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.

Our relationship seemed to be just a meteor across my sky. Even if I

liked painting him.

it with fixative.

It was a kind

his second sketch of tonight,

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

I watched him answer the phone on the balcony. He kept pacing during the call.

frowned. It seemed that he had met

stopped drawing and just looked at him.

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

the lights and the TV. Go upstairs

He paused.

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

“What happened?” I looked at Sean.

seemed like that.

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

Sean finished and left.

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

I turned off the TV and went upstairs to turn off

to overcome it in order to do what

alone as if waiting

I lay for a long time. Nothing happened and I didn’t fall asleep.

and I had many guesses in my mind.

I was even wondering if he would never come back.

wall clock and it was

Sean hadn’t come back yet.

him? What if he

hesitated, I heard someone downstairs opening the

was extremely

up in the quilt and my heart

heard the footsteps of someone going upstairs.

It was

with the rhythm of his going

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

“Honey!”

I rushed over and

I was shouting, I was also

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

He gently held my body and carried

couldn’t see his expression, but I could feel

I was standing on the bed and as tall as

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