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 liked

I sprayed it with

It was a kind of eternity.

his second sketch of tonight, his cell phone rang.

slightly. It was obvious that he was hesitant. At last he got up and went to the balcony.

the phone on the balcony. He kept pacing during the

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

I stopped drawing and just

the balcony.

turned to 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

He

that he was thinking about what else

I looked at Sean.

never seemed like that.

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

Sean finished and

light of TV. I looked

I turned off the TV and went upstairs to turn off all the lights.

Although I was afraid and worried, I tried to overcome it

in bed alone as if waiting for

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

anxious and I had

I was even wondering if he would never come back.

the wall clock and it was 3

hadn’t come back yet. Did

him? What if he misunderstood me?

When I hesitated, I heard someone downstairs opening

was

Finally I curled up in the quilt and my heart pounded.

I heard the footsteps of someone going upstairs.

It was Sean.

I was very familiar with the rhythm of his going upstairs.

the bed and walked to the bedroom door.

“Honey!”

and

was shouting, I

around his neck and get closed to his body. “Honey, shall we get married? I

He gently held my body and carried

couldn’t see his

on the bed and as tall as

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