With You For the Rest of My Life novel Chapter 3

11th June was their wedding anniversary, and Rose was restless. She kept looking at the pointers on her watch, wondering why Burke still did not show up when it was already seven in the evening.

She picked up her phone from the table, eyeing the details of Burke's number. It took a few minutes of hesitation and thinking till she finally dialed him up.

"What is it?" There was a sense of tiredness tied into his words when he finally spoke up. He must've had a hard day from work.

Rose froze for a while, trying to register what he was saying.

She couldn't help but hate how he was always like this, so cold to her. Even when it came with making love, it felt as if he was in a business meeting, just making similar transactions.

'Maybe he isn't like that to Amanda.'

A snide voice entered her thoughts, making her grip her phone even further.

"What's wrong?" he repeated. This time, he sounded even more impatient.

Rose covered her phone with both hands, trying to prevent all the turmoil in her head from showing. After a few seconds of calming down, she tried to keep her thoughts in order and emotion out of her voice. "I just wanted to ask when you'll come back."

"I'm in a meeting. I'm not sure when I'll get home, okay?" he answered coldly. However, after a few moments of thinking it over, he paused. "I'll try to be home by nine"

"Alright," she replied softly.

He ended the call first.

As she watched the screen of her mobile phone gradually darken, she couldn't help but feel ridiculous.

Sitting alone in the quiet room, she felt nothing but disappointment overwhelming her heart.

Even after being married for a year, she still didn't know her place. What was she expecting? It was her own wishful thinking that things would make a difference after countless months of being with one another. She might as well get used to living in this big room alone.

Just as a mocking smile reached her lips, her phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Mrs. Gu. Would you like to get the cake today?"

She remembered that she had ordered from the bakery a week ago.

Rose built such an elaborate plan for them to celebrate their anniversary, yet he didn't even budge.

It seemed she was meant to be alone in this marriage.

"Mrs. Gu?"

Rose tightened her grasp on the phone. "I'll fetch it now. Keep it for me."

She didn't even gave him a chance to respond when she hung up the phone. Rose grabbed her car keys and went out.

She was used to these, handling things on her own.

There was a road that was under construction on the way to the bakery shop downtown. A few vehicles went down the deserted section. Today, even the street lights went on strike.

Driving the car, Rose felt flustered.

The phone screen on the passenger seat lit up. As she was about to check it, she heard a bang and the whole car shook violently as it fell into a huge pit.

"That's not a good sign," she murmured to herself. As she got off the car, she found that the front of her car had sunk deep into the construction pit.

It seemed she couldn't even push it out at this point.