“I want to wash my hands,” Jasper Milton said.
“Oh,” Natalie Wheeler opened the door and stood aside.
Jasper turned on the tap and washed his hands. He looked at Natalie’s reflection in the mirror.
She stood aside quietly. With her eyes lowered, she looked lovely.
He thought of her stubbornness and his eyes became sharper, “Why did you lock the door? Are you afraid that I’ll eat you?”
“Uh, well, it’s a habit,” Natalie explained.
Jasper turned around and looked at her, “Did you call Allen?”
“It’s too early when I came back. I just woke up and haven’t had time to call him.”
“Was it because of the time difference, or was it because you just didn’t want to call him?” Jasper questioned, fixing his eyes on her.
Natalie felt even more pressured, “Do you not believe me?”
“I’m afraid that you’ll run away or you’ll get plastic surgery and pretend that you don’t know me. You’re six years younger than me, so you still have a lot of time. I have two children with me, so I can’t afford to wait,” Jasper said strangely.
Natalie felt that he was talking about Stella Grace. Her eyes were flickering, “Even if you have two children with you, there are still many women who like you. Didn’t Avril confess her love to you last night?”
“As if my admirers could match yours. Frederick, Allen, and others whom I don’t know. Am I a back-up? Or are they the back-ups?” Jasper said angrily.
Back-up?
It was clear that he was too overbearing and domineering.
She had never planned to be together with him again. Now he was saying as if it was all her fault. She was a sl*t, the one who played with other people’s feelings!!
Natalie’s gaze also cooled down and her face became serious, “If you think you are a back-up, then you are one. If you want to think that way, I can’t change your mind as well. Now I’m going to change my clothes. Please get out.”
Jasper held her shoulder and pushed her to the wall. His eyes turned scarlet, “Do you really not care about me? Aren’t you at least going to give me an explanation?”
“If you don’t believe me, it’s useless no matter how I explain.”
“How could I trust you?” Jasper said in a low voice and he looked at her sharply.
Natalie looked at him coldly, “Since you don’t trust me, should I still say more? If you want to end the relationship, then just end it.”
Jasper pursed his lips and looked at her. His black pupils were flickering. His breathing became unsteady gradually and it all fell on her face.
“End it, you say?” Jasper asked closely.
Natalie’s heart was filled with sorrow, but she had never planned to start a relationship with him after all. Hence, she didn’t have to think much to end it. She nodded.
“Stop dreaming, it’s impossible. I’ll wait for you outside,” Jasper went out, and his back looked a little dispirited.
Natalie was in a daze for a while and she sighed with tears in her eyes.
How many of her loved ones must she hurt before she could finally be free?
She wiped her tears and looked at herself in the mirror.
Didn’t they say that changing her face and her name would inevitably change her destiny and her original fate?
Why did she feel like she had returned to square one after all this?
She wiped her tears, splashed her face with cold water, and wiped off the water on her face. Her eyes were a little red. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then opened them again. After calming down, she changed her clothes and went out of the bathroom.
Jasper had smoked three cigarettes and was on his fourth one.
Natalie grabbed the cigarette in his hand and put out the cigarette butt, “Smoking is not good for your health.”
Jasper held her waist and hugged her in his arms. He lowered his head and kissed her on the lips. It was fierce, harsh and surging.
The strong masculine aura, together with the mature smell of smoke, rushed towards Natalie, and she could not resist it at all.
From what she knew of Jasper, if she pushed him away at this time, he would only kiss harder, and she would not be able to resist. Hence, she could only let him kiss her.
Jasper kissed her for five minutes before letting her go. With pain in his eyes, he asked, “You study psychology. Tell me, what should I do now?”
“In this world, there are two kinds of heart-wrenching feelings. One is a sense of longing, and the other a sense of loss. In fact, once you get over this barrier, you will realize that there are so many more amazing people in the world.”
“Is that what you think? So, you could forget about a relationship easily, even if it has been engraved in your heart,” Jasper asked.
“It doesn’t matter what I think. What matters is, what do you think?” Natalie said softly.
“I want to live a simple life with you. We don’t need much going on every day. As long as we have breakfast and dinner together and sleep together on the same bed. We can discuss our children’s education, growth, and discuss the troubles we encountered in life. We will grow old together. Then, everything would be perfect,” Jasper said in a low voice and his eyes turned red.
He didn’t ask for much. He just didn’t want to wait forever.
Natalie’s eyes were also brimming red. She struggled to control her emotions and her tears rolled down her cheeks.
She longed for the kind of life that Jasper talked about. That was a home, a place where she always wanted to go back no matter how far she wandered to.
In life, people came alone and spent their lives searching for a purpose. Then, they grow alone and work alone only to find a person whom they want to protect. Then, they would not be lonely anymore, and their souls would return to their roots. This way, when they die, they would not feel that they had lived in vain.
However, she was afraid that he would die if she stayed with him.
If he perished, her world would collapse.
She just wanted to stay by his side quietly, take care of him and Dante. That was enough for her.
When he saw that she was crying, Jasper turned all his anger, resentment, and unwillingness into pity. He kissed her tears and said, “Natalie, we can do it.”
Natalie nodded.
Jasper kissed her again, “You must be hungry. Let’s go out to eat first.”
Natalie shook her head, “I’ll call room service. It’s too dangerous for us to eat outside together.”
“What do you mean by dangerous?” Jasper asked keenly.
“I don’t want others to find out about our relationship,” Natalie said.
“If someone finds out about our relationship, what kind of dangerous things will happen?” Jasper continued to ask.
“I don’t want to talk about this anymore,” Natalie was about to get off from Jasper’s lap.
Jasper hugged her and did not let her go, “Natalie, you are a coward. When you encounter something, you like to hide in your shell.”
“That’s because you don’t know my past and how my personality was developed. I’m timid, but what’s wrong with being timid. Those who died first are usually the bold and the ignorant. This is my character, like it or not. If you don’t like it, then it’s fine.”
Jasper let go of Natalie.
Natalie stood up.
She didn’t dare to look at Jasper. She picked up the telephone and called the front desk to order a meal.
Hearing a bang, she looked at the door and Jasper had left.
Her heart sank. She hung up the phone, lay on the bed weakly and looked at the white ceiling sadly…