“I haven’t had a chance to eat it yet.” She happened to be holding a bottle of vinegar in her hand, and instead of tasting it, she just poured it into a saucer of dressing.
Neal Williams face is black.
What is this with what?
He sank his steps in, took the chopsticks from her hand, and moved somewhat clumsily to pick the dumplings out of the water one by one.
It was a while before he spoke as if he was carelessly, “What Marshall Johnson just said was nonsense.”
“What did he say?” Andrea Jones asked knowingly, holding back a smile at the corners of her lips.
Neal Williams moved and turned to look at her, “You don’t care at all?”
“… eh?” She had an innocent look on her face.
Neal Williams suddenly felt bored out of his mind.
I was worried that Marshall Johnson’s words would make her care. However, now it simply seems that she was too self-absorbed.
“Forget it, it’s nothing.” He handed the chopsticks back to her and turned around to prepare to go out.
Looking at the back, Andrea Jones could not help but widen the smile on her face.
“I’m not stupid, of course I know he’s talking nonsense.”
Neal Williams turned around.
Her smile was bright and her eyes were clear. Coughing lightly before adding a somewhat uncomfortable, “I trust you.”
After saying that, he did not dare to look at him, and turned back to continue ‘seriously’ picking dumplings.
After accompanying Neal Williams to breakfast, Andrea Jones went home. Before leaving, she still took the jade bracelet with her. This time, she didn’t put it away again, but wore it on her hand instead.
The sun shines on the transparent jade surface, refracted in her eyes, and her smile marks deepen. It is not much different from the one that Ruan’s mother gave herself, but she does not feel heavy at all. On the contrary, there is a kind of sweetness blooming in the heart a little.
This is the first time he gave a woman a gift …
…
Pushing the door into the house, Andrea Jones was still a little nervous. Although he called back last night to say it was a work issue, but, last night and Neal Williams …
The engagement with Lewis Brown has not been officially broken off yet! If mother knew what happened last night, she wouldn’t know what to say about herself.
“Mom.”
Charleen Davis is sitting on the couch, holding a book on Chinese medicine and reading it.
When he heard Andrea Jones’ voice, he took off his glasses and set aside with his book closed.
“Have you had breakfast yet? Did you get any sleep after a busy night?” Charleen Davis asked heartily.
“Slept for a while. Also came back after breakfast. Sister went to work?”
“Hmm. I thought you said you quit your job, why are you running overtime at the office again?” Charleen Davis asked casually, getting up to pour her daughter another glass of warm water.
For fear of worrying her mother and sister, Andrea Jones only dared to say that she had resigned.
“I was going to leave, but there’s another very important case at the company that I need to be involved in.” As she explained, she thought about what she should tell her mother about the annulment with Lewis Brown.
But before she could ask a question, Charleen Davis’ eyes had fallen on her wrist.
“Why don’t you return something so valuable to someone and put it on instead?” Charleen Davis asked, looking at her daughter again and handing over the water, “Don’t let Lewis Brown see it, so there won’t be any misunderstanding.”
“Mom …” Andrea Jones looked down and stroked the ticking bracelet, took a deep breath and looked up straight into her mother’s eyes, “I don’t want to be married to Lewis Brown …”
Obviously not expecting her daughter to make such a decision, Charleen Davis shuddered slightly, looked at her and did not say anything for a long time.
“I’ve thought it through, and between Lewis Brown and me, there was always something missing. Mom, maybe, he wasn’t the one I wanted.” Andrea Jones’ tone grew firmer and firmer.
Charleen Davis straightened up and looked at her, “Is it because of that last guy?”
“It’s not all that.” But Neal Williams must not be wrong to be the catalyst.
“Fool, you mustn’t be fooled by a passing feeling.” Charleen Davis face slightly serious, “You also said that Lewis Brown may not be the one you want, which means that you are not sure, he is a good boy, and kind and good-natured, not like those rich kids who put on a show.”
“Mom …”
“Andrea, know what the most important thing is for two people to get together and then get married?” Charleen Davis took her hand in hers and looked at her solemnly.
Andrea Jones didn’t make a sound, just waited for her to continue.
“It is not how much you have experienced a lot of fervor, nor is it that you love each other with unwavering love, you can definitely get married. Often such feelings, can not go to the end, because each other are tired of tired, tired! What can really go smoothly to the end of the line is a calm, subtle, long-lasting relationship, such as between you and Lewis Brown.”
Andrea Jones looked steadily at her mother.
Her mother was right, Lewis Brown and her were bland and stable. Yet, Neal Williams could give her a heart-racing, troubled feeling.
And …
In contrast, she coveted that feeling in the back.
“Mom, what is … between you and Dad?”
Charleen Davis laughs lightly at the mention of her late husband, “The latter. It’s a bland, homey, red-faced life for so many years. It’s easy to live like this.”
“Between meeting your father, did you experience a roaring love affair?”
Charleen Davis is slightly stunned.
For a moment, apparently fell into the vortex of memory, the look became complicated.
The subtle changes were clear to Andrea Jones. So, no need to ask more questions, the answer is already very obvious.
She reached back and took her mother’s hand, “Mom, then do you regret ever going through that boom?”
Charleen Davis looked up to meet her daughter’s questioning gaze, her lips twitched, but ultimately there were no words, just a shake of her head.
No regrets.
Even though, that past, once made her painful to the bone.
Andrea Jones laughed, “That’s right. The blandness that can make people happy is also after they have experienced the boom. Because of the pain and tiredness of the past, you know how to appreciate it more. I look forward to having a blast, and even if the future does not turn out as expected, I, like you, Mom, will never regret it!”
There was a resolute determination in her eyes.
There is also an obsession for love.
Looking at her like this, Charleen Davis couldn’t help but think of herself once.
Just …
How I hope that my daughter’s love life will be much smoother than hers.
She ruffled the hair on her cheeks, and looked at her with deep eyes, “Since you have thought clearly, then mom will accompany you to make amends.”
Andrea Jones laughs away.
“Mom, I’m so relieved you don’t blame me!” She sighed in relief and leaned petulantly on Charleen Davis’ shoulder.
…
All day long, Lewis Brown was preoccupied.
Since Andrea Jones proposed to cancel the engagement, he felt much relieved. However, once he saw Penny Brown’s lost look all day, he felt uncomfortable again.
After receiving an invitation call from Andrea Jones, he knew things could no longer be changed.
“Mom, Andrea asked you to have dinner tomorrow. Are you free?”
In the evening, Viona Hall was sitting on the couch watching political news when Lewis Brown grabbed her from behind.
“Since it was Andrea who asked me out, I had to make time even if I wasn’t available. It’s really rude to say that it should have been us who took the initiative to invite her. Her mother will also be there, right?”
“Yes, it will arrive.”
Penny Brown was coming out of the shower and drying her hair when she heard their conversation, and her eyes turned slightly.
Maybe, with the parents involved, they can’t yellow this wedding?
“Then tomorrow I’ll go too! By the way, Mom, why don’t we also invite Aunt Jiang?” Penny Brown suddenly suggested.
Talking about marriage in front of Neal Williams’ mother, in the future, if Andrea Jones and Neal Williams do get together, Christina Sanchez of the Williams family will be the first to object!
Lewis Brown frowned slightly and looked at Penny Brown disapprovingly, “Sister, this is a matter between our two families, there is no need to interfere with outsiders.”
Besides, it’s about talking about dissolving the wedding, so why make a big deal out of it.
“What outsider? You even call Neal Williams a brother-in-law!”
Viona Hall didn’t know about Lewis Brown and Andrea Jones and agreed with her daughter’s idea, “It’s a lot of people. I’m going to call Christina Sanchez and ask her to free up her time tomorrow night to help me look for a daughter-in-law as well.”
With that, she got up and was going to make a phone call.
“Mom!” Lewis Brown called out. Lewis Brown called out, but then the phone that was sitting on the side rang abruptly, and Penny Brown reached for it and scanned the name on it.
Olivia Scott?
“Lewis Brown, you phone!” She called out.
Lewis Brown was about to follow his mother up when Penny Brown added, “Olivia Scott! When did you meet this woman?”
Those two words made Lewis Brown’s feet tap.
Instead of going after Viona Hall again, he folded and went to grab the phone, “Give it to me.”
He was a little vain in the face of Penny Brown’s probing look.
Penny Brown just looked at him without moving, but in the end, he slowly handed the phone back to Lewis Brown.
Lewis Brown turned his back and held the phone to his ear.
Penny Brown seems to have no intention to go to the couch and sit down, taking the magazine and flipping through it casually, but his ears are perked up to listen carefully.
Did he really have an undercover agent in Neal Williams’ company?
“Lewis Brown, are you really going to get engaged to Andrea Jones?” Olivia Scott was over there, speaking with tears of resignation.
Penny Brown raises an eyebrow.
So, is this an emotional involvement? Lewis Brown selling sex? That doesn’t make sense.
“Olivia Scott, stop this nonsense! I told you, it’s just a misunderstanding between us, so don’t you ever call me again!”
Lewis Brown was impatient.
Apparently …
Olivia Scott’s phone calls, which he has answered several times.
“Lewis Brown, don’t let that appearance of Andrea Jones fool you!” Olivia Scott became more and more emotional as Penny Brown sat there listening more and more clearly.
“That’s enough of you!”
“Humph! I’m telling you, Lewis Brown, I’ve known Andrea Jones all these years and I know all the ugly things about her past!”
“I told you, I don’t want to hear this!”
Scandal?
Penny Brown’s breath caught in her throat as she gripped the magazine in her hand.
Next …
Olivia Scott roared out words that left both her and Lewis Brown stunned on the spot.
“She’s been gang-raped! Touched by countless men! Do you know that! She’s too dirty to imagine! Are you sure you want to marry such a dirty woman? Can you stand the fact that her body has been seen and touched by countless men?”
Two people, both frozen.
Penny Brown was the first to come around.
A hint of surprise that could not be concealed crossed the stunned eyes.
So …
What is she hearing now?
Gang rape?
No! Their Ruan family absolutely cannot tolerate such a woman! And …
the Williams family, even more!
Lewis Brown’s mind went blank for half a moment. Back to the mind, the unstoppable memory of the initial Andrea Jones when she was approached by herself in pain and fear, remembering her resistance and shortness in the face of an inexplicable man …
And his kisses, his further demands …
So, it’s because of this?
A strong shadow because of an unbearable past?
Oh my!
He never thought about it.
So, how painful has it been for her all these years?
“Can’t talk, can you? Lewis Brown, I’m talking to you so much because I don’t want you to be lied to. andrea jones she …”
“That’s enough!” Lewis Brown coldly interrupted her words. andrea jones is the kind of person, so long together, he could not understand more. Even if there is that unpleasant past, but … heart is full of pity.