Edward was dumbfounded as he stared at the woman in front of him incredulously. It took him quite a while to come around to his senses. He gritted his teeth and responded exasperatedly, "Sure."She then sat in front of the dresser and began to put on her makeup. It took her about half an hour to prepare herself. After she put on a bright red lipstick as the final touch, she rose to her feet and stepped back to admire her masterpiece through the mirror. Turning around, she paced towards Edward.
The moment his voice spread across the booth, everybody went silent. Ever since Jake became more and more popular around Edward, his status had soared above other people in his group. There were very few people that he would address with a courtesy title, and judging from the surname “Carraway”, it would not be difficult for them to guess who the woman was. Truth be told, not many people had heard about Vivian. However, those who had heard about her would know that she held a special place in Ed
She still had classes at night, but she skipped them. Instead, she took a cab and went to Tipsy Tonight. Without alerting anyone, she moved towards Edward’s private booth. There were plenty of people in the booth and everyone was as high as a kite. The woman in Edward’s embrace was being surrounded by his friends as they forced him to guzzle down more wine. Then, she heard somebody shouted, “Can you still do it, Ed? If you can’t, let Sis-in-law help you out!” When the short-haired woman in Ed
Estelle was not being shy but she was just too shocked to even move. She opened her eyes wide as she stared incredulously at the scene before her. Slowly, her eyes turned red at the rims and her mouth quivered. Tears began to flow out as if she could not hold them in anymore, and she turned around and ran out of the booth. Vivian nudged Edward again. Looking at him with twinkling eyes, she urged, “What’re you still standing here like a log for? Go and get her!” However, he remained standing
He turned around and looked at Vivian, waiting for her instruction. “Miss Carraway?” Vivian was well aware that she mustn’t reveal her true feelings. She suppressed her desperation and pretended as if she was deep in thought. After a short while, she pulled Jake aside, and with a troubled expression, she asked, “Did Edward touch the girl?” Jake didn’t know how to respond. The first thing was that Edward had not told him anything before, so he did not know what kind of story he had told Vivia
Edward didn't say a word. Instead, he stood there, watching her for a long time before slowly spitting out two words, “Get out.”Estelle was taken aback, then she finally realized that he was speaking to her. Her eyes welled up as she stared at him in disbelief. “Ed?”How could Edward possibly have the patience or the mood to deal with her now? He didn’t even bother looking at her as he simply increased the icy tone in his voice. “I said, get out.”Vivian giggled uncontrollably. That was the
He had never seen such a perverse side to her before. He stared at her for a while, then suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her neck, disregarding the thick lipstick on her lips and simply lowering his head to kiss her. However, she seemed to have been prepared for this. She struggled backward and gently lifted her leg, raising her skinny, tall stiletto. “Don’t kiss me. You disgust me,” she said deliberately.Edward’s expression sank when he heard these words. He stared at her. “E
She used a hundred different tricks with gentle methods and force simply to throw a wrench into his marriage to Renne. However, she simply didn’t care about him at all. This was all because Renne was her good friend, so she was off-limits. Edward smirked as both love and hatred intermingled in his heart. For a moment, he couldn’t figure out which felt stronger. She could see right through him. She pressed herself close to him when she saw the look on his face, wrapping her arms around his neck
Did you know, Vee?I’ve thought of this more than once. If only our beginning from that night wasn’t so unbearable, how wonderful would it be?… The light from the setting sun spilled towards her from the side, casting a glow on the piece of paper, illuminating the words on it, and giving them a slight shimmer. Just like last year, when she emerged from the ultrasound room in the maternity hospital, weak after a mere two steps, she had to lean against the corridor. She covered her mouth with
Vivian arrived home a little late. She parked the car at the side of the road first, then collected her subscribed newspapers and magazines from the mailbox at her gate. She flipped through the mail as she walked in. To her surprise, she found a letter. It was an envelope made from kraft paper with her name on it.It was a rare handwritten letter with the faint print of a bamboo tree, drawn with Chinese calligraphy ink. The bamboo was tall, straight, and fierce just like the script on the lette
“It’s been three months now, why isn’t the little one moving? When will the baby quicken?” he asked her, “Can it hear me? Will it remember my voice?”He even asked, “Who do you think it’ll look like, Vee? Will it be a girl or a boy?”She knew very well that he was harboring evil intentions, but she gave into him and crumbled anyway. She sobbed and screamed, “Kill me, Sean Jackson. Kill me. I will never give birth to this child even if I die! Never!”He soothed her, “Alright. Don’t give birth
His lower jaw tightened. The lines on his face stiffened icily like the cold edges of a knife. In reality, he had given up long ago. His heart was as dead as ash. However, refusing to accept this, he grasped at everything, hoping to find a straw that could save a life, not to save himself but to save his child’s life. That was how well he knew her. He knew that once she escaped, she would never spare his child. Did he hate her? Yes. He hated how he couldn’t shoot her dead. Love triumphed over ha
“Then, what should we do?” his aide asked.A hero’s end was, inevitably, death. He wasn’t afraid of death, but he was simply plagued with remaining grievances. After a bout of silence, Edward calmly said, “Do something for me. Once that’s done, just slip away. There are no lives in your hands and you aren’t in the cops’ database. No one will notice you.”This aide had received a great debt of gratitude from Edward once, so he was solely loyal to him. He became distressed when he heard this, so
“You deserve it for all of the crimes you’ve committed!” Vivian screamed, losing control. Her emotions felt strangely steady after that scream. She threw the gun away as her sparkling, dark eyes were filled with renewed determination. She stared at him and spoke, enunciating every word, “Sean Jackson and those brothers of yours, you’ve all got your justice. Beaten to death, right? Arrested, was it? But when you willfully hurt others and view their lives as nothing more than weeds, you should hav
She hadn’t slept the entire night, and she was extremely high-strung. However, she was feeling slightly fatigued. Perhaps because of the comforting glow from the brightening day outside, she lay down on the bed with her clothes on after a bout of hesitation. She had only intended on taking a nap but unexpectedly fell into a deep sleep.Vivian suddenly woke up, startled. She had lost track of how long she had been asleep. She found a figure standing in front of her bed when she awoke and was gre
Vivian was taken aback by his question. “You haven’t caught him?” she exclaimed in astonishment. She thought that they had already apprehended Edward based on the expression on Jake’s face.“Our men have surrounded the condominium,” he answered simply, “He and Wade seized a hostage and hid inside the study. Both sides were caught in a deadlock for a while, but when they burst the study door open, they only found Wade and that hostage inside.”Vivian trembled uncontrollably as she listened to h
The wedding day was drawing to a close. Vivian stayed at the condominium until the day before the wedding. Then, she moved to Edward’s villa by the lake to wait for the wedding ceremony. Edward drove her there himself, feeling reluctant before he left. He turned around and looked at her, then softly said, “Wait for me. I’ll come for you tomorrow, first thing in the morning.”Vivian didn’t respond and simply stood at the doorway, quietly watching him.For some reason, the sight of her like this