With You For the Rest of My Life

After that accident, Burke went home more often. Although it had become a routine, Rose couldn't help but enjoy his presence more in the household.

It felt as if she had finally submitted to him. And at that thought, she couldn't help but think of the irony of it all.

Before she could go too much into it, Rose regained her composure as she continued to prepare her husband's favorite breakfast.

Besides, she knew for a fact that he had another lover.

Although they were married and she had been a very good wife, she couldn't help but lose it when she could smell the fragrance of another woman's perfume on his suit.

"Do you want to explain yourself?" she remembered herself asking.

Bruce, however, could only shrug in reply. "As long as you're my wife, you won't be replaced."

He didn't answer her question, but it was always like this. Back then, she never really thought that she'd be marrying Burke, the man who she loved for the past twelve years. And now that she finally achieved it, she wanted to be a good wife, whether it was from the heart or not.

And, that she was.

She loved him like a dog would love his master, although she could never really understand why.

He was a cold and calculative man, one who was difficult to love.

However, even then, he was still a good husband – gentle and considerate to all her needs.

When she was sick due to high fever, he came home early to take care of her, even lecturing her as if they were an old couple with only a few years to live.

She remembered how she thought she'd been dreaming. It was then when she opened her eyes and gazed at the armchair to see Burke who was scanning through a business magazine. A yellow light shone from the corner of the room, coating the line of his jaw so delicately.

She was reluctant to make a sound, wanting this moment to never end.

"You awake?" His cold voice was mixed with a trace of exhaustion and hoarseness.

She nodded in reply.

hand on her forehead before furrowing

Noticing

you." She avoided

more look, she'd

sleep tonight," he said, tone still cold and

and continued to scan over the magazine. As she looked

as she thought

thought, she drifted

her once more.

to call him, Burke was already rushing into the bedroom. He threw a coat in and

called. After having him here the whole day, she wanted it to be

seconds for him to register that she had awaken as he

shut the door as he

scrunched up her eyebrows and glanced

It was 02:15.

go at this

in her head only for her to find out

name, given that

time he called out her name, Rose was still blind of sheer passion. She thought that it was her, that he

to find out that it truly was another

fling with another woman. With that thought, she buried all her emotions down

all about their past, she felt at lost on

just another

all she wanted was to be married to him. Turned

couldn't as she hoped that no matter what happened, she still had a place in

wanted. Under the agreement, Burke had always been a stickler for rules while she continued