“Ronan, Halle, hurry up and have breakfast, or you will be late.” Grandpa called the two of them from the dining room, when she just walked up the stairs.
He just didn’t want to expose her, so Halle stepped down the stairs with some guilt. She ate quietly, as if she were not there.
“Hey, kid. Did Ronan bully you?” Grandpa asked with concern after putting down the bowl.
“No, he did not.”
“Then why are you unhappy? Look at your tears. Ronan, I will never forgive you if you let me find you bullying Halle again.”
Ronan looked confused, “Grandpa, I really didn’t bully her.” He just wanted her to be his woman. But he was the one who was rejected, so he should be the one who should be sad.
“I don’t care. Anyway, from now on, I don’t want to see Halle unhappy.”
“Grandpa…” Grandpa seemed to like Halle more than him, which was strange. Ronan’s expression was obviously protesting, or jealous, but he didn’t realize it.
“Drive Halle to school in a while and apologize to her by the way. If Halle is still upset when you come back in the evening, Ronan, you would need to give me an explanation.”
Halle felt embarrassed, “Grandpa, it’s not him. It’s just that I am in a bad mood.” Grandpa seemed to be not only acting with her, but also serious about bringing her and Ronan together.
“If you are in a bad mood, it means you are still unhappy. You just went downstairs with Ronan, so you must be unhappy because of him. You can’t be partial to him. If he bullies you in the future, just tell me, Grandpa will be fair to you. ”
Halle is really touched, because all her lifetime no one his age had treated her so well, “Grandpa, shall we go hiking this weekend? It’s tomorrow.” Suddenly, she wanted to spend more time with her grandpa. “Sure, Ronan will go with us.”
“But tomorrow I have a plan…” Ronan thought of his appointment tomorrow.
“Do it next time and go together.”
Speaking of being aggressive, Ronan was currently far behind his grandfather. Grandpa was so aggressive that Ronan did not have much of a choice but to go with them.
Ronan glanced at Halle, and then nodded helplessly. But he was puzzled why Grandpa suddenly liked Halle so much.
Not only him, but even Halle herself was confused.
Though they were in the suburban area of T City, Ronan did not park at the foot of the mountain, but in a strawberry garden. The condition of his grandfather, who had advanced cancer, has been getting worse, but he was not willing to be hospitalized anyway. Because he understood that being hospitalized was just postponing his fate, he would rather spend the last period of his life in his own way. But Ronan didn’t want to take his grandpa to climb the mountain. He was worried that his grandpa would be exhausted, so he chose to bring his grandpa and Halle to pick strawberries.
Everyone was carrying a basket, holding scissors, and happily picking huge strawberries. The joy of labor was indescribable. Feeling guilty, Halle was by his grandpa’s side all the time. Grandpa didn’t want people to know that he was sick, so she just pretended not to know.
“Grandpa, you seem to be about fifty years old, not at all like more than seventies.”
“I’m old, and I’m going to heaven soon. Actually, I have no regrets in my entire life, except…”
“What’s the matter?” She lowered her head while picking strawberries, but heard her grandpa sigh.
“I want to have a great-grandson. But Ronan disappointed me. Even being with you was a lie.”
Halle became more guilty, “Grandpa, I’m sorry.” She really shouldn’t mention it, and maybe she could give Grandpa hope by not mentioning it. But now, even that hope was gone, he must be very sad.
“But I appreciate your honesty. Nowadays few girls can be like you. Halle, please try to accept Ronan, maybe you can untie the knot in his heart.”
She looked at the strawberry in her hand in confusion, not understanding what Grandpa meant.
“If you are silent, I will take that as a yes, Halle. I am old and feel lonely, so it is better for you and Ronan to get married first and stay with me for a while.”
She knew that Ronan was preparing for the wedding, but it was just acting, a show for Grandpa. , Why he still insisted that she marry him, now that Grandpa had known the truth…
“Halle, tell me, when is the wedding?” Seeing that she didn’t respond, the old man asked again.
“This… I have to ask Ronan.” She looked back at Ronan who was picking strawberries intently. He had no idea what Grandpa said to her just now.
“Go ask him, and then answer me.” Pushing her arm gently, Grandpa said with a smile.
“Okay.” She felt that she was taking on a weird and embarrassing role, but she couldn’t tell the two of them, “Ronan, Grandpa asked when the wedding is.”
“How about next week.”
“Huh?” She was surprised.
Looking up at Grandpa, he said solemnly, “I read the medical report this morning. Grandpa has only a few days left.”
She didn’t say anything, but just nodded, “You decide.”
“Then you go try on wedding dresses tomorrow.” He whispered without looking at her.
“Ok.”
Halle felt that it was the most chaotic day in her life. Everything was ridiculous and everything was to make Grandpa happy. She never thought that the consequence of the confession would be Grandpa insisting that she marry Ronan.
But she won’t be able to graduate until a month later, so she couldn’t get a marriage certificate yet. Ronan sent someone to take her to buy wedding dresses. He was very busy, although she did not know what he was busy with. After she rejected him that night, he was always indifferent to her.
“Halle, are you really going to marry Ronan?” Halle called and told Agnes Stone the news, which surprised her.
“Yes, Mom.” As for the reason, she wouldn’t say.
“Halle, did you agree because of the Hill family?” Agnes Stone was clever and actually guessed right.
“Mom, no. Ronan is very nice to me.”
“But Jaiden Hill…”
“Mom, it’s impossible for Jaiden Hill and I to be together. He’s not my type.”
“You have grown up. You’ve suffered a lot for me. But now I’m relieved if you can marry a good man. Marry him if you like him. I will attend your wedding with your uncle.”
“Okay.” Actually, she didn’t want to tell Agnes Stone about her marriage, but Ronan had already posted a notice in the newspaper about their marriage, so now everyone in T City was talking about that, and even if she did not mention it, her mother would know sooner or later.
When she hung up the phone, her mood was particularly heavy. This was just a ceremony. If Grandpa wanted it, then let it be for him.
Everything was handled quickly. It only took a few days from preparing for the wedding to holding the wedding ceremony, which made her feel like she was in a dream.
Their wedding room was in Grandpa’s villa, because she had promised to live with Grandpa, and she only wanted Grandpa to be happy.
Grandpa was nice enough to not tell Ronan about her confession, so it made her feel more guilty.
Tomorrow was her wedding day, and she was suddenly a little nervous sitting in the room. Ronan had not returned yet, but she knew that he will definitely come back because Grandpa was here.
She was worried that she would fall asleep, so she leaned on the sofa and waited. But in the end she still fell asleep.
When she woke up, she was already lying on the bed. Ronan stood in front of the bed and looked at her seriously, “Honey, today you will be my bride.”
Nodded, but she didn’t feel any joy at all, “Ronan, how is Grandpa’s condition now?”
“Not very good.” After he finished speaking lightly, he turned and walked towards the door, “I’m going to prepare, you also hurry up.”
Sitting in the wedding car full of red roses, beside her was the exceptionally handsome Ronan wearing a tuxedo lining. Today was their wedding, but his expression was still cold.
Maybe he was angry with her, because he wanted a child.
But she didn’t want to have children, because his purpose of having children was just to make Grandpa happy. That had nothing to do with love. If there was no love, there would be less blessings for her child, and it’s something she didn’t want to see.
Even if he hated her, she still didn’t want a child in this way.
But when she found him unhappy, she was also unhappy.
It was really a mistake to fall in love.
But it’s not a mistake that she could correct.
Looking at him quietly, she remembered the two agreements she had signed. He decided the termination time of the agreement.
Was the agreement going to terminate the day when Grandpa passed away?
Suddenly, she was even more afraid of Grandpa’s death.
When she was very young, she dreamed of her own wedding. She liked the pictures of solemn oaths in the church, but their wedding had nothing to do with the church. That was because her marrying Ronan was something that they simply had to do.
After getting out of the wedding car, reporters came around, but she didn’t have to worry about this because Ronan would arrange everything. She just had to do her job as a bride.
Arm in arm, they walked into the hotel and greeted Grandpa, her mother and Uncle Hill, smiling at everyone, just like a puppet, doing whatever she was asked to do.
Because it was a hasty wedding, she thought that there would not be many people, and she did not expect that such a big hotel would be overcrowded.
She didn’t know anyone except her mother and Uncle Hill, and even the bridesmaids were from the wedding company.
All were more and more like a game, but a very realistic game.
“Halle, I’m sorry.” Joe Hill said to her, but hearing that she just smiled and said nothing. In fact, she did not do all of this just for the Hill family. On that day, she agreed to do what Ronan had asked and signed the agreements for some reason unknown even to her.
The emcee came on stage and quickly brought the whole ceremony to life. Her wedding dress was pink. At first, she wanted to choose a white wedding dress, but Ronan thought that people at his grandpa’s age liked festive colors, so she finally chose a pink wedding dress.
Listening to the emcee speaking festive words, she kept bowing in accordance with the instructions of the emcee.