The tide of the heart, surging. His deep, complex eyes fixed her, “I was in a coma for eight months, so, didn’t realize … Baker family, had been changed …”
He never authorized his father to do it.
At the mention of the Baker family, Zoey’s hand stiffened in his grip. She pursed her lips and didn’t make a sound. There was no denying that the love for him was still there. Moreover, it was so strong that it was beyond her imagination. However, the more so, the heart of the thorn, the more distinct …
Just the slightest mention of it stung her to the core.
“I signed the power of attorney when I woke up, and the attorney is reviewing the procedure now. If, all is in order, when the time comes, the attorney will notify your father.”
Zoey looked up at him, “Power of attorney?”
He looked back at her seriously, “That was meant to belong to you, and now, I just want what’s rightfully mine.”
“Why?” Zoey asked in a nebulous voice, her heart welling up with very mixed and complicated emotions.
If we were to give it back to her now, why did we have to go through so much trouble to get it in the first place? Now returned, her heart of the wound, is not also can follow the healing? Around and around, each other in such a big circle, it seems that everything is back to the original point, but … heart broken cracks, can also go back to the beginning?
“I’m not trying to seek your forgiveness or to put my own mind at ease. It’s just … a sudden awakening … “Jerry Xiao held her hand tightly, sincerely and ashamedly looking at that small face, “To be honest, to get the Baker family, has always been my goal to return to China, but also my father’s philosophy that has been constantly instilled in me over the past few years. I just want to do what I can to make my father happy, so that those hatreds in my heart have channels of relief … Midway through the process, I wavered, and then insisted, and then wavered again, and in the end, the devil got the upper hand. However, when I got everything I wanted, I realized that in getting it, I lost the most important things – you, my children, and, my heart …”
Zoey had never wanted to think about the past, but now that he’d bloodily peeled it away, he realized that there was still no scab.
“I thought about it, if you don’t mention the past, I’ll just leave it at that. However, this is your heart knot, if I do not untie it for you, in the future, I go … who should you go to find?” His eyes, full of pity.
“How would you like to untie me?” Zoey’s voice choked slightly.
“I don’t know.” He shook his head, a little confused. But firmly, he gripped her hand and pressed it to his lips, “But I will spend the rest of my remaining life making up for this.”
Her eyes moistened, “The rest of your life? Just six short months? Eight months ago, you caused me so much pain that I didn’t feel any better until now. You think that a mere six months will make up for all that?”
He gazed deeply into her teary eyes and promised, very sincerely and honestly, “I will try to live a little longer.”
“A little longer, how long?” Tears, still roaming out of her eyes. Since he wants to make amends, can she be greedy and ask for … compensation for her whole life …
“Long enough, until you’re satisfied.” He tenderly wiped clean her tears. Do not dare to easily promise her, because, afraid of their own broken promise. However, at this moment … he is willing to do his best to adhere to this promise …
“Can I trust you again?” The tears that glistened in her clear eyes made him feel his heart ache. Probing his arm, he firmly held her into his embrace, his lower jaw resting against her head, and spoke in a dark voice, “Trust me this one more time. I will live for you and the child, well …”
She cried. Opened her arms and firmly embraced his waist. Until this moment, she was really clear, in front of the fragile life, once those hatred, those heart knot, those nagging feelings, how worthless.
As long as he gets better and lives a good life, she’s willing to let go of the past for him too …
Back to the ward, after getting his own cell phone, only to find that there are actually already more than ten missed calls, all from home. I didn’t dare to be slow, so I hurriedly called back. Yami Hu answered the phone and was relieved to hear her daughter’s voice.
“Why don’t you answer your phone even after calling you so many times? You’re in a hurry.” Yami Hu scolded her daughter.
“Just went downstairs to check in. Mom, Dad’s not mad, is he?”
“You don’t know what your father is like? He has a knife’s mouth and a tofu heart. I’m angry, but at least it’s a life.”
Zoey breathed a small sigh of relief when she heard her mother say that. “Mom, thank you …”
Yami Hu long sigh. “Your father and I, everything can not and he, but he cheated you in the past cheated so bad, how also let us heart can not pass. Zoey , you are a good child, the heart is soft, don’t be a few words he persuaded. The heart of their own, have to keep their own, do not be stupid to hold out again to let others round pinch flat. You don’t have to worry about it, but your dad and I do.”
Later on, Yami Hu probably remembered her daughter’s suffering at Jerry Xiao’s place in the past, and couldn’t help but choke on her sobs. Zoey held her cell phone and stood by the bedside, looking out the window at the withered leaves under the cold wind, “Mom, I want to … let the kid recognize him. …”
Yami Hu was over there, for a long time, without speaking. Zoey thought that her mother would not speak again, but heard her voice, very slowly, very slowly, “Zoey , if this trust is overturned again, can you afford the consequences? If, on the other hand, he’s only doing it to take the baby away …”
Zoey pursed her lips, and her mind was filled with Jerry Xiao’s words “Trust me again.” …
This time, she gambled on her child and, by extension, her life …
“Mom, I bet one last … time,” she finally, still said so. This is a big gamble, as long as the failure, waiting for her is the absolute wall of the abyss, will let her die without burial place. But she, still decided, just like this resolutely go on …
Yami Hu didn’t say another word, and after a moment of silence, he disconnected the call. At that last moment, Zoey heard her mother’s suppressed choking sound. Obviously, she was more afraid of this big gamble than she was …
Sitting in the cab, he was on the phone, constantly explaining about work. He was still very weak, but the way he worked, he was so serious and charming. Along the way, half an hour’s drive, he almost did not have a moment to spare, Zoey really worried, these heavy work, is he still affordable.
At the Xiao Family’s door, Zoey follows him out of the car.
Zoey could feel his scent when she walked in the door. Eight months later, this was the second time I’d been here. Last time, I left in such a hurry that I didn’t even have time to take a closer look.
Jerry Xiao turned the underfloor heating on and turned the computer on the coffee table in the hall on, there was a file to be received. Zoey turned into the kitchen, poured a cup of hot water and walked out, pursing her lips when she saw him busy.
Wordlessly, he walked over and gently rested the boiling water on the edge of his hand. Palm open, deliberately blocking his laptop screen. He paused in his vision for a moment and looked up at her with a smile.
“Don’t work as soon as you get back, the doctor is telling you to get some rest.” She said to him very, very seriously.
“It’s an email from Feng from over there, needing me …”
“Is your body or your work important?” She interrupted him, looking down at him. Hands, still still covering the screen.
All she wants is for him to be well … stop moving to the hospital and showing exhaustion …
She wants him, as spirited and alive as he used to be …
He laughed away. Suddenly, he felt that his inferiority was so severe that even he couldn’t help but despise himself. Because, suddenly, he felt that there was an indescribable pleasure and happiness in being controlled by her in such a ‘domineering’ manner.
“Then I’ll request an international call.” He obeyed, closing the computer. Making the only request …
Zoey is not that unreasonable. There were many decisions in the company that naturally involved him. Only, nodded. And added, “Five minutes tops, long story short.”
Well … she really has the potential to be a housekeeper now, but he really, really likes it …
“Just five minutes.” He nodded, an unconditional yes. Turning to fish for his cell phone, a hand covered it faster than he could. His hand, then, covered the back of her hand and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Let me check your cell phone.” She sat down on the couch as well. Both leaned in slightly, focusing on their phones.
Looking at his cell phone? Well … it should be the picture on the screen that was discovered. Seeing how curious she looks, he doesn’t let go and can’t help but tease her, “Want to check it out? There seems to be quite a few women’s phone numbers in there.”
Zoey froze, and her hand actually retracted in a really sarcastic manner. Glancing at him, she explained, “I was just curious about the picture on your screen. Never mind, you make the call, I’ll run the bath for you to wash off all the germs you brought back from the hospital.”
After she finished, she turned around and was about to leave. Looking at that back, Jerry Xiao chagrined that he shouldn’t have said those words.
When he rose suddenly, he held her firmly from behind.
The whole body, was included in a warm embrace, Zoey heartbeat steeply accelerated. His solid arm, wrapped her whole person firmly, so that she could not move, even, even breathing to stop.
“Angry?” His lower jaw, against her shoulder. Face, pressed against hers, gently rubbing, so gentle that her entire being, along with her heart, was going to soften into a ball, “I’m teasing you, the phone, even if there are women, are all clients.”
She suddenly just looked down and smiled, smiling sweetly, her eyes flashing, unusually eye-catching. Such a Zoey , so that Jerry Xiao almost looked lost in thought, narrowed his eyes and asked, “What are you smiling at?”
She turned and locked eyes with him, looking into the handsome face with a deeper smile, “I’m teasing you too.”
“So you’re not angry at all?” A dangerous light flashed in Jerry Xiao’s eyes.
Zoey jumped out of his arms and kept two steps away before saying, “Who told you to take pictures of me and the kids? You’re really bad at taking pictures.”
He rippled a smile, “That’s the most beautiful picture I’ve ever seen.”
…
Sitting on the edge of the bathtub, she touched the water in the tub, then reached out and touched it again, trying the temperature twice before she felt it was just right. Looking at the splashing water, Zoey gently rippled open smile. Suddenly, I felt that this kind of life is really beautiful. …
She didn’t dare to imagine the future because, in the future, no one could control what happened. Thinking about it now was just adding to her own sorrow.
“Are you giggling?” Jerry Xiao hung up the phone and came up to see Zoey sitting on the edge of the tub, giggling at the overflowing water.
He walked right over and turned off the water valve …
Hearing his voice brought Zoey back to her senses. Looking up at him, “The call is done?”