“Sylvie, come on! Apply the medicine for me,” Ernie ordered.
Ignoring him, Sylvie handed the alcohol in the medicine box to Mrs. Sabrina and said, “Mrs. Sabrina, you can apply the medicine for Ernie! I’ll give this to Marley!”
“Alright! Sylvie, you and Marley go upstairs. On the third floor, the room to the right is the young master’s room. I’ve got it ready for you!” Mrs. Sabrina said kindly with a smile. She could figure out something seeing that Marley and Ernie were injured. But her proposal separated Marley and Ernie.
“Dad, mom, uncle, we’re going up!” Sylvie said politely. With the medicine box on her hands, she took him by the hand and went upstairs regardless of Marley’s words.
Marley, who was very angry, immediately got up to follow Sylvie upstairs after seeing that Ernie was staring at Sylvie.
Ernie curled his lips indifferently.
Pushing open the innermost room on the third floor, Sylvie was shocked by the layout inside. The walls were white mostly, and the one near the window was decorated with light cyan. The curtain was gray, without any embellishment, which was very simple.
Inside there was simply a bed, an old-fashioned sofa with a colorful sofa seat cover. The sheets were dark red. Mrs. Sabrina seemed to pay special attention to it and put a rose pattern on the head of the bed.
Sylvie was slightly stunned at a glance!
And so was Marley.
It was indeed a bridal chamber!
The bedside was also full of bears and dolls of different sizes. Tulips were planted on the windowsill, and the leaves were lush. But every toy was in pairs. Even toothbrush and towel cups were for couples!
It was obviously a room for a couple.
My Goodness?
Sylvie was shocked by Mrs. Sabrina’s loveliness. She took a look at Marley, only to find that his face was swollen with blue eyes, and blue chine, looking like a pig.
Sylvie sighed that he could still be beaten like a pig no matter how good-looking he was originally!
She burst out laugh at the thought of it.
Suddenly, Marley cast a cold glance at her.
He stepped forward, pulled her and held her into his arms. He held her tightly, and sense of suppression in the chest. He asked fiercely, “Why are you laughing?”
“Nothing!” Sylvie controlled the urge of laughing and said, “Let me apply the medicine for you.”
“Make it clear to me!” Marley asked in anger, “Are you happy to see me fighting for you?”
Sylvie looked at him helplessly, ceased to laugh and said, “Marley, I don’t want to fight. I have something to say. Just a few points. Listen. First of all, I don’t feel happy at all that someone is fighting for me. Second, I have never felt that fighting is the way to solve problems. Third, your performance today is a little too much. He clearly wanted to irritate you and destroy your image, but you are still fall for it! Fourth, Ernie is a bit enigmatic. I can’t figure out what he wants to do. But he is not interested in me, so you should totally be relieved. Last, I’m not a beauty. There are so many women who are more beautiful than me. If there was something to be worried, you’d better worry about others! That’s more likely!”
With that, she went to the bathroom to wash the towel.
“Wait a minute.” Marley stopped her. Sylvie’s steps became stiff, and he said in a deep voice, “There’s nothing between me and Jemima anymore. We’ve moved on. I can’t change anything. Everyone has the past, that can’t be changed. You don’t have to tell me this! Sylvie, it’s you who are living with me now. You’d better understand that.”
Sylvie lowered her head, pursing her lips.
They once loved each other and now they went different way, not to mention that they never loved each other?
With a smile, she turned around and strode to the bathroom. Marley noticed that her eyes were particularly red when she turned around.
And she would never tell others that she loved this man. If she couldn’t get all of him, she would rather not have him altogether. She was obsessional about the fidelity of her spouse.
After washing the towel, she came out, and Marley looked at her with complicated eyes.
“Let’s get started!” Sylvie said again.
“When he kissed you, why didn’t you refuse?” He asked Sylvie in a vicious voice, “Is it natural for you to be kissed by another man?”
Sylvie was stunned and looked at Marley, who was full of jealousy. She didn’t expect that he was such a traditional man after all those years of studying abroad.
She looked at him coolly and asked, “So what now?”
“Sylvie!” Marley roared again.
“I told you I don’t want to fight! I have nothing to do with your cousin. What can I do? I’m not a martial arts expert. I don’t know how to explain!” Besides, she also resisted by biting Ernie’s lips.
“You are shameless!” Marley roared in a low voice.
“Well! I’m shameless! How about you? Is it something that mature and civilized people do to fight in public?” Sylvie looked at him with cold eyes and said, “Besides, he’s your cousin. By the way, I want to ask you, are you really so loyal to our marriage?”
If he minded that she was taken advantage by Ernie today, then she really had nothing to say. That was his cousin, not someone she invited! Moreover, Ernie was clearly aimed at the Hughes family. Ernie would do the same no matter who Marley’s wife was!
Today, she was only kissed, which she felt disgusted, but she just regarded it as a rite in her heart. She didn’t want to care about it. She was not kind of woman who would die because of being kissed by someone other than her husband. In that case, she would not have to live the night when he touched her at first!
“Why am I not loyal to our marriage?” Marley was aggrieved and depressed. “I’ don’t have any bad habit. I don’t hang out to look for prostitutes. Why do you think I’m not loyal to you?”
Sylvie looked at him and said slowly, “If you can’t be single-minded and determine to stay with someone, then don’t fall in love at the beginning, or we will suffer from each other! So you’d better think about it! Now let’s apply the medicine. Don’t delay any more. Do you want to go to work on Monday, swollen like a pig?”
When it came to pig head, she couldn’t help laughing.
“Damn, you laugh at me!” Marley said coolly.
Without caring at all, Sylvie helped him clean the wound on his face with a towel.
“Sylvie!” he purred.
“Don’t talk!” Sylvie said.
“I want to spend my whole life with you. I’m serious!” He said, “The original intention of our marriage is not simple, and marriage is not easy. Now that we are with each other, let’s go on together!”
Sylvie paused for a while and asked in a soft voice, “What if Jemima came back?”
He was a little dazed.
Sylvie said with a smile, “You’re not confident about this marriage, so why would work so hard to maintain this marriage? Hughes Group matters. Never mind. Let me apply the medicine on your wound!”
Marley was annoyed, looking at her indifferent expression.
After a pause, he said firmly, “It was… Jemima who insisted on leaving me, because she didn’t want to share the joys and sorrows with me! Seeing Hughes Group in crisis, she couldn’t stand the hardships and left! Now even if she comes back, it doesn’t help. I hope to make it clear to you whether you believe it or not! I admit that I can’t let go of my past. Even if she leaves me, I can’t get over her! I also admit that at the beginning, I was using you to make Hughes Group get over the crisis smoothly, but now I really want to be with you. I want to be honest! I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
There was a sense of helplessness in his tone and nostalgia for the past, which could be told that he was unable to move on from the relationship. At the same time, he was sad and helpless that Jemima left him. He laughed at himself, thinking it was not worth it. Why the woman he had loved for five years turned out to be like that?
He still clearly remembered the day when he received the news that Hughes Group was facing bankruptcy. After a day and a night in bed with him, she suddenly told him, “Marley, let’s break up! I can’t stand hardships! Hughes Group is about to be bankrupt! I don’t want to suffer with you! You always just put the Hughes Group in the first place over me. I’m fed up with you. Let’s break up.”
It was hard for him to accept at that time, but the next day, when he got up again, he found that she was no longer there!
He and Jemima had already ended things with each other. At the moment, he really wanted to spend the rest of his life with Sylvie! Life was too short to be wasted. He found that Sylvie was a good girl, who was not as delicate as those who were spoiled. Besides, she had great endurance and was very sensible. She was such a girl whom he could spend the life with!
“Marley, it won’t work out!” Sylvie said as she cleaned the wound with a towel. She could understand his sadness of being abandoned, but she was unable to accept a man who loved others but wanted to grow old with her! Besides, it was not the original intention to marry him!
“No, why did you agree to marry me? Why?” Marley roared in a low voice.
“Can we not talk about that? Just as I said on the wedding night, I am the daughter of Sadie, the illegitimate daughter of the Mccarthy family, an ignoble woman! It won’t be fair to you if you spend your life with me. So let’s not talk about these promises. Some things will always change! Do a good job of what you are doing! As for where to go in the future, just let it be. It’s not something we can decide.” She didn’t want any promise, because if she couldn’t make it, it was just empty talk. She didn’t want to live with empty talk, which was unreal like a mirage. It was better to close her eyes and not to have expectations at the beginning.
The emotion of astringency and pain made Sylvie’s tone very indifferent, and there was an unusual breath flowing in the air.
She quietly helped him wipe the dry blood on his chin.
Then she took a towel and wash it in the bathroom.
He looked at her back, and her face was so calm.
Clearly she stood in front of him, but it seemed to be so far away, which upset him.
Sylvie turned on the water pipe and looked at the water in the water pipe to disperse the blood stains on the towel. She took a deep breath and felt a faint throb in her heart. She thought she could cover up her feelings without any trace in this way, but it was her self-hypnosis and she couldn’t cheat her heart.