Also, from now on, both husband and wife must unconditionally trust each other, never again overthink or make wild guesses. If either side violates this, the other side will accept that party’s "cruel" punishnt.
After reading the supplentary clauses of the agreent, Christine Quinn stood there for a long ti, unable to co back to her senses.
The tears in Christine’s eyes had already dried; she stared at Skyler Jones in disbelief.
A bright, burning light rose in Oversky’s eyes. He cupped her hands in his and held them tightly. "I ca to find you wanting to settle the score between us, but I realized that no matter how I tried, I couldn’t make it add up... So, forget the accounts. What you owe , you can pay back with the rest of your life by giving yourself to ."
Christine’s eyes widened again; she stared at him in utter disbelief.
Faced with this sudden, complete reversal, she didn’t even have ti to react!
What did he just say?
Did he an that they were going to go on together?
"You..."
"Yes, I decided to cling to you a long ti ago. Have you forgotten?"
She looked at him, sob after sob spilling out. She fixed her gaze on his handso face and, in his eyes, found love and tenderness.
She loved him so much. If she truly lost him, how desperate and in how much pain would she be. She needed him so much...
"So you didn’t co today to sign the divorce papers with , you ca to..."
He chuckled softly, stroking her long hair. "I ca to take you ho, baby."
Christine stared blankly at Oversky’s handso features, still unable to believe this sudden change in front of her.
Oversky gently pulled Christine into his arms and, with a big, warm hand, tenderly stroked her thin back. "Since it was a misunderstanding, we just need to clear it up... After everything we’ve gone through, in the days ahead, we’ll only treasure each other more."
Leaning against Oversky’s warm, solid chest, Christine didn’t want to let go at all...
Yet the inexplicable sour ache in her heart slowly made her push him away.
He was a bit surprised that she pushed him back and frowned as he looked at her.
Christine lowered her head, swallowed down the lump in her throat, then spoke to him in a solemn tone. "Oversky, have you really thought this through?"
"Christine..."
Oversky reached out, wanting to hold Christine, but she stepped back.
Christine widened the distance between herself and Oversky. Her reddened eyes looked at him sadly. "Are you sure you still want to keep walking this road with ?"
"Of course!"
"But we’re still going to run into so many, so many problems..."
"We can solve anything." Oversky promised.
"But Oversky, have you ever thought... that after we get back together, there actually won’t be many truly happy days? What we’ll feel most of the ti is exhaustion."
Christine’s words made Oversky pause for a mont.
Christine turned her back to him, no longer facing Oversky, and spoke on her own. "Oversky... after you got back together with , a lot of the feelings you had changed... Just like you told before: I’m no longer pure, no longer kind. I’m deep, I sche. I’m completely different from who I was at seventeen..."
Oversky sighed lightly. "Christine, I admit, you have changed a lot from when you were seventeen... But as the years pass, it’s not just you who’s changed. I have too. I shouldn’t have one‑sidedly blad you for changing. Please forgive how immature I was back then... I’ve lived this long, and emotions have always been my weakest point."
Christine shook her head. "I know you very well... Actually, right from the beginning, when we first started getting along, you already realized that being with wasn’t as happy as you had imagined. You traced it back to the root and finally realized that because ti had passed, you and I had both undergone huge changes... Even though we still loved each other deeply, when we were together, we could no longer find that feeling from the past."
"Christine, my feelings for you haven’t changed..." Oversky confessed hoarsely.
"You haven’t changed... but you also have to admit that you don’t feel that much for the Christine Quinn standing in front of you now."
Christine’s words once again left Oversky stunned.
Christine slowly turned around to face Oversky’s grave face, and rasped out, "Oversky, let’s just let each other go..."
Oversky shook his head.
Christine spoke through the sourness in her chest, "Please don’t stay with just out of responsibility anymore..."
Oversky’s expression grew darker and darker; his gaze on her was deep and shadowed.
eting his pitch‑black eyes, as deep as a pool, Christine spoke slowly. "Even though I misunderstood you about you and Jennifer Douglas, a woman’s intuition isn’t wrong... You’ve always hoped to find that old feeling from back then in . But early on, when we first started being together, you already realized that the standing in front of you is no longer that girl you liked back then, and that you could never get back that beautiful feeling from those days... But you’re a very responsible man. Whether it’s Marie, or all the suffering I went through for you over those years, you know very clearly that you owe a responsibility. You can’t abandon , because all the unhappiness in my life has co from you, and your family and friends won’t let you abandon either."
"Why would you think like this?"
Oversky tried to walk toward Christine, but she had already stepped back, keeping her distance from him.
Christine kept shaking her head and retreating, until her body pressed up against the wall. "Oversky, I’m begging you, don’t give pity, don’t pretend to deeply love the I am now, and don’t pretend that you’re very happy being with ... I know you do all of this for my sake, but do you know that while I’m pretending to enjoy your pampering, I’m actually not living happily either..."
Oversky finally stopped moving forward. The heaviness in his expression revealed his present anxiety.
Christine stared blankly at Oversky, and spoke through the ache in her heart. "Go and look for your own happiness... Don’t waste any more ti on . I’ve never blad you for the past, and I never asked you to take responsibility. Everything I did was sothing I was willing to do for you from the bottom of my heart. You truly don’t need to feel guilty toward ."
"From now on, we can face and solve all our problems together..." Oversky’s voice was hoarse.
He had admitted it... He had finally admitted it.
That the love and tenderness he gave her was, in truth, more out of responsibility.
In this life, there was no way he could ever treat her badly. He was that kind of devoted, loyal man.
Her heart hurt as if it were being sliced open by a knife...
Christine was almost choked speechless, but she still faced him with the strongest posture she could muster. "If we were really capable of solving problems together, we wouldn’t have had so many argunts in the first place..."
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