Cheney’s pov
At five o’clock in the afternoon, Jacob wheeled Flora into the Fischer group and into my office.
I was just about to leave the company and go to the dumpling restaurant.
Seeing Flora, who had not seen her for several days, she looked at me pitifully, and her face was as pale as ever.
She just woke up the other day and said, “Cheney, long time no see.”
I frowned. “Flora, I have something to take care of. I’ll go to the hospital to see you later.”
“I know. You’re going to see Miss Krista.” She looked at me with a harmless smile on her face.
I frown.
Flora sipped her lips. “Miss Krista came to see me yesterday, therefore I came to you at this time. I’m not here to stop you. I just had a few things to say. I’d like to talk with you alone. Okay, that won’t take more than a few minutes of your time.”
My heart felt a little tense, so I didn’t respond.
“Dad, Milo, can you guys step aside for a few minutes?” Flora asked Jacob and Milo.
Milo gave me a sidelong glance before leaving with Jacob.
Flora caught my eye. She doesn’t have any eyes since she hasn’t eaten in days.
“Miss Krista came to me yesterday and told me that her marriage to you was only a business arrangement. You didn’t love her, but she calculated you, and you needed her body, so you married her.”
“That’s not true.” I said. “I’m from…”
“I know,” she said, her brows raised and smiled. “Miss Krista just said this to comfort me, Cheney. Since I was a child, I’ve lived at the Fischer home. I’ve known you for a long time and am quite familiar with you. No one, not even your grandparents, could push you if it weren’t for your willingness.”
I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t sure what she was up to at the time.
She exhaled, “Originally, I have never wanted to understand why I just slept and woke up, and everything changed, because your promise seemed to be yesterday, but in an instant you married someone else. I can’t figure it out. I’m in pain and uncomfortable. After I was hospitalized, you didn’t come to see me for so many days, which made me even more sad. I felt as if I had been abandoned by you. I felt so miserable that I didn’t seem to have any need to live. It was not until yesterday that Miss Krista came to me that I finally understood that the reason why you are like this is that I am not so important in your heart, and the promise made four years ago is useless after four years. Flora is not the woman Cheney wants to protect for the rest of her life.”
I bend down in front of Flora, my heart feels guilty, and I look down, “Flora, I’m sorry, I know that no amount of apologies will alter the pain you feel in your heart. I promised you four years ago that I would protect you for the rest of my life. My promise is still in place. For the rest of my life, I will protect you. I can be your brother, relative, and protect you for the rest of my life, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to protect you in the way that a lover can.”
She sipped her lips. “Cheney, you don’t have to guard me anymore. Over the years, you have done a lot for me. Yesterday, Miss Krista came to me and told me so much. I have already determined that she is a good woman worthy of your love. I am willing to quit and help you.”
“Flora…” Her words made me very moved.
Flora’s tears in her eyes were swirling, but she still smiled. “It’s strange. When I came, I clearly thought about it, but how can I say this sentence, my heart is still so uncomfortable?”
She exhaled again, “You don’t mind, I don’t mean anything else. I came here today, just want to tell you, I hope you can cherish the happiness you have now, I hope you can treat Miss Krista well, and I hope you two can get along well for a hundred years and have a baby early.”
“Flora, thank you, really thank you for your help.”
“I… have decided to leave here with my father, and I may never come back in the future.”
I frowned. “Where are you going?”
“Well, go far, far away, this place, I’m not going to tell anyone in the Fischer family, Cheney, don’t ask, just promise me to take care, take good care of grandparents and Afra, and love yourself and Miss Krista, which is enough. Cheney, you go after your true love, I will be far away, bless you.”
I looked at Flora, full of guilt.
“Cheney, can you give me one last… one more hug?”
I got up slightly and hugged her in a wheelchair.
Her face leans on my shoulder, shallow smile “Cheney, your shoulder is so warm, thank you, once gave me such a beautiful dream, now, you go to find your new happiness, don’t look back.”
I loosened her, hanging eyes, got up, and left without looking back.
I raced all the way to this dumpling shop where Krista often comes, and looked at the time, 5:20.
I got off the bus and went into the shop. When the proprietress saw that it was me, she said politely, “Mr. Cheney, how can you be alone today?”
I found a seat and sat down. “Krista will come later, proprietress. I have all the seats in your shop tonight.”
I took out a check for 100, 000 and put it on the table. “I have very important things to do. Please close the store.”
“You young people are romantic, but my store doesn’t have so much turnover a day. If you want to pack it, just give me a thousand pieces. I am not greedy for money.”
I handed her the check and said nothing more.
Looking in the direction of the door, I waited anxiously for Krista to appear.
At 5:40, my cell phone suddenly rang.
I picked up my cell phone and heard the voice on the other end of the phone, and my heart suddenly hung up.
“Master, Flora, she won’t be able to do it.” Uncle Jacob’s cries of pain came in pulses.
My phone was clasped in my hand. “Can you tell me what happened?”
“Flora said that if I want to eat a few bits of sugar, I’ll pull her over to the side of the road and buy it for her. Who knows, maybe she turned her wheelchair around and rushed to the side of the road, where a terrible car accident happened. The doctor said… Young master, the chances of rescue are poor… what should I do?”
I stood up, moved my steps, and went to the door, but I headed back after two steps.
“Young master, this child really doesn’t want to live. How can this happen? What happened? What did she say to you? If the child leaves, how can I live?”
I think she just said, she said she was going far, far away.
I hate myself. Why didn’t I notice Flora’s suicidal tendency? If I did, I could have avoided this disaster.
Uncle Jacob said something, and then there was silence.
There was a jumbled sound on the other end of the line, so I shouted a couple times, “Hello, hey, Uncle Jacob, Uncle Jacob, are you still listening?”
On the other end of the phone, there was a female voice “Hello, I am a nurse in the People’s Hospital. This gentleman fainted at the door of the operating room. Are you his family? Can you come now?”
I turned to the proprietress after hanging up the phone and said, “I have to get to the hospital right away, proprietress. If Krista arrives later, tell her I’m coming and ask her to wait. Be sure to keep an eye out for me.”
Saying that, I rushed out of the jiaozi restaurant, got on the bus, and left.
Krista arrived five minutes after I left, which surprised me. And it was because of those 10 minutes that caused me to be seperated from her for six years. If only I’d known.