Bella was so shocked that her eyes almost popped out, and angrily gazed at Kevin, who had already gone pale with fright and frantically questioned Blanche, “Mom! Are you trying to get me a divorce again?!!!”
He pulled up Bella, “Let’s go, let’s hurry up. She might be a bit mentally abnormal right now.”
Bella shrugged off his hand and gnashed her teeth, “I’ll get even with you later.” She then proceeded to comfort Blanche.
Bella comforted Blanche for a while, and only after Blanche was in a better mood did she leave and return to her own room.
Kevin was sitting on the sofa in the bedroom, patiently waiting for her to come back and explain to her.
“Honey, don’t take my mother’s words seriously. She’s going to be mentally stimulated and talk nonsense again.”
Bella looked askance at him, “Really? Is she babbling any more nonsense, or are you guilty?”
“Why do I feel guilty? I’m completely open and honest with you as a gentleman.”
“Even though I already know you’re not a virgin, it’s by no means acceptable to have sex with an escort girl when you were a freshman in college. So you reflect on your own errors!”
Bella, learning from Blanche being brawny, picked up a pillow and threw it at him, and she shoved him outside, “Go ahead and come back when you finish reflecting.”
“How come you don’t learn from the good? Where do you want me to reflect on this cold day?”
“You’ll reflect wherever Dad is reflecting.”
Slamming the door of the room, Bella closed it. Even Kevin screamed hard, she refused to open the door for him.
Kevin held a pillow to the guest room. Patrick was standing in front of the window smoking, suddenly heard the sound of footsteps, looked back, surprised and asked, “Hey, what are you doing?”
“Thanks to you, I’ve been kicked out tonight.”
Patrick’s face fell, and he continued to smoke and stopped asking questions.
After a while, Kevin suddenly asked, “Dad, be honest and frank, did you really have an affair?”
“Bastard, what are you talking about? Who am I going to have an affair with at my age!”
Patrick glared angrily at him.
“But based on what I know, Mom won’t get into an argument with you easily.”
“She’s insane tonight. Just ignore her.”
“I think she’s mad. She told Bella that I had sex with the escort girl in college. It’s devastating.”
Kevin sighed and pulled a blanket over his head, not thinking about anything.
Early in the morning, while having breakfast, Lena found that the atmosphere was not right. Firstly, her mother ignored her father, and secondly, Bella mocked at Kevin. She wanted to ask the reason but was afraid of getting into trouble, so she hurriedly ate a few mouthful of food and slipped away.
Before going to work, Kevin once again came to the bedroom, said to Bella, “Honey, after a night of reflection, I have been deeply aware that I was wrong. This is the review I wrote, please have a look.”
Bella was stunned. Kevin had already stuffed the book of the review into her hand, then kissed on her cheek, smiling and went to work.
She started reading it and giggled before finishing. It was actually the same as that she wrote to him last time. She had thought he really threw it into the trash and did not read it.
Tick tick, she received a text message, “Honey, do you laugh, right? You’ll forgive me, won’t you? We’ll have dinner tonight.”
She smiled and replied, “It depends on my mood.”
Kevin saw her text message and was happy. He knew Bella well. If she didn’t forgive him, she won’t text back.
After a busy morning, by noon, Alvin suddenly came knocking on the door.
“Mr. Jones-Sharp, a secret letter has been sent to you. It needs you to open it yourself.”
He didn’t take it serious, “What secret letter? Do you think of fighting as a guerrilla?”
Opening the envelope, it was a sky-blue letter paper. He suddenly froze. His fingers trembled as he stared at the crane folded with letter paper, and asked woodenly, “Who sent it?”
“I heard it seems to be a woman. She handed over to the front desk.”
Kevin looked upset, “Go out.”
As soon as Alvin left, he unwrapped the paper crane with a mixed feeling, and on it was his familiar graceful font, “Kevin, I’m Freya. I’m back. If it’s convenient for you, we’ll see you at the usual place at six o’clock in the afternoon.”
Few words made Kevin have mixed emotions.
He fell into a long-ago memory, that woman had brought him, beautiful, painful, unforgettable, memorable …
He was so distracted for the whole afternoon that he was even absent-minded in the middle of a meeting, and the people below him were making a report while he didn’t listen to a word of it.
At five-fifteen, the people in the company were leaving work one after another, while he was still sitting alone in his office, thinking of Bella’s sentence, ‘Even though you have been married me, does it still matter why she betrayed you?’ Knowing that going to the appointment would break her heart, he was so eager to see Freya.
After a painful mental struggle, Bella’s words were ultimately unable to overcome his urge to see Freya. He picked up the car keys and resolutely went to the usual place they had agreed on.
Along the way, he thought about the thousands of things he would say after meeting her, and he even thought that he would definitely slap her hard before he spoke as a tribute to the pain and humiliation he had endured in the past three years.
The car stopped at the Chili Noodle House, but he didn’t get out of the car immediately. Looking at the young students coming and going from afar, he had mixed feelings. He never thought that he would see Freya again, and this place filled with their fond memories.
He sat there for a long time before he pushed open the door and walked into the noodle shop steadily.
Almost at the same moment, they saw each other. He felt the indescribable desire. Even he felt pain but still missed that feeling. Kevin stared at Freya tightly. The woman he once loved deeply was still so beautiful and pure. Her eyes still made him heartbroken.
He didn’t say the fierce words that he wanted to say in the end.
He similarly didn’t slap her.
“Kevin, it’s been a while.”
Freya stretched out her slender hand, expecting to shake hands with him.
Kevin tightly clenched his fist and loosened it, but still stretched out. After three years, they touched each other’s hands again. They had been hand in hand countless times in the past, but both felt sorrowful now.
“Excuse me, we’ll have two bowls of spicy noodles. He’ll have a little less spicy, and I can have more.”
Freya shouted at the boss. She was still the same as she was a few years ago. She had clear and bright eyes, cute dimples, long hair, and a gentle gaze that would always cause him to pity her.
Kevin was excited. Freya’s sudden appearance made him feel frustrated, not at her betrayal, but that after so long, she had surprisingly remained an important position in his heart.
The boss brought up the chili noodles. Freya brought the bowl with minimal chili in it to him, and she had the bowl with more chili naturally.
“Kevin, don’t you have anything you want to ask me?”
They had been sitting in silence for a while, but relatively speechless. Freya looked down, her eyelashes long.
But in an instant, it was fleeting.
“Don’t you have anything you want to say to me?”
Of course, Kevin wanted to question her, but right now, he wanted to know more about what the woman wanted to say to him.
“I heard that you got married.”
Freya looked askance at him, looking gentle in her eyes, making him heartbroken again.
“Yes.”
“And are you happy?”
“Sure, but of course I would have been happier if you hadn’t left three years ago.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Forget it, so tell me, why are you back again?”
“Because there is a reason why I must come back.”
“Can’t I know that reason?”
“You can know, but not now.”
Freya tidied the long hair scattered around her ears and smiled as she pulled out two chopsticks, “Alright, let’s eat the noodles. It’s getting cold.”
She was the first to eat noodles, fanning to her mouth, “Wow, it’s so tasty.”
Kevin was like a statue, not moving, watching her eat. It was just like every time they went to Chili Noodle House to eat noodles a few years ago, he was quietly watching her eat before eating his noodles. Only then, the spoiling in his eyes was gone.
“It’s so spicy. I haven’t eaten noodles here for a long time. I can’t believe I can’t eat spicy food.”
Freya had burst into tears. Her tears unsurprisingly caused Kevin heartbroken. He pulled out a few tissues and handed them to her, saying in a deep voice, “You can eat my bowl of noodles.”
“Thanks, but I think I need to eat a little more. It’s not going to be in vain that you gave me the title of Chili Girl back then.”
She continued to eat the chili noodles, and her tears kept flowing.
Kevin woodenly handed her tissues, one, two. In the end, neither she nor he knew whether it was the sweat or the tears.
Bella has been waiting until six o’clock and did not wait for Kevin back and his call. He said in the morning that they would have dinner together.
She thought he was busy with work and forgot it. She dialed his number to remind him, but he didn’t answer.
She called Alvin again, thinking that Alvin must know his whereabouts. When Alvin received the call, he was very confused and said, “When I got off work, Kevin was still in the office. Hasn’t he come home yet?”