Alice nodded, “Yes.”
Her male classmate looked him up and down and asked in confusion, “Who is this?”
“My brother.”
Alice lied casually and didn’t feel guilty.
“Isn’t your brother in Australia?”
“He’s back to visit family.”
“Oh, that’s it.”
The man exaggeratedly stretched out his hand, “Hello, brother, my name is Fabian.”
Louis nodded to him in a subtle way, turned toward the trash can, threw a bag of garbage in his hand, and closed the lid of the trash can loudly. That sound was really thrilling in the silent night.
As soon as Alice returned home, she threw her shoes on and her bag away, then lay down on the sofa and covered her stomach and said, “Principal Hunter, are you cooking tonight? I’m hungry.”
“No.”
Louis replied coldly.
She sat up and said in discontent, “Why haven’t you cooked for several nights in a row?”
He looked up and asked sarcastically, “Do you have time to come back and eat if I cook? Your friend Fabian sent you back without buying you dinner, did he?”
Louis did not hide his anger at all. Alice jumped up in excitement, and went to him timidly and asked, “Are you jealous?”
She waited attentively for him to say yes, but instead, he said, “It’s none of my business.”
“Why are you angry if you’re not jealous?”
“I’m mad at you for introducing me as your brother, and does it make you ashamed to introduce me as your husband?”
Alice shrugged and replied unconcernedly, “I’m not ashamed of it, but I always want to leave a way out for myself.”
“A way out for what?” Louis was puzzled.
“I have to get in touch with others while he is pursuing me enthusiastically. When you abandon me one day, I will have a replacement. My parents were angry when they knew I was married. If they knew that you don’t love me, they will skin me alive. So once you divorce me, I will marry Fabian immediately, so that my poor parents will not be angry with me.”
Louis took a deep breath. He felt that he was going to be pissed off instead of Alice’s parents, “I am not going to abandon you.”
“What’s not a sign of abandonment when we sleep in separate beds?”
“That’s because you won’t let me sleep with you!”
“So now I’ve also asked you to stay out of my personal affairs. Won’t you care?”
Louis stood up in frustration, carried her in his arms, and said, cutting his teeth, “I can’t stand it anymore.”
He carried her to the bedroom and kicked the door shut …
In the middle of the night, Bella was sleeping soundly. Her phone rang under the pillow, and she answered the phone in a daze, “Hello?”
“Bella, your idea is so good. I got screwed …”
Bella didn’t react yet, and asked in confusion, “What?”
“That’s the one …”, Alice shyly explained.
It was only then that she was fully sober, but she cursed, “You’re crazy, aren’t you? You call me in the middle of the night just to tell me that you make love with your husband.”
She shouted quite loudly, waking up Kevin next to her, and when she hung up the phone, Kevin hugged her into his arms and whispered into her ear, “Honey, I also want to have that with you.”
“No, quickly go to sleep.”
She pulled the blanket over her head, and her cheeks were actually hot.
Since Bella was pregnant, she became the whole family’s treasure. Her family doted on her. They didn’t let her work, but finally, she argued strongly to keep her job.
In the past few days, Lena heard from Bella that Alvin was not feeling well and didn’t go to work for a few days, so she was very eager to go to see if he was all right.
She had already said that she wanted to let go of her feelings for him, so she felt a bit embarrassed to go to see him, but in the end, she still went.
When she arrived at Alvin’s apartment, she stood in front of the door, hesitated, not having the courage to press the doorbell. The door in front of her opened, and Alvin came out, “Lena?” He was quite surprised.
“Why are you here? Why don’t you go in?”
Alvin asked curiously, but there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.
“I heard from my sister-in-law that you were sick, and just happened to stop by … to see you. Well, I just happened to stop by …”
She was more or less incoherent because of her embarrassment.
“Nothing, I just caught a cold.”
Alvin covered his mouth and coughed a few times.
She saw that he had the car keys in his hand and asked, “Are you going out?”
“I’m going to go to the supermarket to purchase some household items.”
“Then I’ll accompany you.”
“Okay.”
They came to a large supermarket in the city, pushing a shopping cart as if they were a couple. Lena said, “Let’s buy some food, so you can taste my cooking.”
“Do you know how to cook?”
Alvin was in disbelief.
Looking at his disbelief, Lena pouted, “Please, I’m not the same woman I used to be. I’ve been living alone for two years. If I can’t cook, do I have to allay hunger with pictures of cakes?”
Alvin giggled, amused by her humorous language.
They pushed the shopping cart to the vegetable area. Lena saw an old lady straining to grab the newly promoted cucumbers with a bunch of women. She was old and was squeezed to the ground. Lena couldn’t bear it, pushing the shopping cart over, shouting loudly in the old woman’s ear, “Granny, you stay aside. I’ll help you.”
Lena, young and energetic, squeezed into the crowd and quickly came out with a handful of cucumbers, “Is that enough?” She asked the old woman.
The old woman took it with a smile on her face, “That’s enough. Thank you, Miss.”
Alvin rubbed her messy hair and teased her, “You are eager to help people as before.”
“Young man, your wife is kind. You have to treat her well.”
The old woman smiled ambiguously, pushing the shopping cart and waddling away. Lena was so embarrassed that she blushed, and pointed to the left in embarrassment, “Let’s go over there and take a look.”
She just kept her head down and didn’t notice Alvin smiled faintly.
After they came out of the supermarket, they went straight back to the apartment, and Lena went into the kitchen to cook. Alvin asked, “Do you want me to help?”
She shook her head, “No, you just wait and eat.”
Alvin held hands in the chest and said with emotion, “Lena, you’re a little different now.”
Lena blushed, “Why am I different?”
“You’re a … a little more girly.”
Lena turned around, silent, but she was happy. She used to hate Alvin treating her like a child. But now, he finally admitted that she was no longer a little girl, but a woman.
She cooked a few dishes. Alvin opened a bottle of red wine, and they chatted over a drink.
After dinner, Lena was a bit overwhelmed with alcohol and fell into the living room on the sofa, dizzy. Alvin cleaned up the dishes, sat beside her, and asked, “Is everything okay?”.
She shook her head, “I’m really sober.”
Alvin stared at her blushing face, like a ripe tomato, and suddenly leaned over and kissed her cheek, “Are you still sober?”
Lena’s heart beat very fast. Because she felt shy, her face was redder, and she was also more attractive.
Alvin was a bit out of control and pressed her head. His cold lips pressed on her delicate lips, just like a peach in May. The taste of her was unexpectedly good.
Lena was stunned by the sudden kiss and didn’t know how to respond. She just allowed him to pry open her teeth, hold the tip of her tongue, and suck heavily. The first person she liked was Alvin. Up to now, she only liked him. Because she had not been in a serious romantic relationship, in the face of the intimate relationship between men and women, she was more innocent.
Alvin was also a little drunk tonight. He had a physiological reaction obviously. He thought Lena would always be just like a sister, but it turned out that he took her as a woman, who could arouse his erotism.
After the passion, Lena collapsed in his arms and said in a daze, “I feel like a dream right now.”
Alvin hugged her tightly, “You’re not dreaming, Lena. You’re my woman now.”
She paused for a moment to gather her courage and asked, “Is it just out of your instinctive reaction as a man to make me your woman, or is it because you’re starting to like me a little bit?”
“What do you think?”
“I don’t know.”
“I don’t have casual sex around, so making you my woman is not out of manly instinct, but because I begin to like you, not just a little, but more than a little.”
“What is more than a little?”
“I want to marry you and stay with you forever.”
Lena didn’t say any more. Her little face buried in Alvin’s armpit with a happy smile.
Another late night, Bella was sleeping soundly. A cell phone ringing broke through the silence of the night. Kevin pressed to answer at once, and lowered his voice. Bella was still woken up.
But this time she didn’t sit up, but closed her eyes tightly, pretending to sleep sweetly and not waking up.
“Did you bring them? Directly go to my study to talk. I’m not going out … Yes, be gentle. Don’t wake my family.”
After saying a few words, Kevin hung up the phone and quietly walked to the bedside. Seeing that Bella on the bed was not woken up by him, he was relieved, put on a piece of clothing, opened the door, and walked out.
In the darkness, Bella slowly opened her eyes. It was the second time Kevin woke up in the middle of the night to answer the phone. In the past, as long as after nine o’clock, his phone would be turned off. When did he actually change this habit?
She felt a little uneasy in her heart, quietly lifted the covers off the bed, put on a coat, and opened the bedroom door a crack, looking askance at the door. Not long after, she saw Alvin leading two strange men into Kevin’s study.
What did they want to talk about so late at night? Was there anything she couldn’t know? Was Kevin in trouble again?
Bella frowned, driven by curiosity, tiptoed out of the bedroom and went to the door of the study.