With You For the Rest of My Life

Chapter 3 Danger

11th June was their wedding anniversary, and Rose was restless. She kept looking at the pointers on her watch, wondering why Burke still did not show up when it was already seven in the evening.

She picked up her phone from the table, eyeing the details of Burke's number. It took a few minutes of hesitation and thinking till she finally dialed him up.

"What is it?" There was a sense of tiredness tied into his words when he finally spoke up. He must've had a hard day from work.

Rose froze for a while, trying to register what he was saying.

She couldn't help but hate how he was always like this, so cold to her. Even when it came with making love, it felt as if he was in a business meeting, just making similar transactions.

'Maybe he isn't like that to Amanda.'

A snide voice entered her thoughts, making her grip her phone even further.

"What's wrong?" he repeated. This time, he sounded even more impatient.

Rose covered her phone with both hands, trying to prevent all the turmoil in her head from showing. After a few seconds of calming down, she tried to keep her thoughts in order and emotion out of her voice. "I just wanted to ask when you'll come back."

"I'm in a meeting. I'm not sure when I'll get home, okay?" he answered coldly. However, after a few moments of thinking it over, he paused. "I'll try to be home by nine"

"Alright," she replied softly.

He ended the call first.

As she watched the screen of her mobile phone gradually darken, she couldn't help but feel ridiculous.

Sitting alone in the quiet room, she felt nothing but disappointment overwhelming her heart.

Even after being married for a year, she still didn't know her place. What was she expecting? It was her own wishful thinking that things would make a difference after countless months of being with one another. She might as well get used to living in this big room alone.

Just as a mocking smile reached her lips, her phone rang.

"Hello?"

Gu. Would you like

ordered from the bakery a

for them to celebrate their anniversary,

meant to be alone in this

"Mrs. Gu?"

the phone. "I'll fetch it now. Keep it

hung up the

used to these, handling

downtown. A few vehicles went down the

car, Rose felt

she heard a bang and the whole car shook violently as it fell

not a good sign," she murmured to herself. As she got off the car, she found that

push it out at this

her a Ferrari without

lights and no cars in sight, it seemed she'd be waiting

hair from her forehead and sighed, dialing

about to call, her

really was

a few cars that passed by occasionally, they wouldn't be able to

Sitting at the edge of the road, her clothes

She looked around,

difficult to

anniversary, only for

road was quiet at night, except for the occasional passing of

recounting different ways to deal with this

thinking, she heard

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