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.

my sky. Even if I tried my

So I liked painting him.

I sprayed it with fixative.

a

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

that he was hesitant. At last

phone on the balcony. He kept pacing during the call.

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

I stopped drawing and just looked at him.

the balcony. He strode to the door and

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

He

It seemed that he was thinking about what else he didn’t tell me.

“What happened?” I looked at Sean.

He never seemed like that.

“Nothing. I’ll turn off the light for you first.”

Sean finished and

The whole first floor only had the light of TV. I looked at the unfinished sketch in my hand and felt uneasy.

and went

to overcome it in order to do what

I was lying in bed alone

time. Nothing happened

and I had many guesses in my mind.

I was even wondering if he would never

I looked at the wall clock and it was

back yet.

I call him? What

downstairs opening the door

I was extremely nervous.

Finally I curled up in the quilt and my heart

Then I heard the footsteps of someone

was Sean.

I was very familiar with the rhythm

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

“Honey!”

I rushed over and hugged

shouting, I was also a little shocked.

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

held my body and carried

dark and I couldn’t see his expression, but I could

I was standing on the bed and as tall as he

looked at his face in the moonlight and