I was familiar with this look, after all, I had looked at him with such eyes for eight years.
Was it so obvious? Why had Austin never noticed it?
I drank the red wine in my hand in a self-deprecating way.
"You..."
I didn’t know when Austin stood behind me. He looked at the half-empty bottle of red wine beside me and frowned subconsciously.
I looked at the complicated look in his eyes and thought he wanted to do it like before. Took my bottle and drank it for me. But he just glanced and looked away.
"Where did you buy the peace sachet you gave me before?"
I listened to his words and the faint light in my eyes completely extinguished.
I didn't buy that sachet, I got it at the Stone Temple. I knelt down and recited Buddhist scriptures for a day and a night and the abbot was moved by my sincerity and asked for it.
I looked away, speaking indifferently. "The Stone Temple."
Austin nodded thoughtfully. "Miss Barley, go to bed early."
He was about to leave. I looked at his thin back and called him for some reason.
"Austin, the contract will expire in a few days. Will you continue to be my bodyguard?"