“I don’t want to disturb you in your relationship over there.” She did it on purpose, acting aloof and trying to be as generous as she could, but her heart had long been astringent and sour.
Really, I’d like to ask what his relationship with Sunny Qin is …
“In love?” Jerry Xiao grunted coldly, finding her comment a bit puzzling, “I think it’s simply that you’re too busy being in love to answer my calls. Zoey Baker, are you with Sea Gu again?”
There was more than a little caution in his tone by the end. As if, it felt likely that he had made such an inference.
“You and Sunny Qin continue your relationship, I’ll hang up now, I’m a bit busy over here.” Zoey deliberately ignored his question, holding her breath in her heart, but not really hanging up on him. She, where does she want to give up? After waiting for so many days, looking forward to so many days, just to hear his voice.
Now, she was sure he was fine. Yet, inside, she was still very, very upset …
“Who says I’m in a relationship with Sunny Qin?” His words were thrown over.
She felt even worse inside, her tone a little sour, “I called you early this morning, and she was the one who answered …”
Sunny Qin answered. Jerry Xiao frowned, “I went through my cell phone and there’s no record of your call.”
Looks like it was deleted by her.
“You guys, really together?” Zoey subconsciously screws up her heart.
Jerry Xiao felt that there was absolutely no reason for her to have to explain herself to this idiot woman, after all, she had no business asking questions about anyone he was with. However, there were some things that were done that even she couldn’t help herself.
“No. Are you deaf? I’ve told you many times that there’s no way I’m staying with her, she’s only here with me to fulfill her duties and take care of the patients!”
That, I think, is the explanation.
Zoey’s anger that was blocked at the bottom of her heart completely disappeared in this instant. For a long time, she held the phone without saying anything, just hugged the quilt and curved her lips and smiled.
“What are you doing?” He asked. In the quiet darkness of the night, his voice came from a faraway land that Zoey still felt made her heart flutter like that.
“Just got into bed. How about you?”
“Still working.”
“Busy? Do you still have a headache? Ever had a doctor look at it in England?” Tian Qing couldn’t help but hug the quilt, half-sitting up and leaning against the bed. Worriedly, she urged, “You have to pay attention to your health over there. No more coffee or going out drinking.”
She recited minutely, very much the flavor of a small wife, and the two ‘forbidden’ at the end were even a little overbearing. But Jerry Xiao did not feel the slightest bit bored, on the contrary, there was a kind of marvelous feeling crossing his heart.
Suddenly, there was an urge to return to the country immediately. However, the matter at hand seems to be a bit too much …
Perhaps it is infected by such an atmosphere, he is rare good behavior should. The two chatted for a while, Zoey lay back under the covers again, pursed her lips, before finally asking, “When will you be back?”
“Four more days.”
“Oh …” monosyllabic word, but unconsciously stretched out by her. The meaning it contained was more than clear to her.
The call, interrupted in the middle of an imminent meeting on his end. Hanging up the phone, Zoey, with a smile on her face, fell into a deep sleep. A night of good dreams, dreams of the man she loved the most.
Two days passed in a blink of an eye …
In the morning, Zoey was accompanying Yami Hu to fix the flower garden at home. However, a sharp pain suddenly appeared in her abdomen, she counted the time, it was the right time for MC to come, she hurriedly ran to the restroom with a pale face.
Her body was very sensitive, and because of the last time she took the birth control pill, her body, which was already toned down, was now in some minor condition. The pain was unbearable for her.
“Zoey , are you okay?” Yami Hu followed, knocking on the door outside the restroom.
“Mom, I’m fine.” Zoey held back the pain, not wanting Yami Hu to worry.
“Your cell phone just rang, do you want me to bring it to you?” Yami Hu asked. Before she could turn around to get her cell phone, Zoey had already come out of the bathroom, “I’ll just get it myself.”
Looking at the back of that trotting, Yami Hu smiled delightedly. It seems that when a daughter falls in love, she can’t stay. This saying is really true. I’m afraid that in the near future, I will have to prepare for this child’s wedding.
Zoey thought it might be Jerry calling. He had been calling her for the past two days since they spoke on the phone that day, and he seemed to be very busy, so he couldn’t say more than a few words. He seemed to be very busy, so every time he called, he couldn’t say more than a few words before hanging up, and Zoey felt sorry for him, but there was nothing she could do except to keep bugging him like a big mom.
It was only when she saw the flashing number on the phone that Zoey realized it wasn’t Jerry, but Afon. She hurriedly picked the phone up, and Ah Feng’s anxious voice came from the other end, “Secretary Baker, can you do me a favor?”
“What’s wrong?”
“Earlier the president left a document in the study, and now I need it urgently on my side. But there is no key to the president’s house.”
“Then I’ll be right over now.”
Zoey cleaned up casually, took her keys, and hurried out the door after saying a word to Yami Hu. The pain in her abdomen was the same as last time, and it hurt a little bit. But she couldn’t care less, she stopped the car and rushed to Jerry’s house.
When he arrived, Feng was already waiting there, and Zoey hurriedly took the key and opened the door, feeling weak.
After letting Ah Fung in, he himself sat on the sofa to rest. Ah Feng familiarly searched for information down in the study, and seeing Zoey’s powerless appearance, he couldn’t help but ask with concern, “Secretary Baker, are you alright? It looks like the color of your face is very bad.”
“I’m fine, I just walked too fast.” Zoey grudgingly got up, “Got your stuff, right?”
“Uh-huh.” Feng shook the information in his hand and looked at her again, “Why don’t I make a call and have someone take you to the hospital?”
“No really, it’s just a small problem, I’ll just rest for a while. You’re busy with the meeting, hurry up.” Zoey was afraid of delaying him. Ah Feng looked down at the watch on his wrist, and it was true that he couldn’t delay any longer, so he admonished Zoey, nodded, and hurriedly left.
Zoey was so sore from being alone in a huge house that she changed her clothes and lay down in her bedroom. I was so confused, I don’t know when I fell asleep. But, then, it was woken up by the phone.
She was very dizzy, groggy already do not know what year is this evening. The phone rang more and more pointed, hand haphazardly to the bed, and did not look, and pressed the answer button to put the phone to the ear.
“How are you?” It was Jerry’s voice.
She tried to muster up some energy, but there was no energy at all. Her voice was hoarse as well, “I’m fine, what time is it?”
“What the hell is wrong? Feng said you look terrible.” His tone was not very good, and he sounded a little anxious. But at this moment Zoey couldn’t feel anything, and only heard him ask, so she answered, “It’s just a little pain in my abdomen … It should be because of the medicine I took last time. Rest for a while will be fine.”
She mumbled, her thoughts getting less and less clear, and by the end of the sentence even what Jerry Xiao said on the other end didn’t register in her ears at all. She, again, fell asleep.
…
This sleep, I really don’t know how many hours I slept, I just woke up in a blur by the pungent smell that filled the room.
Huh? Why does it smell like this herbal medicine? At this time, there should be no one in the house! Is there a thief?
At that thought, Zoey woke up with a start and sat up straight from the bed. Seeing the quilt covering her body, her thoughts were in a flurry. When she had just fallen asleep, she hadn’t covered herself at all!
Who the hell was in the house?
Hanging on by a thread, she tiptoed out the door, afraid to make a noise that would alert any unknown creatures that might be in the house, so she only dared to step on the floor with her bare feet. She didn’t go downstairs immediately, but only stood and looked down.
Without looking, her entire body froze in place.
Only a long figure was sitting on the sofa in the hall covered by luxurious crystal lamps. He hung his head down, his eyes pausing on the notebook in front of him. Obviously working, his mind was focused without any distractions. Wearing a light gray home cardigan and cotton pants, the whole person looked casual and lazy, with an indescribable charm.
Zoey just stood there, watching from afar, almost thinking he was dreaming this scene. Shouldn’t he be in England at this time? Besides, he wasn’t supposed to be back for two days!
But who is this man in front of me, if not him?
With her heart beating so hard that the pain in her belly seemed to become less noticeable, she jogged down the stairs. At this moment, he also heard the commotion and looked up, just in time to meet her surprised eyes.
However, after his eyes traveled over her entire body and landed on her bare feet, his brow, couldn’t help but furrow.
“Why are you back?” Zoey asked. Zoey asked, a smile unconsciously widening on that little face. Jerry Xiao didn’t look too good, closing the notebook and setting it aside, getting up, he picked her up off the floor in a cross-armed hug, “You don’t even know how to put your shoes on?”
The nonchalant questioning, paired with his expression, looked menacing. But Zoey wasn’t intimidated at all. On the contrary, it was only because of the touch of this firm and warm chest that a real feeling finally came to her.
He’s back! He’s really back!
“I thought you weren’t coming back until two days later, with all your work done?” The slender arm, of its own accord, wrapped around his neck. I don’t know how much I look like a little girl in love at this moment, as if my expected boyfriend finally came back.
The warmth and softness in his arms made Jerry Xiao’s heart, all of a sudden, seem to fill to the brim. He hugged her and sat down on the sofa before answering, “Finished all the work in advance.”
In fact, not at all.
On the phone, listening to her groggy talk, he hadn’t wanted to care, telling himself over and over again that she wasn’t such a big person that she wouldn’t even know how to take care of herself. Besides, there was no reason for him to care about her that much! She was just a woman who had betrayed herself once!
But, the next job went wrong again and again, not at all efficient, and on the contrary, wasted a lot of effort to go back and re-do.
He had to give up on doing any more, and simply left the finishing touches to the others, booking his own ticket and hurrying back.
One back …
Sure enough, she was lying on the bed. Looking at that sleeping little face, his heart, which had been hanging for more than ten hours, settled in that instant.
“In the kitchen, cooking herbs?” Zoey smelled the pungent odor that filled the room.
“Well, it’s the same medicine as last time, you drink it later.” Jerry Xiao said as he got up and walked towards the kitchen. Zoey looked at the long back and the smile at the corner of her lips raised slightly.