Mr. Warner, Your Wife is Running Away Again!-Chapter 218: Wishing Her Heart’s Desire Fulfilled

Chapter 218: Chapter 218: Wishing Her Heart’s Desire Fulfilled

Vanessa Sterling reached out with her chopsticks to pick up a piece of fish from the plate, thinking as she put it in her mouth, if he wanted her dead, there would be a million ways, no need to go through the trouble of cooking for her and poisoning the food.

"Is it good?" Miles Sterling asked her.

Vanessa Sterling looked up at him, with a cautious demeanor, as if confirming his mood, and only after a couple of seconds, she lightly nodded her head.

Miles Sterling smiled, picked up his bowl, and drank all the soup in it.

Seeing him smile, although there was no sign of ulterior motives in it, still made Vanessa Sterling feel a bit creeped out.

She quietly ate her own food without initiating any topics to communicate with Miles Sterling, even though she was quite curious about why he unusually hadn’t gone home for New Year, but came here to have dinner with her instead.

The food he made was indeed quite delicious. Although Vanessa Sterling wasn’t particularly picky about food, naturally it felt good to eat something tasty.

After dinner, he didn’t go out again but sat in the living room watching television.

Vanessa Sterling quietly cleaned up the kitchen by herself, then silently returned to her room.

After closing the door, she lingered by it dumbfounded for a moment, unable to decipher Miles Sterling’s unusual behavior, she didn’t think further, but turned around to continue her work at the desk.

The riverside was bustling with activity at night, with many people gathered both above and below the bridge, waiting for the New Year to come.

After having dinner, Audrey Sutton’s family also joined the lively scene, but due to the crowd, they were soon scattered and each went their own way.

Of course, some people might intentionally go their separate ways for a bit of alone time.

For example...

Hazel Yates looked around anxiously: "We can’t see Audrey and the others anymore, let’s give them a call to find them."

Samuel Sutton held Hazel Yates’s hand, frowned slightly and said: "What’s there to find? They’re all in their twenties, they won’t get lost."

"Going out is all about having fun and being lively as a family, isn’t it?"

Samuel Sutton drew a circle with his chin, looking at the sea of heads in front of him, and said: "With so many people already, isn’t that lively enough?"

Hazel Yates kept murmuring and still wanted to look for the kids, but with so many people, she was afraid she might get separated from her husband too, so she just followed Samuel Sutton, searching while walking.

Elsewhere, Audrey Sutton tugged on Shane Warner’s sleeve as they wove through the crowd: "I heard there’s a wishing stone over there, it’s really supposed to work."

Shane Warner chuckled lightly, not really believing in these things, and just asked her: "What wish do you want to make?"

"I want to..." Halfway through speaking, Audrey turned her head to glance at him, then said, "It won’t come true if I say it."

"Is it about me?"

Without thinking, she immediately answered him, "No."

Shane Warner just smiled and said nothing; from the glance she gave him earlier, he already knew her wish involved him.

It seemed like everyone had come to make a wish; many colorful river lanterns floated on the river, creating a beautiful and dreamy scene.

There were many small vendors selling river lanterns, Audrey Sutton squeezed over to buy two, and when she emerged from the crowd, Shane Warner was standing there waiting for her.

She smiled brightly as she handed him one: "For you, over there is a pen, write your wish on this slip of paper."

Shane Warner didn’t expect she bought one for him too, glanced down at the river lantern she handed over before reaching out to take it, following her to a small table off to the side.

"You write yours here, I’ll write mine here, no peeking at mine." She said, then picked up a pen and began writing on her slip of paper.

Apparently, she already had her wish well thought out. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Shane Warner stood some distance away, watching her write fervently, shielding with her small hand, without knowing what she was writing.

After writing, as Audrey Sutton rolled up her slip of paper, she looked up at Shane Warner, realizing he stood there so straight and still.

"Are you done writing?"

Shane Warner looked at the blank slip of paper in his hand, walked over to her and said: "I don’t know what to write, maybe we could make the wish together?"

Audrey rolled up her paper slip and told him: "Who doesn’t have a wish? You can casually think of many, can’t you? Just write one quickly."

"What did you write? Let me see for reference."

Thinking of her wish, Audrey’s cheeks suddenly flushed, tightly clenching the slip of paper in her hand: "I said it can’t be revealed; just write something like what you want but haven’t got, that’s your wish."

Shane Warner smiled: "I feel like I have everything I need."

Audrey: "..."

Although she thought what he said wasn’t exactly wrong, still, he hadn’t thought to include her in his wish.

Feeling a bit embarrassed to say it directly, she just suggested, "Then write something like hoping your family stays safe and healthy."

"That wouldn’t work."

Audrey rolled her eyes at him: "Don’t talk nonsense! Write already!"

With that, she shoved the pen into his hand, urging him to hurry.

Shane Warner hesitated for a moment with the pen, then bent down to write.

Audrey felt curious about his wish, but still turned away without peeking.

On the paper, Shane Warner simply wrote four words: "May her wishes come true."

"Done."

Audrey turned around in surprise: "So fast?"

"Yeah, what’s next?"

Audrey demonstrated with her own rolled-up slip: "Put the slip into this, then it can be placed into the water."

Shane Warner followed Audrey to the riverside, watching her carefully place their candle-lit river lantern into the flowing river and solemnly clasp her hands, silently making her wish toward the wishing stone on the river.

When she opened her eyes, Shane Warner bent down and tossed his own river lantern in.

The surface of the river was lightly breezy, the glowing river lanterns floating gently with the current.

"So beautiful," Audrey marveled.

Shane Warner only turned his head to look at her, not saying a word.

Audrey turned to him smiling and asked: "Don’t you think so too?"

Shane Warner: "They’ll just be collected as trash by the sanitation workers tomorrow."

The mood was immediately ruined by his remark, Audrey frowned and said to him: "You have no sense of romance at all!"

"Audrey!" Hearing someone call her name from behind, Audrey immediately turned to see Laura Yates walking swiftly toward her.

"Laura? Why are you alone? Where’s Franklin?"

Laura Yates sighed helplessly, seemingly a bit annoyed with Franklin Sutton too: "We got separated."

"Call him and tell him to come over here."

Laura Yates: "Can’t be bothered, let everyone do their own thing."

Hearing the undertone of Laura Yates’s voice, Audrey understood. If Shane Warner lost her like that in such a crowded place, she would be upset too.

But, considering her brother’s temperament, this kind of thing was not surprising at all.

Audrey walked over to link arms with Laura Yates and said: "My brother is a bit insensitive; if you’re unhappy, you need to tell him directly, otherwise he genuinely won’t notice."