This woman really knows how to hurt me to pieces.
I rolled over and got off her.
Krista lay still in bed.
I took out my cigarette case and lit a cigarette.
She sat up, buttoned her clothes slowly, got out of bed, turned to face me, pulled out the smoke in my mouth, put it in the ashtray on the bedside table, and pressed it out.
“Smoking is bad for your health.” She spoke faintly.
I frowned. “This is my own body.”
She nodded. “I know, but you have grandparents beside you, and Afra too, and the Fischer group waiting for you to take care of. This is your body, but you have no say.”
“Krista, do you think you are still qualified to say such a thing to me now?”
She dropped her eyes. “Yes, we are no longer husband and wife. Even meeting is redundant.”
“Whether you should or not, it is never up to you.”
I looked at her indifferently. “I’m giving you three days. After three days, come back to City A.”
Her face was full of surprise and she was busy saying, “I won’t go back.”
“No? Why?”
She frowned. “I have a new life here. I won’t go back to City A and get involved with you and the Fischer family.”
“New life, you mean your boyfriend?”
I’m livid. “I only give you three days. These three days are enough for you to clean up your relationship with that wild man. After three days, if you don’t leave with me, then don’t blame me. I will investigate that man’s backwardness and beat him.”
Hearing the word investigation, Krista looked panicked. “Don’t mess around.”
Her expression, to me, seems to be defending the wild man.
“Oh, you don’t want to watch Flora, who has nothing to do with you, with me, but you can defend your new boyfriend?”
She looked at me seriously and said, “Cheney, what do you want? Even if I go back to City A with you, what can I change?”
“Even if nothing can be changed, you must go back with me. Because of you, I have become a joke. In other people’s eyes. I, Cheney, is a loser who can’t even see my wife. Krista, guess how happy I was when I met you again. Since God has given me a chance to find you again, do you think I will let you run away?”
I use the rage in my eyes to cover up my guilty conscience.
I can’t let myself continue to live and miss her.
I want to take her back. Even if she doesn’t love me, I can’t let her escape from my sight.
Krista looked at me. After a moment, she dropped her eyes and said, “Yes, no matter how much I object to this matter, it is useless, correct?”
“What do you think?”
Krista clenched her fist. “Okay, I’ll go back with you.”
“Why so fast? Don’t you need to ask your boyfriend how he would feel? Or are you going to leave without saying goodbye to a man?”
“There was no boyfriend,” she said with a silent look in her eyes. “A person who doesn’t believe in love, how can she find a boyfriend? Who in this world can be more reliable than herself?”
I looked at her and could not say anything.
“So… Can I go now?”
I didn’t say anything.
Krista turns and leaves without looking back.
I sat on the edge of the bed, and I knew Krista would hate me for it, but … I don’t care, as long as she can stay by my side.
Krista’s pov
I went downstairs and took a taxi back to the hotel. At the door, I dialed Lockie’s phone. “Lockie, where’s Romeo?”
“I was taking a bath. I called you earlier. Why didn’t you answer it?”
“I was busy. But while you’re taking a bath, I’ll tell you something. In three days… I’m going back to City A. Can you send someone to help me clean up my house?”
“Go back? What’s the matter? Already missed Romeo? You have only been separated for one day, it may not be suitable, and it will be fine slowly.”
I smiled. “I miss Romeo, but that’s not why I’m going back. Cheney is here.”
“What?” Lockie’s voice on the other end of the phone almost exploded.
“What did he do?”
I sank on my stop and said, “He wants me to go back to City A.”
“That man is sick, he is unclear with Flora, why ask you to come back? Who is he? Girl, listen to me, don’t mind him, if you don’t want to come back, point to his nose and let him roll.”
I leaned against the stone pillar in front of the hotel.
I also want to do that, but I am a weak person now and have no courage to do that.
“Why are you not talking?” Lockie was a little anxious.
“You can’t see him and think of his kindness to you in the past.”
“Well… I never forgot, but we are not suitable, and I know that very well in my heart. Besides, Cheney asked me to go back only because I was unwilling. I told him that I have a boyfriend, but he said, he will just beat my boyfriend and in three days, I should go back with him. Otherwise, he will investigate this man and destroy him.”
Lockie was upset. “Let him investigate. There is no such person anyway.”
“No, I can’t let him investigate. Although people around me don’t know about Romeo’s existence, the Butterfly Island is so big that someone has always seen me with Romeo. Once he starts investigating, Romeo’s existence can be easily discovered. I can’t take this risk.”
“Cheney, that bastard, really pissed me off.”
“Lockie… what do you think? Was there really a god?”
I looked up at the night sky. “If God really exists, why can’t he hear my prayer? I just want to live a simple life, but why is it so difficult?”
“No matter whether there is God or not, people always rely on themselves. You can rest assured that you still have me in City A and the Irwin family. I won’t let you be wronged. When you come back, don’t live back in your home. Just come to my house directly. I don’t trust him. That Cheney can tear his face with the Irwin family.”
“No, I can’t let that happen.” I shook my head. “If I live in your house with Romeo at the same time, it will be easier to be found. Even if I go back, Romeo will still trouble you to bring him to me. I dare not bring him back with me.”
“Well, I see. I’ll send someone to tidy up your house tomorrow morning.”
After hanging up the phone, I breathe, city A…
Early the next morning, Lara and I went back to Butterfly Island. I went back to the company and explained my return to City A to my colleagues.
After that, I went home and packed my bags.