My parents died when I was ten years old, but a big shot in Jade City adopted me. It was rumored that Sean Graham was a cruel and violent man, but he doted on me for nearly ten years. He booked the advertising screens in the city to celebrate my birthday and promised to marry me when I got drunk and pestered him about it. I called him Uncle Sean at his request. Fear gripped me when I woke up in his bed every morning, but I kept it a secret. Yet one time, we accidentally slept with each other. I got pregnant with his child and wanted to keep it, but I knew I would not live for much longer. One day, I heard his conversation with a servant. “Clean up Zella’s room for Yulia.” “But Mr. Graham, Miss Cooper has been staying there for ten years. Didn’t you design it for her?” “No, I only let her stay there because Yulia had gone abroad.” I touched my belly as disappointment gripped me. It turned out that the man who had promised to provide me with a home as long as he lived wanted to drive me away.
Lihat lebih banyakSean went to a lot of places with Zella’s urn.He went to watch the windmill in Namier and flew to Pearl Church. In the end, he brought it to Jaerl.He stood under the cherry trees with the urn for a long time. His body had become quite thin by then. “I promised to marry you under the cherry trees.” He hired a pastor to marry them in the church. While facing the urn, he vowed passionately, “I take you as my wife in the eyes of the lord. I’ll always love, respect, comfort, and help you regardless of whether you’re healthy or sick. I’ll always be loyal to you until the day I die. I swear.” Then, he paused for a long time as if waiting for Zella to say her vow. At last, he muttered to himself again, “I’ll love you in life and death. Once you’re gone, I’ll go to where you are.”The pastor claimed that they were husband and wife, and Sean cracked a long-lost smile. “Zella, you’re my wife now. You’re mine.”When he returned home, he went to the beach again and looked at the vas
Sean stood in the funeral home while carrying the urn handed to him by a worker there. It was extremely light. He regretted not noticing how much weight Zella had lost and her looking much worse. He tried to cover his face wet from tears, since he had never looked so weak in front of others. He was crying like a child who had lost his mother.“Mr. Graham, this is what Miss Cooper left behind.” “She is my wife, Mrs. Graham.”“Oh, this is what Mrs. Graham left behind. Please accept my deepest sympathies.”Sean accepted the diary soaked in seawater. The words on it had become blurry, but while flipping through it, a photo fell to the ground. It was the Polaroid.Sean picked it up and carefully held it. The sea had stained the photo, making the image less distinct. It only had a vague figure. He kept caressing it until he pressed the photo against his chest as if he could feel Zella’s heartbeat within it.“Find out why Zella got cancer. I want to know everything!” he told his
The day I died was a bright sunny day. People always claimed that waves could take away one’s pain and worries. Hence, I wanted to try if that was true.…On the tenth day after Zella’s death, Sean finally realized something was wrong. He realized that Zella was gone and searched for her crazily until he got a call from the cemetery. “Mr. Graham, may I know if you’re Miss Cooper’s family?”“Yes, I am. Where is she?”The worker paused. “I don’t know about that. I called to inform you that Miss Cooper booked a spot in the cemetery half a month ago, but has yet to pay the remaining fee. Could you pay for her? It’s the cheapest spot, but she wanted to settle it in two installments,” the worker muttered.“What are you talking about? What cemetery? Stop talking nonsense, or you’ll be sorry!” Sean smashed his phone angrily. Suddenly, he laughed.“Yeah, Zella is still a girl. She’s messing with me. She’ll come home in a few days,” he comforted himself, but Zella did not return home
I was unresponsive and emotionless, as if the loss of my child had softened me. The maid found me boring, so she left with a snort.I calmly carried the bowl of soup to the bedroom. Yulia was lying in bed and looking at her tablet. She smiled when she saw me entering her room.“Come over, Zella. Help me pick a wedding location. Should I pick Pearl Church, Mersia Island, or Barde Island?” It seemed like they were going to get married soon. It was understandable since I was a nobody.“But Sean wants to go to Jaerl. The cherry trees there are so romantic.” A wave of pain passed through my belly again. On my eighteenth birthday party, I got drunk and hugged Sean’s arm. “Uncle Sean, can you marry me if I can’t get married in the future?” “Okay, I’ll marry you. We’ll go to Jaerl and have a wedding under cherry trees.”He only said it to pacify me. In reality, he wanted to marry his beloved at that place. My hands shook, and a bit of the soup splashed on the floor.“It must be ve
The doctor paused before he added, “Surviving another month would already be a medical miracle.”I wondered why God had fooled me in such a way. At last, the doctor left. The moment I was alone in the ward, I started crying my eyes out. All grievances and pain overwhelmed me, tearing my body and heart apart.I did not get to rest in the ward for a day before Sean forcefully brought me home. My weight plummeted because of my sickness and miscarriage. I was nothing but skin and bones. When I returned home, Sean was keeping Yulia company in the bedroom on the second floor. I inevitably heard his comforting and sweet words.While standing in the middle of the living room, I looked at the house that was getting more unfamiliar to me by the hour. Everything was set up according to Yulia’s preferences.Sean loved lilies the most. He would instruct the maids to place fresh ones every day, but he had replaced them with exquisite and luxurious fake flowers for Yulia’s sake.Sean came down
Her words explained everything. Deep hatred overcame me, and I grabbed her ankle and stabbed my fingernails into her flesh. But I found it hard to say anything. All I could do was moan in pain.It was a surprise to Yulia that I still had some energy left, and she tried to kick me away. “Are you out of your mind? Let go of me!”It was unknown to me where I found the strength, but I held onto her. She struggled briefly before cracking a bizarre smile. Then, she fell backward, hitting her waist against the sofa leg.I heard Sean scream as I weakly lay on the floor, unable to focus on anything. My vision was blurring. I was in too much pain to feel anything. Enlightenment hit me. Sean anxiously picked Yulia up. He was frightened by the blood oozing out from her clothes. Shakily, he touched her face.“Yulia! Yulia!” Unexpectedly, Yulia tried to beg for mercy for me before she closed her eyes. “Sean, don’t blame Zella.”After picking Yulia up, Sean glared at me.“Just you wai
Yulia suspiciously went through the reports. “You’re pregnant?” Bewilderment hit her as she looked at me. After that, she checked out the second report.“Oh, it looks like you’re dying.” She pretended to be kind by folding it and placing it carefully where she had found it.“Behave yourself, Zella. Do you get me?” Yulia threatened me. She gently touched my face. “I wonder if your face will be ruined.”“She’s an undertaker. It’s not hard to put on nice makeup.” Sean was back.“But she does it for the dead people!” Yulia acted naive and innocent.Sean remained quiet but gave me a profound look. After that, he left with Yulia.I understood that look. He was warning me not to dream of things that did not belong to me. I would be long dead without him. The burn on my face and the coldness in my heart tortured me. I had not eaten for two consecutive days. I finally failed to hold on in the afternoon.I was gripped by a serious stomach ache, but my pills were in the living room. He
“You can’t come upstairs if there’s nothing important.”I smiled bitterly. I thought he had changed his mind, but he still only cared about Yulia not being mistreated. It broke my heart because everyone was sorting out Yulia’s daily necessities while I had to move my things to the basement. I finished only late at night after busying myself with it the whole day.I lay in a folded bed and watched the darkness around me. The basement was wet and cold. There was even an intermittent sound of mice hitting the wall. I recalled when Sean held my hand and led me to my bedroom ten years ago.“This is the princess room I purposely designed for you, Zella. As long as I’m alive, you’ll always stay here. No one can drive you away.”I started crying. After my parents passed away, the families who had adopted me kept abandoning me. They shunned me because they assumed that I was a useless girl.Only Sean brought me home and regarded me as his dearest girl. I fished out a few sheets of pa
I quietly stood at the door while listening to what was spoken behind it. Coldness slowly gripped me. Sean Graham picked up a call after giving instructions to the maid. “What’s wrong, Yulia?” he asked in a gentle voice.“Sean, I’m going to live with you! I’m so happy. By the way, did you tell Zella about it? Did she say no?” It was Yulia Little, Sean’s first love, with whom he had been in love for ten years. “Of course not. She can’t say no. Without me, she wouldn’t have survived.” I bit my pale lips.Yulia continued, “She is an undertaker and works with dead bodies daily. I just think it is bad for the baby. That’s why I want her to move out.”“Yeah, I know. You’re so kind. Her job is bad,” Sean agreed.I was barely able to support myself after putting my hand against the wall. Sean had spoken differently in the past. He had claimed that it was a noble job and supported me with pride. I wondered why he had changed his opinion. Could he no longer be nice to me because of Y
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