Yet beside me lies a satyr, how could I sleep there, just an excuse.
I could feel his steady breathing, and the strong breath rushed behind my ears, making me uncomfortable.
I counted to 1000 in my heart, then quietly opened my eyes to see Calvin asleep, Maybe he was tired after a tiring night. He’s very quiet right now. There’s no doubt that Calvin has a handsome face. If I’m not attracted to him, it must be a deception.
The man who initially got close to me made my heart beat faster, but it stayed that way. I once loved a man, but he cheated on me violently. Later, I just wanted to find a normal man to marry and live a normal life. But then Calvin showed up. His appearance disturbed my peaceful life and troubled my heart. Although he was really annoying in some ways, but if he treats me as gently as he did today, I will really fall in love with him. Once you lose your heart, it will be forever. I’m very afraid of getting hurt again. It took me a long time to come out of the shadows of being cheated on by my ex-boyfriend. I was really scared. But this year with him, if he treats me well, I will repay him in my own way.
In short, I can’t fall in love with him. I don’t know when I fell asleep, but the warmth behind me makes me feel comfortable. What I didn’t know was that Calvin wasn’t sleeping at all.
The bed in this hospital was too small for two people, so he can’t sleep at all.
I was woken up by a nurse who came to the ward for rounds before six o’clock. However, when I woke up, I found that Calvin was not by my side. I went to the window and lifted a corner of the curtain to look out. It was still dark and the lights in the garden were still on, but Calvin was standing under the streetlights, not knowing what he was doing.
Feeling a little strange, I got dressed and headed down the stairs.
“What are you doing?” I asked quietly. Calvin abruptly turned his head. He extinguished the cigarette in his hand and tossed it into the trash can. Then he asked, “Why aren’t you asleep?”I startled at his bloodshot eyes, “Have you been drinking?”
“No!” Calvin denied.
“Then why are your eyes so red?” I couldn’t help but frown when I saw a dozen cigarette butts on the floor.
“Why are you smoking so much?”
“What did you say?” Calvin said ambiguously”I’m unaccountable, how would I know?”Calvin didn’t explain, he took off his jacket and put it on me.
“It’s cold outside, let’s go inside.”When I entered the building I wasn’t so cold anymore,
“You still haven’t told me why you run outside without sleeping?”
“From now on you will know!” Calvin still didn’t answer me, but went straight to the bathroom, turned on the tap and washed his face with cold water. Since he couldn’t really answer that question, he couldn’t tell it was a man’s reaction, so he ran into the backyard to smoke to calm himself down.
If he doesn’t say it, I don’t want him to, it’s still a year away, I’ll always know. Someone knocked on the door.
“Alexia, are you up?” It was the nurse coming over.
“Come in.” She began massaging her mother with a deft technique that was professionally trained. Calvin looked at his watch, it was six thirty.
“Come home with me.”
“I don’t want to go,” I wanted to accompany my mother more, so I used a nirvana and acted like a baby.
Calvin stared at me, a smile around the corners of his mouth and eyes. I looked at his expression and knew he definitely wouldn’t stand for me acting like a baby,
“Are you okay with this?”
“No!” He then took me and walked out.
“Don’t pull, don’t pull, I’m going home with you!” His bruised hand hurt me,
“Get a phone! Wait for me” After a while I took the phone and returned to him, but I was a little angry. I didn’t want to talk to him.
“Angry?” Getting into the car, Calvin tried to grab my hand and I dodged.
“You can’t be angry!” I turned my head to look out the window, ignoring him. The silence in the car continued all the way to the house. I lay on the bed and heard the sound of Calvin taking a bath.
I was getting even angrier. He was treating me like a pet, with no regard for my feelings. Cut me some slack, as long as my mother was feeling better, this grief was nothing. When Calvin got out of the shower, I was already asleep.
Calvin covered me with a quilt, left a note, and walked out.
I woke up at 11, I was just going to lie down for a bit, but I overslept and turned on the phone to see that there was a missed call from Dr. Black, though I wondered why my phone was on silent mode , but it’s the most important thing in the hospital.
“Hey, Doctor Black, what’s wrong with my mom?” I was a little nervous, afraid of what happened to my mom while I wasn’t at the hospital.
“It’s okay, I just wanted to let you know that your mother’s surgery is scheduled for tomorrow.” A simple sentence that instantly relaxed me.
“Thank you!” Even though the surgery might fail, at least my mother has hope. “Alexia, you,” Black hesitated, pausing as if he had something to say.
“Is there anything else?” I wondered.
“No, it’s nothing, you’ve been tired the last few days, get some good rest.” Black still didn’t say anything and hung up the phone.
Although I have my doubts, after all I haven’t known him for a long time so I don’t need to ask much.
They are doctors and should be very busy. No sooner had I hung up than I got another call from my uncle inviting me to lunch. I readily agreed. But I still have to wash my face before I go to the appointment.
In the bathroom, Calvin kept calling. I didn’t want to answer, but the phone kept ringing, and finally I did. “Who called?” Calvin asked.
“Does it have to do with you?” I didn’t feel like talking to him. Calvin was silent for a while, then he asked,
“Did you see the note I left for you?”
“What note?” I ran back into the bedroom and glanced at it, only to find a Post-it note on the nightstand that said, I’m going into the office, you wake up and call me.
“I just saw it.” I put the note down,
“Are you at work?”
“Not here.” Calvin replied.
“Oh.” Suddenly I didn’t know what to say.
I could sense he was in a bad mood. Having known him for so long, I knew him a little. If he was in a bad mood, I didn’t speak.
“I’ll be downstairs, come on down and have lunch.” said Calvin suddenly in silence.
“Me, I already have a date with Uncle at noon.” I quickly declined. I thought Calvin wouldn’t be willing to eat with my uncle, after all the first meeting yesterday hadn’t been pleasant. But I was wrong, and Calvin actually agreed to eat together!
Calvin’s POV
How could I turn down such a good opportunity?
This meal will definitely make Alexia’s uncle very pleased with me.
Helplessly, I walked down the stairs, Calvin sitting dazedly in the car.
I opened the passenger seat door and sat inside.”Are we going to the hospital?” asked Calvin.
“Hmm… My uncle is in a bad mood. He’s been in the Army for almost 20 years, so …” I mostly hope Calvin can change his mind and stop going out to dinner with my uncle.
After a while Calvin asked, “So what?””Well, I don’t think you should date him anymore.” I said carefully, mulling over the words.
“Because I’m embarrassed?” Calvin raised an eyebrow.
“No,” I said, not knowing how to explain.
Calvin didn’t speak again, he drove the car attentively, and the atmosphere in the car was silent for a while.
As I approached the hospital, I couldn’t help but ask, “Are you angry?”
“No.” Calvin answered bluntly.
Just as I was considering apologizing to him, I spotted my uncle standing on the side of the road and happily lowered the car window to greet him.
“Uncle, here.”Calvin pulled over, and I got out and walked up to my uncle.
“Alexia, why did he come?” Eric Johnson was very unhappy when he saw Calvin’s arrival.
“Uncle, he,” I actually wanted to say that Calvin was my friend, but I couldn’t say it the way I wanted to. At that moment Calvin came over and grabbed my waist, successfully angering my uncle.
“Let go!” Eric Johnson stepped forward, his voice filled with anger.
Calvin not only didn’t let go, but took me in his arms as if to demonstrate and arrogantly said,
“She’s my wife, why should I let her go!”That accent is domineering but it makes me sick, this is not idol drama!
“Alexia!” he reached out to me,
“Come here!”I want to walk towards my uncle, but Calvin’s arms are so tight I can’t move at all.
“I’m warning you, don’t bother her!” Eric Johnson clenched his fists, very angry.
I thought my uncle was going to hit Calvin, so I quickly said,
“Uncle, things aren’t what you think, there are a lot of people here, can we find a place to talk?”Eric Johnson held back. Although he was very unhappy to see this man, he still had to be careful in public.
“If you have something to say in the car, okay?” I coaxed the other, and finally the two men were ready to get in the car. Not a word was spoken in the car until fifteen minutes later when the three of us were sitting in a restaurant, and the atmosphere in the private room was still very tense.
“Alexia, how much do you owe him?” asked Eric Johnson directly.
“Uncle,” I was so shocked by the direct question that I almost threw away the menu in my hand.
“Isn’t there enough money to sell the house? I’ll borrow it if there isn’t enough!” Eric Johnson sat up straight, very angry.
“Uncle my uncle! It would be nice if you came back two days earlier, it’s too late to talk about it now, he and I are married. At that thought I looked at Calvin and noticed that he was particularly calm and not at all worried.
Are you pregnant?” asked Eric Johnson sternly.
“Fiddlesticks!” I had hardly put a sip of water in my mouth before I was swallowed up by these words.
“Uncle, what do you think!” Uncle’s imagination is so good, I admire it!
I looked at Calvin again, he was squinting at me with a smile on his mouth.
“Alexia, there is no rich person who is loyal to feelings. You need to think carefully!” Eric Johnson met Calvin yesterday and realised that he came from a posh family and was mostly afraid that I would be bullied.
“I’m not like that!” Calvin tapped the table and spoke for himself.
“Alexia, it’s too late to get pregnant now!” Eric Johnson said again.
“Uncle, it’s too late!” I was so depressed, I couldn’t tell the truth, I was too worried.
“Having a baby?” Uncle stared at my belly.
“No! Uncle!” Why is uncle so direct! I’m a girl!
“I see!” Eric Johnson nodded, suddenly leaning back in his chair.
“What do you understand?” I asked dumbly.
“You’re so reluctant to leave him, it’s not because of the money, it can only be that you’ve fallen very much in love with him! After all, this man is very handsome!” Eric Johnson said solemnly. Silence, deathly silence.