Will You Marry Me, Again by Pear Heart

Chapter 48 Didn’t You Hate Me?

“What is it?” Aiken turned back to Maia.

“Please be careful.”

“Don’t worry about me! Make sure you take care of my sunglasses, I’ll come get them when I’m back. You should take a break while you can!” Aiken said, flashing an OK sign to reassure her.

“Of course,” Maia promised.

Aiken then left with the others to help the locals.

After what seemed like hours, the winds began to clear up. However, the rain still showed no signs of subsiding.

The rapid water currents were strong and rushed toward the lower areas in the town. Most of the roads were flooded.

Maia looked out through the windows. She saw that the tide was as high as a two–story building. Numerous residential areas around the hotels were completely destroyed.

Maia’s fatigue started to set in and she slowly drifted off to sleep. Suddenly, a woman in the room screamed, “Look! A child! There’s a child in the water!!

“Oh my God! It’s really a child! Is there anyone else who could swim here?”

“All the good swimmers left to help the locals. What should we do now?”

Maia got up and pushed her way through the crowd to check on the situation. She saw a girl, about 7 or 8 years old, struggling to stay afloat in the water.

She looked like she was about to drown. There was no time to lose!

Before Maia realized what she was doing, she was already running towards the main entrance.

A concerned staff member called after her. “Ms. Maia, where are you going?”

replied. The atmosphere in the room instantly shifted as more. people started to

“I’ll come too!”

“Me too!”

go! We might be

Even though Maia was still feeling a numb sensation in her legs and one of her arms was

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third floor, she noticed that the little girl had managed to grab onto a handrail. However, the handrail was slowly coming loose. There was a chance that it might break anytime, and she would

time to lose. Maia immediately broke one of the glass windows and jumped

swimmer. Unfortunately, due to the strong currents and her injuries, she was just barely able to

kept crying for her mother as she tried her very best to cling to the

grabbed onto a nearby tree branch and reached

Both her legs and arms were throbbing in pain as she told the child to grab on tightly onto

Maia had come to

of a sudden, a voice broke through. “Ms. Maia, we’ll try to get a rope to you. You can put it around the girl, and we’ll pull her

noticed a few guests were standing at the

body, Maia would never be able to swim back with the little girl. This was the

to

the people at the hotel started hurling the rope toward

was finally able

to move higher. I’ll tie the

“I can’t!

too tired!”

you can do it! Don’t

leaving her body, but she had to ensure the girl was safe. Hope was just within an arm’s reach, they should not

child nodded and tried her best to lift herself with Maia’s arm as support. Maia proceeded to tie the rope around the child’s

done, she told the child, “Listen carefully, don’t let go of the rope

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It was admirable how such a young child could muster such courage

signal those in the building. When the guests saw

minutes later, the child had managed to reach the second floor of the building

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