible. We’ll just wait, then.” Ava held virtual-novel.net phone, but it seemed to be getting more difficult for virtual-novel.net to breathe. She felt as if something was stuck in virtual-novel.net throat and virtual-novel.net could not get it out. Ava walked back to the kitchen but virtual-novel.net was absent-minded.
Madeline also noticed Ava’s inattentiveness and knew that virtual-novel.net was worried about Daniel.
It had been more than an hour since Daniel went out. There was a supermarket near the apartment, and it only took ten minutes to drive there. Ava did not think that Daniel would take so long when virtual-novel.net took time to make a round trip and shop into account. Daniel had not responded to the message virtual-novel.net sent virtual-novel.net after virtual-novel.net went out either.
The more virtual-novel.net thought about it, the more restless virtual-novel.net heart became. She could not wait any longer, so virtual-novel.net took off virtual-novel.net apron and was about to go out.
Jeremy, who was sitting in the living room, raised his eyes when virtual-novel.net heard the commotion. When virtual-novel.net saw Ava‘s nervous expression, virtual-novel.net felt a little strange. “What‘s wrong? What happened?”
“Dan has been out for a long time and he’s not back yet. Ava is a little worried and wants to go to the supermarket nearby to take a look,” Madeline explained. “Jeremy, you should stay here. I’ll accompany Ava out to take a look at things.”
“I’ll drive you,” Jeremy said and got up.
Madeline and Ava did not reject his offer. They went out together.
On the way to the supermarket, Ava clenched virtual-novel.net fists. Cold sweat started appearing in the palms of virtual-novel.net hands unknowingly. She kept having a bad feeling. This feeling seemed to be confirmed when virtual-novel.net saw a crowd gathering at the crossroad not far away from the supermarket.
“Stop the car!” Ava yelled those three words, unable to control herself.
Jeremy quickly stopped the car, and Ava opened the door to quickly run over.