President's Substitute Wife

One was purple and the other was water blue.

“What is this?” I could see at a glance that these two boxes must be ornaments.

As he took off his suit, he said, “the purple one is Jack’s gift to Daisy.”

“And the blue one?”

“I bought it for you.”

“Me?” I picked up the blue box with white ribbon outside.

When I hesitated to open it, he had changed his clothes and came over. He held my waist and put his chin on my shoulder. “Other women have gifts. Of course, you have to have gifts.”

“Thank you...”

My heart was warm.

“Don’t say thank you to me. I said I’ll love you this time.” He held the box in his hands. “Open it up and see if you like it.”

“OK.”

I opened the box and there was a necklace in it. There was a curved pendant like a smiling face.

I remembered a colleague wearing it before.

When I saw it, I thought of the necklace Sean had given me before.

Sean reached out and took out the necklace. The next second I felt my neck cool.

He put the necklace on me and said, “Eric recommended it to me. He said girls like it, so I guess you will, too.”

“I like it. Thank you.”

By this time he had put it on me.

I bowed my head and touched the necklace on my neck. There was an indescribable feeling in my heart.

In the evening, Sean and I had dinner and sat on the sofa together. He watched the financial news. I sat and sketched.

When Sean was here, I always sketched him.

I drew him from every angle every night.

There were many difficulties in this relationship. This time I really hoped we could be together forever.

But I was always upset.

Our relationship seemed to be just a meteor across my sky. Even if I

liked painting him.

I sprayed it with fixative.

was a

When I began to draw his second sketch of

slightly. It was obvious that

I watched him answer the phone on the balcony. He kept pacing during the call.

He walked up and down the balcony and frowned. It seemed that he had met something important.

I stopped drawing and just looked at

balcony. He strode to the door and picked up

and hesitated for a moment. He said, “turn off the lights and the TV. Go upstairs and have a rest. If someone comes in, call me right

He paused.

It seemed that he was thinking about what

“What happened?” I

never seemed like

a moment and said, “Nothing. I’ll turn off the light for

Sean finished

living room. The whole first floor only had the light of TV. I looked

the TV and went upstairs to turn off

afraid and worried, I tried to overcome it in order to do what Sean said.

lying in bed alone as if waiting for

I lay for a long time. Nothing happened and I didn’t

was anxious and I had

I was even wondering if he would never

I looked at the wall clock and it was 3 a.m.

Sean hadn’t come back yet. Did something happen to him?

call him? What if he

When I hesitated, I heard someone downstairs opening the door

was extremely nervous.

Finally I curled up in the quilt

I heard the footsteps

It was

the rhythm of his

confirming it was him, I quickly got up from the bed and walked to the bedroom door.

“Honey!”

I rushed over and hugged Sean’s neck.

I realized what I was shouting, I was also a

body. “Honey, shall we get married? I don’t want anything. I just want you to be my husband.”

He gently held my body and carried me to the

room was dark and I couldn’t see his expression, but I could feel him

the bed and as tall as he was.

He didn’t speak. I looked at his face in the moonlight and asked him, “what