Love at Dawn

Chapter5

But it was too late, he walked over to me one step ahead of me, and his face suddenly sank. I pretended not to care, and wanted to leave quickly, but he held my wrist, his voice was cold: "Have I been too good to you lately, making you forget yourself? You don't take what I've said repeatedly seriously anymore?"

"I don't want a child. What's the point of having one, so he can watch us fight? Let him watch you t*****e his mother in every way possible? What a joke."

"I didn't marry you back with the intention of doing a losing business. If it was just a bed warmer, where would it be so expensive? Do you know how much I paid to save your brother? Now that you're married to me, if I want a child, you must give it to me. If you dare to take medicine again ......"

"I'm doing you a favor too." I interrupted him with a cold smile, "I'm going to die at your hands sooner or later anyway, so instead of leaving a child behind to be a drag on you, it's better to fulfill you to live a more elegant life."

He pressed me against the wall and cupped my chin hard, "Is it better to fulfill me or yourself? I know Heaslet, you can't wait for me to suddenly annoy you one day and divorce you so that you can rekindle your old flame with that Leonard, that's why your dead set on not letting the baby trip you up. I'd advise you to die, you'll never be with anyone else in your life! Ever."

I shook off his hand and stormed off, only to feel my bones crushing. It just didn't occur to me that something happened afterwards that made me realize that I had really flipped him off this time.

Near the end of my shift, I got a call from the nursing home, and the caretaker's voice on the other end was clearly embarrassed, " hello, Heaslet."

I was startled, thinking that something had happened to Leo, who knew that she said, "Just now Mr. Angus asked someone to come to the phone, saying that he doesn't care about Mr. Leo's convalescence fee from now on, what do you think about it, usually every month it's Mr. Angus's secretary who pays the money directly to our account. Do we come to you in the future?"

I froze for a moment, said "I see" and hung up, a pang of sadness in my heart.

Angus was right about one thing, he did spoil me, making me think that the most he could do was talk tough and scare me, how could I forget what kind of man he was?

My meager paycheck wouldn't be enough to pay for Leo's expensive convalescence, and with Angus running the show every time, it would hurt me enough to take on that kind of money on my own. Angus did it just to make me realize that I couldn't disobey him, after all, everything I had was given to me by him.

Now it seems ridiculous, I often drive that mini, live in a luxury villa, three meals a day nanny prepared properly, the cupboard often must send the new clothes, which one is not his wealth in exchange for? It's just that because you're used to it, you don't have to exchange it for anything, so you forget the essence.

When I got home, I asked my nanny Maya, "Is master back yet?"

"Not yet. madam Dinner, right? I'll go prepare."

"Wait, I'll make a call to ask if he's coming back." Hearing me say that Nanny Maya was a bit surprised, after all, usually I never care if he'll be back or not.

I called and his phone rang for a long time without being answered. It was his private number, so maybe the phone wasn't with him. I thought about it and called his secretary's number again, strangely enough there was no answer either, as a rule this number is on twenty-four hours a day for someone to answer.

Unable to guess whether this was intentional or unintentional on Angus' part, I dialed his private number again, and this time there was finally an answer.

"What do you want me for?"

I bit my lip and asked him, "Still at the office?"

"Does it matter to you where I am?" Even though he wasn't in front of me, I could still imagine the look on his face as he spoke at that moment, as if to say, "Look, Heaslet, you're still bowing down to me, aren't you?"

But it was all I could do, this marriage of a transactional nature, from the very beginning I was low to the dust, with no capital or right to be high and mighty.

"Will you be back for dinner tonight? If back, I'll let auntie prepare it."

"Not go back. Am I going to let a good man have a date and not go, go back to see your face paralyzed?"

"Then I'll wait for you to come back, I have something to say to you."

"No need to wait, I may not go back all night. You have something to say to me? But I don't have anything to say to you, so forget it."

"No, I'll wait for you to come back." When I finished, I added, "Wait as long as it takes."

He hung up straight away.

The smoke is slowly dispersing in the wind.

Through the inky tinted windows.

His whole body didn't seem real.

Leo killed a man, and although I don't believe it to this day, Leo and the dead man were the only ones in that room at the time, and Leo wouldn't say anything, only confessed to the crime.

He was a roughneck, poorly educated, and made some unorthodox friends, and when I was in high school, he started hanging out with the so-called mobsters. My mother died early, my father is a drunkard, all day drinking outside, also do not care about us, at first also know to help me pay tuition fees, and then directly with a foreign hair salon in the woman cohabitation life, not even home, we siblings are dependent on each other.

My money is Leo to give, until I went to college, he did not tell me what he did, only that he followed the big brother is quite good. What he did was simple, but he got paid a lot of money.

Well, I graduated and went with Leonard to an interview at a fairly large trading company and was both accepted.

Things seemed to have finally stabilized, and Leonard and I were ready to get married and start a family when Leo was suddenly taken away by the police. Such a blow to me at that time was like climbing up from the abyss with great difficulty, and when I was one step short of getting out, I was pushed down again, and after that I never had the strength to climb up again.

Leonard was just a child from an ordinary family, and had just come out of school, so he couldn't help with Leo's affairs, and could only be anxious with me.

Just when I was almost broken and desperate, it was Angus who found me. He called me, "Heaslet, you want to save your brother, don't you? I can help you."

The water slowly got colder, and I snapped out of my memories, dried off and put on my pajamas and went back to bed to wait for him to come back.

Because I was so preoccupied, I couldn't watch the program playing on the TV, I just sat and stared. So many hours passed, and I couldn't help but want to go to sleep. The LCD screen of the desk lamp showed that the time had passed one o'clock in the morning, and he really didn't come back.

But I told myself that I couldn't go to sleep, even if he really didn't come back this night, I had to wait all night, after all, this was the only way to make it look like I was asking for his forgiveness, realizing that once upon a time I had been capricious, and thus becoming submissive and docile.

Little by little the time passed, only making the night feel extraordinarily long. My eyelids grew heavy, and many times I could not help but lie down and try to sleep, only to make myself fight the urge to sit up again.

Just as I was in a daze and about to fight sleepiness again, someone pushed the door in. My eyes snapped open, and I saw Angus come in from outside with his bag, that inscrutable smirking look on his face. I was so uncomfortable by his look that I had to force a smile, "You're back."

The man in front of me but knowingly asked, "Huh? What a surprise? You haven't gone to bed at this hour, were you waiting for me?"

"I said I'd wait until you got back."

He took off his jacket, seemingly feeling a little stuffy, and loosened the tie of his shirt before walking over and sitting down on the edge of the bed.

He lay back against the side of the bed and put his head in my lap and said to me, "I have a bit of a headache, rub it for me."

I had to reach over and help him press his head. Angus closed his eyes and said, "Didn't you have something to say to me? It was hard to stay up this long until I came back, so how come you're mute instead?"