Grabbed a towel and rubbed himself hard once more. Every piece of skin, every corner was not spared. She scrubbed hard and without mercy, as if this was the only way to wipe away the dirty dirt on her body. The skin rubbed out a trail of blood, which looked shocking against the white skin. She didn’t let go, only gritted her teeth and launched herself harder and harder.
Is it true that as long as she cleans herself up and walks out of the bathroom, she will still be the same person she was in the past? Can she pretend that nothing has happened, face her brother openly, and continue to love the Jerry Xiao that she has loved with her whole life with a straight face?
But …
It’s not that simple at all …
She shuddered and cried, tears rushing down the hot water and into the corners of her mouth, all bitter.
What happened last night was more about hating herself than hating Owen. She couldn’t figure out how it had come to this …
As if the whole person fell into a dark abyss, she, completely unable to see the exit …
…
When Sea Gu turned around and came back, it was already half an hour, but Zoey actually did not come out. He panicked, hurriedly dropped the things in his hand, and he slammed the door hard, “Zoey?
But, in answer to him, there was no human voice at all, only the sound of clattering water running in the bathroom.
Sea Gu held his breath and pounded frantically on the door, “Zoey! Zoey Baker, you talk to me! Zoey Baker, talk to me!
He had never panicked like this before. Afraid that she, in the door, would not be able to think straight and do something.
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Offhand, damn it, there was still no sound from the door.
Feeling like he was going crazy, he kept pushing against the door with his shoulder and twisted the door handle even harder with his big palm. He even held his breath, in his voice was a panic that he couldn’t hide, “Zoey , listen to me, calm down, don’t do anything stupid! Even if you don’t think about yourself, you have to think about your two children, don’t you? There’s no such thing as a hurdle that can’t be passed in this world …” The door still didn’t open, and he got annoyed, “Fuck! Butler, get me the spare key!”
He was turning to go out when he heard a soft, feeble voice from the bathroom, “Ingram, I’m fine.”
The voice was very soft, but Sea Gu still heard it clearly, a tightly screwed heart, suddenly loosened down, he breathed a long sigh of relief. Folding back, his ear pressed against the door, “Scared the hell out of me. Have you washed up? I bought you clothes, you try to see if you can wear.”
“Thanks.”
Sea Gu picks up the clothes from the floor and knocks on the door, “You open the door a crack and I’ll help you pass the clothes in.”
Inside the door, there was no sound for a while. Sea Gu thought that she was thinking that this was not good, and intended to leave the clothes at the door and go out first by herself. But the door was pulled open a thin slit from the inside, and an arm poked out from that tiny slit, vaguely trembling.
On her arm, the crimson blood mark made Sea Gu’s chest choke. Wanted to say something, but in the end did not say anything, only slowly handed the clothes over. The hand hanging down at her side, clenched into a fist, the fingertips all turned pale.
…
The clothes he bought fit well, and Zoey put them on and came out of the bathroom with her head down. Her hair was wet and not dry, and there were drops of water sliding down her pale little face, which looked more and more pathetic.
Sea Gu, heartbroken, arranges her, “Sit on the couch while I blow-dry your hair.”
Said, he has rushed into the bathroom to take out the hair dryer, Zoey hugged herself nestled in the sofa, her eyes are always hanging down, can not see the color of her eyes, can only vaguely see her trembling eyelashes. The whole person shrunk into a ball, all around, as if they were covered by a mournful cloud.
Sea Gu looked at her sullenly, wanting to say something, but simply plugged in the hair dryer, came around behind her, and ruffled her soaked hair to blow it out.
Her hair, very soft and fine, gently passed through her fingertips. The warm breath sprayed in the ear, Zoey cool heart crossed a trace of warmth. The tip of her nose, once again sour, she did not want to shed another tear, only sniffled, forced all the tears back, a long time before she opened her mouth, almost pleading tone: “Can you talk to me?”
She was so helpless, so alarmed, even terrified, and really needed an outlet to catch her breath …
Sea Gu immediately put the hair dryer away and sat down across from her. She slowly raised her head, those dense misty eyes looking at him, “Last night … I did something very wrong, very wrong, very wrong …”
Voice, choked up again. She even trembled in her voice, Sea Gu probed over and held her cold hand, looking at her encouragingly, “It will be more comfortable to talk about it, I’m all ears, take your time.”
She nodded her head, tears slipping from her eyes in broken pieces. In bits and pieces, incoherently pouring out the events of last night, Sea Gu didn’t dare to interrupt her, and could only try very hard to rationalize her words. She didn’t go on for too long, it was obvious that she didn’t want to recall last night’s nightmare, just that she had to talk about it again, had to vent it out.
By the time she’d finished, Sea Gu’s hand was clasped tightly in hers. Her fingertips, so pale.
“Now I’ll help you analyze it properly, so don’t panic yet.” Sea Gu’s voice, so soft and gentle. With a guiding light coaxing, extremely as much as possible to ease the sadness of her heart. She looked at him helpfully and nodded.
He looked at her, “You said you came out of the coffee and had no recollection of anything afterward. Has anything like this sudden fainting spell ever happened before?”
“No.” Zoey shook her head.
Sea Gu frowned, “Who did you have coffee with?”
“My sister-in-law, Nabi Yan. She said she wanted to talk to me.”
“So what did you drink? Did she order the stuff, or did you?” Sea Gu pursued.
Zoey’s mind was all over the place, trying to remember before she could get her thoughts straight, “Had coffee. She ordered it for me.”
“That’s right!” Sea Gu’s expression sank a few points, “There’s something wrong with that cup of coffee! If I’m not mistaken, you were simply set up by her!”
Zoey looked at him with some consternation as he came to this conclusion. Nabi? She counted herself out? Was it because of Jerry?
She couldn’t believe it, and yet, it was the only explanation. But, even if it was, so what? There was still no way to escape what had happened with Owenlast night.
“Whether or not she counted on me, my brother and I have … said here, she was embarrassed and turned her face away, biting her lips tightly, unable to put the latter words into her mouth.
Sea Gu’s eyes also darkened for a moment, and he didn’t know how to comfort her. The pictures in the newspaper had explained everything that happened last night. This kind of thing was simply unacceptable to anyone.
Even a bastard like him couldn’t imagine what a bolt from the blue it would be if he slept with his own sister.
An astringency welled up in his throat, and he thought for a moment before saying, “Zoey , we can’t think like that … We can’t think the whole world is dark just because of one wrong move …”
“I just felt like the whole world went dark. My brother and I can never go back to … even … I don’t know how to face my family, how to face my children. In the future, if the children ask me why my uncle and I never speak to each other anymore and are never as close as we used to be, how should I answer? Should I answer, because my uncle and I have ‘incest’, that’s why …” Said here, she did not continue, covering her face and weeping deeply. Sea Gu’s eyes tightened, and opened his arms to hold her firmly, “Zoe,” she said. Hold, “Zoey , you calm down, calm down.”
He wanted to reassure her that things might not be as bad as she thought. But it wasn’t at all! Things were far worse than she thought!
The newspaper actually exposed last night’s incident! Nabi Yan did all this?
…
Cry your heart out …
Cry your heart out …
Crying, she fell asleep …
Crying, she woke up again …
When she opened her eyes, she realized that she was lying on Sea Gu’s bed and he was not in the room. The silence of the whole room made her panic, as if the whole world had left her behind. The thought of Nabi Yan made her shiver and she sat up from the bed in a flash.
She didn’t like this quiet space, it scared her a little, so she simply took the remote control and turned the TV on before she went and touched her phone to check the time. It was only when she did so that she realized it was already past 5pm!
I can’t believe she’s been asleep for so long!
She had to go back! No matter how humiliating and unacceptable this was, she still had to face it all!
He lifted the covers out of bed and was just about to go out when he suddenly stopped in his tracks because of the news on the TV.
“The city’s Baker family stock fell to its lowest ebb in history today as yet another racy photo and sibling incest scandal came to light, plunging the Baker family into a crisis like no other, with brand new changes coming to the board of directors. See the guide at …”
Zoey didn’t hear the next words clearly. Looking at the pictures that shifted by, she felt a thunderbolt and fell to the ground as her legs gave out.
“Zoey!” Sea Gu happened to come in and saw this scene and scrambled to put his arms around her.
As the dizziness subsided, Zoey clasped his hand in hers and struggled to get up from the ground. Sea Gu went to help her, but she pushed him away. He stepped forward again and held the disoriented woman in his arms, “Zoey , calm down! Calm down!”
“I want to go home! I want to go home!” She screamed with trembling lips.
“Okay, I’ll take you back, take it easy.” Sea Gu didn’t dare to slack off, led her downstairs, grabbed the car keys, and hurried out the door.
He had expected her to have a nervous breakdown when she saw this scene, but no one could avoid it. Sea Gu was just annoyed with himself that he couldn’t say a word of comfort when she was so upset.
Sea Gu saw the piles of reporters as he pulled up in front of the Baker family, cursed, backed his car up sharply, and made to leave.
“It’s okay, just leave me here and I’ll go down.”
“You’re crazy, so many reporters!” Sea Gu’s face was anxious, but Zoey had already pushed open the car door and went down, Sea Gu cursed and hurriedly threw on the car door to follow.
Sure enough …
The group of reporters went crazywhen they saw Zoey. Magazine lights flashed and immediately surrounded her in a circle.
“Ms. Baker, may I ask when you fell in love with your brother? Are you truly in love?”
“Will you get married later?”
“How can you have such strong courage to fall in love with your brother? Is it love that gives you strength?”
“‘Incest’ is not socially acceptable. And what are you guys going to do about it? What do Mr. and Mrs. Song think of this relationship of yours?”
Zoey’s face turned paler and paler, and she only felt that she was being crowded to the point that there was not even much air left in her chest, and her body’s strength was being drained away bit by bit. She … was about to be unable to hold on …