10
“Melody, are you still angry about Claire? I’ve told you, I only see her as a friend now, a colleague. Nothing has ever happened between us.” Does it have to involve sex to count as cheating? Zack, you should know there’s also emotional cheating, which I equally can’t accept.” Histone was as bitter as wormwood. I just went to your department looking for you. They said you’ve been transferred overseas. So you’ve really given up on me, haven’t you?
I didn’t speak
“Melody, can you give me one more chance? This time I promise you’ll be the only one that I love, I won’t spare a thought for Claire.”
So he did know where he went wrong. He had just been playing dumb with me all along.
I laughed lightly. “You can’t do it, and I no longer trust you.”
He cried, his voice wet, “Melody, I’m sorry. I’ve repeatedly broken your trust. I’m so sorry.
“okay, I dont care anymore. I don’t like you anymore.”
I thought, “So whether you keep your word or not, I no longer take it to heart”
He understood my Unspoken meaning, his sobe growing louder, like a vow.
Wody
want for you to come back, wait for you to change your mind… to pick me up again!”
Don’t bother wating I won’t take you back in this bletime”
I didnt give him a chance to speak again and hung up the phone.
I took out the SIM card, broke, and threw it in the trash as if I was also throwing away the unhappy past
In the foreign country on weekdays I worked hard with Lies to expand our business, and on weekends I explored beautiful
The passionate and carefree days submerger
wouldn’t deliberately forget, but I wouldn‘
Dast events, and Zack bec
SEMMISETA MUŞIISIT IEVA CHUCH
I didn’t know exactly what catalyzed it.
Three years later, naturally, Ryan and I got together.
Three months after that, I got pregnant.
To fit into a beautiful wedding dress, we hurriedly returned from abroad to hold the wedding. Fortunately, Ryan had already discussed it with his family, so it didn’t seem rushed.
On the day of my wedding, I saw Zack.
The sunlight quietly elongated his shadow.
It looked inexplicably lonely.
He didn’t come forward, just watching me from afar, his gaze as gentle as water.
I didn’t approach either, just nodded with a smile
Then, I let Ryan hold my hand, walking through the floral arch toward a brilliant, passionate future.
Watching the girl he loved walking further and further away, Zack finally clearly realized he could never win Melody back.
No, perhaps he had lost her the day Melody boarded the plane to Franconia
In these three years, Zack had completely cut ties with Claire and flown to Franconia more than ten times.
He wanted to win Melody back, but seeing how radiant she was after leaving him, he didn’t dare appear
After Melody left him, the smile on her face was so dazzling it captivated him.
He watched her become more and more excellent, watched her grow closer and closer to Ryan.
When Melody fell ill and Ryan took her to the hospital, staying with her all night, he finally understood what it felt like to be the one waiting.
At that time, Melody and Ryan still had a platonic relationship. Zack thought maintaining physical purity was loyalty to their feelings.
But it turned out that emotional cheating could still cause unbearable pain.
Just like how Melody and Ryan hadn’t been physically intimate, yet Zack was still jealous to the point of madness.
He always thought he held the dominant position in his relationship with Melody.
He thought he would always have the upper hand,
But at the moment Melody gave up on him, he finally understood.
The one who couldn’t let go was himself.
Melody was the string holding the kite in their relationship.
The string broke.
The kite lost its direction.
He could never go back again.
Zack soon left my wedding.
He left behind a box
Inside the box, besides the ring from his proposal, there was also a card.
The handwriting on the card was Zack’s.
“Melody, I will keep waiting, until you pick me up
Ryan, standing by my side, saw the words on the card too
He smiled confidently, pushed me down, avoiding my belly, and kissed me hard
Poor guy, he’ll keep waiting forever. I won’t give him the chance to win you back.”
But the next day, the ring box on the bedside table had varished
I smiled knowingly, having already guessed that Ryan wouldn’t let it remain peacefully in front of my eyes
And I, I didnt care where it was at all.
Whether it was in the trash can
Or in the dumpster
The past events had long since drifted away ike a light boat passing
