Not knowing how long it had passed, I felt the car had stopped and he carried me into the house.
It was pitch black in front of me. I opened my eyes a little bit, looked around at the scene in front of me, and realized that I was home.
Our home.
I was carried upstairs by Shelton.
Lying on the spacious and soft bed, I was in a mess. What would happen next?
"What if he really wants to..."
"I can't say no to it anyway."
"After all, I will marry him tomorrow."
I just laid there.
I heard his footsteps coming from far to me. He walked to me and sat on the bed.
When I was waiting for him to do something, I felt he put something on my left ring finger.
An ice-cold thing.
The ring.
He put on the ring for me again.
I felt like a poisonous needle had pierced into my heart. It didn't look like a big deal, but the poison inside was dispersing.
I opened my eyes and looked at the ceiling. "Shelton, I don't want to marry you."
"You are drunk."
"I'm not!" I suddenly sat up from the bed and looked at Shelton in front of me. With all kinds of pain in my heart, I said to him, "I have never been as sober as I am now. I really don't want to marry you."
When I said this, perhaps it was the effect of alcohol, the tears that I had held back for a whole night burst!
I only felt that there was mist in front of my sight. Relying on my intuition, I grasped Shelton and murmured, "I don't want to marry you. Please let me go, please!"
As I spoke, I wanted to take off the ring on my left hand. He raised his hand and stopped me.
I ignored him and said, "I don't want to wear this. I don't want to marry you. I really don't want to marry you."
I cried out.
Maybe I really was drunk.
I didn't remember Shelton's reaction at all.
I only remembered that I was kneeling on the bed, crying out, "I don't want to marry you. I really don't want to."
I didn't remember what happened later.
Maybe I was too tired to cry.
I fell asleep.
When I woke up again, the sky outside was already bright.
I looked up at the ceiling and touched the clothes on my body. The clothes had been changed into leisure wear.
My eyes seemed to be swollen because I cried too hard last night.
I sat up and thought for a while. Then I remembered what happened last night.
I had gone to the bar. Shelton had taken me back. Then I had told him that I didn't want to marry him.
Looking around, I didn't see Shelton.
Thinking about what I did last night, I was a little nervous. Would Shelton be angry?
After all, I had never expressed my feeling this clearly before.
I couldn't find the clothes I wore before. I opened the closet and found a new set.
There were all cosmetics on the dressing table.
Although there was no packing box, it could be seen at a glance that they were newly bought.
I sat in front of the dressing table, thinking that I was going to get the marriage license with Shelton today.
From now on, I will be his Mrs. Cowell.
My heart was so sorrowful that I couldn't wait to be rooted in this room and never went out.
However, I was also more aware that this was an impossible thing.
There was a small box on the table, with dozens of lipsticks in it. I opened two of them and selected a more natural color.
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