“Uh! It has something to do with me, heh, you think I am evil, right? Heh...” She sneered twice, “Marley, you are too stupid, you should not have thought of me as some kind person. In this world, no one owes anyone anything. When I owe you something, I will pay it back. Even if I owe you a lot, there will always be a day when I pay you back. I also hoped you won’t think of me as someone who’s super generous or kind.”
Marley was angry again as he grabbed her fiercely. “Sylvie, what exactly do you want? I'm telling you, about our divorce, I won’t allow it!”
At that moment, the phone rang again.
It was still Marley’s phone, and it was still from Jemima.
The building was very quiet. So, the voice from the phone could be heard by Sylvie. Jemima was crying and shouting from the other side of the phone, “Marley, there are reporters around me, I can't do anything, I can't go anywhere...”
The sound of wailing sobs could be immediately heard coming from the phone. Jemima’s voice sounded harsh and sharp to Sylvie’s ears at that moment, like the tip of a knife cutting through her heart, “Marley, I'm so scared...”
Sylvie calmly turned her head over and looked at Marley, then a smile appeared on her face.
Marley was shocked for a moment and he frowned. However, he still said, “Jemima, these matters, if you don’t care about them, they will be left in the past! Reporters are always so pervasive!”
Sylvie’s heart calmed down but she still felt a bit sour in her heart.
“But I haven't eaten anything all day and all night, I'm so hungry. I want to go out, but the reporters are blocking out my home…”
“I'll have someone bring some food to you!” Marley said indifferently.
Sylvie, who had been standing there, watched all this without saying a word.
Finally, Marley hung up the phone.
She calmed down and only talked after a while, “Mr. Marley, you should leave now, you can't afford your time!”
Marley heard the blistering wind in her tone and felt a bit upset, “Sylvie, I noticed that you are very incisive. You are also very petty, aren’t you being too narrow-minded?”
His words were like sharp needles, one by one, they pierced into Sylvie’s heart.
She felt a sour feeling surging up from her heart.
Sylvie gave a cold smile. “I didn't beg you, but you repeatedly came to me. Mr. Marley, please stop talking about these meaningless things, we just need to get a divorce as soon as possible!”
“My father’s heart is in a bad condition; he will get angry when he sees this!” He spoke again.
Sylvie’s body stiffened, and after going silent for a long while, she replied, “This day will come sooner or later! And that's your father, it has nothing to do with me!”
Sylvie’s cold expression towards him had hurt Marley, he felt discouraged and his voice gradually softened, “If you must get a divorce, I know I can't stop it, I just want you to think about it again. My father has nothing to do with you, but Mr. Aiden is your grandfather, and his health is not in a good state! Can you bear to break everyone's heart?”
Thinking of his parents and Cassius, Sylvie hesitated for a moment. She then considered clearly, “Please don't pester me, my mind is made up.”
After saying that, she took the key and opened the door.
“Sylvie!” Marley called her.
She instinctively turned around. She raised her eyes slightly and looked at him as if he was about to say something. She found herself looking forward to it for a moment, but soon she sobered up again and said coldly, “Jemima kept crying on the phone, saying she hadn't eaten all day and all night, so hurry up and send her some food, don't starve your old lover! Uh! No, it's your lover to the end!”
After saying that, sneering, she walked into her house and closed the door.
During the entire duration, she did not shed a single tear. Her heart was like a city that was empty and silent. Although she might be able to walk out of the marriage, could she walk out of the grave that is in her heart?
Sylvie did not go out while Marley did not knock on the door anymore.
At ten o'clock at noon, her doorbell rang.
After Sylvie saw that the one standing outside was Ryan through the peephole of the security door, she opened the door with confidence.
As soon as the door was opened, Ryan walked in and began to say without waiting to sit down, “Sylvie, what's going on with you and Marley? Why did he come back with another woman last night? And there’s the newspaper today, damn it, what is he up to?”
However, Sylvie remained clam. “Ryan, it's okay, it's a misunderstanding, you don't have to worry!”
She did not want to say too much to Ryan about herself and Marley, this was her business, she could not let the people who cared about her worry anymore.
“But what about this news? It's true that the reporters are catching wind, but they must have a reason for it. He came back with that Jemima, isn’t that meaning he betrayed you?”
“You also know, those are written by the reporters, it’s not real!” Sylvie was calm.
Ryan was even more furious. “Sylvie, why are you still like this, being bullied like this, I'll take you to him!”
“Ryan, I am really fine, he is also fine, why do you not believe it? Snooping around will only cause trouble!” Sylvie said and laughed again, and made him a cup of tea. “I'm really sorry for making you worry about me. I feel very lucky to have you as my brother! Don't worry, if it's true that he did cheat on me, I'll tell you, but in this case, he did nothing wrong. He told me that it was just the newspaper spouting nonsense. Ryan, I can't be so petty and unforgiving when facing just a bit of problem, right?”
Ryan, who was very anxious, went silent for a moment. After he calmed down, he asked cautiously, “Is that really true? You two are okay?”
He noticed Sylvie’s smile looked kind of distant, as if she were in a trance, making him unable to see through her.
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...