Sammy Jones froze, looked up, met his gentle line of sight, and her heart warmed slightly. She looked at Joey Xu again, remembering Zhao Yuanyuan, her heart sank, and she gently placed her hand into Luo Mingfan’s.
The tall body stiffened slightly, and Joey Xu’s eyes were a few shades cooler than the moonlight.
Lormingfan tightened his hand and took hers, turning slightly sideways to protectively hold Sammy Jones back.
” Mr. Xu, no matter what happened with you and Sammy Jones, it’s obvious she doesn’t want to see you right now. Please don’t harass her!” Facing Joey Xu’s forcefulness, Luo Mingfan did not show any weakness.
Joey Xu lowered his eyes to look at their tightly interlocked hands, at the way she sought protection behind another man without a word, not angry, but instead let out a cold laugh, “Lawyer Ye need not be so nervous, I won’t really eat you.”
The word ‘eat’, he bites it heavy and ambiguous. Sammy Jones remembers uncontrollably the passion between them last night and his body tenses, “What do you want?”
Joey Xu rings his chest and looks at them from above, “The court will be held the day after tomorrow, and you’ll be the defense for Quartet as usual!”
Sammy Jones and Luo Mingfan both looked up at him in surprise, and Sammy Jones, unable to understand, asked, “What do you mean?”
“Haven’t you always wanted to preach justice and thought you were omnipotent? This time, I’ll let you open your eyes and see how badly you’ll lose!” Joey Xu’s eyes were as cold as ice cream.
As soon as Joey Xu opened her mouth, she knew she could go to court without a care in the world and no one would ever hit on anyone close to her again. She also knew that Joey Xu was only asking because he wanted to poke at her.
She stepped out from behind Luo Mingfan and fixed Joey Xu’s eyes, “Yes, I’ll be in court on time!”
“Sammy Jones,” Luo Mingfan had a worried heart, afraid that she would fall for Joey Xu’s trap.
Sammy Jones smiled at him reassuringly, “Don’t worry, since Mr. Xu has asked for me to go to court, it will be fine. I also really want to finish this lawsuit for you, win or lose!”
She smiled so softly.
When talking to Luo Mingfan, he also spoke softly.
But damn! Facing him Joey Xu was like a hedgehog at all times, making him hate to pull out all the thorns from her body with his bare hands!
Joey Xu’s expression grew colder and more solemn.
There was no anger, but just a cold and ghostly sudden sentence, “Come over tonight, besides this matter, there is something else to remind Lawyer Ye!”
Sammy Jones looked at him and met his cool eyes, the tip of her heart involuntarily tightened, intuiting that he would not say anything good. Before she could think clearly, she only heard him spit out a sentence in a mean manner, “Last night we did it so many times without a condom. Lawyer Ye, shouldn’t you consciously take your medication?”
Medicine?
Of course it’s the morning after pill. effective for 72 hours.
Sammy Jones blanched and visibly felt Luo Mingfan’s grip on her hand tense up a few points as well.
She only felt particularly blocked in her heart, last night’s incident was an unseemly matter for her, but he deliberately said it openly, and in front of a third person!
Ashamed, annoyed, and furious, she glared at Joey Xu, “You’re shameless!”
Joey Xu didn’t say a word, only stared hard at her, the eyes were complicated and unpredictable, seemed to have resentment, annoyance, and endless gloom, like a deep vortex that could swirl Sammy Jones in.
Her heart ached with shock, but, without waiting for him to speak again, Joey Xu had already turned away.
The long back, stretched out by the dim light …
The moment …
Sammy Jones inexplicably reddened and averted his eyes from looking away.
The lights came on, the car drove away, and after … the whole neighborhood returned to that darkness, as if the whole world was quiet …
Sammy Jones returned to his senses, wrenched his hand away from Luo Mingfan without a trace, pursed his lips, and said, “I’m sorry …”
Luo Mingfan looked at her, “You don’t have to apologize.”
“I’ll go up first, it’s getting late, you go back too.” She was in a messy, messy state of mind right now, and really didn’t have the heart to stay any longer.
All of Luo Mingfan’s heartfelt words were interrupted by Joey Xu’s sudden appearance. Looking at Sammy Jones at this moment, he also felt that there was nothing he could say. Only nodding his head, “Then you go up.”
Not a single superfluous word, he didn’t even ask.
Sammy Jones was relieved by this. Thankfully, he didn’t press the issue.
She watched him get into his car and leave, still standing in the dark shadows. Panting, remembering what Joey Xu had said, she headed out of the neighborhood. There was a 24-hour pharmacy outside. If Joey Xu hadn’t reminded her, she would have forgotten about it.
She’s never counted any safe danger periods and doesn’t know anything about them.
“Can I help you?” The salesman asked her.
Her face was still pale, nothing rippled in her demeanor, just a calm, “The morning-after pill, is there one?”
“Yes, several brands, which one do you want?”
A sign?
She doesn’t get it.
Before this, she had never thought that one day she would need to come and buy these things. It was really thoughtful of him to come all this way to specifically remind himself of this, I’m afraid he was really worried about her getting pregnant.
It’s not really something to account for when a man with a fiancée is out there having a child with another woman.
Think of this, heart, colder …
She returned the other’s words, “I don’t know anything about any of this stuff, so watch and get it for me.”
“This one then.” The salesman tossed her a tiny box, “Imported from abroad, with slightly less side effects.”
“Thanks.” Sammy Jones put the medicine away in his bag and took the money for the check.
Pushing open the door of the drugstore and stepping out, the evening breeze whipped by and the whole city was dark. She walked back alone, the silence around her was so alarming that the only sound she could hear was the sound of her own footsteps.
It’s a feeling that inexplicably makes you feel lonelier and lonelier …
She had never really been a person who was afraid of being alone, but, at some point, the heart, it started to get weak.
Maybe …
You should really find yourself a home and marry yourself off.
Joey Xu drove the car as fast as she could, only feeling that she was holding a lot of anger in her heart, but she had no way to let it out. In her mind, the image of her and Luo Mingfan holding hands was still floating back and forth.
Is she really with him?
Annoyed, he lit a cigarette and took two puffs, the pungent smell rushed into his nose, chest, and the gloom in his heart was not less at all, but rather more and more.
He put the cigarette out again in disgust.
Chest, more congestion!
Drive the car straight to the garage and park it. Push the door into the villa.
In the villa, with the lights still on, there was a slender figure curled up on the sofa. Sister An was holding a thin blanket to cover her.
” Mr. Xu.”
When she saw him come in, Sister Ann was busy greeting him.
Joey Xu let out a ‘hmmm’ through his nose, his eyes falling on Zhao Yuanyuan’s face. The more she grew up, the more she looked a bit like Zhao Lanlan. Engaged to her, naturally, because she wanted to be angry at Zhao Lanlan, and then again, also because of this looks …
“Miss Yuan Yuan has been waiting here for quite some time and hasn’t seen Mr. Xu come back.” Sister An said softly.
Joey Xu nodded slightly and lowered his voice a little, “Wake her up and tell her to sleep in the guest room, not here.”
Sister An nodded, squatted down, and shook Zhao Yuanyuan. Zhao Yuanyuan gave a cry and opened her eyes in a daze.
At a glance, seeing that tall figure, the sleepiness was gone, and her eyes cleared.
“Joey Xu!” she immediately sat up straight from the couch, “You’re back?”
Joey Xu looked at that little face, and for a moment he was a little lost in thought.
If Sammy Jones hadn’t left today, she might be the one lying on the couch waiting for herself right now. Damn! He found himself looking forward to an image like that a little. It was a feeling that made him feel particularly bad!
“What’s wrong?” Jo Yuanyuan waved her hand in front of his face, “Why are you gawking as soon as you get back?”
Joey Xu returned to his senses and waved her restless hand away faintly, “It’s getting late, go to bed.”
“Aren’t you happy to see me?” Zhao Yuan Yuan looked at his face searchingly, her tone a little lost and frustrated, with a little soft spooning.
In Joey Xu’s eyes, she’s just a kid, a kid she’s known for over a decade.
Joey Xu gathered some of the haze in his eyes and simply said, “I’m tired today, and so are you. Let’s talk about anything tomorrow.”
Zhao Yuanyuan actually had a lot of things she wanted to ask him, a lot of things she wanted to say to him. She had only just returned from abroad, and after being gone for so many months, she missed him.
But, apparently …
It’s an emotion that only she has.
“Alright then, I won’t quarrel with you.” Joey Xu’s heart was in turmoil, naturally he didn’t know how Zhao Yuanyuan’s heart was spinning, of course, he didn’t have the heart to think about other women’s thoughts right now. One Sammy Jones is already enough to make him upset and angry.
Sinking steps up the stairs.
Zhao Yuanyuan remembered something and raised her voice behind him and spoke, “Joey Xu, lately my dad and my mom have been fighting all the time, and the atmosphere in the house is in a state of high pressure, so …”
Joey Xu paused and turned to look at her.
She looked at him pleadingly, “I want to stay with you for a while. Is that okay?”
There were a lot of rooms in the villa, and, he didn’t really come back that often, so it wasn’t bad for him if she stayed here. So, Joey Xu nodded.
Zhao Yuanyuan looked at Sister An with delight, and Sister An said, “I told you, in the future, Miss Yuanyuan will still be the mistress of this villa, and Mister definitely won’t reject you.”
Joey Xu had already gone upstairs and didn’t stop when he heard their conversation. This villa was in need of a hostess sooner or later, once thought it would be Zhao Lanlan, but, he himself didn’t expect the result to turn out to be Zhao Yuanyuan.
In the past two days, Sammy Jones had been busy again with the Sifang Group. This was good, at least it didn’t give her any extra thoughts to think about.
Joey Xu…
It was as if he had disappeared completely from her life and hadn’t called her once. She also does not call him, try to let herself forget that such a person once existed. Only, at night, when lying in bed and staring at the ceiling, the heart still inexplicably hidden pain.
Two days later, on time, the trial began.
Her coworkers turn pale when they realize she hasn’t given up on the case, and the owner of the firm threatens to fire her. She repeatedly assured them that nothing would happen, but they were half believing her. Anyway, all of them kept their minds open and slept uneasily at night.
Early in the morning.
Luo Mingfan drove Luo Jing over to pick up Sammy Jones. Even with makeup on, the faint dark circles under her eyes were still rather obvious. Luo Mingfan was a bit distressed and handed her breakfast, “Eat something first to pad your stomach, this is Luo Jing’s handmade egg roll.”
Luo Jing sat in the backseat, her face taut. “Lawyer Ye, you said, are you sure about this case?”
Sammy Jones felt more and more pressure, looked at Luo Mingfan, did not dare to answer. Joey Xu’s words that night were still ringing in his ears. If he could say something like that, he naturally had 100% certainty. She couldn’t even guess what tricks the other party was using to deal with her.