one step away [Interstellar]

96.

Xia Zuo left in a hurry, and it was not convenient for her to bring her luggage, so she didn't even have a change of clothes.But Heber solved these problems easily, Xia Zuo was a little dazed when he took the clothes Heber handed over to him.

"It was originally going to be sent in spring, so it will be a little thin to wear at this time, but it's not a problem to wear it as pajamas." Heber avoided her sight and explained lightly.

These are the clothes she made not long ago, and they are common clothes that Xia Zuo rarely has the opportunity to wear on his body.Before each season, she would prepare two sets of clothes for Xia Zuo, even if she couldn't wear them, at least she would not lack them when she had to go out.

As before, just as thoughtful as Heber could be.Xia Zuo stroked the clothes in his hands, and for a moment didn't know how to respond.She hugged the clothes and said softly, "Thank you."

"Then you... go take a shower." Heber said softly, signaling that he was going back to the room.Xia Zuo nodded, and replied, "En."

Heber quickly walked towards the room, leaving Xia Zuo in the bathroom where the children used to.Xia Zuo stood where he was, watching He Bo's back disappear, and he reluctantly walked into the bathroom after a long while.

Heber, who returned to the room, quickly closed the door.She quickly lowered her head, covered her hot cheeks, and after a while straightened up, she walked towards her closet.

She opened her closet and looked at the neatly hung clothes in the corner, forcing herself to calm down.How to explain these things that should have disappeared in Haipine?This is simply self-inflicted.

She patted her cheek, thinking of her momentary soft-heartedness, and then quickly pushed the pile of clothes into the dark compartment.After confirming that it was safe, he packed up his nightgown and entered the bathroom of his bedroom.

After taking off all the clothes on his body and soaking himself in the bathtub, Xia Zuo slowly let out a sigh of relief.When she came back this time, she took advantage of her serious injury and was transferred to the military hospital in San Alonzo, so she was able to apply for a walk.In order to ensure privacy, except for Amanda and a few personal guards, almost no one knew about it.

After this turmoil, and with the fact that Checil can now be on her own, it won't be long before she can apply for transfer from that damned place where Sass is.It's been three years, and when the kids get older, Heber really doesn't need herself anymore.

She has missed so much, she must come back.

The things that I have been planning since I woke up, went through my mind again.Then he picked up a handful of water and slapped it on his cheek.

That trauma left many small marks on her body, although they are not obvious anymore, as long as you look carefully, you will find them.The worst one was on the forehead where there was a new scar the size of a coin.

Xia Zuo has been using medicine to remove the scars, but the effect is not too fast, so that before returning to see Heber, there is still no way to eliminate the marks there.The hair can be covered, which is why when she came back, all the hair was combed back neatly, unlike before.

She stretched out her hand and touched the scar on her forehead, thinking about how to prevent Heber from discovering this scar tonight.You can't keep pressing her down so that she can't see it.But it seemed that the hair was long enough that Heber couldn't see it at all.

You didn't find out just now, did you?

As she thought about it in her heart, she heard soft footsteps outside the door.

The child's steps are very light, not in a hurry, and there is a feeling of playing.Xia Zuo's nerves tensed up for a moment, and he quickly realized that there were her children outside the door, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Stop making trouble, let me come." Qian Nuo's thin voice sounded outside the door, followed by the slight sound of the door lock turning.Xia Zuo immersed himself completely in the bathroom behind the transparent glass door, listening to the children's noises, amidst the sound of the door opening and the children's exclamation, he slowly immersed himself in the bathtub.

She immersed herself in the water, silently counting the approaching distance of the children after hearing the sound of the door opening.

"Ah! Charles! I've seen you all! Shame!" The children opened the door violently, laughing with their hips on their hands.But when he took a closer look, Xia Zuo was nowhere to be seen.

"Huh? Where's Charles?" The children who originally wanted to scare Xia Zuo looked at the bathtub not far away in bewilderment after seeing no one.

"Did you take a bath with your mother?" Li Qi continued. She glanced at the bathtub, exchanged glances with Chenuo, and said softly, "Oh, Chenuo, let's go find mother." So saying, but Slowly walked into the bathtub.

Xia Zuo, who was buried in the water, suppressed a smile, heard the children muttering for a while, and walked towards him as they said they were about to leave.Finally couldn't bear it, stood up abruptly, took a large handful of water and sprinkled it on the children.

"Oops!" Qian Nuo and Li Qi jumped to escape, but Xia Zuo was drenched all over.The two little children held hands, looked at Xia Zuo who was sitting in the bathtub with his shoulders bare and smiling brightly at them, and snorted together, "I knew you wanted to play tricks on us! I want to shower you too!"

Saying so, they walked to the side together, and splashed water at Xia Zuo.

Xia Zuo picked up Li Qi and quickly threw him into the bathtub. Amidst Li Qi's giggles, he caught Qian Nuo who was about to run away, and hugged him in without mercy.

"Let's take a bath again!" Under the pressure of the child-like mother Xia Zuo, the clean clothes on the two little princesses quickly got wet.The children splashed water at Xia Zuo, but Xia Zuo stripped them naked like her.

So the three of them quarreled in the bathroom, laughing and laughing.

The servants wanted to fish out the two little princesses of their own family, but in view of Xia Zuo's ambiguous identity as the master, they gave up.Finally, when Heber came out of the shower to check the messy bathroom that had been ruined by the two big ones, her two little princesses, who usually had their hair neatly groomed, had become little sloppy ones.

When Heber stood at the door of the bathroom in his nightgown and looked at the three crazy people, he was almost splashed by the water splashed by Cheno.

"Can you explain to me why?" After she said this, the three of them who finally noticed her stopped and immediately pointed their fingers at each other.

"Xiaer did it!" The twins had a tacit understanding, and without hesitation, they pushed the responsibility to the one who was not afraid of being scolded by their mother.

"It's Chenuo and Li Qi!" Xia Zuo, who would never suffer in this regard, betrayed his two children without showing any prudence as a mother.

Heber looked at them for a long time, the three people sitting in the bathtub looked at each other, and decided to bow their heads after much deliberation.The twins sat side by side, bowed their heads towards Heber and said, "Mom, I was wrong."

very good.So Heber looked at Xia Zuo, and the twins also looked at Xia Zuo.So Xia Zuo raised his hand and said sincerely, "I was wrong too, and I have a part in it."

Heber sighed, looked at the wet clothes on the floor, and there was still a lot of water, looked at the children, and said, "Don't soak it, just come out after washing."

"Good mother." The children quickly climbed out of the bathtub as if they were being pardoned, and appeared naked in front of Heber.Hebe wrapped them up with a large bath towel at the side, and looked at the wet clothes flying around on the ground.The little child knew his mother very well, so he walked on his long legs and threw his wet clothes into the laundry basket held by the robot with a doggy face.Then they ran over together and showed their sweet smiles to Heber.

"Hee hee, Mom." Cheno smiled flatteringly, while Li Qi at the side tried her best to show her cute side.

Heber was not angry at first, but now he had to look at them with a straight face.She pulled the children in front of her, wiped their long wet hair, wrapped them in bath towels, patted them and said, "Go to Auntie Angie to find clothes for you,"

"Okay mom." The two children ran out happily, and sneakily made faces at Xia Zuo before leaving.

"Naughty ghost." Xia Zuo laughed, watching them wave and also raised his hand to say goodbye.

Hearing that the two children quickly found Angel and asked her to help him get the clothes, Heber's eyes fell on Xia Zuo again.

She was sitting in the bathtub with her upper body naked, with an open face.He Bo looked at her for a long time, but Xia Zuo didn't understand why he looked at her, so someone who was so playful turned his head, looked at He Bo who was standing at the door with watery blue eyes and said, "I also want to... ...to be wiped clean, to be hugged?"

This... hooligan.

He Bo was silent for a second, then couldn't bear it anymore, pulled the towel aside, and threw it at Xia Zuo. "Wipe yourself!" After throwing down such a sentence, Heber turned and left.

She left in a hurry, and then heard a burst of uncontrollable laughter from behind, silently biting her lower lip.In her heart, apart from Xia Zuo's long-lost laughter, there was also a scar the size of a coin on the corner of the forehead where the hair was pulled away.

When did you get hurt?Why never say it?

She carefully thought about Xia Zuo who appeared regularly in the communications of the past few years and would only disappear for a short period of time in winter.Thinking about guessing when she was injured, I still feel that the most suspicious period of time ago.

Afraid that she will be worried, so why don't you say it?

For a long time after that, Heber was restless because of this little trauma.

After the tiring game, the children had little energy left, and they were almost tossing around while playing with Xia Zuo.

But they were so happy that they didn't fall asleep after midnight.Xia Zuo and He Bo talked with the children for a while, then Li Qi and Chenuo dragged them to lie on the bed together.

"What happened to Little Hubao in the end? Shire." After listening to Xia Zuo's story about Little Hubao and the thieves, Chen Nuo asked.

"Little Hubao burned all the thief's belongings and rescued his father and mother. They lived happily together in the end." Xia Zuo said softly, looking at the drowsy children, he reached out and patted them head, and coaxed softly, "Sleep, little ones."

"Then will Xiaer always be with us in the future?" Qian Nuo opened his drowsy eyes and looked directly at Xia Zuo.

"I can't, I still have to go back to Sass, because Charles is a general." Xia Zuo patted Chen Nuo on the head, saw that she was about to cry with her mouth flattened, and said hastily, "But I will be with you tomorrow."

"Liar, that's what you said last time." Li Qi, who has a good memory, didn't forget that morning, when they woke up, they couldn't see Charles anymore, and they cried so hard.

Xia Zuo felt very guilty for such a young child, but remembered the parting so clearly.She pinched her little daughter's face and said sincerely, "I promise, this time it's true, I will still be there tomorrow, and you can see me when you open your eyes."

"Really?"

"Really, if you don't believe us, we hook up." She stretched out her little finger, signaling the children to hook up with her. The innocent children reached out, hooked Xia Zuo's finger, and shook it gently, "Then you promise ..."

"I promise..." Before she could finish her words, the children, who were already too sleepy, seemed to be relieved at last, and fell asleep just like that.

The children's breathing was shallow, and Heber, who was lying on the side, looked at the sleeping children, leaned over and kissed their foreheads.Then, with Xia Zuo's help, they covered them with a small quilt, and waited for Xia Zuo to finish kissing the children before leaving the children's room lightly.

Xia Zuo walked last, and followed He Bei to her bedroom.He Bei walked very slowly, Xia Zuo easily followed and held her hand.He Bo didn't refuse her, just took Xia Zuo's hand all the way to the bedroom.After gently closing the door, Xia Zuo, who had been holding Heber all the time, suddenly pulled her into his arms, and pressed her against the door panel.

The room without the lights turned on was dim, and strong alpha pheromones shrouded it from above.He Bo raised his chin, and Xia Zuo grabbed his lips.

"Hebe..." Alpha's long-suppressed voice was very hoarse, calling her name in a low voice.The sound made her fall into her heart as if she was in a midnight dream.

The fine kiss fell on the throat and collarbone, and Heber was forced to raise his chin, looking at the dim ceiling.When the familiar heat forcefully entered the body, and the moment the tear glands collapsed, a clear thought came to mind.

Ah, she's back.

Back... her... alpha.