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.

and walked to her, placing a hand on her forehead before furrowing his eyebrows. "How

for such a long time. Noticing

you." She avoided

took one more look, she'd fall deeper into his

a good sleep tonight," he said,

he sat back down on the armchair and continued to scan over the magazine. As she looked

indifferent as

that thought, she drifted back

she woke up again, the moon had already risen up and the darkness had waved over her once more. Bruce's

was already rushing into the bedroom. He threw a

going?" she called. After having him here the

she had awaken as he looked up, raising his eyebrow.

door as he

her eyebrows and glanced at the

It was 02:15.

did he go at

her to find out that he wanted to

was similar to her name, given

he called out her name, Rose was still blind of sheer passion. She thought that it was her, that he must've pronounced

find out that it

turned out it was true, that he had a fling with another woman. With that thought, she buried all her emotions

past, she felt at lost

was just another embarrassment for

to be married to him. Turned out, she was

hoped that

it still didn't go the way she wanted. Under the agreement, Burke had always been