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.

sky. Even if I tried my best to catch it, it was just a passer-by.

liked painting

I sprayed it with fixative.

It was a kind of eternity.

When I began to draw his second sketch of tonight, his cell

that he was hesitant. At last he got up and went to

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

I stopped drawing and

minutes later, Sean finally came out of the balcony. He strode to the door and picked up his clothes.

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

He paused.

seemed that he was thinking about

“What happened?” I looked at

seemed like that.

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

Sean finished and

room. The whole first floor only had the light of

the TV and went upstairs to turn off all

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

I was lying in bed alone as if waiting for something.

lay for a long time. Nothing happened and

had

I was even wondering if

I looked at the wall clock and it was

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

him? What if he

When I hesitated, I heard someone downstairs opening the door with the key.

I was

curled up in the quilt and my heart

Then I heard the footsteps of someone going upstairs.

It was Sean.

the rhythm of his going

bed and walked to the

“Honey!”

I rushed over and hugged

shouting, I was also a little

I didn’t care. I put my hands around his neck and get closed to his body. “Honey, shall we get married? I don’t want anything. I just want

my body and carried me

and I couldn’t see his expression, but I

I was standing on the bed and as tall as he was.

I looked at his face in the moonlight and asked him, “what happened?”