The cascading waterfall hung between heaven and earth, like a ceaselessly flowing Milky Way forcibly frozen in the air by divine power.
Countless broken water droplets hovered and swirled around Hawk, who stood beneath the waterfall.
They seemed to be submitting to Hawk.
Fear, fear.
Perhaps feeling his voice was too loud, the waterfall now dared not even make a sound.
All was silent.
Only the word "Hawk" from behind him made Hawk, shirtless and with his chest heaving slightly, tremble.
Hawk instinctively turned his head.
What he saw.
He saw Gwen emerging from the nearby forest, wearing a windbreaker, her blond hair now disheveled and covered in sweat, but her blue eyes filled with surprise as she looked at him.
"Gwen?"
Hawk froze instantly.
He was somewhat incredulous.
Good heavens.
He never expected that the first person to find him wouldn't be the Quantico military, but Gwen.
But how could this be?
Hawk was somewhat bewildered.
At that moment, time seemed to restart.
Rumble!
The waterfall, which had been flowing backward, returned to normal, though the sound was much quieter than before.
It seemed the waterfall was afraid of causing an unnecessary disaster by making too much noise.
After all, Hawk could truly make it flow backward.
Meanwhile,upon seeing Hawk standing beneath the waterfall, Gwen started running.
Although she didn't understand why she was running when she saw Hawk,she just wanted to run.
In the blink of an eye, Gwen had jumped into the pool beneath the waterfall and waded to Hawk.
The next second,she hugged Hawk tightly.
Hawk instinctively pulled Gwen into his arms, protecting her from the impact of the waterfall with his back.
Just then…
He reacted quickly, and with a whoosh, his figure vanished into the pool. When he reappeared, he was already carrying Gwen on the bank beside the waterfall.
A billowing white mist, like billowing smoke, rose from Hawke and Gwen, who had just been soaked by the waterfall.
In the blink of an eye,under the surge of Hawke's powerful energy, both Hawke and Gwen, who were drenched a moment ago, were now completely dry.
Having done this, Hawke looked down at Gwen, who was tightly holding him.
He opened his mouth, wondering how Gwen had found him when even the military in Quantico couldn't locate him.
But Hawke looked at Gwen, who had closed her eyes and was even emitting soft snores in his arms, opened his mouth again, thought for a moment, and then remained silent. Instead, he sat down and gently placed Gwen in his lap.
He didn't speak, but looked down at the sleeping Gwen, noticing her disheveled blonde hair.
He stretched out his right hand, paused slightly in mid-air, then resumed his movement, tidying the stray strands of blonde hair beside Gwen's face.
About half an hour later,Gwen slowly opened her eyes. Having slept soundly, she thought she was waking up in bed and instinctively stretched.
The next second,she saw Hawke looking down at her.
Their eyes met.
Gwen blinked instinctively.
Hawke smiled slightly.
"Hello."
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"Holy shit!"
With a gasp, Gwen jumped up from Hawke's arms, her previously fair face visibly flushing pink.
Hawke also stood up.
As he stood, his limbs squeaked with relief, as he finally found the comfort of moving, having remained motionless for fear of waking Gwen.
Gwen, who had been observing her surroundings, refocused her gaze on Hawke, who was only wearing shorts.
Hawke's physique was like that of an ancient Greek sculpture, his deep blue eyes framed by a pair of untamed, sword-like eyebrows.
The eyebrows were still the same.
The difference was that before, Hawke's eyebrows were like swords hidden in their sheaths; now they were like a gleaming sword, drawn from its sheath.
Gwen was instantly mesmerized.
The next second...
She snapped out of her daze, looked at Hawke, and seemed to realize something, a beautiful smile playing on her lips.
"The library, reading, haha."
"..."
Hawke raised an eyebrow, catching the hint of resentment hidden beneath Gwen's teasing. He thought for a moment, then said, "Sorry."
Gwen smiled.
If Hawke had heard the hint of resentment in her teasing, Gwen also sensed something else in Hawke's apology.
For example,Hawke had apologized to her before.
But she could sense that Hawke's apologies were just for the sake of apologizing.
But this one?
Gwen's lips curled slightly, and she reached out her small hand to Hawke.
Hawke was slightly taken aback.
Gwen said, "Give me your phone. Why didn't you answer my call?"
Hawke reacted, walked to the side, and took out his phone, which he had placed on top of his neatly folded T-shirt, and handed it to Gwen: "I've been here for over twenty days; it's long out of battery."
Gwen was slightly surprised and took the phone.
Sure enough.
The phone wouldn't light up.
But…
Gwen blinked, as if she'd thought of something.
Holding Hawke's phone in one hand, she took out her own and tapped the link in the earlier text message.
The link was invalid.
Gwen stared blankly at the now-dead link on the screen.
Hawke finally asked the question he'd been wanting to ask all along.
"By the way, Gwen, how did you know I was here?"
"…"
Gwen snapped out of her daze, subtly putting her phone back in her pocket, then handing it back to Hawke with a slight smile: "My dad's the sheriff, Hawke. Wherever I want to be, I can find you."
Hawke blinked.
He'd have to be crazy to believe that.
But seeing Gwen's cheeks flush slightly again after she said that, Hawke thought for a moment, a look of realization crossing his face, and then nodded.
Never mind.
If he'd been curious about how Gwen had found him when he first saw her, he wasn't curious at all now.
Hmm.
Just now, as Gwen fell asleep in his arms, he wasn't curious.
Perhaps it was as Gwen said.
She was the sheriff's daughter; if she wanted to, she could find herself anywhere.
That's what Gwen said.
Hawke chose to believe this premise.
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