Chapter 41 The Firm Vow
At that moment, my tears uncontrollably streamed down again. I was not as strong as I thought. I didn’t even know where I got the courage from just now, to be calm enough to take a picture before running out of the house.
Raymon hesitated for a moment, then patted my back. His movements were restrained, cultured, gentlemanly. Yet, at that moment, even the comfort from a stranger felt like an angelic solace to me, causing the dam in the depths of my heart to completely collapse.
I was like a fallen child, suddenly holding him and crying uncontrollably. Unexpectedly, I ran into him repeatedly today and he saw my embarrassing side.
I didn’t know how long it had been, but I stopped crying, perhaps because my tears had dried up.
He patted me, his deep eyes obscure and unclear.
I found that the distant horizon had already begun to show a faint grey- white, the profound sky was gradually receding, dawn was about to
arrive.
“Thank you, Mr. Baxter! I want to go to my friend’s place! At Golden Mansion!” I told him.
He hugged me tightly and nodded.
When I appeared in front of Eleanor in a state of utter disarray, she could hardly believe her own eyes. She rubbed her still half–closed eyes vigorously, “Cassie, what… what happened to you? Didn’t you go back to your hometown?”
0.00%
14:50
Chapter 41 The Firm Vow
I walked in, and immediately fell into her arms, “Eleanor…”
She hugged my stiff, icy body, leading me into the bathroom, “Don’t speak, don’t cry, go take a hot shower, obey!”
288 (VoucherT6
I numbly entered the bathroom, I could hear the ‘clack clack‘ sound of my upper teeth hitting my lower teeth, it was very disturbing.
I reached out and turned on the water heater, standing underneath it, letting the warm water hit my body, gradually heating up. It seemed that under the water temperature, I was slowly regaining consciousness, regaining my sanity.
Eleanor knocked on the door twice before I came out, changed into the dry clothes that Eleanor had prepared for me, and she made me a bowl of ginger soup.
In that moment, I suddenly thought of Raymon, who had stayed with me all night, wondering if he could also have a bowl of ginger soup.
Under Eleanor’s questioning, I handed her my phone. She looked at me in confusion, then suddenly started flipping through the photo album on the phone as if she had an epiphany. The shock on her face in that moment was no less than what I felt when I first saw it.
She stared at me, dumbfounded, “Am I, am I hallucinating?” After she finished speaking, she slapped herself with a smack.
I burst out laughing, laughing until tears and snot streamed down my face, laughing until I was dry heaving. Suddenly, I grabbed the fruit knife from the coffee table and slashed my arm violently. Eleanor cried out in shock, “Cassie…”
She snatched the knife from my hand with all her might, glaring at me angrily. I understood that she was disappointed in me, as the saying goes, hating iron for not becoming steel‘.
But the momentary pain of cutting open my skin gave my suppressed
23.23%
|||
14:50
Chapter 41 The Firm Vow
283 Vouchers
emotions an outlet, and with the gushing blood, I felt a sense of release.
I suddenly understood why some people would self–harm. To some extent, it was an unprecedented release. I didn’t advocate self–harm, but I had nowhere to vent the resentment in my heart.
“…Cassie, wake up, is he really worth it? A jerk like him?” Eleanor yelled at me loudly.
“Didn’t you think, what would happen to your Joy if you died? What about your parents? You might be at peace if you died, but what about Joy? She’s still so young, and you’re just going to stand by and let her fall into the hands of that scumbag? Do you think that Lelia would treat her well? By then, she would be living a life worse than death. Are you being responsible for her?”
“Also, your parents, they’ve mortgaged the house, and the loan hasn’t been paid off yet. If you die, can that beast still pay it off? At that time, are you going to leave them homeless, wandering the streets? Are you going to let them carry a mountain of debt, attracting scorn from others? They are both teachers, they need their dignity. Are you forcing them to die with you?”
“Have you ever thought about it, if you were dead, wouldn’t that beast and that woman be overjoyed, laughing over your corpse, feeling justified in reaping the benefits without lifting a finger, taking over everything you have, living in your villa, spending your money, and even abusing your daughter! By then, Joy would have no choice but to die!”
Eleanor’s words jolted me awake, what she said was undoubtedly an indisputable fact.
“Don’t worry, I won’t die! I’m not that weak!” I gritted my teeth and said word by word.
In fact, I really didn’t want to die, including that scene by the river. I just wanted to make myself cleaner, more sober, because I had lost my
53.47%
|||
14:50
Chapter 41 The Firm Vow
thoughts and direction.
I sat there blankly, letting Eleanor frantically search for medicine to bandage my wounds, while she also tried to comfort me.
288 Vouchers
Then she handed me a glass of water, “Take a sip of water, go to sleep for a while, when you wake up, we will face it together!”
I awkwardly accepted the water handed to me by Eleanor, drank it in one gulp, and before long, I really did start to feel sleepy, gradually drifting off.
When I woke up, it was already 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Eleanor had been byśmy side all along. A faint pain in my arm reminded me that all of this was real, not a nightmare.
Lsát up, cradling my head, curled up on the bed, with images of Oswald and Lelia entwined together filling my mind.
“Oswald, I will make you regret it so much that you’d wish you were dead!” I spat out each word deliberately.
85.06%
