Chapter 1280
Chapter 1280: Include Them in This Mission (5)_1
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With laughing eyes, Jessie Grain raised the gun in her hand, aiming at her own target as well.
"Wanna compete?"
Tilting her head, Jessie Grain asked Flossie Wright.
"Of course."
She answered decisively, Flossie Wright stared at the sight, pressing the trigger without hesitation.
Bullets, one after another, struck the bullseye of a target a kilometer away.
Without a single miss.
Flossie Wright was a step late to the canteen, and just after she had served herself some food, she was stopped by someone she hadn’t expected.
"Flossie Wright."
Blocking her path, Franklin Cody called out to her earnestly.
Flossie Wright tilted her head and gave him a look, "Something wrong?"
Franklin Cody nodded seriously.
Used to his expression, Flossie Wright didn’t mind and said bluntly, "Go ahead."
"Give this to her." Franklin Cody handed over a wrapped gift box.
Scanning it, Flossie Wright was slightly puzzled.
Honestly, Franklin Cody, who was even more stern than Drake Easton, really didn’t suit holding a pink, girly gift box.
It looked utterly mismatched.
"Nancy Phillips?"
Raising an eyebrow, Flossie Wright inquired.
"Yeah." Franklin Cody nodded solemnly.
Without taking it, Flossie Wright shrugged and said bluntly, without hiding her thoughts, "She didn’t accept the meal you gave her last time."
It was no trouble to deliver something for someone, and Flossie Wright wouldn’t mind doing so. But since Nancy Phillips was obviously upset last time, Flossie Wright wouldn’t let that affect her if she helped out again. However, she felt it necessary to make it clear to Franklin Cody, who had been rejected.
Perhaps it was because she hadn’t spent many years in Eastlandia and was unacquainted with the local customs here, unaware that even after being rejected, so many would persist in courting disaster.
Perry Reed was a scoundrel, and that was that, but Rowdy Brightwill, Glenn Hutchinson, Stuart Weston... and even the person in front of her, Franklin Cody, who seemed relentless.
Is it necessary?
The love Flossie Wright knew was mutual and clear-cut.
Do you like me?
Then good, let’s be together.
Then good, I wish you happiness.
There were those who tried multiple times, but they generally found a backup plan while pursuing someone, juggling hookups and one-night stands, rarely fixated on someone to the point of being single-minded and blind.
Franklin Cody answered methodically, unswayed by her words.
Someone had already informed him that Nancy Phillips hadn’t eaten that meal.
"Trying to move her?" Flossie Wright suddenly laughed, her expression faint and ambiguous.
After a moment of hesitation, Franklin Cody said, "Perhaps."
"Being moved isn’t the same as love."
"I know." Franklin Cody was just as certain.
"I can’t help you, but..." pausing, Flossie Wright’s gaze shifted, looking at Jessie Grain who had finished eating and was preparing to leave.
As the other party stood up, they too saw each other; Jessie Grain then nodded towards this direction, politely greeting them.
With a slight smile, Flossie Wright spoke lightly, "Ask her, they get along well."
Having said that, she left with her food.
What happened between Franklin Cody and Nancy Phillips didn’t interest her at all.
Only after the event did Flossie Wright learn that it had been Nancy Phillips’s birthday that day.
The rescue mission had taken only half a day and had been successfully completed.
So, by the time the main Forces returned, most of the frogwomen had gathered to joyfully hold a birthday party for Nancy Phillips.
Within the veterans, Nancy Phillips’s handsome features were quite popular, as could be seen from their endearing addresses of "Brother Ning."
Flossie Wright, Belinda Nichols, Becca Reyes, and others naturally didn’t take an interest and chose not to participate.
Training and life never stopped.
But, as though under some curse, the frogmen found themselves on missions frequently in the following period, which were all drowning rescues.
As for Flossie Wright and Jessie Grain, after being left behind time and again, they had become accustomed to it.
𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
So much so that—
On a certain day in November, when they once again heard the bells ringing, they felt no emotion, merely following the Forces to assemble symbolically.
They ended up at the very back of the group. When Flossie Wright and Jessie Grain arrived, they were suddenly targeted by Ella Pemberton’s grave gaze.
"Flossie Wright, Jessie Grain, hurry up!" Ella Pemberton urged.
Instinctively, Flossie Wright and Jessie Grain exchanged a glance.
Were they included in this mission?
— End of Chapter 1280 —