It’s not as good as it used to be, but when it comes to Neal Williams, she’s not just using monosyllabic words like ‘um’ and ‘oh’.
Occasionally, the mention of children, she will also be happy to say more, as a mother-to-be look. However, when she touches his far-reaching eyes, she is like being touched by something and shrinks back into her shell.
Neal Williams looked at her, who had retreated into her turtle shell and was no longer talking to him, and asked, “Is your knee still sore?”
Andrea Jones couldn’t help but think of his tenderness last night, and her heart moved slightly, “Luckily, it doesn’t hurt so much anymore.”
“Go back and put it on for you again.” He said.
“Oh.” No refusal. Only flatly stared at the numbers on the elevator, but could not help but look at him with the afterglow. He looked calm, even if he didn’t clean up, but the temperament was still so outstanding that people couldn’t move their eyes.
She suddenly wished she could give birth to a son for him.
In the future, his son can also be like him …
As he was thinking, the cell phone on his person rang abruptly. Scanning the screen, he picked it up and pressed it to his ear, “Ashley?”
“Ergo … Ergo …,” Ashley Williams said over there, just crying.
The cries were so crisp and loud that even Andrea Jones heard them. But she did not look sideways, only stood straight, then heard Neal Williams ask in a deep voice: “What’s wrong? You talk to your second brother properly, don’t keep crying.”
“Something happened to my dad … my dad!” She huffed, her speech breaking.
“Uncle?” Neal Williams’ tone sank, and his face clouded considerably.
Andrea Jones clearly sensed his apprehension and subconsciously gave him a sideways glance. At this moment the elevator door opened, so she took a step out and her body stood right in the middle of the elevator door.
When I turned around, I saw that Neal Williams was still holding the phone without moving.
“Have you figured out what’s going on? Any news from Grandpa?” Neal Williams was asking Ashley Williams.
When he looked up, he saw Andrea Jones standing in the middle of the elevator door. But now the elevator door is about to close, heart a tight, Neal Williams thought not, reached out and pulled Andrea Jones over, tightly clasped in the arms.
The elevator door, abruptly closed.
She fell on his chest and heard his heavy heartbeat. As he listened to the phone, he gave her a scornful look, as if blaming her, a pregnant woman, for being careless and just almost getting caught in the door.
She felt a little aggrieved. She was waiting for him, but instead he blamed her.
She was trying to get out again, but the elevator was running down again. She watched in shock as the numbers jumped down, Neal Williams just pretended not to notice, no matter how she struggled, just one arm holding her tightly, while listening carefully to the phone.
“I have it in my heart, you don’t cry first … Well, tonight I’ll go back to my grandfather’s place and get things clear …”
He was very serious, his face was tense, a cold breath oozed out of his body, and Andrea Jones didn’t dare to struggle anymore.
What’s going on?
There is some concern.
Want to ask.
But …
In what position does she ask?
Biting her lip, she swallowed the words she was about to say into her throat.
It wasn’t until the elevator came in and reached the floor they were on that Neal Williams’ call finally hung up. This time, instead of forcing her to stay in his arms, he just took her in his stride and walked out.
Back home, and did not answer the greeting of Chen, only hurried back to the bedroom, as fast as possible to wash, and then changed into clean and tidy clothes out.
As he passed Andrea Jones, he didn’t pause either, taking just a few steps to the entrance to change into his shoes.
Looking at that back, Andrea Jones was a little stunned back.
He pulled open the door to go out, but suddenly paused to look back.
Before Andrea Jones could pull her eyes back, they collided with his at first glance. Too late to dodge, she didn’t duck either, just stared at her in disbelief.
“Andrea Jones, come here.”
He waved at her.
It was as if she was compelled, and she didn’t know how to just walk over.
Neal Williams suddenly took her face and planted a kiss right on her lips. This is what he wanted to do when he was just holding her in the elevator!
She was startled, subconsciously pushed him, and his lips then wisely retreated. With deep eyes looking at her, he admonished, “Rest well at home and don’t run around anymore. Take your medicine on time, understand?”
She doesn’t say anything.
On her lips, there was still the heat and breath of his breath, making her a little dizzy.
He touched her cheek painfully, “A doctor will come over this afternoon to give the injection, so you can ask Chen to keep an eye on the medicine bottle for you. There’s no need to wait for me for dinner.”
“… is good.”
He kept explaining, and Andrea Jones only lightly responded. Such a scene makes her feel as if a husband is saying goodbye to his wife in a trance.
Heart, shaking, but, again, want to resist.
They … shouldn’t be like this!
It shouldn’t be!
Unable to understand her entanglement, Neal Williams hurriedly left.
And then …
When it was time to eat dinner, he really did not come back. Until Sister Chen left, he still had no sign of returning.
Covered in the blanket he had covered last night, Andrea Jones watched TV and drifted off to sleep on the couch.
Waking up in the middle of the night.
The whole house was still as dim as ever.
It’s late at night.
The whole world was unusually quiet. Even the TV has stopped broadcasting and only a blue color remains.
When I looked up to see the time, it was already after 2:00 am!
Thinking of something, she suddenly leapt up from the sofa and ran to the entrance hall.
But …
At the entrance, there is no trace of it at all.
He hasn’t come back yet …
It was after two o’clock and he didn’t come back.
She hugged the blanket, and after realizing that she was alone in this house, her heart suddenly felt empty and indescribably bitter.
Like being suddenly abandoned …
Alone …
Hollow …
This is the life she will lead in the future …
A life without him …
But where is Neal Williams now? What had happened again? All this time, he’s been all about her and the kids, never this late!
Realizing this, the heart was shocked.
The empty space she had just been in was immediately filled with anxiety. Dropping the blanket, she ran quickly into the room and, without thinking, grabbed her cell phone and dialed the all-too-familiar number.
It was late at night, and the ‘beep-beep’ on the phone was particularly disturbing, and she felt inexplicably nervous.
The sound tugged at her nerves and made her whole body tense up.
However, the phone is the same as her, ringing again and again, in the end, the only thing left in her ears is the cold mechanical sound of ‘no answer’.
She dialed several more times in succession.
As a result, the response to her also remains the same …
Disappointment and uneasiness, alternately coiled in her heart, made her fidget on the couch.
She suddenly wanted to know where he was at the moment, even if it was just to make sure he was safe and well. However, she desperately found that now she was not sure in which direction he was …
The blanket hugged dully sunk in the sofa, staring listlessly at the TV screen. The screen burst out of the ghostly light, hitting her small face, so that her whole person looks more and more desolate and lonely. As if, the whole world is left with her existence alone …
Right now …
A sharp ringing tone suddenly rang out, breaking the peace of the night. She was shaken and immediately came back to her senses, grabbed the phone and saw the familiar number, the taut string in her heart was able to relax a lot.
Take a deep breath and hide the excitement in your heart before slowly picking up the phone and holding it to your ear.
“Hello.”
“Why are you still awake? I was just in the bathroom, so I didn’t hear your call.” Neal Williams’ voice came from the other end. Through the airwaves, it seemed more and more sensual in the deep night, like a plucked string that fell softly and shallowly on Andrea Jones’ heart “Oh …” She changed her sitting position to make herself comfortable before asking again: “If you don’t come back tonight, I’ll lock the door.”
In fact, she was eager to ask where he was now. Why did he take a shower so late, did he encounter some tricky problem?
However, all the words were blocked in the throat.
After a while, I heard him say, “I just arrived in S City, there are some things to do here, it may take a few days to return.”
“S City?” She was slightly stunned, her tone a little astringent.
Original …
In just a few short hours, they are already so far apart …
Without saying a word, it just went to another city.
She was suddenly a little snappy. She got up and walked to the foyer and unlocked the door, then came back and turned off the TV. Returning to her bedroom by the faint light of her cell phone, she heard Neal Williams ask on the other end, “What’s up? Seems like you’re constantly walking around.”
She didn’t know what kind of temper she was having and didn’t reply to him, only saying stiffly, “It’s getting late, I’m going to bed.”
Her sudden change in attitude, Neal Williams obviously not yet adapted to the end of the freeze did not say anything.
She lifted the covers onto the bed and said, “Then I’ll hang up.”
Neal Williams suddenly called out to her, “Wait, Andrea Jones!”
Neal Williams smiled bitterly, “Are you angry?”
“… did not.”
What did she have to be angry about? Given the state of affairs between the two of them today, where he goes, that’s all his business and there’s no reason at all to check in with herself. Isn’t there?
However, when it is known that he has quietly to the S city so far away from their own, the heart of that care, but can not lie to themselves.
Neal Williams laughed lowly, seemingly with some delight.
“I originally wanted to talk to you, but it was already 0:00 when I left. I guessed you might have been asleep, so I didn’t dare to wake you up and planned to call you in the morning.” He explained patiently and gently.
One sentence, as if there is a magical power, easily let Andrea Jones heart pressure of discomfort dispersed some.
“It’s so late, hurry up and go to bed.” Neal Williams admonished her with concern, and after a pause, spoke again very softly and gently, “Wait for me to come back, and I’ll be as quick as I can.”
When she hung up the phone, Andrea Jones felt a lot more content. But curled up in bed with her blanket, she was still a little uncomfortable with the loneliness of being the only one left in this huge house.
In the past, although there was little verbal communication with him, but, no matter how late she read on the couch, at least turn your head and see the yellowish light in his study. She doesn’t have to worry about falling asleep on the couch because she knows that someone will pick her up carefully from the couch and put her back to bed with compassion even at night. She doesn’t feel alone because she knows there is only a door between them.
Andrea Jones suddenly shuddered to think of her future apart from him.
Heart, unconsciously tightened. She suddenly lifted the covers and got out of bed. Pull open the door and walk into the room that belongs to him without him in it. The air, as if still filled with the smell of belonging to him.
Lie peacefully on that wide bed, roll over the quilt, and close your eyes comfortably. As if, with him by his side …