When I was dozing off, my phone suddenly rang.
“Wife, what do you want to eat? I will buy it for you. Can I get you your favorite strawberry cake?”
I took a deep breath and suppressed the sourness and anger in my throat, “No need, I’m not hungry.“‘
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
When I woke up again, it was already 3 o’clock in the morning.
It was empty around me.
Triston, who promised to bring me supper, didn’t come back all night.
The next morning. I looked at my swollen eyes in the mirror and applied a light makeup to myself, which I hadn’t done in a long time.
Trying to hide the exhaustion and weariness in the eyes.
Every year on this day in the past, I would go to the mountains with Triston to visit the sponsored girls
Come rain or shine.
This has become an understanding between us, as well as a ritual.
Today, I’m afraid I went alone.
I had just finished tidying up when the door creaked open.
Triston came back
He changed his clothes, but I keenly smelled a scent of perfume.
He must have come back from Eliza
1 mockingly asked him, “Do you remember what day it is today?
He walked over with a smile, reaching out to put his arm around my shoulder “How could I forget our agreement? Let’s leave now,”
In the face of his intimacy, I instinctively shrank back and my body became particularly stiff
As Triston was about to leave, his phone suddenly rang.
On the other end of the phone, Eliza’s anxious voice came through, “Triston, the baby’s fever has reached 40 degrees, please come over and take a look! [ really don’t know what to do…”
His face turned pale instantly, visibly becoming tense.
He made has decision in just a moment of hesitation.
He hurriedly said to me, “Darling, wait for me for a moment, I’ll go check on the child and come back right away, okay?”
I nodded numbly.
Watching his hurried and flustered figure rushing out, he laughed at himself mockingly.
I didn’t wait for him and went to the mountain area alone,
The children in the mountainous area were like a group of little suns, chattering and sharing interesting stories with me.
The innocent and pure smile also warmed my heart a little.
The village chief asked me, “Why didn’t your husband come?”
I hesitated for a moment and smiled bitterly, “He was a bir busy with work…
He should be with Eliza and the children now.
My thoughts couldn’t help but wander, and I remembered once again my child who was buried at the bottom of
of the river.
finy child were still here, they would probably be around the same age as Eliza’s child.
As I kept thinking, my eyes couldn’t help but become sour and bitter.
Chapter 3
After coming back from the mountainous area, I immediately started packing my things.
Triston didn’t come back until midnight.
He stuffed a box of desserts into my arms, holding me rightly and constantly apologizing, “I’m sorry, wife”
“I specifically bought the dessert you love to eat.”
“I will definitely accompany you next year.”
Once, I felt that this agreement would accompany us throughout our lives, from getting married to having children, and then growing old together.
I didn’t expect it, It’s only been a few years,
How can people’s hearts change so quickly?
I glanced at the packaging of the dessert, which was only available in the east of the city.
And the east side of the city was the location of our new house, and I had a faint guess.
When I was sleeping, Triston would always hold me from behind.
I could no longer feel the sweetness of the past.
all of disgust.
1 felt stiff all over and full of
1 stared blankly and couldn’t fall asleep no matter what, and it continued like this until dawn.
When the alarm clock rang, I reached out to turn it off, and a new message popped up.
opened WhatsApp and saw Eliza’s Instagram post from last night, showing off her child.
“Our Loving Nest.”
Familiar arrangements, familiar surroundings.
Let me recognize at a glance that the place Eliza lives in is the new house we used to live in.
That was personally decorated by us, and every detail left a deep impression on me
The most memorable memories of ours were all there, and later we moved to the current place for the convenience of work
Subconsciously, I felt that was our true home.
But now, it has been transformed into a mess.
Chapter 3
