‘Can you take me to him?” Sandra asked cautiously.
Jimmy turned his head to her with the frowned eyebrows, ‘But you will have surgery tomorrow!”
‘Yes, I know, but I want to see him.” Her eyes were begging.
Jimmy scratched his hair, angry and at the same time feeling sorry for her. ‘Can we go after the surgery?”
Sandra shook her head, with a determined look of not having surgery if she couldn’t see him. She was extremely wayward.
Jimmy snatched the cushion from the couch and threw it heavily onto the floor. Sandra was shocked, and the atmosphere was stagnant with a war.
Looking at his back while he was walking out, Sandra knew she hurt him again.
‘Don’t you come along?” he stopped and turned back suddenly to look at her sitting still in the couch.
She was in a daze, but got up immediately to follow him.
Jimmy took her to the bar gate and then turned into a small lane.
‘What are you gazing at?” he took her by her arm when he realized she was in a daze again, and wanted to take her inside. She had so many questions in her mind, for example, how come he would know there was a hidden gate there?
Before she could ask, her eyes were completely focusing on the silhouette in front of her.
Clinton was the only one in the small ball. With a sharp noise, the bottle fell to the ground. Then he opened a new bottle and began to drink like water, head up.
‘Why…” Sandra murmured, losing her mind. It seemed that she was the one who is in a miserable condition!
Jimmy touched his forehead and whispered at her ear, ‘Both the Fu and The Lin Groups were fighting for a same project. But during the bidding meeting, the Lin Group introduced their design first, which was actually the scheme done by the Fu Group. So, the Fu Group lost this project, which caused huge damage to their company. All happened because of an inside traitor.”
‘Is this what you said about the betrayal of Jessi?” Sandra couldn’t believe it with her eyes wide open.
Jimmy glanced at her and nodded. Before he could make further explanation, some loud noise came from Clinton.
Both of them looked up to check. Sandra was hesitant of not going forward. But Jimmy said mindlessly, ‘If he continues to drink like this, he would end up in the hospital for a stomach-pump.
‘I shouldn’t let him drink like this!”She shouted at Jimmy.
‘Who are you to tell him to stop drinking? Do you think he will listen to you?” Jimmy uttered word by word while squinting his eyes. He knew he was too cruel to say so, but in order to make her go back with him, he must say so.
As expected, her faced changed after his words. Her anxiety was gone. She turned back and walked outside.
Early morning on the second day, Sandra was expected at the surgery room, but instead she showed up at the house where Jessi lived before. she lifted her hand to knock at the door. Few seconds later, Jessi came to answer the door in pajama, sleepy.
Sandra went in and questioned her straightforward, ‘Why did you betray him?”
Her hand holding the glass stopped for a second and then she sneered, ‘Who do you think you are to ask me this question?”
Sandra had never defeated her in the verbal attack. But she got prepared for it, since she was determined to come to see her.
‘I am just curious about the reason.”
‘The reason? Because I met someone better. Why do you make a fuss about it?” Jessi laughed at her.
‘But apparently you loved him. I am sure about it. There must be some other reason.” Sandra couldn’t believe a woman who was pregnant with the child of a man that she didn’t love.
Jessi had the urge to throw the glass of water onto her head, ‘Did he love me? I can tell you the truth. I did it only because he didn’t love me, but you. He never loved me! He called out your name every night in his dreams!”
‘How could it be possible?” Something went blank in her mind, but only the sentence was repeating Jessi said Clinton called her name in his dreams…
Jessi sneered, ‘Still pretending? Get out!”
Sandra came out dumbly. She couldn’t stop thinking of Clinton no matter how unwilling she was to admit it.