It was the next day again, and I woke up to find that my husband had left the home already. I couldn’t help but feel surprised at that. I hadn’t seen him going out recently before I could wake up. He had prepared breakfast for me and then went out to search for a job after dealing with household work.
But today was different somehow. I couldn’t help but feel a trace of loneliness in my heart at that. Just as Ii was thinking about this, I saw a note sticking to the cabinet bedside.
‘I’ll bring a friend home. Just be ready until 10 am.’
I raised my eyebrows at that. Why did he suddenly want to bring someone home at this time? I shrugged it off and got off the bed. It had been a long time since we had a guest home. So I wanted to appear good for Lewis’s friend.
I got ready within half an hour and went into the kitchen only to find that everything was neat and tidy. My husband had already prepared breakfast for me as usual. I sighed and ate on the dining table. I kept my mind busy since I didn’t want to think about Vampire at all, and neither did I focus on the novel I had already abandoned.
I pursed my lips and focused on chewing the food. Previously, I had never cared about what Lewis was doing all day. I didn’t even care about the fact that he would prepare food for me and clean up the house carefully. Now that I woke up early today, I felt an urge to cry.
Why did I have to fall for Vampire? Why couldn’t that person be Lewis? Everything would become much easier if only I had fallen for my husband all over again. I wouldn’t have to face so much heartache and suffer because that editor decided to cheat on me.
Unknowingly, my thoughts went to Vampire again. I started thinking about a familiar face with blond hair as he smiled at me affectionately. I couldn’ help but feel choked up in my throat.
Was that all a lie? Did he really not mean to love me at all?!
My lower lips quivered at that and I couldn’t eat anymore. I glanced at half eaten food on my plate and felt my eyes blur again with tears. This food was prepared by Lewis in hopes that I would eat nicely. It was even something that I loved eating.
But even after this, I couldn’t feel like eating anymore, especially after thinking about Vampire.
I let out a choke and covered my face with my hands as I sobbed silently.
Just then, I heard the sound of door unlocking and I sobered up. As I glanced at the clock, my eyes widened. Was it ten am already?! It looked like my husband and his friend were here! But here I was, crying my eyes out just because of Vampire!
I fiercely rubbed my eyes and wiped away my tears. After throwing away my food in the dustbin, I cleaned up the rest of the dining room. That was when I noticed that people had already arrived in the living room.
I fixed my appearance and plastered a fake smile on my face before heading over to the living room. Even though I knew that my husband was well aware of my emotional state, his friend might not know about it. So I at least had to pretend that everything was fine for the sake of Lewis. I still felt guilty about how he had been loving me wholeheartedly, and I couldn’t leave Vampire’s embrace in my heart.
Just when I was thinking about this and went into the living room, I froze when I saw a familiar man sitting on the couch.
The man hadn’t changed at all. It was just that the light in his eyes had dulled, and I could even see dark circles around them. His hair was still shiny as before, combed nicely. He was even dressed as elegantly as before, not even a single piece of cloth out of place.
But I couldn’t appreciate his appearance at all, and neither could I care about the dullness in his eyes. I stared at that man with my eyes widened. My feet rooted on the spot, and my limbs couldn’t move out of shock.
The man sitting in my living room with my husband was Vampire! I couldn’t help but be so shocked that I didn’t utter a single word.
In the living room, both the men turned toward me and pursed their lips at my shocked expression. Lewis’s expressions turned extremely awkward after seeing me. He glanced at the man beside him and nodded at him before turning toward me. There was a trace of longing in his eyes that flashed away quickly, but I failed to notice it.
I just heard him sigh and he left the room without saying a single word.
Right now, me and Vampire were the only two people. I parted my lips and closed since I didn’t know what to say.
What was Vampire doing here?
Where was Lewis’s friend?
No wait, it seemed that the only person who came with my husband was Vampire. So did he say that my editor was his friend?! When the heck did this happen?!
And why did my husband leave me alone with this person even after knowing everything going on between us?
I had so many questions, but I closed my heart and suppressed the urge of asking them out loud. The next time I opened my eyes, they didn’t have a trace of rippling emotions, and I even looked at him with an indifferent expression on my face.
Vampire shifted awkwardly. “How’re you?”
I didn’t reply, but squinted my eyes. Perhaps he could tell that I was mad. So he chuckled and averted his eyes. “You see, I was worried. I hadn’t updated for a long time, and I couldn’t even get through the call.”
Of course, he couldn’t. I had blocked his number after all and deleted all those texts between us with a hardened heart.
At this time, I was holding too many emotions in my heart, and they were about to burst out of me like water from a fountain. My lower lips were quivering as tears instantly appeared in my eyes.
I hadn’t thought that I would get to see Vampire again. When facing a familiar face, I got even more emotional. Why was Vampire behaving as if everything was normal? He clearly got inside that car with a rich girl right before my eyes. And now when he got tired of her, he came back to coax me!
I bit my lips and stopped myself from saying anything. I just wanted him to go away from my house!
When my editor saw that I wasn’t saying anything and my expressions got worse as the minutes passed by, he pressed his lips in a thin line and got up to walk over to me. Then, he held my hand and said, “Elise, tell me, what happened?”
After this, I couldn’t help myself anymore. The touch of a familiar hand boosted my emotions to pour out of my eyes in the form of tears. I burst out crying right before him and started complaining.
“Are you f*cking crazy?! First you try to play with my emotions and now you’re pretending that everything is normal?! Grow up, you two-faced liar!”
Vampire’s expressions changed. “What?”
I sneered at that and broke free from his grasp. After that I wiped my tears and said, “Don’t pretend! Aren’t you already in love with that rich girl back then?! She must have been very good in bed!”