Eve scratched her head hesitantly and said, “Alright, fine. No point keeping secrets from you anymore. To be honest, Damon is at my place waiting for me.”
“Wow! I see. So that’s how it is then?” Scarlett chuckled lightly and retorted.
Before Scarlett and Eve could start arguing about what had and hadn’t been revealed, Francis quickly interjected, “Excuse me, but I should go and help her take care of her wounds first. My sincere apologies. I want to make sure I tend to her wounds as soon as possible. We don’t want anything getting infected!”
“Okay!” Eve said as she saw him holding Scarlett. She was worried that Scarlett would fall over somehow and end up hurting herself even more seriously.
After Francis to
“I’m sorry, babe. It’s all my fault that you got hurt like this. I’m so sorry, it’s not your fault. It’s my fault. I’ll do whatever it takes to make it better. I never want to see you in pain again.” Francis hugged her and wiped her tears away.“You never liked crying before. You’ve changed since we get married, haven’t you?” Francis suddenly said.“What?” She was surprised.He stretched out his hand to stroke her long hair and said, “I’m just joking. I’m so glad to see that you’re not afraid to be vulnerable in front of me anymore.”“Do you think I’m weak?” Scarlett asked, looking at him with watery eyes.
Skyler smiled brightly and said, “Anyway, I’d like to go upstairs to write my thesis. Call me when dinner is ready, please!”“Go ahead. Don’t let the baby negatively affect your studies! Go write that thesis,” Scarlett said.Eve sat down and made a funny face at Carlos, “Hey, my sweetheart, do you still remember me?”Carlos lazily looked at her and then closed his eyes; he was totally ignoring Eve.When she saw that, Scarlett laughed loudly and teased her, “It looks like he just ignored you!”“Hmm, you bad boy! You are just like your mother! Always teasing and taunting people, isn’t it?” Eve said as she gently pinched his chubby face.
“Is Scarlett up yet?” Eve asked.Eve rubbed her sore hip, “She is still sleeping!”“I’d better go and check on her. It’s time to get up for breakfast!” Francis stood up.After Francis left politely, Eve and Damon were left alone in the living room. It was awkward, to say the very least.Eve was about to leave, but Damon stopped her,“Where are you going?” Damon said.“I want to have breakfast!” She calmly looked up her hands behind her back.Damon leaned on the sofa, his legs crossed, and gold-rimmed glasses were sitting on his nose. “Come over and have a sea
Eve continued crying.“I really don’t know what I should do. Your family doesn’t like me, and your mother always hates me. I just couldn't deal with that anymore...” Eve said.“But you can tell me about that! I never asked you to get along with them, right? And I’m always by your side, never asking you to change!” He yelled out angrily and continued, “But you never thought about how I felt! You made me believe that I betrayed you. At that time, I was so scared that I would lose you, and I felt very guilty for what I did. If not that I had doubts about the whole situation and decided to investigate it, you might have used it as an excuse to stay away from me forever, right?”In those days, he thought of nothing but the fear of her leaving. He felt so anxious that
Francis took a long sigh and touched her head gently.Scarlett stayed in his arms, playing with his buttons, and said, “Tell me what you want!”Francis touched her belly and said affectionately and hopefully, “I want you to give me a lovely daughter… like you. Babe, I want to have a lovely daughter with you, and she’d better look like you. Together, we can spoil her… let her have the childhood you never got to have but deserved all along….”“You are gonna make me cry!” She looked up at him with tears in her eyes.“I always wish I could have met you sooner in life… maybe I could have stopped your suffering, made your life just a tad bit easier….”
Eve threw herself on the sofa and took her cellphone out, hoping to text her friends and warn them that she might be in some kind of danger. After that, she turned to play Candy Crush on her phone. Thank god there was an open wifi network at his house– Eve felt so uncomfortable and nervous being around Damon all alone.Right then, Damon went to the bathroom to take a shower. As Eve heard him open up the door of the bathroom, Eve rushed to the front door. She was surprised to see that there was a coded lock on the inside– there was no way that she would be able to open this and get out. Her escape plan hadn’t been well thought out at all.Eve felt disappointed. Her world felt like it was closing in, sending her to her knees. Meanwhile, from the secret control monitor in the bathroom, Damon was watching her every move. He grew angry to see
“You always treated me like that when we were married!” She said angrily.“Did I? I’ve always been very nice to you!” He said calmly as he pushed up his glasses up the bridge of his nose.Eve was held tightly in his arms and couldn’t move, so she stopped struggling. After all, she was too tired and really didn’t want to fight against him.“I don’t want to remarry you!” She said.“I didn’t ask you for that to begin with, did I? So you’d better not flatter yourself!” He said.Damon had slipped his hand into her clothes and gave her a gentle squeeze on her waist, and asked, “Tell me, how many men have ever held you in their arms like
Then, she noticed how messy her hair was as she looked at herself in the mirror.“Oh my god, what have I done?” She yelled out.Francis pinched her cheeks lightly and said, “You’re such a lazy girl, aren’t you? Didn’t you go to bed at, like, nine last night? Didn’t you get enough sleep? How come you’re not able to get up this morning?”“Well, I did go to bed at nine, but I was on my phone till really late….” She murmured, squeezing toothpaste onto her brush slowly.Last night, on account of another one of his conference calls, Francis had only gotten back home past 2 am. So, he didn't know what Scarlett had been up to in the earlier hours of the night.
When Scarlett woke up, it was eight o’clock in the morning. She rolled around in bed for a few moments before sitting up. Her head felt heavy.“You’re awake!” Francis said as he walked into the bedroom from the balcony. He smiled at her. “I thought you’d be out for hours. Aren’t you jetlagged? How long was the flight from Lisbon to Irving anyway? And didn’t you have a stopover in Dallas?”Scarlett rested her head on Francis’s shoulder and said, “Well, I wanted to go to bed early last night. No thanks to you, we ended up staying up so late! I barely got enough sleep. You’re exhausting me, Francis!”“Oh? Am I? I’m so sorry, Scarlett.” Francis teased. He kissed her neck and tousled her hair.
“Don’t you miss me?” Scarlett laughed on the other side. Her hair was wet, and she was wearing a champagne-colored nightgown. She looked as pretty as ever.“Of course I miss you, but I can’t do anything about it, right? I can’t cry on daddy’s shoulder as Brittany did.” Francis said. He came to the balcony and lit up a cigarette and felt a little relaxed.“Brittany cried?” Scarlett asked in surprise.“Yep, she cried for over an hour,” he said as he breathed out a plume of thick smoke.Upon hearing that, Scarlett felt kind of guilty. Was she selfish? Was she a bad mother, a bad wife?“Francis, do you resent me?” Scarlett asked as she Skyped with
As Carlos grew up, he learned the fact that his father was very powerful. But he couldn’t tell his mother what to do.“I gotta fly to Portugal for business... I’ll be gone for a month,” Scarlett said one evening.“Why do you have to be gone for such a long time? Can’t you just get one of your associates to go instead? What’s going to happen to us while you’re gone? At least try to see if you can come back sooner….” Francis moaned unhappily. He hated being away from his wife.“Carlos will take care of his sisters, and besides, Brittany and Shannon are very good kids.” Scarlett comforted gently. “You don’t have to worry about anything.”“I’m not talking about them. I&rsqu
Francis suddenly grabbed Scarlett in the crowd, who walked next to Eve and then tightened his grip around her waist. He pinned her against the pillar and gazed at her without looking away.“What are you doing?” she blushed as she noticed that he was staring at her.Francis moved his hand from her hip to her waist. He was turned on by her sexy figure– as always.After that, he kissed her fiercely– just like he was kissing her for the very first time in his life.Scarlett was taken by surprise and kissed him back passionately as the fireworks blazed on.They parted breathlessly and stared at each other with lust in their eyes.“I hope you’re glad
Scarlett looked up at Skyler. He smiled at her and said, “I’m very relieved that you’re gonna get married to Francis. So now you don’t need to worry about anything in the world.”“You’d better be quick. I will open the door now!” Eve said with her hand on the handrail.Scarlett and Skyler smiled at each other and felt that there was indeed nothing to be scared of anymore. They had, after all, suffered deeply for two decades. Now that was all over. They couldn’t dwell on the past; it was time to step into the future and embrace happiness.“Go ahead, I’m ready!” she smiled, readying herself for the walk down the aisle.As the door opened, Scarlett walked out with Skyler gripping her arm. He was smiling
There was a minute of silence over the phone– Francis and Scarlett said nothing to one another. Scarlett pouted and asked, “Wait a minute… are you laughing at me? You’re making fun of me, aren’t you?”“No, I’m the same as you. I feel nervous,” he said in a low voice.“What?” Scarlett asked curiously.Francis was standing in front of the window of his study room with his hands in his pocket, looking out at the vast, blue sea outside.He took a deep breath and smiled, “I said, I’m much more nervous than you are. I’m sure of it. You have no idea how nervous I’m feeling right now.”Scarlett laughed gleefully. Hearing that Francis was
Scarlett was about to drink up from her can of beer, but on the command of Eve, she was made to down an entire bottle of whiskey instead.“For our lovely and beautiful bride!” Eve said.With that, they blasted some tunes and began dancing wildly. Eve approached Scarlett and said something in her ear.“Say it again! I can’t hear you!” Scarlett shouted loudly.“I’m saying, don’t be a housewife! Live for yourself now and forever.” Eve shouted loudly.Scarlett just laughed and had a drink with her.“Cheers!” she said.The party didn’t come to a close until 4 am the fol
At this moment, Carlos took Shannon by the hand and walked in slowly, and said, “Brittany, mommy is tired. Please go play by yourself.”But Brittany just ignored him and took Scarlett to jump on the balcony. She was excited about the big blue swimming pool in front of them and said, “Mommy, I want to swim. Mommy, please go swimming with me.”The setting sun shone on the swimming pool; it was very quiet.“My sweetheart, could you ask daddy to go swimming with you a while later?” Scarlett said as she touched her head.Though Brittany was unhappy about this, she was not a stubborn kid; after that, she turned around to go look for Francis. Carlos was a little worried about her, so he instantly followed her.
Eve was pissed off and almost fainted from how angry and frustrated she was feeling right then.Damon immediately held her around her waist and said smilingly, “It’s our wedding day, Eve! I know you’re stressed out and panicking about this whole pregnancy thing, but this is actually good. You’re not pregnant! We’re in the clear! So let’s just try to enjoy this day now, why don’t we? What do you think?”As the guests left, Eve and Damon checked into the presidential suite at the hotel. When they got in the room, Damon suddenly realized that Eve was on the first night of her period. She may not be interested in having sex with him.“You know I don’t mind that you’re bleeding down there at all, right? A real man braves the red tide.”