It was okay if he didn’t mean to win, but it was better not to lose on purpose.
Bella randomly pulled out a magazine from the bookshelf and sat on the sofa by the corner, quietly reading it.
In such a noisy environment, in the face of a group of debauched men and women, Bella was so unique. It was indeed strange. It was her distinctive temperament that attracted the man whose eyes still lingered on her even though he was accompanied by other beautiful women.
Men were all thinking of other women when having their wives in company. Others were always the best.
“Kevin had a bad luck tonight…”
“Chi, you’ve lost again…”
“It looks like Bella is going to be left behind tonight.”
Bella hadn’t looked away from the magazine, but she heard clearly. She smiled ironically. What a helpless life! It didn’t always go in your expected direction.
She was very clear that Kevin was intentionally losing, intentionally leaving her behind for these bad guys.
Fetching her phone from her pocket, she edited a text message to him, “Do you like the feeling of failing?”
“I don’t like to feel like I’m losing, but it’s satisfying to upset you because I’m losing.”
“What is the purpose of losing on purpose? Is it just to embarrass me?”
“I’m not only to embarrass you, but to decline your sharpness, strike at your pride, and challenge your bottom line.”
What a malevolent man! Bella glanced sharply at him.
“Didn’t you solemnly state that I can’t cuckold you, so what’s this now? Do you eat your words?”
“So for the sake of your innocence and my reputation, you should leave, not sit here and wait for being insulted.”
As long as she sent messages, he returned all.
Agitation didn’t work for anyone, at least to Bella.
She picked up the magazine again and read it carefully.
When she stopped texting over, Kevin took the initiative to text over.
“Perhaps, I’ve made you too lonely, and you privately wish for such an opportunity to satisfy your desire.”
When Bella saw this text message, she was so angry. This man used his sharp tongue every time. Bella really hoped that his tongue would be rotten.
“Watch your tongue, asshole!”
She gritted her teeth and replied.
When Roman saw that Kevin kept sending text messages, he was very dissatisfied and accused, “Call if you have anything to say. A grown man doesn’t text message.”
Ives immediately concurred, “That’s right. You were not like that before. Do you have a secret lover recently? You doesn’t dare to act too recklessly due to your seventh wife present.”
“You just stop ridiculing. Can’t you see that his seventh wife is not looking very good?”
Not only was Kevin a jerk, his disreputable friends were also jerks. She mentioned before that they shouldn’t call her called seventh wife, but they didn’t listen.
The bet ended in a shouting match, and the expected result was that Kevin was the biggest loser.
“Kevin, now that the winner and loser are already known, I wonder…”
Osmond asked curiously. They were still unsure if he was serious.
“I always keep my word. She stays. As for who owns her, you guys negotiate yourselves. I’m leaving.”
Kevin picked up his jacket from the couch and headed out of the box.
“Pay the bill.”
Roman shouted at his back.
Having lost his wife, he also cheerfully made an OK gesture, “No problem, have a good time.”
About to step out of the threshold before, he finally glanced at Bella who was at the corner, but in addition to gloating in his eyes, there was no pity.
The neon lights outside shone freely, and he slumped towards his car. Although getting rid of Bella, he didn’t feel much better, and felt hurt in his heart, like old wounds had been uncovered.
After three years, what frustrated him the most was not the betrayal of that woman, but the fact that that woman was still important to him.
Opened the car door and sat in, he tiredly pinched his brow, started the engine. But he inadvertently saw an incredible scene in the rear view mirror of the car window.
The woman he had just left behind was actually stepping towards his car with being calm that he hated so much, so he got out of the car very nonchalantly.
“How did you get out?”
“I walked out.”
“I mean, how did they let you out?”
“I just told them one thing, a friend’s wife is not to be bullied. This is you deliberately testing whether they consider you a friend or not, so they let me out.”
Kevin sneered, and was speechless, before saying after a while, “Bella, you really are smart enough!”
It was hard to get rid of her, and before he could get away from her, he was stuck with her again. So he was so frustrated. He angrily growled, “I’m telling you once and for all, don’t follow me again.”
Kevin didn’t even expect that he would be able to deter the woman by yelling. He wouldn’t get rid of her so easily.
In fact, it was true. He got into the car and Bella followed him at once.
“Has anyone ever told you that you’re really annoying?”
“Yes, won’t you tell me again now?”
“I don’t think anyone would truly love a woman like you.”
“That’s okay. I never expect to be truly loved.”
The car drove away too fast on congested road. What could he say to a woman who wasn’t afraid to be hated and didn’t mind that no one loved her?
At eleven o’clock at midnight, the Cloud Mansion, which stood in a prime location, was tranquil. They could not see a trace of light in the large villa. All the people had gone to sleep, and only the street lamps on both sides were emitting soft light, embellishing the beauty of the night.
Kevin parked the car, suddenly said to the woman beside him with a sidelong glance, “Wait until I go down you.”
His tone was gentle, but chilling. Bella was briefly stunned, and as the car door closed, she panicked that she couldn’t get out of the car. He had even locked the car.
She felt an inexplicable fear and desperately punched the car window, but the glass was soundproof. No matter how she hissed, the people outside could not hear.
But Kevin had clearly seen her panic, and yet he turned a blind eye to her and left with determination….
Bella watched Kevin disappear in front of her eyes. She was helpless and disheartened. Until the last moment, he actually refused to give her even a trace of mercy.
Her breathing began to become difficult, and cold sweat slid down her cheeks. Some unpleasant memories came to her mind. She was locked in the house, screaming for help, while nobody helped her. She desperately cried, shouted, but in the end, but still lost the person she desperately wanted to protect.
Kevin took a shower and lay down on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. He fretfully pulled open the drawer of the bedside table, found a box of sleeping pills, and haphazardly poured a few into his mouth.
He never worried that he would take too many doses that would threaten his life. Because sleeping pills became so familiar to him like his closest friend, and in the year that Freya left, it was his closest friend that accompanied him through one long night after another.
As time passed, he still couldn’t fall asleep, perhaps it was because he hadn’t been eaten those pills for too long, and it wouldn’t be able to exert its medicinal effects for a while.
Kevin closed his eyes tightly, forcing himself not to think about anything, Freya and her betrayal, and everything about her.
But when one was awake, it was impossible to keep one’s head blank. When you didn’t think about one person, you would think of another, provided that that person was more or less important in your heart.
Right now, Kevin was thinking of Bella. If he didn’t want to think of Freya, then he was even more reluctant to think of Bella. Because he was annoyed with Bella. But at least he had liked Freya.
What could be more annoying than that? The people you liked and you hated, ran through your mind. You wanted to get rid of them, but you failed.
It was during this tiresome wait that the drug took effect, and he felt a strong sense of sleepiness, his consciousness growing more and more fuzzy as it deepened. Finally, he went to sleep completely.
“Don’t overflow your sympathy to me. I don’t need it!”
“Yes, I’m overflowing with sympathy, but my sympathy is only for what happened to you, not who you are.”
……
He thought of Bella in daytime, so he dreamed her at night. He was thinking about how to get rid of her all night long, and this time he even dreamed of fighting with this woman.
“I don’t want to live with someone who knows I’ve been abandoned by a woman and so pities me.”
“You may think you’re abnormal, but I’m no better with claustrophobia than you are with PTSD.”
Claustrophobic? Claustrophobia!
Kevin woke up from his dream. He had forgotten that the woman was claustrophobic. Damn it!
He jumped out of bed sharply and rushed out of the room without even putting on his jacket….
On a white cloud blowing with the wind, countless elves surround her, there was no cold, only warmth here. Perhaps this was the legendary Dream Heaven. Then, was there her mother here?
Bella thought she was dead, until a strange call came from a distant place. When she opened her eyes powerlessly and saw a heartless man, she realized that she was only at death’s door, and not really dead.
Yes, how could Bella be defeated so easily.