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

it

It was a kind of

When I began to draw his second

that he was hesitant. At last he got up

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

down the balcony and frowned. It seemed

stopped drawing and just

10 minutes later, Sean finally came out of the balcony. He

“turn off the lights and the TV. Go upstairs and have a rest. If someone

He paused.

thinking about what else he didn’t tell me.

happened?” I looked at Sean.

never seemed like that.

“Nothing. I’ll turn

Sean finished and

I sat in the living room. The whole first floor only had the light

and went upstairs to turn off all the

I tried to overcome it in order to do

lying in bed alone as if waiting for something.

time. Nothing happened and I

I was anxious and I had many guesses in my

I was even wondering if he would never come back.

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

Sean hadn’t come back yet. Did

call him? What if he misunderstood me?

When I hesitated, I heard someone downstairs opening

I was extremely nervous.

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

the footsteps of

was Sean.

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

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

“Honey!”

rushed over and

what I was shouting, I was also a little shocked.

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

He gently held my body and carried me to the bedroom.

couldn’t see his expression,

bed and as tall as

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