Almost instinctively, as he did not have any time to think, he violently pushed Leila off the cliff.
"Ah––" Before Leila had time to do anything, she had already fallen straight down.
"Bang––" The fuel tank exploded! And Arthur hadn't had time to take Macey over!
The deafening explosion caused Leila, who was falling rapidly, to freeze and let out a cry of sorrow, " Arthur, Macey—"
The moment the blast hit them, Macey instantly threw Arthur, who was about to push her off the cliff to the ground, while along the huge shockwave her back was hit by the glass shards of the car, "Ouch…Arthur? Are you okay?"
"Macey?" Arthur turned over and hugged Macey.
He felt it completely. At the moment of the explosion, she jumped on him to save him. "Are you okay?"
Both of them fell on the edge of the cliff.
"I..." Macey smiled and suddenly gushed out a mouthful of blood, then gasped for air. "I..."
"Macey?" Arthur was stunned, he felt a handful of blood as he reached for her, "Ah…Are you hurt?"
"I…I…" Macey tried to say something, but as soon as she opened her mouth, blood gushed out of it.
Arthur trembled and cried out in panic, "Macey, you make me scare, where did you get hurt?"
"I…Ouch…" Macey moaned in pain, blood flowing down her mouth, while her back was gurgling with blood from a bloody hole pierced deeply by the glass. The blood slid out of her body along the wound, and Arthur saw her back, it was her lung. Had her lung been injured? Had she injured her pulmonary artery? How could there be so much blood?
And she was drenched in blood, looking miserable, with blood spitting out of her mouth, "I…I can't hold on anymore…"
Macey panted heavily, her hand clutching Arthur's, "Tell, tell Charles, let…him find a good girl to marry…"
"Macey…" Arthur choked out. "You're not going to die, you're not. I'm taking you to the hospital!"
Arthur hurriedly grabbed Macey's hand and turned his head to glare at the other five cars behind the flames blazing in the sky. They seemed startled in their cars, too.
However, no one stopped and the car left in a hurry.
"Get back here! Get back here and save her!" Arthur growled mournfully.
"Ar, Arthur…" Macey shouted urgently, "I can'…I really…can't…don't blame yourself…I'm happy…really!"
"Macey, I'm taking you to the hospital!" Arthur choked, his eyes rimmed with red, and his hands were covered with her blood, too much of it, too horrible. He held her hand with a pale face and tried to pick her up, but Macey shouted at once, "Don't move me!"
"Macey? Let's go to the hospital, let's go to the hospital now!" Arthur could no longer care about Leila.
"I…I really…can't…please…don't move me…" Macey shook her head.
"Macey, how could I not save you, how could you be so silly? Why do you protect me?" If she hadn't jumped on him, maybe he would be the one to die. She saved him, but she had only just gotten together with Charles, and she had only just decided to start a new life in America. He really dared not to imagine if she died.
"As I said…the grace of…the grace of dripping water…should be reciprocated by a gushing spring…" Macey smiled. Perhaps, she could really feel relieved if she died. "I'm happy, don't be sad...tell Charles that I died in peace…"
Suddenly, at that moment, the siren of a police car came.
Arthur shouted as if he had seen a savior, "The police is here, the police is here. Macey, the police will take you to the hospital!"
"I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on…"
The police finally arrived.
Vincent and Charles were both in the car, who were notified by the police. As soon as Charles saw Macey covered in blood, he almost went crazy. He knelt down beside her and let out a desperate cry, "Macey ––"
Tears of joy had flowed down Macey's cheeks as she had a chance to see Charles again before she lost her last breath.
"Charles––" she called out to him nervously.
When he heard her call, he knelt down and cupped her face with trembling hands.
Her appalling blood left him stunned, looking at her, his heart ached beyond words. He gazed at her with his eyes full of affection that it was like looking into her souls, like he was looking at the most intimate person in the world.
"Macey, Macey, Macey..." he wailed, so desolately.
"I…Charles…I'm fine…very fine…Don't be sad…" Macey reached out to caress Charles' face, her tone so gentle as if she was telling a usual story.
"Macey, let's go to the hospital, to the hospital!" Charles picked up Macey.
"How could this happen?" Seeing such a scene, Vincent was also stunned. He held Arthur's shoulders and said in a trembling voice, "Where is Leila? Where is Leila?"
Arthur was taken aback and finally remembered Leila, "Leila has jumped off the cliff, go save her!"
"Damn!" Almost without a second thought, Vincent jumped straight off the cliff, while Arthur shouted loudly to Charles and Macey, who didn't know if there was any chance of survival, "Macey, I'm going to save Leila, you must hold on and wait for me to come back!"
Macey, this girl, made his heart ache!
It was true that the grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a gushing spring, but he didn't give her any grace, how silly was she to insist on blocking the shockwave for him? Arthur also followed Vincent and jumped into the sea.
Several police cars came, and seeing such a scene, the head of the police immediately said with the walkie-talkie, "Send some men to the seashore, right now!"
Vincent fell into the sea, sank into it, and floated up again. As soon as he appeared on the surface of the sea, he immediately raised his voice and shouted, "Leila? Leila?"
But the sea was quiet, no one was around. Where was Leila? Where was his Leila?
With another splash, Arthur also fell off.
"Macey…Don't leave me!" Charles murmured, choking in her ear.
"It's so nice to…to meet you…" Macey smiled.
Charles lifted his head, and Macey saw the tears in his eyes, falling on her face as she gasped for air and coughed up blood.
"Promise me…find a good girl…promise me!"
He looked at her, tears streaming down his face, falling on her cheeks and mixing with her blood. "Macey!"
"Promise me!"
She was so desperate that perhaps she felt she couldn't hold out any longer, a smile curled her lips and she looked at him expectantly, "Promise me––Please––"
What followed was a moment of silence. He burst into tears. The tears and blood were so intertwined that they could no longer be distinguished.
After a while, Charles finally choked back tears and nodded, "I'll find, I'll find a good girl! But she's not Macey anymore! No one can replace Macey!"
His tears revealed his vulnerability.
She struggled to reach out and wipe his tears. "Charles, don't cry––"
"Don't leave me! Macey, we should love each other for a lifetime, no, for all eternity, how can you leave me?" Charles trembled, her voice choked with sobs, "Who gives you permission to leave me? Who gives you the permission? I forbid you to do so! I forbid, do you hear me?"
Their fingers were intertwined together; all their love and hate, all their sorrow and joy, were left with nothing but a lifetime of regret at this moment!
Macey smiled, a stunning smile blooming on his lips, "Charles…Goodbye…thank you for the happiness you have given me…In my next life, I hope I can love you without sin…"
Goodbye! My love!
Macey slowly closed her eyes…
And her consciousness was gradually drifting away…
'Good bye, Charles, my love, if there is another life, I hope my love for you will be pure!'
His tears fell on her face.
"Macey, don't sleep, please, don't leave me!" Charles murmured in her ear, choking with sobs and hugging her tightly. "Don't leave me…"
Eventually, she couldn't breathe and her breath gradually faded away!
With tears streaming down his face, Charles kissed her, "Macey, I forbid you to die, and I won't find anyone. If you dare to leave, I will be a bachelor for the rest of my life!"
However, her breath had stopped…
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