“If you know all this, why do you still come to me? I will be happy if I marry Quintin.”
“I’ll give you the happiness you want.”
Kevin suddenly raised his left hand, and only then did Bella realize that he was wearing the couple bracelet on his left wrist, which cost them spent eight dollars and fifty cents on King Hills back then.
He had been wearing it.
“Even if time goes by for a long time, or excellent people show up, those feelings are still unable to shake. Will love have an expiration date? I think there will be. Will love fade? I think it will fade. Will love part? I think lovers will separate. Will love go away and come back? I don’t think love will come back.” Kevin paused, “Why am I confident that our love cannot be shaken? Because our love has always been in place. It never leaves …”
It was dawn when the rain stopped. They who hadn’t slept all night gazed at each other, and he said, “Come back with me. Last night’s promise won’t be just a flash in the pan.”
She smiled bitterly, “The promise last night was very touching, but I can’t go back with you.”
He said, “Why?”
She said, “Because I can’t just leave the man I hurt alone.”
Kevin left alone, and before he left, he said, “I will come back again until you are willing to go back with me.”
Bella went to the Gold Group, but Quintin wasn’t in the company. She waited for a whole day, and he didn’t come back. Even so, she didn’t give up. In the evening she went to the villa of the Stock family, the maid said that the man she was looking for wasn’t at home.
Bella felt that she had to see Quintin and to explain to him clearly, and she had to get his forgiveness.
She waited in front of the Stock family’s villa until eleven o’clock at night. Seeing the familiar car slowly approaching, she rushed to the middle of the road, and Quintin’s car stopped.
They stared at each other up for a moment. Bella went forward, lightly knocking on the window, “Quintin, come out for a moment, okay? Let’s talk.”
Quintin stepped out of the car, looking haggard, and asked, “What else is there to talk about?”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it.”
Bella looked down, trying to hide the sadness in her eyes.
“So are you on purpose then?”
She shook her head, “No, I’m not on purpose, and I don’t mean to be.”
“Then what’s it?”
“I never wanted to toy with you, and there may have been a slight impulse to accept your love in B City, but it was true that I sincerely accepted you at that time. It was also true that I said I wanted you to be happy, and that I said it was easy and fun to be with you. … ”
“It’s even truer that you don’t love me.”
Quintin scoffed.
Bella didn’t deny it, looking up as her eyes were red, “These days I always wanted to tell you frankly, but in order to cooperate with you smoothly, I was silent with guilt again and again. I know it is very bad, but for Kevin, I can only do this. Because the cooperation with Gold Group is really important for him.”
“He’s that good? Even when he grieved and hurt you in the first place, you’re still righteous enough to help him, right?”
“My aunt was indignant over what I experienced at the time, so her account of it to you is too extreme, but in fact, the feelings between me and Kevin are not as shallow as you think.”
“Then tell me, how deep is your affection for each other? Is it so deep that my two years of infatuation has never moved you?”
“Kevin looks indifferent but is fragile indeed, suffering for his affection, but he is very committed to love, and because of this, he hurt himself again and again in his life. The pain and tribulation he has gone through is a tragedy you can’t imagine, and so have I. I’m not a woman who looks simple and carefree. I have a terrible childhood. Before I met him, my life was always dark. I thought about revenge all day long until our fate was accidentally connected. We peeped into each other’s dark sides and tried to get in. We experienced a long period of misery and torturing each other. At last, we succeeded in getting close to each other’s hearts. But then, one difficulty came after another, but we clenched our teeth, vowed to never give up, and survived day after day in tears until we couldn’t stand it any longer and tried to let go of each other’s hands and go down a different path. We thought we’d never be together again, but fate was so magical that even though we were headed in opposite directions, we still bumped into each other. When I met him again, I realized that his life had not been as good as it had been since I left, but even more miserable than it had been before. He lost his most basic capital as a man, took over his father’s mess, and spent two years of his own hard work on saving his father’s business. Because he didn’t want me to worry, he never mentioned a word about it in front of me. When I accidentally learned this secret that he had never told me, I vowed that I would help him, both in his career and in his life. For me, Kevin is not just my ex-husband, but the man who told me in my most helpless moment that my home is where he is. He is the second person I have loved for more than twenty years, besides my mother, and makes me feel the warmth of love. He is the angel who never abandoned me and gave up all his possessions to protect me when I faced the cruel fact that I could not have children …”
Bella said a lot in one breath. She broke into tears, “So Quintin, Kevin is really important to me. I can’t forget him even if we can’t be together. I don’t ask for your blessing, I only hope that I can be forgiven. If you don’t forgive me, I won’t be with him. The damage I have done to you today makes it impossible for me to ignore the pain of others and focus on my own happiness …”
Quintin was silent for a long time and suddenly laughed to himself, “Actually, I don’t blame you. I shouldn’t have brought you to B City at that time. In the end, I’m the one who ruins my own happiness.”
He sighed lightly and said lonely, “Can you hug me? We’ve known each other for so long, and you’ve never taken the initiative to hug me once, so if you hug me once, I’ll forgive you.”
This was not an excessive request at all. Bella took a step forward towards Quintin, stretched out her arms, and gave him a big hug full of apologies.
“Haley, you must be happy.”
Quintin hugged her tightly and gave her his blessings from the bottom of his heart, even though his heart ached so hard …
Bella’s tears fell down, as she choked and nodded, “Thank you, Quintin. I really thank you. You also have to be happy.”
Just at the moment when they finally let go of the past in relief, suddenly a fierce man emerged at the dark corner, raised a dagger in his hand, aimed at Bella, and crazily stabbed over …