A Moment in Destiny

Seemingly Leila heard that Vincent paused a bit. He kept silent for a few seconds, and only his breath was heard from the other end of the line. Then Leila heard a child’s scream and the voices of women’s delighted chatting.

Leila’s body was suddenly stiffened. It turned out that they were really together. A beautiful image was sketched in her mind -- a family of three. If the family of three were together for real, it must be a quite aesthetic picture.

“Ah! Mr. White, if you are quite busy, you can go. The international call is so expensive.” She suddenly lost the impulse to continue speaking. If she continued, she was afraid that she would become more depressed and might burst into tears. “You... Do you have anything else?”

Vincent kept silent again for a moment as if he had realized something. Then there was no kid’s or women’s voice on the phone. “Nothing else. That’s it.”

“Okay! Then, good night,” Leila said softly.

However, neither of them hung up the phone. Leila was waiting for him to hang it up first, and Vincent didn’t hang it up either.

One minute passed.

Leila stared at the screen, all the time. Another minute passed, and she saw the phone was hung up.

She inhaled deeply and put the phone on the desk. She looked around the study, which was empty, familiar, and strange. The huge study was so cold and quiet.

She picked up a cooperation management book and read it for a moment, and then put it back. She went to the bathroom to take a shower. Then she returned to the bedroom and lay down. She was sleepless the whole night--

Time passed so slowly. She didn’t know when the week would pass finally. She was counting the days but only three days had passed.

Every evening, she was learning taekwondo skills from Arthur. Leila seemed to have learned anything. Three days had passed already. Besides stretching her ligaments, she also hopped up and down and warmed up, which seemed to be all of her lessons. It made her quiet down.

Finally, on the fourth day, Arthur started to teach her new things -- the gist of confrontation.

Unavoidably, they two got the physical contact, which made it difficult for Leila to adapt. However, when seeing Arthur behaves quite naturally, she felt that she had been too unreasonable.

Holding Leila’s hand, Arthur said, “Yes, like that. Put your hand here, and your foot should kick out sideways quickly!”

“Like this?” Leila had a try.

“Yeah! Smart!” Arthur nodded. “I’ll teach you the airstrike. You can get too familiar with the technical movements first. This kind of exercise can continuously consolidate the correct power stereotypes of technical movements and continuously strengthens conditioned reflexes. It also contains various forms of airstrikes, which can be practiced alone or in multiple players. Please practice it first. Then we will practice it together.”

When Leila walked out of the taekwondo gymnasium, she felt the soreness all over her body.

“Can you hold on?” asked Arthur.

“Sort of. I just felt worn out.” Leila heaved a sigh weakly.

“Come on. Let’s go for dinner together!” She had dinner with Arthur every night after the course these days. And it was always his treat, so they went to the high-end restaurant all the time. This time, Leila shook her head.

“It’s on me today. I want to eat some snacks.”

“The snacks? Arthur frowned. “Aren’t you going to take me to the night market street of F City?”

“If you don’t want to go, I’ll go there myself. I’m so starved today and I want to have mutton shashlik.”

“Ah? Do you want to each barbecue food? We can go to South Asia Scenic Garden, where the roasted whole lamb is served.”

want to eat mutton shashlik.” It

take a look at

were sitting at the small dining table. Arthur looked at people coming and

her head. “Everyone eats

eat

so hungry after working out. Taekwondo was truly a strong confrontational exercise. She had just kicked for an hour but now she was almost starved to

which looked good and tasted good, too. Just the sanitary condition wasn’t so good. From his childhood, he had never eaten anything in such a kind of place.

you? It’s indeed tasty.” Leila enjoyed it

Arthur had trouble with diarrhea that

Arthur in the gym. After the class, Coach Koby told her

he in the

you that he would rather die

I don’t have diarrhea at all.

different degrees of

so namby-pamby, isn’t he? Which hospital is he

“First Hospital.”

to First Hospital. She looked for the Gastroenterology department, and then she bought a bouquet. She asked for Arthur’s ward number but

I’m his friend.” Leila

a gentleman went into the ward, and we’re informed to block other visitors. How about the wait for a while? After the gentleman comes out, we’ll ask Mr. Lane if he wants to see you,” the nurse explained to her

Guidance Desk and

VIP wards were for the rich, but the nurses were too snob,

nodded. Then she went

at the ward from time to time. Suddenly, she saw a familiar

It

step back. Standing in the corner, she watched

indeed! She

until watched Vincent go into the elevator, and he didn’t

come back in a week? How could he

moment, she dared not to stay there longer. Walking down from the stairs, she made sure that Vincent had come out from the elevator. Then

she didn’t see Vincent’s car at all. She asked the

didn’t.” The

Leila went back to

received a call from Arthur. “Lexi, how ruthless are you! I almost died from diarrhea,

but the nurse stopped me. So I couldn’t do anything and came

you been here earlier?” Arthur was

was told a gentleman had entered the

“Oh! That’s our boss.”

to be shocked and exclaimed. Once again, she was

don’t you

Leila directly rejected. “I need to go to work tomorrow. I don’t

problem. See you tomorrow.” Arthur

watch and the time was half past nine in the evening. She

at the phone, she

watched it, feeling bored. Half an hour passed, she looked out and nothing happened. She took over the phone and the three words still reminded me. Actually, she wanted

didn’t come home and what he was doing