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 best to catch it, it was just a

So I liked painting him.

sprayed it with fixative.

It was a kind of eternity.

his second sketch of tonight, his cell

at his phone and frowned slightly. It was obvious that he was hesitant. At last he got up and

answer the phone on the balcony. He kept pacing

and frowned. It seemed that he

and

Sean finally came out of the balcony. He strode to the

and the TV. Go upstairs and have a rest. If someone comes in, call me right away. Don’t

He paused.

It seemed that he was thinking about what

“What happened?” I looked

He never seemed like

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

Sean finished and

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

TV and went upstairs to turn

tried to overcome it in order

bed alone as if waiting for something.

time. Nothing happened and I didn’t fall asleep.

had many guesses

wondering if he would never come back.

wall clock and it was 3 a.m.

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

Shall I call him? What if he misunderstood me?

downstairs opening the door

was extremely nervous.

up in the quilt

Then I heard the footsteps

It was Sean.

the rhythm of his going upstairs.

from the bed and

“Honey!”

I rushed over and

When I realized what I was shouting, I was

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

held my body and carried me

I couldn’t see his expression, but I could

was standing on the bed and as tall

He didn’t speak. I looked at his face in the