He was braiding Tiffany’s hair.
“Tiffany, I’ll braid your hair for the rest of your
life.”
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But one time, when I was hospitalized for an
abortion and wanted him to help me wash my hair, he said, “Don’t you have hands?”
Coming back to my senses, I smiled bitterly.
Just then, someone suddenly pushed open the door.
It was Sarah, who looked at me nervously and said, “Mrs. Harrison, are you going to South Ossetia to be a war correspondent?”
- 6.
Immediately, the whole room fell silent.
Jake looked at me in disbelief. “You’re going to
South Ossetia?”
South Ossetia was the place he didn’t want to
mention the most.
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Because his mother died in that country, he
didn’t want to go to South Ossetia after that.
Nor did he want the people around him to go there.
“No.”
I answered him.
“Sarah must have got the wrong message.”
“I wouldn’t dare go there, I’m afraid of dying.”
Jake relaxed his body with relief.
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“I knew you wouldn’t dare to go to that kind of
place.”
“It’s a place full of smoke, you’ll only die there if
you go there as a weak woman.”
In his heart I was a weak woman who didn’t
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But Jake, this time I’ll show you my courage.
Sarah looked at me with a complicated
expression.
I knew she should know that I was deceiving
Jake.
- 7.
The next day was my birthday.
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When I got up, I found that Jake had cooked me
a bowl of longevity noodles.
“Today is your birthday, this is what I made
myself.”
My heart trembled slightly. It was the first time he had remembered my birthday in seven years of marriage.
But the next second. Tiffany came out of the
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he had remembered my birthday in seven years
of marriage.
But the next second, Tiffany came out of the
toilet and said, “Jake, why don’t you cook
another bowl for Lindsey? After all, this is what
I have leftovers with.”
Suddenly, my whole body froze.
A trace of panic appeared in Jake’s eyes.
But it quickly disappeared, and he said coldly: “It’s okay, she won’t care about these.”
Looking at the noodles in the bowl, I suddenly felt disgusted.
I thought that after being with Jake for so many years, he would have some feelings for me.
But now I realized that he never cared about
- me.
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I didn’t eat a bite of the noodles, and left with
my luggage.
I went to the newspaper office and asked the
boss to sign a confidentiality agreement.
This trip to South Ossetia must not be told to
anyone.
The boss looked at me signing and sighed:
“Lindsey, this trip is fraught with dangers, you
have to take care.”
“The newspaper agency will always wait for you
to come home.”
But did I still have a home?
Walking out of the newspaper office, I saw
Jake.
He was leaning against the car with a bunch of
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red roses in his hand.
“I was wrong this morning, this is the
compensation for you.”
He handed the flowers to me.
But I didn’t pick it up.
Because I was allergic to pollen, there would
never be flowers in the house these years.
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I remembered that Jake used to remember that
I was allergic to pollen, and at that time he said:
“Then I will make handmade flowers for you in
the future.”
“Lindsey, don’t worry, I will take good care of
you in the future.”
My mother and his mother were good friends.
Before my mother died, she entrusted him to
take good care of me.
But he didn’t.
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Suddenly there was a hawthorn candy vendor
passing by, and I was about to ask Jake to buy
me one.
His cell phone rang.
The name that jumped on the screen was: “Tiffany“.
Without even thinking about it, he immediately
accepted it.
“Tiffany, what’s wrong?”
“Jake, I’m not feeling well, can you come
back?”
“Okay, I’ll be right back.”
