True Love Waits

Chapter 143 The Warm Bed

"Rat-a-tat-tat." Debbie was startled by a sudden knock at the door. It was already well past her usual sleeping time and she wondered who could it be at this ungodly hour. She had just unzipped her down jacket. She had no choice but to zip it up again.

"Who is it?" she called out.

"Young girl, it's me." It sounded like the voice of the village head's wife.

Her guess was right. When Debbie opened the door, she saw the village head's wife and her handsome son standing outside.

The woman smiled pleasantly on seeing Debbie and asked, "Young girl, did I wake you?"

Debbie shook her head. "No, it's okay. I hadn't slept yet. Is everything okay?" she answered, confused as to why these two were paying her a visit at night.

The woman turned towards her son. He immediately lifted up something from the ground and handed it to Debbie. "This is our electric warming fan. My mother and I have brought it to you so that you don't get cold," he told her coyly.

"But...no... I can't take this. This is too generous." Debbie was deeply moved. As far as she knew, there was not even a water heater in the village. How on earth did they manage to procure an electric warming fan for her?

She didn't want to prove a burden to anyone, but the village head's wife was having none of it and straightforwardly asked her son to carry the fan into Debbie's room. Before Debbie knew how and what, the boy had already plugged the fan into a socket and the room was filled with the slight hum of its motor.

"Thank you so much! But if I keep the fan in my room, what about you? You'll be cold at night without it," Debbie protested, though she wasn't entirely ungrateful. If she had guessed right, then this might have been the only electric warming fan in the whole village.

With a genuine smile, the woman responded, "We're used to this weather, young girl, but you've come from the big city. You can't fall asleep at night without it. Please sleep tight. We should get going now!" Then, she held her son's hand and they left together, leaving Debbie to her confused thoughts.

With the warming fan on, the room was soon filled with a warm ambiance. Sitting at the edge of the bed in her thoughts, Debbie even forgot to lie down.

She was confused. 'Why does the village head's wife treat me so well? Is Jared's joke true? Does she really want me to stay and marry her son? Truth be told, her son is quite handsome. But...I'm married. I have Carlos. If that's why this whole special-treatment-thing is going on, I'm afraid their wish can't come true, and it's got to stop,' she mused.

couldn't be farther from the truth. This was proven when she went to get some

village who was a part of her life at the moment was being very kind. Even the owner of the house which she was staying in gave her special care. When she walked

only thing she did. Earlier, she had prepared a new basin and a clean towel for Debbie too. At the moment, Debbie hadn't thought too much about these new things, because

the bed again. Much to her surprise, the bed didn't feel cold. And the fan couldn't have warmed the bed it was

electric blanket on her bed. And moreover, someone had turned it on in advance, so it was already warm enough now. A suspicion rose inside her heart again. Unable to hold back her curiosity, she took out her phone and texted Jared and Dixon. She asked cautiously, "Hey guys! Do you two feel cold in your rooms?" After waiting for a long while, she received Jared's reply. "Of course we feel cold Deb! I couldn't bear it

here and I'm freezing to death. What's more, that jerk Dixon asked me to stay in the quilt to warm the bed for

I sleep, so I have no choice but to tolerate that guy." Though her friends were

the voice message and it was really comical. "Jared, are you a snake? Why is the bed still so cold? You've

To confirm her guess, she texted Gail too. She couldn't sleep right now anyway if she couldn't figure the whole thing out. She wrote, "Gail, are you asleep?" Soon enough, she received Gail's voice message. They were all too cold to type with their thumbs. "Is that really a question? It's so cold in this bad place.

her to catch a cold or get some serious illness, so she returned a message. "If you can't withstand

received Gail's reply. This time, she had resorted to text. "No way! I will never sleep in the same bed with you! Who knows what your body smells like! Not a chance. Damn!

in your cold bed!' Debbie angrily repeated Gail's sentence in exasperation. She didn't care about her anymore

next day, the first batch of donated supplies had arrived at the Southon Village. Therefore, Debbie and her schoolmates assembled at a small school and began to distribute the supplies to each household. The supplies were numerous and by the time they were finished, it was already dark. One day had

didn't have parents and were being raised by their grandparents. She silently gave some money to the grandparents of

startled her, and she quickly lifted the old woman up from the ground. It would have been a touching

donated supplies hadn't arrived, the fifteen university students took turns to give classes to the kids there. They shared a

standing outside since there wasn't enough space inside. With keen pleasure, they listened to Debbie and Jared singing songs and then listened to Dixon and Gregory telling stories. Everything the students talked about was new and interesting

of supplies arrived. There were new cotton shoes and clothes in this

went to the yard behind the school on her own. She wanted a breath of fresh air for as long as she could have

phone which had no signal, when a person suddenly showed up in front of

her head and found that it was

saying a word. Debbie looked around and found nobody else here. Confused,

his eyes on her without

"Dammit. Hey, you're a man and