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.

across my sky. Even if I tried my

So I liked painting him.

it with fixative.

It was a kind of eternity.

began to draw his second sketch of tonight, his

frowned slightly. It was obvious that he was

on the

balcony and frowned. It seemed that he had met

I stopped drawing and just looked

the balcony. He strode

look at me at the door 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.

was thinking about what else he didn’t

I looked at

He never seemed like that.

He was silent for a moment and said, “Nothing.

Sean finished

I sat in the living room. The whole first floor only had the light of TV. I looked at the unfinished sketch in

and went upstairs to turn off

I was afraid and worried, I tried to overcome it in order to do what

I was lying in bed alone as if waiting

I lay for a long time. Nothing happened and

and I had many guesses in my mind.

was even wondering if he would never come

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

yet.

him? What

hesitated, I heard someone downstairs opening

was extremely nervous.

Finally I curled up in the

Then I heard the footsteps of someone going

It was Sean.

was very familiar with the

him, I quickly got up from the bed and

“Honey!”

I rushed over and

I realized what I was shouting, I was

body. “Honey,

He gently held my body and

couldn’t see his

I was standing on the bed and as

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