“Neal Williams is not like this … mom, he is really good to me. I can tell that he truly loves me!”
“Silly child, love and affection than is simply worthless!”
Charleen Davis’ words were spoken before Andrea Jones had a chance to answer, and a voice had already interjected.
“Did I interrupt your conversation?”
Beck Williams stood right in the doorway and knocked on the door with poise.
He has a straight figure and is still poised today.
Standing there, it was like a landscape. Such a man can imagine what kind of style he had when he was young, no wonder his own mother and Neal Williams’ mother are falling for him.
“Mr. Williams, you are not welcome here!” Seeing him, Charleen Davis only coldly shooed people away.
Beck Williams was not annoyed by the encounter. Instead, he walked inside with sober steps and put the things he was carrying on the bed.
The sight gave Charleen Davis a complicated look, “I went to Westwood House to buy the dim sum on purpose.”
After a pause, he added, “Your favorite.”
The voice is arduous and somewhat obscure.
Andrea Jones clearly saw her mother’s thin body stiffen, and there was a flash of pain from those eyes.
The tears glittered, and the next second, she regained that indifference.
Without looking at the treats, helifted them over again and returned them to Beck Williams.
“Mr. Williams, you take it back, not to mention that my tastes have long changed now, I can not afford such a kindness from you. And …” she paused, took a deep breath, and then the words came out in a much darker tone, “Don’t do this kind of thing again to make your wife misunderstand.”
Beck Williams didn’t seem to understand what she meant by that last statement and looked at her twice in confusion.
But Charleen Davis was in no mood to explain and turned her head to pack again.
It took Beck Williams a moment to realize that something was wrong.
After looking at Andrea Jones’ sad face and seeing the half-pumped IV at the bedside, he took a step over and grabbed Charleen Davis’ hand.
The large coarse palm touched over, making Charleen Davis slightly stunned.
At that moment, it was as if I had fallen into the long river of memory. It was these hands that once held her and took her to so many places, and, he clearly promised her that he would hold her for the rest of her life …
However, later, she learned that his so-called lifetime, it turned out to be so short …
“Beck Williams, you let go!”
Returning to her senses, she fought to struggle.
But not only did he not let go, instead he stretched out another hand and wrapped each of his two hands around her arm, “Sweetwise, what the hell are you doing? Is it so hard for you to live here? I just want you to be well, do you know that?”
“I don’t know!” Charleen Davis let out a low yell and choked up indefensibly, her teary eyes locked on his, “Who are you to me? Who are you to set me up with this and that? Why do you want me to be good!”
A series of questions that smashed Beck Williams’ face in defeat.
Deep-eyed gaze at her, a long time, he only dejectedly nodded, “Yes … I am not qualified … back then, I thought I was qualified to take care of you for the rest of my life, but you directly deprived me of it!”
Charleen Davis took a deep breath, “Now you and I are family people, so … these misleading words, please stop!”
Beck Williams held her hand tightly, his fingers shaking slightly, but he was unwilling to let her go like this.
He was quiet, and so was Charleen Davis.
Questioned, mocked, and at the moment, emotions have calmed down.
She looked at him, a little tired and a little helpless, “Let go …”
His fingers, tightened.
“What will it take for you not to leave?”
“… whatever it takes to get going.”
“You’re playing with your life! I’ve talked to all my professors and they’re going to fix you up!” Beck Williams almost jumped up and down.
This woman, why is she still as capricious as before? Why can’t she just accept his arrangement for once?
Charleen Davis picked her lips and laughed with tears in her eyes, cruelly tearing her scars apart together, “From that year, when I miscarried and fell in a pool of blood, you would have been in no position to care about my life … If Andrea’s father hadn’t saved me, perhaps, I long ago died in that holocaust!”
“From that year, when I miscarried and collapsed in a pool of blood, you are no longer qualified to care about my life … If Andrea’s father had not saved me, perhaps, I would have died in that havoc!”
Her words came like a muffled blow, shaking Beck Williams hard on the spot. At that moment, his mind went blank, and he could only look at her coldly for a long time Charleen Davis.
Andrea Jones was stunned, too. She never expected that the memory of their former life would be so engraved in her mind.
Perhaps the place should be left to them.
With this in mind, she turned around and went out to do the discharge procedure, very gently and lightly closing the door behind her.
…
In the hospital room, only Charleen Davis and Beck Williams remained.
The intertwining of their breaths falling into the air seemed especially heavy. charleen Davis was about to take his hand off when he tightened it, “You … have our baby?”
His voice is dull and his eyes are slightly red.
Charleen Davis looked on and felt pain in her heart. “Does it still matter? It’s been over 20 years!”
But no?
What should be taken away, what should not be taken away, more than 20 years, everything has been dissipated with the wind.
“I’m not saying this to you for any other reason than I want you to stay out of my business from now on. We still act like these twenty years, just as … strangers!”
The last three words, she said a little strained, but, yet, unusually firm.
Beck Williams looked at her in pain, “How do you expect me to treat you like a stranger? Sweetie, you are the biggest regret of my life! I even feel that God has mercy on me to meet you again! So, how can I treat you like a stranger?”
“You’re not being fair to Christina Sanchez!” Charleen Davis doesn’t allow herself to dwell on the past anymore, she’s afraid she’ll fall into it and not be able to stop.
Struggling hard, he pushed his hand away. Stepping back, looking at him with detachment and indifference, “You have a family now, and to say such things is not only irresponsible to your family, but also puts me in an unkind and unjust position! So, Mr. Williams, please behave yourself!”
Her words, like a knock on his chest, so that his internal organs are smothered in pain.
How could he not know what she said?
Family …
Yes, he is now someone else’s husband, so who is he to stand here and say this to her? Nowadays, he is like carrying a heavy shackle – but when he lost her back then, these shackles were already destined to be carried.
…
By the time Andrea Jones returned, Beck Williams was no longer there.
Charleen Davis didn’t pack either, just sat on the edge of the bed in frustration, her eyes falling on the window without a single focus.
Andrea Jones was a little distressed. Charleen Davis returned to her senses, said nothing, and went out of the hospital with Andrea Jones.
…
The events of that day were like a small episode in her life, and Charleen Davis never spoke of them again.
But even though she didn’t say anything, Andrea Jones could sense how much her mother really cared.
Charleen Davis refused to stay in the hospital and, without waiting for her two daughters to say anything, she stubbornly refused all treatment and reluctantly accepted only some basic medication, to no avail.
After the family found an aunt, Andrea Jones also had to go back to work at IG.
A few days did not come to the company, the company news is one after another.
For example, today …
Andrea Jones had only just heard from a few colleagues that Wei, the other head of the company, had returned to China, and was still hearing the situation when a red-hot list was delivered to her.
Seeing the bright red wedding invitation, she froze for a moment and subconsciously looked up.
Olivia Scott stood in front of her, looking down at her with a smug look on her face.
The small belly is not yet too protruding, but the body can already glimpse a few plump.
She was even dressed very differently than usual.
Compared to the formal and elegant suits of the past, today she is wearing loose casual clothes and a pair of light sneakers on her feet.
Even the long hair was cut short.
It seems that she is really determined to be a good and competent mother. No, perhaps, she is also determined to be a good wife.
“What? You’re not so stingy that you’re not even going to give this red envelope, are you?” When Andrea Jones didn’t move, Olivia Scott raised her eyebrows, “Although I don’t usually like you, but we are still old classmates, and I would love for you to see me walk into a happy marriage.”
The last sentence, she said even more eyebrows.
Andrea Jones certainly knows how Olivia Scott feels, but if she expects to be angry or upset by this, she’s completely overreacting.
If she’s really sad, she’s just sympathetic to Lewis Brown for marrying a woman she doesn’t love.
However, this is the responsibility of the man should have, since he chose so, the result is also he should bear.
“Congratulations, I will be there on time.” She smiled lightly and fell generously to receive the wedding invitation in her hand, but …
Before you can get your hands on it, it has been intercepted by the other hand.
“Olivia Scott, you are really no fun, dare this invitation is for Andrea alone, right? We don’t know who your husband is, and you’ve got the wedding news, it’s really …”, the person holding the invitation stared at the words on the invitation, “I think it’s just my eyes, right? No, it’s the same name and different people?”
The man glanced at Olivia Scott and then down at Andrea Jones.
Olivia Scott is getting more and more smug, not slow to pull out a stack of wedding invitations from her bag, “Of course I won’t forget everyone. Come on, everyone has a share, one for each of you. Make sure you come on time in 10 days, my husband and I will be waiting for you at the hotel.”
“Lewis Brown … Huh? That name sounds familiar.” Someone read it out.
Someone else remembered and elbowed Andrea Jones on the shoulder, “Andrea, isn’t your fiancé also named Lewis Brown? Same name! You two are really close.”
“Just. When are you and Lewis Brown getting married? When the time comes, we’ll be there to support you!”
Andrea Jones didn’t change her face, but Olivia Scott was smiling.
Lewis Brown is committing bigamy if he marries Andrea again, and even if I were happy for my husband to have a mistress, the law wouldn’t allow it!”
A phrase that confused everyone. This roundabout, is it a tongue twister?
Andrea Jones stood up and gently placed her invitation on the table before she spoke in a rippling voice: “Olivia Scott’s husband is the CEO of EF. Lewis Brown and I have broken up, so the person I marry in the future will definitely not be him.”
One word, a thousand waves of shock.
“No? Didn’t you all look fine last time, how come …”
“That’s right, it’s too bad!”
“We all made us all envious last time!”
A series of voices expressing regret.
And on the other side …
More words of bragging rights.