Chapter t
Chapter 1
For our bedryinen during the New Year, my husband Sean Buzz decided to log along his little childhood sweetheart Lily Larson.
Twa bid to cheer up the heartbroken little green plum, my borband deliberarily shoved me–pregnant and i
-moariver.
I struggled in the venter, helpless and in pain, rrying out for help.
they just stood on the bank, Ighing liko mail.
“Emily Sullivan, are you stupid or what? The water’s so shallow, just stand up stop pretending!
“I’m going to dinner with Lily, don’t have time to deal with you. You can keep ting for all we care!?
I watched them walk away in despair, barely hearing my husband’s indifferent voice.
“What’s with all the childhood trauma talk? You’re just being dramatic“
When I finally climbed out of the water, drenched and exhausted, I saw that the little green plum had posted on her social media
water, so he carries me over little puddles and even bathes with me. I’m going to
“Having a childhood sweetheart is the best. He knows I’m afraid of wa be his le princess force!”
Below, my husband had commented.
“My wife can’t compare to you. I really wish she had drowned when she was younger, then I could’ve married
Is that moment.
ment, I know–it was over. My marriage was finisheit.
It was already deep into the night when I returned to the hotel.
instead!”
The twenty miles felt like a blur. I don’t even know how I dragged my frozen body, stiff from the river water, one step at a time to get back.
Now that I finally had a moment to relax, I realized my entire body had gone numb from the cold.
I stood at the door, disheveled and with a painful ache in my heart
I still couldn’t believe that the husband I had loved for seven years would push into the river and watch me struggle in agony without a hint of
concen
I wiped away the tear stains from my eyes and slowly pushed open the door
Hearing the sound, Sean looked up from inside.
When he saw it was me, he frowned in annoyance, but when he noticed my hands were frozen and purple, his expression changed. He rushed over and quickly brought me inside.
He held my hands with tenderness, scolding me softly, “Are you crazy? Why did you walk hack by yourself in this cold? I was just teasing you. I’ll still pock you up tomorrow! How could I really leave you there?
Tomorrow?
1esuldn’t help but laugh hinterly,
It was below freezing outside, and after being drenched all night, I’d be stiff mening. What could he possibly mean by picking me up tomorrow?
Did not find his words laughable?
I sat on the couch,sently watching him apply ointment to my frostbite, suddenly remembering the past
My original family had always been like a wet cotton coat in winter–uscomfortable to wear, but impossible to take off
After my parents forced me into the water when I refused to marry a fifty year old man from the village, I finally decided to take off this “wet cotton
cont.
11-10
Chapter 1
Because I realized, without it, I would only
ly feel enlil. But if I kept wearing it. die
That day, I cried in Seau’s arms, almost falling apart.
He held me tightly, soothing me meet and ever. “Emily, douch be afraid, you shave me.
I still remember the day he jumped into the river without hesitation in pull me out, soaking wet, shivering from the rod, yet still smiling at me with the brightest sunshine in his eyes
That day. I whispered to myself. “I caught the sunshine of winter.”
Later, he kept his word and never let me suffer
But ever since Lily appeared, he changed.
Now, he was still as sy as before, but that warmth no imger belonged only to me.
I’d seen the best of Sean, sol couldn’t accept the ending we had now,
Tears were about to fall, but I desperately held back, refusing to let myself cryn a way that would strip nie of my dignity
But the next moment, Sean’s casual words shattered my resolve.
“I know you’re upset, but Lily just broke up, and she’s feeling down. As her sister–in–law, it’s your job to cheer her up, don’t make a big deal out of it.”
“Stop it. Be generous In a few days, you can give her a gift and make it rig
In that instant, I felt like I had fallen into an ice pit. The bitter acid in my chest early corroded my insides.
Never before had I understood so clearly that Sean had changed his heart.
He was concerned for the heartbroken Lily, but who was there to care for in
