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.

be just a meteor across my sky. Even if I tried my best to catch it, it was just

So I liked painting

I sprayed it with fixative.

It was a kind of eternity.

his second sketch of

obvious that he

the balcony.

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

I stopped drawing and just looked at him.

balcony. He strode to

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 away. Don’t make a sound.

He paused.

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

happened?” I

seemed like that.

silent for a moment and said, “Nothing.

finished and left.

room. The whole first floor only had the light

I turned off the TV and went

was afraid and worried, I tried to overcome

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

Nothing happened and

I was anxious and I had many guesses in my mind.

I was even wondering if he would

the wall clock and it was

Sean hadn’t come back yet. Did something happen

call him? What if he misunderstood me?

When I hesitated, I heard someone downstairs opening

I was extremely

curled up in the quilt and my heart

the footsteps of

It was

I was very familiar with the rhythm of his going

quickly got up from the bed and walked to the bedroom door. I saw him coming up

“Honey!”

I rushed over and hugged Sean’s neck.

When I realized what I was shouting, I was also a little

his body.

and carried me to the bedroom.

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

I was standing on the bed and

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