My Sweetheart

“One part is mine,” Joseph laughed in the face of Kathy’s expression.

Kathy shrugged. Getting out of bed, the two of them sat at the table. Joseph poured her soup, and added condiments for her, his ministrations precise and gentle. Kathy was at a loss. One day he’d treat another woman like this. The thought wrenched at her.

Impulsively she asked, “Hasn’t Grandfather pushed you to remarry?” She remembered that when she’d become part of their household, Grandfather had been quite nervous about their marriage.

“He hasn’t been around, so no.”

“Oh.”

“You really want me to remarry?” he feigned hurt.

She furrowed her brow. “Not really.”

“Why?”

“No reason,” Kathy replied, and left it at that. The thought of him marrying another woman was torture for her.

“If you don’t want me to, I won’t,” he told her seriously.

Hearing this, she looked up, unable to hide her surprise. “It’s your affair, not mine,” she said evenly, concealing her joy.

“Is that so?” Joseph asked, giving her a long hard look.

Kathy felt she could hide nothing from him. “Of course it is. Or else what?” she countered.

He laughed lowly. “I don’t want to hurt my ex-wife.”

“You won’t,” she insisted.

He stayed with her till that evening, to the point where she asked him, “Won’t you go home?”

alone?” The room was VIP, quite large, yet felt cold

“No.”

go.” With that, he prepared to

Just the sight of him walking away was torment.

in his tracks, turned, and asked pointedly,

she forced herself to

will you make it up to me?” he

handsome figure enchanted her. She swallowed hard, her face turning red. He was enticing her on purpose! Regaining her senses, she

How?” he asked

gotten herself into? “Well, of course you…” But before she could finish, a searing kiss had covered her lips, a familiar scent filling her nose. Her eyes

snapped out of it, she wanted to push him away, but the kiss didn’t last long anyway. Breathing deeply, she forced herself to say, “Get away from me.” The closer

look, just went to sit on the sofa and said deeply, “Since your getting hurt involves me, I’ll stay

permeated the room, yet even so, she gradually drifted to sleep. Joseph watched as her

short. “For you

being here is more appropriate?”

while

as much?” He had never once heard Kathy mention Bertie as

on an opposite

to open her eyes. Yet with them both there, how could she sleep?

with you?” Joseph asked, knowing

to see both handsome men, she felt prickles along her scalp.

rest.” Joseph

determined, did not. Sternly Kathy said, “Bertie, I’m

to see me at

him. Once the room was quiet, for some reason she couldn’t fall asleep. All she could think of was Joseph’s kiss, and

watching Bertie exit. Bertie asked with narrowed eyes, “What,

you very interested in