Without giving a glance at me, Marlon slammed the door and left. I fell to the ground, staring at the trash can, then smiled and murmured,
"We are strangers from now on!
We are strangers from now on!"
After murmuring, I laughed out.
How many times I wanted to say such words to Marlon when I was hurt seriously by him. But I did not, since I feared that we would be strangers finally.
I could not bear it became true!
But in the end, the words were said to me by Marlon.
Strangers from now on?
I stared at that trash can in earnest. Who gave him the right to say this to me? He had never really knew me, much less believed me during the four years since the first day we met.
He not only gave me no help when I was helpless and desperate, but spoke ill of me. Even now, he still slandered me.
Rachael laughed and couldn't stop laughing. Well, since he thought I was so terrible, how could I still care his opinion?
Then I got up, picked up the broken pen in the trash can and dropped it into the toilet. Since he said so, I intended to end our connections completely and expelled the fantasy of us being together from my mind thoroughly.
I pressed the flush button with a smile, witnessing the pen which I treasured for so many days vanishing from my sight.
My heart was so painful that I could not feel it anymore.
I made sure my makeup and clothes was decent in the mirror, then forced a smile on my face and walked back to Kieran. It seemed that Marlon did not see me, as he was talking with Alicia and I seemed not noticing him, either. I made myself smiling more happily and approached Kieran deliberately, then I said to him in a soft voice:
"Mrs. Charles, we came in a hurry and you haven't eaten anything at night. I’ll get you something to eat!"
Kieran gave me a glance, reached out to my disheveled hair suddenly and laughed,
"Well. Since you are so considerate!"
I smiled sweetly at Kieran and went to get some food.
The moment I got up to leave, Marlon stopped talking immediately, and stared at me.I felt the chill behind me, but I didn't turn around and came back with a bowl of abalone porridge and milk.
"Mr. Charles, you’d better have it as soon as possible, since it's not good for your stomach when it turns cold!"
Then I put the porridge in frong of Kieran.
He took it and smiled:
“As you say!"
Then he really ate it.
Alicia opposite me was dumbfounded when she saw it since she knew Kieran had a fetish about cleanliness and he had never eaten outside except the food cooked by his chef, but he was eating the food I gave him. I was astonished too. I forgot it just now when I was irritated by Marlon. When I realized what I had done, I was frightened. What if Kieran did not accept my proposal? I might have idea how awkward I would become.
But I realized Kieran had been supporting me since we were there.
I was much relieved to know that.
"Marlon, you haven't eaten dinner either. What do you want to eat? I'll get it for you!"
After getting over the initial shock, Alicia smiled at Marlon.
"Alicia, don’t you know what he likes to eat since you've been with Mr. Redford for so long?"
I spoke slowly.
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