The bleakness under his eyes, flowing out, caused a suffocating haze to rise throughout the room.
Last night, the four of them were together, cozy images that still kept echoing in their minds. Today, surprisingly, only this room full of sadness …
The phone rang again, a message from Feng. He scanned the string of numbers, wrote them down, and dialed directly to Owen Baker’s cell phone.
…
At the sound of Jerry Xiao’s voice, on the other end, Owen Baker was stunned for a moment.
“Are Zoey and the kids home yet?” There were no polite pleasantries, he got straight to the point.
“It seems she didn’t tell you.”
“Tell me what?” Jerry Xiao asked curiously and heard Owen Baker speak up over there, “She came back early with the kids and has just gotten on the plane. I just got back from the airport.”
“On the airplane?” Jerry Xiao repeated those four words numbly, his heart sinking and sinking to the bottom.
She, indeed, escaped faster and farther than she thought …
“Is she, uh, back in the country?” He heard his voice, harder than it had just been.
“Hmm. As a matter of fact, she has long made up her mind to return to the country, and now she is merely bringing the formation forward. The reason for that, I suppose, lies with you.” Owen Baker’s voice was deep.
“It’s …,” he said, holding the phone in one hand and propping his head up with the other, his brow a little hard. “She’s, uh, avoiding me.” . “Maybe, she’s just trying to sort out her emotions.”
Is it? He didn’t know … eight months later Zoey , he couldn’t see through it at all …
“Is she, uh, okay?” He asked arduously.
Was it that last night, he was too rough and made her angry? Or was it everything last night that she didn’t expect either, and that’s why she left in a hurry today?
“It wasn’t too bad, just that she was pretty unstable when I dropped her off at the airport first thing in the morning.”
“I know …” It seems that everything that happened last night was really not in her plan. That’s why she couldn’t wait to escape like that.
Hanging up the phone, Jerry Xiao only sat within the sofa for a long, frustrated time without making the next move.
If, however, she just needed enough space and time, he was willing to give it to her. But this time, couldn’t be too long. He, couldn’t hold back!
…
On the plane to the country …
“Zoey , why did we sneak off like this without waking up Uncle?” KK asked Zoey regretfully .
She explained, “Uncle has other things to do here, so we’ll go first.”
“Oh, and will Uncle come back for us when he’s done?” The child continued to pursue the question.
“… will do.” Zoey nods.
“Really?” Nini’s eyes widened in half-confidence, “Uncle will surely blame us for leaving without saying goodbye, won’t he?”
“No, Uncle won’t leave you guys to blame.” Zoey smiled slightly, “Because, Uncle loves and adores you all, and he would never leave you behind.”
“Then why did Zoey leave? Doesn’t Zoey like older men?”
She froze for a split second. The tides of love surging through her heart had answered the question for her quite well.
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” It’s just that, suddenly, that liking has surpassed her own predictions. She lowered her eyes and looked at the child, “It’s because Zoey needs time to think about a lot of things.”
“And what things to think about?”
“Like …” she smiled, “what Zoey really wants to be happy, really.”
“It’s so complicated!” The child shook his head in a way that was completely incomprehensible.
“It is complicated.” She patted the kids on the head, “That’s why Zoey needs to take time to think things through.”
“Okay then! After we think it over, we can be with Uncle? It’s forever oh!” KK emphasized the last four words.
That’s a question Zoey can no longer answer.
What the future road would be like, she really couldn’t predict it at all. The word ‘forever’ seemed to be really too far away and too extravagant for them right now …
UK.
Even though it was winter, the entire villa was kept at a constant temperature throughout the year, and it should have been cozy. But, the entire villa was covered in gloom.
“Auntie, it’s time to rest.” Sunny Qin took a blanket and gently put it on Mrs. Zhan’s lap.
Mrs. Zhan sighed, her eyes full of worry. “Is something wrong?” Sunny Qin asked.
“Ah Yu that child hides everything from me, if it wasn’t for calling Ah Feng today, I wouldn’t have known that he had another attack last night.”
Mrs. Zhan stood up and cried bitterly, rubbing her forehead. Heartbroken, she murmured, “With his body like this, why is he still running to Qatar? Don’t even look, what kind of climate is over there, can he withstand it?”
Sunny Qin froze for a moment, “Auntie, you said, Jerry went to Qatar?”
Mrs. Zhan nodded her head and rubbed her forehead back and forth, “That’s not true. It’s really killing me! Even your own body, you don’t know to take good care of it.”
“Auntie, he … went to Qatar, he should be looking for Zoey Baker,” Sunny Qin felt some coldness in her veins. After eight months of sleeping, and, after all that had happened between him and Zoey Baker, how come he was still not dead to her? She thought that after eight months, everything should have become different.
“Zoey Baker? Zoey Baker is in Arabia too?” Mrs. Zhan raised her head in shock. Seeing Sunny Qin nod her head, her lips trembled and turned a little white, “What kind of sins did we the Xiao Family create, that the good two brothers have to let her torture them back and forth like this?”
“She will definitely want to get back the company that Jerry took away from her. So now that Jerry’s looking for it, she won’t just let it go so easily.”
Mrs. Zhan wrapped her chest around her shoulders, looked out the window at the ivy covered in a layer of dew under the streetlights, and muttered, “What on earth is it going to take to get Jerry to settle down and stop getting involved with that woman?”
Sunny Qin stood side by side with her, following the lady’s line of sight to the window, and spoke quietly, “To keep a man, other than marriage, children should be all that’s left.”
“Marriage? Children?” The lady looked at Sunny Qin with some surprise, and then, waving her hand, “Marriage is something that his father and I can’t influence him, the older he gets, the more stubborn he is, if I had known that there would be this day, a few years ago, I should have let him get married to you earlier.”
“If marriage doesn’t work, there are children.” Sunny Qin reminded.
“Children?” At this point, Mrs. Zhan was moved. After so many years, she had naturally longed for a grandchild, and even if Jerry Xiao really didn’t get married, giving her a grandchild would be a comfort to her. But he was even more stubborn about children.
Because of the hereditary nature of his condition, he had long made up his mind and was determined not to have a child. This made Mrs. Zhan anxious and angry, but she really didn’t know how to convince him.
“A child is harder than forcing him to marry.” Mrs. Zhan’s headache was killing her.
“I do have an idea, I just don’t know if Auntie will allow it.” Sunny Qin sold the idea.
Mrs. Zhan looked at her, “Tell me about it, I’m going to be overjoyed if I really have a chance to hold a grandchild.”
Sunny Qin pondered, then bent her head to whisper a few words in Mrs. Zhan’s ear. Mrs. Zhan looked at her with jaws wide open, not responding for a long time, and there were contradictions and struggles in that shocked expression …
Zoey wanted to surprise her parents, so she didn’t inform them of her return today. However, she notified someone else – Charmed Night. A flashy sports car, running on the Loop.
It’s blocked again!
He pounded the steering wheel in frustration and checked the time. Another half hour and she should be off the plane. Picking his lips up high, he looked out the window at the street scene and smiled away. In the past few months, she had gone to Arabia to heal her wounds, while he had gone to Sweden to busy himself with the company’s frontier development.
Going to Arabia to heal was also a really fresh idea! In a blink of an eye, two people have been eight months gone. But, well, there is msn to contact each other. How many friendships in the world should be maintained thanks to these communication companies?
Yes, between them, it is friendship … eight months, he, actually look away from this problem.
Love, what kind of result will get, is predestined from the beginning. God let him appear too late, but let Jerry Xiao appear too early, so her heart, except for that man, no one can fight for.
All too aware of this fact, he – Sea Gu – stood in the safest and most secure position to be close to her.
The driveway, gradually smoothing out, Sea Gu started slowly, leaving his cell phone ringing, he swept it over and narrowed his eyes when he saw the name of the person displayed on the screen.
Demon!
He cursed inwardly and just hung up his Bluetooth headset and was about to connect when the call went dead. Shit! It only rang for 5 times, and then it hung up? There’s no way!
This woman, definitely the most most impatient demon!
Sea Gu snorted, not removing his headset, and would have waited for his opponent to call again. But it was obvious that the other party had no intention of calling again. By the time he got off the loop, his cell phone hadn’t rung. Sea Gu cursed again and took his cell phone to call back.
Shit! If it wasn’t for the fact that the new documents coming out of the company had to go through her government department and she had to sign them, it would be strange for him to care about her.
The phone, which rang for as long as five times before it was finally answered slowly. She, absolutely, positively did it on purpose! Does the heart of revenge have to be heavy like this?
“Hey!”
“The approval for your company’s new project has come down, come and pick it up.” The original shadow’s voice had a kind of unanticipated sexiness to it. It was clearly a deadpan sentence, and the environment behind him was really noisy as could be, but, on the contrary, it still couldn’t cover that temptation. Some people, there is a kind of ability, is born with, unique. No one can learn, no one can take away.
Even Sea Gu, who had seen countless women, was slightly compelled by her at first glance. However, fortunately, he sobered up in time and knew what kind of unpleasant nature this woman was, so he was determined not to be compelled by her.
“Going now? Ms. Hara, are you sure you’re not planning to take advantage of nightfall to tie me up in your coiled cave and ruin my virginity?”
“Mr. Gu, you really surprised me. From your mouth, I can actually hear the word ‘chastity’.” The original shadow’s tone was flat.
“Ha, the word ‘chastity’ probably really doesn’t apply to me, because …” he paused and laughed away, propping his elbows on the car window and resting his lower jaw. “I’m on my way to another Discordian right now to dedicate my great chastity. So what, I can’t get to your place tonight to get the approval, but if you’re in a hurry, I’ll have the other …”
“Mr. Gu, I’m sorry to inform you that in the recent period of time, I’m afraid that your company will not be able to get this approval.” The original shadow ‘gently’ cut him off, and the tone simply made Sea Gu shiver. 12468791QjHx. “Why?” This woman, what the hell again!
“Because, suddenly, I’m in a good mood. So I intend to double-check the specifics of this project.”
What kind of reason is this? There is a good mood, but also intentionally stuck people? Sea Gu wanted to curse. Patiently asked, “How long will it take?”
“Depends on the mood!”