Paul sat up in the swing. He had heard everything that Eric had said, but one question nagged at the back of his mind. “Is this woman so important to you? Why not just let her go and move on? She obviously doesn’t want to be with you. She ran away, man. And several women wanted to be your wife, why her?”
Eric: “You don’t get it. She means everything to me. You’ll help me, right?”
Paul: “If you’re sure she’s in Kuerto, it shouldn’t be that hard to locate her, especially if she is as good looking as you say she is.”
“She is a total knockout!” Eric exclaimed. “You’ll see that it’s true when you see her!”
Paul laughed and said, “I’ll have to take your
After ending the call with Eric, Paul returned to the dining room. Clark was still crying, and the ladies were distracted, so he was able to observe Crystal without attracting her attention. As she moved about with purpose, he thought - She must be unique if Eric was willing to fly all the way to retrieve her.Luck had been on his side. Even though Crystal had tried to cover her face, Paul had been able to capture her face in full profile. To him, this suggested that luck was on Eric’s side, and he smiled just thinking about it. He cleared his throat, and the ladies looked up.Nancy stood akimbo and glared at Paul.“What?”Paul smirked and said, “If you leave here, I will abuse your son.”
Paul pulled up Nancy’s sundress, and the touch of his hands on her thighs made her sick to her stomach. He was utterly ignorant of her discomfort, though. He only had one thing on his mind, and it wasn’t the grumbles in his tummy. His hands tore her thong, and as the fabric slid down her legs, she began to sob.Nancy was terrified. Even when they were married, Paul had never attacked her this way. Their sex had been purposeful and without passion, and it had stopped the minute that she was with child. Thus, his behavior seemed utterly alien to her.Paul forced two fingers inside of Nancy’s secret pocket, and she shrieked. There had been no foreplay, and she was as dry as a dusty old tool shed. “Stop!” she begged. “You’re hurting me!”“How can it hurt?” He p
As Clark was eating, he looked up thoughtfully and said, “What’s wrong with that weird Aunt? She smokes, she never brushes her teeth, and they’re all black and stinky?”Nancy covered her mouth so that he wouldn’t see her smile. She knew he was talking about the woman that Paul was sleeping with. It was the same person that bullied her and her son. She was a model, and she was on an overseas photoshoot now. If she were home instead, she would have made everything even worse than it already was. Nancy hated that woman, but she knew that it was important for her son to be respectful, so she gently scolded him.Clark nodded his head and apologized, but Paul wasn’t satisfied. He looked at Nancy and said, “Who taught him to talk like this?”“I d-don’t know,&rdquo
Eric Bush smiled at Crystal and said, “I just thought I’d come and surprise you here. You are surprised, aren’t you?” Crystal was dumbstruck.Meanwhile, Clark had been about to hand the mobile phone to Crystal, but he accidentally hung up the phone. Before being cut off, though, Eric’s voice was heard on the other end of the line.Damn it!- thought Nathan - Eric is always one step ahead of me!Clark didn’t want to admit that he had accidentally hung up the phone, so he quietly slipped it back into his Mother’s pocket. Then he hurried back to get a second look at the stranger at the door.Eric chuckled at the startled look on Crystal&rs
When Nancy looked up, there were tears in her eyes. Crystal knew Nancy was reluctant to walk away from Paul. If she did, it would most likely mean walking away from her son as well. She wanted to take Clark and run, but her ex-husband was a badass, and it was unlikely that he would let the boy go without a fight.“I don’t have a plan,” Nancy admitted. “Just let me get dressed. We can talk about this more later.” She wanted to change her clothes, but she hadn’t brought anything with her, so she walked to Paul’s bedroom to see if there were any of her old clothes still there. When she opened the wardrobe, she was startled by all the limited-edition clothes from luxury brands.When Crystal saw them, she said, “Paul doesn’t treat you that bad, not if he bought you all of these beautiful dresses.”
Paul pointed to the zebra costume and asked the salesperson, “Does this come in a large size?”Nancy gave him an incredulous look. “You’re going to wear this?” she asked. Just the thought of it made her chuckle.Paul: “I’m Clark’s Father. What’s wrong?”Nancy didn’t want to argue with him, so she stopped talking with him and turned to see what her friend was up to.Crystal was pointing to a Tee-shirt printed with a panda and asked a salesperson, “Is there a parent-child clothing section?” As she spoke, she pointed at Eric.Does she want me to be her son? - Eric wondered -
After going through the long tunnel, they walked to the dolphin performance pavilion. The dolphins were Clark’s favorite animal, and there was a show starting soon. When they got there, there weren’t many people. It wasn’t long, though, before the bleachers began to fill up, and they were full by the time the show started.Eric had stepped out to buy popcorn and drinks for everyone, and when he returned, Nancy gently hit Crystal’s arm with her elbow and said, “You need to marry this guy. I can tell that he is a good man. I don’t understand why you ran away from him?”Crystal sighed and said, “You don’t know him as I know him. Can you drop it? I don’t want to talk about him,”Nancy nodded and apologized, and they turned their attention to the sho
Nancy crossed her arms beneath her breast and glowered at her ex-husband. “You are unbelievable!” she growled. “I am so glad that we aren’t married anymore. You are a real brute!”As the couple quarreled, Clark squatted by the side of the pool and began to feed the dolphins. The dolphins were anxious to snatch the food out of the boy’s hands, and they somehow managed to drag him into the water.Nancy saw what had happened right away, and she began to panic. She didn’t know what to do, so she took off her coat and prepared to jump into the pool. But then she remembered that she could not swim. Luckily, some of the people in the audience had seen what happened, and they began to call for help. Some of them even rushed towards the pool to save Clark.The trainer who had been ki
Crystal looked at Mrs. Bush in a trance.“Amos Davis is…”Eric stood up and pressed the wound with a swab of alcohol.“Is Amos Davis Nathan’s father?” Crystal asked again.“Yes.” Eric looked down at her. “Are you surprised?”“So you and Nathan...”“You have a good imagination. We are not related.”“What about the child?”“Isn’t it obvious? The child’s death was the main cause of her nervous breakdown.” Eric held out his injured hand and said, “Honey, aren’t yo
At night, Crystal woke up sweating from her nightmare.The servant somehow slipped down on the carpet and fell asleep by the door.Crystal opened her eyes in tears. It was dark and still. She looked down at the overlapping lights, her heart aching as if she had been sliced open by razor blades.She tiptoed out of bed and picked up the phone from the bedside table.She walked barefoot into the bathroom, sat on the toilet, and stared at the black screen for a while.A week before, she had lost control of herself and seemed to have unconsciously dialed the number she had branded at her fingertips.But there came a female voice without feeling:
Eric looked at Crystal in shock.“You can rest assured that these small cuts will not affect the child’s physical health. And it won’t affect your revenge on Nathan!” Crystal said happily, her jaw suddenly strangled.Eric clutched her jaw tightly. “I thought you were a strong woman, but you’re just so vulnerable.”“That’s right. I’m vulnerable. Didn’t you know that?”That was why Eric asked the servant to put the blades away.Just now, it was also the servant who heard that Crystal was looking for the blade, so she rushed to find Eric immediately.Looking at the sweat on his forehead, the way he was out of bre
Inside the villa, doctors came in and out. Luckily, Eric sent Crystal into his car, and he gave her warm measures in time and kept her cold feet warm.“Miss Smith and the baby are fine. But Miss Smith was cold and somewhat weak. As for her feet, it’s taboo to touch cold water in this weather,” replied the doctor. “You’d better help her now, help her to activate her blood lest she might fall off rheumatism when she is older.Eric had Crystal’s feet rubbed by himself with the best essential oil.Crystal fell asleep in a daze. Her tears never stopped, as though she had dreamt of something sad.Her dry lips moved, calling someone’s name.Eric got close enough to hear her.
Crystal seemed to see Nathan staring at her with an angry face in her bewilderment.Her heart was beating wildly across her chest. She broke down and wanted to reach out and let him take her away.Suddenly, she didn’t want to take care of anything. She was not as strong as she thought.She just wanted a man who loved her, and she loved. She wanted to be cared for, have a child, and live a simple life. But the next second, the figure turned into Eric.He held down the handrail of the wooden bridge and jumped into the lake.Splash! Splash!Several bodyguards also jumped down one after another.Eric quickly walked over to her, took
Vic came in from the outside and was quite surprised to see this scene.He had expected Nathan’s return to make up with Crystal.Crystal was thrown into the bathroom, and her body crashed against the cold porcelain wall.Nathan hadn’t given up yet, even though she had made it so clearly.He picked up a birdbath and jabbed it into her hand. “Pee.”Crystal held the basin. “Do you want to check, and then you give up and let me go?”“Now!”He tugged at her trousers.Crystal went out today wearing suspenders, and Nathan took off her coat and stripp
Crystal pulled away from his hand hard and turned to leave.He instantly retrieved her body, and she hit him hard on the chest.Nathan held her tightly, his last icy line collapsed.“Don’t go. Don’t leave me.” He said.This man, who had just been proud and arrogant, was momentarily weak again.Crystal was not feeling any better, and her heart was trembling.“I miss you so much. I’ve been thinking about you, Crystal, every minute of the day. My life was dull and sad. I function every day, but I’m dying inside,” His voice, with the hot air, blew in her ear.Crystal felt as
A man was sitting with his legs crossing on the dark blue leather sofa, silent and noble in the living room.Crystal stood at the door, only by seeing him at a glance did she want to run away. However, her feet were like a tree with deep roots, so steady and heavy that she could not move it a little.Every night, the man she saw in her dream was now sitting in front of her. The man put out the cigarette and said casually, “Miss Smith, here you are.”The voice was like thunder, which immediately woke Crystal up.She jerked around to leave…“Miss Smith, don’t you want your watch back?” Nathan’s cold voice sounded again.It’s him!
“More than 20 years?” Nancy didn’t understand. “That is to say, I’ve been waiting to meet you since I was born,” he gave Nancy a charming smile, “You’re in a cold sweat, am I so horrible?” Nancy shook her head, “No...” “I don’t want to be someone you’re afraid of,” he kissed on the back of Nancy’s hand, “I just want to be a big tree, to provide shade and shelter for you.” Nancy lowered her head in a panic, dared not look at him. That’s so unreal, and such dreamlike happiness would catch everyone unprepared, especially someone a boy crazy like Nancy. Marcos was like a noble prince; no woman could resist his charm and tenderness.