“….Lily?” He calls her name in disbelief.
Lily also feels her heartthrob; she does not understand the meaning of him tormenting himself again and again. If it is not that she happens to return late today, did he plan to stay here all night in complete secrecy?
“Why didn’t you go home?” Her voice blows in his ears along with the night breeze, gently yet cooling.
Rex feels a sudden pain in his heart by her question, “Nobody is in the house, why should I go home.”
She is gone, and the Villa becomes lifeless. When he returns home, he faces a cold and lonely room. Everything seems to be back at the time when he had not known her.
Loneliness, lonesomeness… And he has nowhere to resolve them. This lukewarm feeling is driving him crazy.
He raises his hand that is holding the cigarette and puts it in his mouth then takes a deep breath, hiding his trembling fingertips, “Can you just come back?”
He is not asking her, it is more like begging.
Lily has always sealed all the tolerance and emotion towards him in her heart. At this moment, seeing such a ruined appearance of him, those emotions hit the wall of her heart like the sea water surges with the tide, coming out little by little.
“Rex, it’s not that I don’t want to go back, you know I love you in my heart, I know you love me too. But with these things, how much trust is left between us? With Marina’s existence, I can’t stop the suspicion. If there is suspicion, there will be a gap. I don’t want this but I can’t control it.” Women are generally like this to their beloved man, more craziness and less rationality.
After a while, perhaps because of standing for too long, Lily could not help but shiver. Rex throws the smoke at his fingertips and turns around to pull the car door, then bends over to take out his coat and puts it on her shoulders.
Lily raises her hand to block it and slightly closes her eyes, “You wear it.”
He barely wears a shirt, which looks lightly clad.
The simple three words bring great emotional changes to Rex. His dark eyes are filled with tenderness, “Lily…”
His voice gets hoarser when he is drunk. Perhaps because of the liquor, he is in a daze. Lily opens the door of the driver seat, “Let’s go, I will send you home.”
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