Candice was sleepy and tired, she moved back into her husband’s arms, found a comfortable position and slept.
Emerson saw that the person in his arms had fallen asleep, he slowly removed his arm. He wanted to leave but could not bring himself to. He lowered his head, by the weak moonlight, he examined that tiny face that was only as big as a palm, he could not bring himself to leave it out of his sight. He lowered his head and kissed that tiny mouth extremely gently.
He knew that this was not right, that this was immoral. But this woman was just like an addictive poison, he had it once, and he was already addicted.
What Emerson regretted the most was that he never should have promised Robert about the deal. Without that first time, she was still his sister-in-law. But now, she was his woman. A woman that he would love and care with all he has. Yet she had his brother’s label on her.
Days passed as smooth as water, quietly, slowly, without a sound. No one knew about the secret of the Stewart family, and the three lived their own happy lives.
It was a long weekend when Alice asked out Candice on a shopping date.
When Robert knew about it, he passed Candice a card, “The password is your birthday, go buy more nice clothes.”
Candice hugged Robert’s arm coquettishly, “Husband, you are going to spoil me.”
“Dummy, you’re my wife, who else am I going to spoil if it was not you?” Robert poked Candice’s tiny nose. Candice took the courage and tip toed to kiss Robert on the lips.
Robert froze, and pushed Candice away almost by reflex, “Don’t play.”
Candice frowned, how could this guy be so serious. Apart from the time where he did not touch her at all for a month after their marriage, other times he had almost wanted to swallow her whole every day. Now she was just kissing him, and he acted like she was going to rape him.
Robert sensed something, and began to console Candice, “It’s still so early, and we are in the living room, it’s not good if my brother sees this.”
Candice heard his word and began looking around. Coincidentally, her brother-in-law came out from his study to see the scene.
At that moment, Candice felt like digging a hole in the ground and hiding there. She thought that her brother-in-law had gone out, but he was actually home.
Great, now her brother-in-law must have thought that she was a woman that was up to no good. Candice ran out of the mansion with a red face, and for the shopping date with Alice she had no mood at all.
Alice consoled Candice, “You were just kissing your husband in front of your brother-in-law. Even if your brother-in-law was a person with many rules, he couldn’t have cared about a couple being close. There is no reason to be rigid about this.”
Candice’s tiny face was in a grimace, “Alice, you don’t know my brother-in-law. He’s twenty eight years old, fit as a fiddle, extremely handsome, even taller and more good-looking than my husband, he’s like a walking pheromone. But a guy like him hasn’t even got a girlfriend, you don’t think there’s something fishy about this?”
Alice’s mouth opened in a “O” shape, “What you mean is, your brother-in-law could be into guys?”
Candice nodded cautiously, “That was what I guessed too. And according to rumours men like this are more picky, and can’t bear to see other men and women getting close. So I’m scared that he’ll turn the cold shoulder on me.”
Alice saw Candice being miserable, and she pulled Candice along the way, “We’re not going shopping today, let’s go to the gym instead. Run for two hours, get tired, and you’ll forget everything.”
Alice’s family have their own business, and Alice was like a little princess, everything that she used or ate was the best. The gym that she pulled Candice towards was also a high-class one.
Candice ran on the treadmill for a bit, and she wanted to go to washroom. Alice randomly pointed towards it, and wanted Candice to go herself.
To get to the washroom she must first pass through a corridor, there are temporary resting rooms on each side of the corridor. When Candice passed by one of them, she saw that the door was ajar, and there were strange sounds coming out of it. Candice was so curious about it, that she decided to move closer to have a look out of curiosity.
When Candice saw the scene in the room, she felt like the entire sky was collapsing down on her.