Zoey , heart astringent. Tears, once again, seeped from her eyes. She could understand his prayers, but she still felt panic, for no reason.
“If you don’t think it’s … possible,” he spoke arduously, “then I respect your opinion.”
Even though, he really, really wanted to.
Zoey Pursed her lips, choked and spoke, “I promise you … Although the children were born to me and I brought them up with one hand, however, I have no qualification to deprive them of the right to fatherly love. I just hope that you can find a suitable opportunity to patiently tell them. Don’t scare them.”
Hearing her answer in this way, he smiled openly. The heaviness in the bottom of his heart seemed to have disappeared all of a sudden. Just imagining the picture of two children calling him daddy instead, a surge of excitement surged in the bottom of his heart. He bent his head, his cold thin lips close to her face.
The breath came from the top down, spraying down. zoey eyelashes trembled especially hard, her heart sank for a moment, but subconsciously backed away a little, to avoid his touch. Not ignoring her reaction, the color of his eyes darkened for a second. His hand slightly exerted force, re-drawing her closer. His lips, then, were pressed against her forehead.
Cold as ice, no warmth at all …
Don’t avoid him … It turns out that he just wanted to be like he is now, gently, touching her forehead, feeling his body heat …
…
I don’t know how long it took, but the trembling of his body, gradually slowed down. There were no more bruises on his body, and his face was still pale, but much better. Zoey got up from the bed and wanted to wring a hot towel to wipe his face, but then she remembered that there was no hot water here.
This is really bad!
“Why don’t you come back to the villa with me.” She offered.
“Hmm?” He barely managed to hold himself up, leaning against the hard bed and looking at her in confusion.
“This is not the right place for you and Nini can’t live here. It will be much easier to stay in the villa. I’ll help you pack. Where is your luggage?” Her eyes, searching everywhere.
“But I don’t want to bother you.” Jerry Xiao locked her in a sullen grip.
“You’re already in trouble with me now!” Zoey gave him a no-nonsense look, “If you don’t go to the villa, you’re an even bigger pain in the ass!”
A faint smile swooned under his eyes. He realized that after eight months of not seeing her, she had really grown sharp claws …
“What are you laughing at? Where’s the luggage? I’ll pack it for you.”
She insisted he come along, so he complied with her, comparing it to the suitcase in the small corner. In fact, he was more than happy to be able to stay with the three of them. What he had just said about ‘not wanting to bother her’ was nothing more than a polite remark.
Had he known that a flare-up could have such a perk, he really should have had it sooner.
Zoey asked him as she packed his suitcase, “Anything else you want to take in?”
“Uh-huh. There.” He responded, gesturing with his lower jaw to the desk to one side, “The laptop’s over there, it needs to be put away.”
“Oh.” She stood up in a hurry, unplugged and stowed her computer in her suitcase. She looked around and heard him compare again, “Here, over there, the charger for the cell phone. And, to the left, the signing pen …”
Zoey put them all into the suitcase for him one by one, Jerry Xiao just sat there, watching intently the figure wandering back and forth in the not so spacious space. Suddenly, he felt that this scene was so beautiful that it made his heart flutter. He squinted his eyes, wanting to look at it like this, always looking at it, looking at it for the rest of his life. …
Zoey packed up and was about to close the case when she looked up, bumping into his deep line of sight, she shuddered and lowered her head a little uncomfortably.
Jerry Xiao then shook himself out of it and also jerked his eyes away as if nothing had happened and asked, “All packed?”
“Hmm. That’s fine, we might have to go a little faster, I’m worried the kids will freak out if they wake up and don’t see me.” She got out in time to say hello to the kids.
Jerry Xiao nodded and got up from the bed, still not able to lift a little bit of energy from his body, and every step felt like stepping on a cloud. This kind of self is really bad, too much of a loser!
However, he didn’t want her to know that he was this useless nowadays.
Gritting his teeth, he braced himself to stand.
Glancing at her again and seeing how little she was wearing, he smoothly picked up the trench coat off to the side and draped it over her, “Why didn’t you even wear a jacket when you came out?”
Zoey felt a warmth in her mood and did not say anything, only slightly lowering her eyes to hide the surge in her heart. As a matter of fact, when she received the call from Ah Feng, she was really scared to death, and she only wanted to come here as soon as possible, so she didn’t bother to put on her jacket.
The two walked out side by side, with Ah Feng walking behind carrying their luggage for them. After putting the luggage in the back trunk, Jerry Xiao got on the passenger side first. When he got in, he closed his eyes and rested. Ah Feng stood by the side of the car, talking to Zoey.
“The president is in the hands of Secretary Baker.”
“Uh-huh. I’ll take good care of him.”
Afon nodded gratefully, “The president’s health is in bad shape right now, I hope Secretary Baker forgets about the past for now …”
“Do you think I can forget?” Zoey asked rhetorically, interrupting Feng.
Ah Feng froze for a moment and pursed his lips. He actually also knows that those things in the past, now mentioning them is also enough to make a person’s heart ache. Now ask her to forget, it is too difficult.
“Even though I can’t forget those things in the past, I wish him well. At least, I hope he can live. So, don’t worry about it.” Zoey and Feng assured.
Feng’s tone was a bit heavy, “Actually, the president really still loves and adores you and the children.”
Yes? Between them, would it be too inappropriate to talk about the word ‘love’ now?
“I can’t understand what you mean by ‘love’. All I know is that it seems to me that to truly love someone is not to spare them harm.”
Afon was speechless to retort.
Zoey’s heart swirled with enormity. She pursed her lips and said goodbye to Feng, “We’ll leave then, see you tomorrow.”
A dark sea of sand at night.
Zoey could only feel his way through with his memory, but Jerry Xiao sat on the side with his eyes closed and remained speechless.
Afraid he’d pass out, Zoey turned her head to look at him once more and tentatively, called down to him, “Jerry?”
Jerry…
This sound made Jerry Xiao’s heart ripple. The corners of his lips, slightly raised, did not answer in the first place.
It seems, it’s really been a long time since he heard her call him ‘Jerry’so gently and softly …
So he’s greedy, doesn’t want to wake up, wants to hear it a few more times …
“Jerry?” “Are you asleep?”
No …
How could one ever fall asleep with her around?
“Jerry, you’re not fainting, are you?” Her voice was panicked and vaguely shaky. A hand reached over to shake him awake. In mid-air, it was suddenly clasped by him. He opened his eyes and looked at him sideways, a faint smile in the bottom of his eyes.
“You’re pretending?” She gave him an angry sidelong glance, tempted to act angry to deal with his nastiness, but the relief that parted her heart gave her no way to lash out.
“Just wanted to hear you call my name like that again.” He was honest, his large palm subconsciously wrapping her small hand in his arms.
At his words, Zoey snapped out of it. The movement stiffened, and the hand was withdrawn from his palm. Face, slightly squared, bet his eyes ahead, forced himself to calm down, and simply ignored him.
He smiled as faintly as ever and whispered, “From now on, call me that, I’m used to it.”
Zoey pursed her lips, “But I’ve changed that habit.”
Once, loving him, loving became a habit. It was like breathing air, and she couldn’t even imagine for herself what it would be like one day if she didn’t love him anymore.
But then …
She’d been trying so, so hard to forget that she loved him for that matter.
Some habits may be so deeply rooted that they can’t be changed, but she deliberately tries to forget this habit and hide it …
The color of his eyes, sullenly surging, floated out in a circle of dark color. His lips moved to say something, but the words that came out were, “How is Nini’s condition after all these years?”
At the mention of the child, the atmosphere in the carriage was not as awkward as it had just been. All of a sudden eased a lot, but also seems a little heavy.
“There have been three episodes in all.” The number of times was small, but it had been a most, most brutal form of capital punishment for Zoey, each one pulling wildly at her heart and causing her pain. “The most recent one was five months ago, and it really scared me so much that I didn’t know what I should do. Thankfully, her uncle was much calmer than I was. The doctor said that she was still young and the attack wasn’t really serious, it’s just that her ability to bear it can’t compare to that of an adult, and every time I see her in pain, I really want to go through the pain for her, to feel bad …”
Zoey’s voice choked up at the end. The pain of her child was the last thing she wanted to think about in her life.
Looking at her emotionally unstable appearance, listening to the child suffered all kinds of torture, Jerry Xiao heart of guilt and self-blame to wrap him thickly, so that he loathed through his own.
There is simply no way to imagine how they came through all these times.
Where is he qualified to hear his children call him daddy? Even when the kids were this upset and she was this overwhelmed, he was never there for them, to give them an ounce of comfort …
Reaching out his hand, he wanted to soothe and calm her floating emotions. However, thinking of her resistance just now, the hand, then awkwardly stopped in the air, and then …
Frustrated, Slowly Retracted …
The children were not awake when the two arrived at the villa. Both were sleeping soundly, not having the slightest idea that the adults had just gone through a robbery.
Jerry Xiao gently pushed open the door, stood in the doorway, staring fixedly at the inside, as if to deepen the two beautiful sleeping faces into his heart. Zoey stood behind him, looking at his back, even if she was just looking at him from behind, she could feel the love that permeated his body.
The kids won’t have any more regrets, she thought. Their daddy, who loved, loved them so much …
“Over there is your bedroom, which has a bathroom and vanity.” Zoey whispered behind him, introducing herself to him. He looked back, his finger between his lips in a ‘shhh’ gesture, and looked back to make sure the kids hadn’t been awakened by her sudden voice before he gently closed the door behind him and turned to follow her line of sight.
“Thanks.” His voice, deliberately low and careful, the way he was afraid of disturbing the child.
“No need.” Zoey gives him a look, “Actually, you don’t have to be so careful, this place is soundproofed. Besides, the kids sleep so well that normal sounds won’t wake them up.”
Jerry Xiao laughs away, “You should be able to appreciate what I’m feeling right now.”