His voice is low. “Uncle, do you think my dad won’t tell me what to do behind my back when I enter the company? It is still you who will be embarrassed at that time.”
“You think the company I want you to join is the Fischer group?”
He was puzzled. “No?”
“I want you to go to the Sea group, which is a company I prepared for Afra in advance so that her future will not be wronged.” As I spoke, I called Milo and said directly to Rashad, “Find out who Wyatt has been in contact with recently and what projects he is talking about. Starting today, we will set up an ad hoc team in the Sea group to break into Wyatt’s back door. I want him to have no achievements in the Fischer group in the future.”
When I hung up, I looked at Rashad and said, “Well, it’s up to you to choose whether you want to go or not.”
He hesitated for a long time before saying, “Are you trying to use my hand to knock down my dad?”
I hooked my lips. “You are not hopeless.”
Rashad looked at me. “Uncle, now I understand why those people say you are terrible.”
I glared at him coldly. “Your father has done so much evil, and he deserves it himself. You don’t want any more people to be persecuted because of him, do you? I won’t give you time to think about it. Now, you must give me an answer. You intend to stand behind your father all your life and be an idle romantic young master. Or do you want to turn over a new leaf and be yourself? I’ll only give you this one chance to choose. ”
He clenched his fist. “Okay, I promise you, I’m with you.”
“Then you must remember that you nod your head today, and you are on my side. If you dare to betray me one day, I will make you bear a price ten times or even a hundred times more terrible than this.”
After a moment of silence, he asked, “Now that Flora knows about you and Krista, what are you going to do?”
I squinted at him. “Whatever I am going to do, do I still need to report to you?”
“I’m just curious, as wise as you, how will you choose among them?”
There is a touch of rage in my eyebrows. “This is not a problem you should consider.”
“In the past, I thought Krista was a very annoying woman because of Flora, because she occupied your wife’s position, which made Flora become the redundant one. But as I got along with her, I suddenly found that everyone has their own story. Uncle, these two are good women. I am afraid that you will be ashamed of which one you have failed.”
I sank, “I have no choice. I am married.”
“Flora has fainted. If she wakes up again, can you really have the heart to tell her the truth?”
I didn’t answer.
At the beginning of my marriage, I decided to live with Krista in order to restrain her audacity.
Now, because my heart is bound by this relationship, and do not want to be separated from her, I want to live with her until our old days.
Rashad sighed. “Uncle, can I visit Flora?”
I look at him. “Yes, Uncle Jacob is there. You go.”
He turned and left.
I sat at my desk and hesitated for a long time. At this time, I can’t see Flora.
Because… in the face of Flora, I really can’t say the words that would hurt her.
Instead of hurting, it is better to give her some time to digest slowly.
Krista’s POV
I came back from dinner at Plum Court and entered the room with exhaustion, but I see the door of the study half open, Cheney sitting inside.
Surprised, I walked over and knocked on the door.
Cheney looked at me. “Have all the guests been sent away?”
“Well,” I leaned against the door. “I thought you were in the hospital. When did you get back?”
“Afternoon.”
“You came back in the afternoon?” I was surprised,”How’s Flora? Is she all right?”
“I don’t know.” He sighed. He stood up and looked at me. “Let’s eat.”
I paused. “Well… sorry, I thought you were in the hospital, so I just ate with your grandparents and Afra in the front yard.”
Cheney sat down again. “Just eat. Go up and rest.”
I picked my eyebrows. “What about you? Don’t you want to eat?”
“I’m not very hungry. Go and rest.” He looked at me calmly.
I don’t know how to ask him about Flora. He said he didn’t know, didn’t he want to tell me, or did he really don’t know?
I closed the door, went upstairs, changed my black suit, put on my home clothes and took a bath.
I was sitting on the bed, thinking about reading for a while, when my mind came back to Cheney just now.
After thinking about it, I put down my book, went downstairs and asked some servants if Cheney had eaten.
They said no.
So I asked them to get off work and rest first, and went to the kitchen to give him a bowl of noodles and sent them to the study room.
Smiling, I put my chopsticks on the big bowl and looked at him and said, “Cheney, this is my love dinner made by myself. Do you want to eat it?”
Cheney’s POV
Eating the noodles in the bowl, I chewed and thought, before, I secretly liked Flora’s years, and I never felt happy when I was with Krista.
This kind of feeling makes me feel sunny every day when I see Krista’s face.
I can’t say what love is. I only know that if I were separated from Krista now, I would definitely be in pain.
After eating a few mouthfuls in a row, I took Krista’s hand.
She frowned. “What’s the matter?”
“If we live together until we are old, do you want to do it?”
She smiled reluctantly. “Well, yes.”
“Keep in mind that this is a promise, and promises are made to be fulfilled, you know?”
“I’m not a fish. I won’t turn around and forget. Eat quickly.”
Flora’s pov
I didn’t wake up until the next morning.
The first person I saw when I woke up was not Cheney, but Dad and Rashad.
My heart is slightly lost.
Dad held my hand nervously. “Flora, Flora, you are awake. You scared Dad, you know?”
I closed my eyes and didn’t talk.
“Flora, can you have a word with Dad?”
“I want to be alone.”
Rashad’s voice said, “Uncle Jacob, you haven’t eaten all night. Go get something to eat before you come back.”
“Master, I can’t leave, I’m afraid Flora, she…”
“I’ll be here with her, and if you trust me, go and get something to eat, and Flora won’t want to see you fall ill because of her.”
When I heard my father leave, I turned over, and Rashad sat by the hospital bed with me without saying anything.
In the afternoon, Rashad left, and my father was worried and asked, “Flora, do you want something to eat? Dad will prepare it for you.”
I didn’t say a word, just shook my head.
Dad’s eyes are full of tears. “Flora, talk to Dad, please, eat something. If you don’t eat, your body will collapse.”
“If you live just to live, you might as well die, Dad. Don’t force me.”
“Even if the young master is married, you still have a father. Can’t you cheer up for your father?”
I looked at my father, and the tears in my eyes came off guard.
“Flora, don’t cry, if you have grievances, just tell Dad and I will always stand behind you to protect you.”
“I want Cheney, I want Cheney, Dad, can you help me bring him back to me? Can you? You can’t, can you? I suddenly feel that if I live, it will be so boring. If I don’t wake up, how good it would be, then I won’t know anything. All my dreams for the future have been changed. How should I live? I don’t know.”
In the evening, Rashad came again.
When the ward door opened, I looked forward to the door.
When I saw that it was Rashad, I turned my face away in disappointment.
Rashad asked, “Have you eaten?”
Dad sighed and kept silent.
Rashad walks over to the bedside. “Uncle Jacob, you get out first and I’ll talk to Flora.”
Dad sighed and went out.
Rashad sat down by the hospital bed with a hint of helplessness in his voice. “If I say that I can understand your current mood, would you believe me?”
I closed my eyes, tears dripping out of it, and did not say anything.
“You are waiting for the uncle to come, right? Do you want to hear him explain it to you personally? But if he really has a way to explain this matter, maybe he will not choose to hide you from the beginning.”
My expression tightened, and my tears poured faster.
He sighed, “Flora, things have happened. Even if you are sad now, you can’t change anything. The marriage between Uncle and Krista has already become a foregone conclusion. Do you want Uncle to hurt another innocent woman for you?”
I choked up and cried, “Am I not innocent? I don’t know what I did wrong. It was not my intention to become a vegetable. I just slept and woke up. Why did the whole world change? I can accept the cruelty of this world to me, but why… even Cheney has changed, he is all the pillars of my life, do you know what I am most glad of when I wake up? Now, even my most fortunate thing has become no good. Why is this world so cruel to me? Why?”
“Flora, what do you want uncle to do?” He looked at me. “What do you think he can do for you at the moment to make you less miserable?”
“I don’t need anything. I just want him to be Cheney. My Cheney. I just want God to be fair to me. Is that too much? Rashad, I only have Cheney, I only have him and I don’t want anyone if not him.”
Rashad’s pov
Seeing Flora crying like this, I really don’t know how to say the words that have already rushed to my lips, ‘You still have Uncle Jacob, Krista really has nothing’.
I seem to suddenly understand why my uncle at the moment chose to turn a blind eye to Flora.
In Flora’s present state, even if he comes, if he doesn’t change his mind, he can’t change Flora’s mood.
But from Flora’s standpoint, she is right. She had an accident, she just slept for a long time, and when she woke up, she was still the same person, but her lover had become someone else’s husband, which is really hard to accept.
As for Krista, she is not wrong. She didn’t know from the beginning that Flora existed, and she only married Cheney. Why should she be the first person to enter the marriage to bear the consequences in this matter? What’s wrong with her?
I never thought that Flora would wake up one day. If my uncle had known that there would be a day that she would wake up, my uncle would probably not have married another woman.
After all, it is by no means uncle’s style to put himself in this dilemma.
I sighed and thought that when Flora woke up, my uncle would divorce Krista without hesitation, and he would stick to marrying Flora. But he did not, which I never thought of.
Is Uncle insisting because he has feelings for Krista?