Chapter 336 - The scavenger hunt 2

Wang Shi turned, showing a devastating sight of his face. "If you think I'm doing everything to get you back, then why are you doing it too?"

"You--"

"I know everything. Suyin. What you have and are still doing for my parents, my grandpa, Jianyu, Mei, and everyone that's related to me. I know how you daily update about me and Honey to mom and dad and have promised them to take care of us. I know how you talked for hours to grandpa when he was distressed about losing his two grandkids. I know Dr Colton is still treating grandpa on your request." 

Honey's two cousins were dead. Their father was the mole of the family who had collided with Alpha to get the Wang family's wealth. It was he who had poisoned elder Wang and spread the rumours. 

However, in his greed to take over the family business, Wang Chuzhi failed to understand that Alpha's revenge was against the entire family. Which includes him too. He was also a Wang.

His ignorance costs him the life of his two kids. 

"--I know, you help me in the hospital so that I don't exhaust myself and take some rest. I know you call my assistant daily to ask if I had eaten something or not." He leaned closer, his hot breath mingling with hers. "I know you are hurrying up the work here so that I could be there for Jianyu and Mei. I know everything. Now tell me, why so much care? Aren't you as selfless as me?"

Suyin turned her face. "I-I don't have an answer to that."

"I have. We care because we love and respect. That's what a healthy relationship is about." He pressed his palm at the swell of her b.r.e.a.s.t where her heart lies beneath. "This little organ is surely taking our decisions and making us do as it says." He pinched her cheeks. "Isn't it?"

Suyin smiled, both lost in the moment.

"MOM, DAD, I FOUND A REFRESHMENT BAG." startled, they jumped, their heads snapping in the direction from where Honey yelled. "WE GOT APPLES! AND A HAIRY CATERPILLAR HAS MADE A HOLE IN IT. EWWWW...."

"This boy--" Wang Shi hit his head at the tree trunk, exhaling. Suyin giggled. 

"Let's take the picture of Mr. Hairy caterpillar. It's on the list." 

Wang Shi caught her hand and pulled her. "Ms. Zhao, don't think I ignored the usage of word 'might' in your sentence." [I might never accept you] "This means--"

Suyin pushed at his c.h.e.s.t. "Though I love this discussion, I never thought we'd be discussing our 'care' towards each other in the middle of the forest, wearing these clothes and a ridiculously itchy mustache on our face." She made a face as she pulls out the mustache from her pocket, pasting it on her face.

Wang Shi burst out laughing, "I'm going to frame your pic and keep it at my bedside."

She gasped, "You clicked my pic in a moustache?"

"And it's your best pic I ever had."

"Delete it."

"It's a treasure."

"I hate you!"

"And I love--" he looked, "I love ???? ."

"I love ???? too. But--"

"Can you two please concentrate on the task at hand?" Honey walks to them, hands at h.i.p.s. "If I were doing it with Baghee and Cleo, I would have finished the hunt by now. Duh, lazy and talkative elders." He threw an apple at Wang Shi and one at Suyin. "Buck up you two. Still got two more items. "

Wang Shi counted on fingers, "Three items more."

Honey rubbed his nose. "Two. One was collect animal poop. I got it."

Suyin, "How?"

"I just got it."

Suyin and Wang Shi looked at Bagheera and Cleo simultaneously, one sniffing around bushes and one trying to steal bird eggs from tree.

"E.." Suyin's nose scrunched, "Shishi, he's not sleeping with us tonight."

"Ducky, stop. Don't forget your turn is about to come. I bet, after this, you will hug me to sleep."

"Honey!" Wang Shi warned.

Suyin frowned, "What do you mean?" she looked at the two, talking to each other with eyes. "What are you two hiding? Spit it out."

...

...

"No. No way!"

"Suyin, listen to me once."

"Mom, please. We'll lose." 

"STAY AWAY FROM ME BOTH OF YOU." Suyin hustled around the trees,  staying away from the two as they chased her. "We are done. Call Jin, we are pulling out. I'm not playing this game anymore."

"But I want to win!"

"And I want to kill that rascal uncle of yours." Suyin snatched the machete tugged at Wang Shi's waist, waving it in the air. "Feng Jin, you are dead. I'll chop you into pieces and feed to lizards."

"Great. When you do so, we'll take a family picture and win the hunt." Honey suggested.

"..."

"..."

"If you want to play, then continue. I'm out."

"You know that's impossible. We will be disqualified." Honey w.h.i.n.ed.

"Then be it. What's more important, me or the game?"

"What's more important, me or your fear of lizards?" Honey countered.

Suyin, "Fear of lizards."

Honey, "Game."

Stuck between them, Wang Shi looked as the two growled at each other, fires sparking in the air. "Tom, Jerry, let's talk this out--"

"STAY OUT OF THIS!" both yelled. Wang Shi raised his hand, surrendering.

Honey looked back at Suyin. "This is the last time, I'm asking."

"Good! I won't have to waste my energy anymore saying the same thing over and over." Suyin sat down near a tree and turned her bag upside down, searching for the phone. 

Honey snatched Wang Shi's bag and ran to a nearby tree. "Ha, you forgot, the phone is in this one."

"Honey!"

"I want to win." Honey fixed his foot on the rough edge of a tree, reaching up to take a branch, balancing and then pulling himself up. And then to another branch, higher. And another. Suyin and Wang Shi's jaw dropped.

Wang Shi, "From where did you--"

"By watching Baghee and Cleo." Honey answered before Wang Shi could ask. His two pets climbed after him, proudly setting on either side. They purred when Honey ran a hand on their fur. "Now, coming back to the task. I'm not moving from here until--"

"Dream on. You will come down once you are hungry. And so as your brothers."

"It's just a picture! Not like you have to eat it."

"That I agree." Wang Shi said. 

"Dr. Wang Shi, you said something? Say it again." Suyin showed him an eye. 

"Dr. Wang Shi is supporting me. Stop scaring him, ducky."

Wang shi "..."

"I'm sitting here. When you two are done, just tell me." Wang Shi sat down, fishing out the apple from his pocket that he didn't get the chance to eat.

Time passed. Apple finished. But the two remained still at their places. Suyin sitting under a tree, and Honey on a tree apposite hers, his legs dangling.

Suyin watched Honey with narrowed eyes as he made a paper plane and flew it towards Wang Shi. He whistled, and Wang Shi unfolded it to read. 

"What is it?" Suyin asked. Her world flinched when Wang Shi shifted his gaze above her head. She sat frozen.