Nydia did not expect Jesse would be so anxious, in fact, just now because of the dinner she did not think so much, the mood is also much better.
“I just thought, you marry me, tolerate me, all because of responsibility?” She tilted her head to look at him, but her hands were a little nervous in front of her body.
Jesse froze, he hadn’t thought it would be such a question.
“Is that what you were thinking about when you looked so preoccupied and aggravated?”
“Did I act that obvious?” Not so much, she was just thinking, it didn’t show on her face, did it?
But looking at Jesse’s nodding head, she was speechless.
“Then you answer me.” Not wanting to dwell on it so much, it was better to ask something clearly.
Jesse, however, did not answer immediately, but pulled Nydia aside and directly carried her to sit down on the sofa, and she sat on his lap.
“Your legs …”
“You only have eyes for my legs?”
“…” can still be jealous with their own legs?
“I’ve hugged you before when my legs were bad, now it’s even less of a big deal.”
For Jesse, holding Nydia like this, the legs are not tired, but a little tired, he had to restrain himself from thinking about it, after all, the legs are soft flesh, the touch, and constantly lingering in the nostrils of the fragrance, are making him tempted.
“Have you ever lost your memory?” Jesse asked.
“What? Did I have amnesia? How come I don’t know?” Nydia was confused, how could she have lost her memory?
“Then how come you don’t remember what happened between us?”
This time Nydia was even more confused and had no idea what he was talking about.
“I remember everything between us very clearly.”
“It was before, when you were nine years old.”
“Nine years old?”
“Think hard, did anything special happen when you were nine years old.”
Nydia frowned and thought carefully about the year she was nine.
“Nothing special happened when I was nine, the only thing is … I was hospitalized for a while.”
“Hospitalized?”
“Yes, my body was injured at that time, my parents said that I accidentally fell from riding a horse, but I actually don’t quite remember how I was injured myself, and then I was discharged when I got well, and I put the matter behind me.”
But the more she said, the more she felt that something was wrong, especially looking at Jesse’s face, she felt that this matter should not be so simple.
“My injury can’t be related to you, right?”
But in her memory, there was no memory of Jesse when she was nine years old.
“It does have something to do with me, because I’m the one who got you hurt.”
“What?”
“I was kidnapped at the time, and after I escaped I met you and your father on the road, your father called the police, but we were alone at the time and they caught up with us, when your father told us to run, we ran, they chased us, we fell down the hill, and then the police came before we were saved.”
Nydia had a confused look on her face and kept blinking as she listened to Jesse say this, apparently with no memory of the experience.
“So I really have amnesia? I can still have this bridge?”
With no memory, she felt like she was listening to someone else’s story, but fragments seemed to flash through her mind again.
“When you fell down the hill at that time, you should have hit your head on a rock.”
“But I woke up I remembered all the things only not this incident.” This is too strange.
“Then think about it, when you woke up, did your father get hurt?”
Nydia recalled the scene and instantly remembered, “My mom said it was my dad and I went out to play and my dad fell off the horse together to protect me, so my dad was also injured, yes, my dad was also injured.”
“I also remembered something else, when the family was missing a car, that car I kinda like.” Because every time she went out, Neil would take her out in that car, and then she noticed that the car was missing, so she asked about it and said that the car was damaged and taken to be repaired.
That way the words were strung together.
Things are happening, and she is forgetting that experience.
Vincent had also told her that Jesse had experienced something as a child, presumably that kidnapping.
“And what happened to you?”
“I woke up in the hospital and met my family, only the kidnappers didn’t get caught.”
Nydia was a little disappointed, “I can’t remember.”
“That’s okay, just know that there is such a thing.”
“So we met so early, and even experienced life and death together, this is too idolatrous, right?”
Jesse looked at her, in fact, that time together through life and death, there are many details, just she can not remember, he will not say anything more.
These memories he always remembered, so she was amnesia, no wonder she didn’t remember him at all, if she didn’t forget, is it possible that they didn’t need to miss that five years between them?
Or maybe …
Thinking about it, Jesse shook his head, no ifs, it’s fine the way it is now.
“So, when Willette set us up then, you woke up and found out it was me and simply married me?”
“Hmm.”
“To repay the favor?”
“If you and your dad hadn’t saved me back then, I’m sure I wouldn’t have been able to run away, and your parents’ accident was too sudden to help, and the only thing I could do was to help you keep the house.”
“Still, thank you very much, otherwise that house is definitely gone.”
Nydia suddenly understood a lot of things.
She would have been wondering before why Jesse had put up with her, why he had given up his life to save her at the end, but it turned out that it was all because she had saved his life as a child, so he wanted to return the favor, a life for a life?
“What’s wrong?” Jesse saw her clutching her head in pain.
“A little headache.”
“Don’t think about it, forget about what you don’t remember before.”
Nydia held her head with both hands, just felt a headache, some fragments flashed in her mind, but not quite coherent.
This night, Jesse held her to sleep, her headache lasted for several hours, she slept intermittently, her brow always frowned.
Jesse somewhat regretted telling her these things.
Originally he thought he might never bring it up for the rest of his life, just thinking to keep her by his side and protect her so that no one else would hurt her, but her change made him greedier and greedier, he didn’t just want her to stay by his side, he wanted her to love him.
The next morning Nydia woke up feeling only a little dazed.
She glanced at Jesse beside her, who was still sleeping.
She looked at his sleeping face and had mixed feelings.
Originally she did not love him, but only wanted to live a new life to make up for him, to be good to him, to stay with him, and to cure his leg.
But in the daily life together, she has long unknowingly fallen in love with this man and fallen deeply into it, so on the night she returned from more than two months of escape to learn that he wanted a divorce, she was so hard to accept.
At first she thought it was Jesse who had pre-empted her divorce and made it difficult for her, but then she realized that she did not want a divorce.
But now he was telling her that he was returning the favor!
She didn’t even have the courage to ask: Do you not love me?
Jesse suddenly opened his eyes, caught off guard, she froze, but Jesse fiercely rolled over and pinned her underneath him.