Chapter 6
Half an hour after Ryan left, the location in the phone finally stopped.
I immediately took a taxi and went there.
When I was newly pregnant, he would call me every half an hour, always worried that I might bump into something or get hurt.
Later,
I became impatient, so he had someone customize a small locator for me. It was so light, so light that when I put it in his pocket, he didn’t even notice it at all.
I sat in the car, wearing headphones.
Watching Lilly pretend to be angry and about to leave, he pulled her back and she stumbled into his
arms.
Ryan grabbed the back of her head with one hand and leaned in for a kiss, while his other hand was
typing the message that the editor sent to me.
“Bella, the weather is great today. I will try to come back early. Let’s go out to eat together when I
come back, and then take a walk, how about that?”
“Ryan, you were not focused!”
Lilly struggled to break free from him and jumped up to hit him..
“Can you stop thinking about that yellow–faced woman when you’re with me? Do you still want to marry me?”
He was slapped by the girl as if being humiliated, but he was not angry. Instead, he gently pecked the corner of the girl’s mouth to comfort her.
“Leaving, leaving, leaving, I was looking for the right moment.”
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“Lilly, you know, she just gave birth to a baby. It would be too cruel of me to file for divorce now
Can we wait for a few more months?”
The girl looked at him with a pouted mouth, while Ryan incoherently defended himself, “After all these years of our relationship…”
“Bella accompanied me through the toughest days, we were so miserable back then, I felt guilty towards her, Lilly.”
“You and her, in the end, were different.”
Yeah, it was really tough.
We were so poor that we had to split a bread and eat it over two days.
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He was so desperate that he went to donate blood. The doctor saw how emaciated he was and couldn’t bear to draw blood from him. He pleaded for a long time before finally donating. Then, he happily carried the food given after blood donation and returned home, pretending that he had won the lottery to cheer me up.
If he hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t have known that I remembered these scenes so
clearly.
Perhaps it is this hazy memory that makes me appreciate and cherish my current life even more.
I lowered my head and typed repeatedly in the chat box, then deleted: “When you get home, let’s talk.”
I cut the interface and recorded the scene of them kissing.
The moment Lilly saw the news, she immediately frowned and said, “Ryan, if you dare to go back and see her today, I will bring up our affair to her!”
“Lilly!”
His face changed, and there was a coldness in his eyes.
“Don’t play this kind of joke, if you go to see her behind my back, our relationship will end immediately.”
“You listen to me. I will compensate you twice as much. Didn’t you say Bella’s bed in the bedroom is comfortable? Tomorrow, I will make her leave.”
I closed the car window and saw the word “good” in the message box, then I turned to the
sanatorium.
Since three years ago when my mother was diagnosed with brain cancer, her vitality has been. rapidly declining every minute and second.
In her dwindling memories, Ryan and I occupied everything.
My mother looked at me as if she didn’t recognize me..
After a while, she finally grabbed my hand and slowly said, “Nana has been unhappy these days
I was startled.
She sat up, her face as pale as paper looking even thinner, and the wrinkles on her face seemed deeper.
This body, which has reached the end of its life, burst with a continuous stream of warmth, tightly gripping my fingertips with its last bit of strength.
“Mom.”
I buried my head and held her tightly, trying not to make a sound, but I couldn’t stop the tears from
flowing
“No, no unhappiness.”
“Take good care of yourself, I was fine.”
“Bella.”
My mother stubbornly shook her head and repeated several times, “Unhappy.”
“Mom could tell.”
She turned her eyes towards me with great effort, tears swirling in her eye sockets, swirling, but not falling.
“You’re Mommy’s baby…”
“Mom could tell.”
Her eyelids drooped weakly and she fell asleep again.
Ryan called and asked where I was.
“Bella, I see you’re not at home. Did you go to see Mom? I haven’t spent time with Mom for a long time either. Wait for me there, I…”
I interrupted him, “No need.”
“Just wait for me at home.”
