I Got Married Without You

She finally mustered the courage not to go in and just stayed downstairs in the living room. She didn’t do much, just kept Erin company, sitting on the couch, watching TV. When it was time for dinner, she got up and went to the kitchen to make a blueberry pic..

While making the blueberry pie, Erin stood by, arms crossed, silently watching her busy about. Only when she finished and brought the dish to the table did he sit down.

At this point, Stella would pick up a piece of blueberry pie and put it in Erin’s bowl. “Try it and see if it tastes good.”

Erin raised his eyebrows slightly and then parted his lips, motioning to Stella, “Feed me.”

With a resigned smile, Stella picked up the blueberry pie again and put it in his mouth, watching him slowly eat it. Her resigned smile would then turn into a doting one.

Even if the piece of blueberry pie had fallen from a height and smashed on the ground, she still wouldn’t have noticed and would continue to feed Erin the pie, as if it could make up something.

At night, Stella would hold Erin’s hand and go to the garden outside the villa. It was actually overgrown with weeds, but in Stella’s eyes, it was a garden…

then lie on the lawn, look at the night sky, look at the stars, and talk to

would return to the master bedroom, take a clean bath, hug Erin’s waist, snuggle into his embrace, close her eyes and sleep. Even though it was just a body pillow, she could feel the strength of Erin’s presence, comforting and

spent 29

day, Stella pushed open the door of the

French window. There was nothing

he was dead. After they moved the body, no one would come to clean up the bloodstains. This place

was heavy inside, with a hint of decay. This scent tempted Stella towards death. It seemed that

and walked step by step to the French window, then slowly sat

so she should die in the

she pulled the trigger, she sent a message to the local police, admitting that Erin did not commit suicide out of fear, but that she shot him dead. It

hesitation, aimed it at her