What a harmonious picture, which makes me feel a sudden compulsion of going out.
They are a perfect match for each other, but I am just ‘the other woman’ between them. I am nothing to them. There will be one day when Frances gets tired of me and comes back to Whitney. In the end, I’ll just become a laughing stock.
Seeing me walk in, Whitney comes over with a smile and holds my arm.
“Jane, you’re back? Have you eaten yet? I’ll get you a pair of chopsticks.”
For a moment, I really thought it was my hallucination.
Is it a trick that she suddenly becomes so nice to me?
I’m so flustered and nervous that I dare not look straight at them.
Whitney takes me to the table and pushes me into a chair.
“I’ve already eaten. Please continue to enjoy your meal and forget about me.” I stand up for leaving but she stops me.
“I have some words for you.” she looks up at me with a resigned but determined look in her eyes, “I’ve thought about it. Frances loves to have fun and fools around with girls. Maybe this is the kind of life he wants. In the past, what I did to you may be a little extreme, but now I’ve come to the idea that we actually could live together peacefully. You can live with us and I won’t hinder like before.”
In a trance, I thought I was deaf.
It’s unbelievable that such words come from a modern woman. Is it that she has given her agreement on Frances having mistress?
What kind of love is it that she is willingly to give in so much in her marriage?
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