Hearing these words, Stuart smiled slightly, "That’s all right. You can stay here as long as you like. You can avoid facing the problem now. No matter what you want, I would not allow you to leave ."
He loved her, at any cost.
As long as she liked, as long as he had, he would give her everything, including his life.
They stayed out of the coffee house for quite a while, till those students got out of the coffee house and interrupted them.
Seeing them, Edie imdiately flushed, while Stuart remained so calm.
"We really don’t an to interrupt you. But we need to go ho now. We think we should tell you. Continue. But it is so cold at night. Take care."
"Conquer your wife."
"Co on. We are always behind you, Edie."
Then, they left happily.
Edie felt really embarrassed. She wished she could find a hole on the floor and hid on the floor.
"What do you think of their suggestion?"
"It is too late now. We need to go ho."
Now, she’s admitted in silence Stuart could sleep in the sa room with her now.
She still slept on the bed while he slept on the floor.
When she wanted to turn off the light, Stuart stopped her.
"I want to take a look at you."
"Haven’t you looked at before?"
"Yes. But I still want to look at you now," he just wanted to look at her before she turned off the light for no reason.
"You’ve got so weight. You finally got so weight. You looked like a bone before. Apparently, you are happy while staying here. You look more confident here."
"People here are humble. They would not gossip all the ti. See, kind landlord, cute students. I have things to do every day. I am busy. I believe I like life here. What about you? Do you like it?"
"I like whatever you like."
"Then, are you willing to live with here? We don’t need to run a shop. We can help in this store. Or we can go back to A to open a shop. We can run the shop together. What do you say?"
"I might not be able to quit the job in L.N now. I might not have too much ti to stay with you. Would you accept that?"
"I see...why couldn’t you quit the job?"
Hearing his words, Edie sounded a little disappointed. She didn’t know what he was doing in L.N., But he looked quite busy these days. While he was working, he seldom called and sent a text to her. She had no idea what he was busy in.
It seed that Stuart didn’t want to tell her. Edie didn’t want to ask him, either.
"Not now."
"Okay, then. I can wait till you have ti." though Edie sounded disappointed at the mont, she was still looking forward to their life in the future.
Stuart fell into silence. The room fell into silence.
Suddenly, Edie felt so cold.
She cuddled into a heap and closed her eyes tightly.
After quite a while, she heard Stuart said, "I am sorry."
Edie pretended to fall asleep. She didn’t dare to answer him.
The next morning, Edie got up at eight o’clock. Stuart has gotten out of the room. Mrs. Yang told her he’d been out to buy flowers.
Edie loved white roses. Though they looked like other roses, it was not the favorite of those flower shop. Because it was difficult to trim them. Seldom flower shops sold white roses.
Edie noticed the address of the flower shop on the card in the bunch of white roses Stuart gave her last ti. It was located downtown. It would take Stuart half of an hour to get there.
So, it would take him an hour to go there and co back. No wonder he left before eight o’clock.
Edie asked Mrs. Yang to allow her to use her kitchen for a while. He cooked for her so many tis. Now, since he’s gone to buy flowers for her, she wanted to cook for him for several days.
She went to the supermarket to buy so fungi and chicken as well as so soya beans. She planned to make porridge and fresh soya milk for him.
His stomach was so weak. He couldn’t eat any take-out food. Therefore, Edie wanted to try her best to cook for him.
At nine o’clock, the porridge was ready. When she placed a bowl of porridge on the table, Stuart returned back.
As usual, Edie opened the door for him and took a pair of slippers for him.
Seeing her, Stuart looked so surprised that he froze out of the door.
"What’s up?"
"I think I might be dreaming now."
Hearing his answer, Edie couldn’t help bursting into laughter, "It is not your dream. Co on. I’ve made breakfast."
"Why don’t you get more sleep?"
"I couldn’t see you these days when I get up. Today I want to see you in the morning. So I decided to get up one hour in advance. But I still couldn’t find you. I might need to get up earlier next ti."
"White roses for you," he passed a bunch of white roses to her. It slt so fragrant.
It was not the wild rose. Because wild roses only blossod in June and July. It was cultured.
But she was still so happy when she saw that bunch of white roses.
She held his hands and dragged him into the house, "Wild Rose is my mother’s favorite. I am familiar with everything about her. Now I like the sa thing she liked. She didn’t like flowers cultured in the greenhouse. On the contrary, she loved those wild beauty and wildflowers. Wild roses grew by roadsides, streams, jungles, and so on. They are featured with their strong vitality. Rose can blossom for a whole sumr. But those roses can only bloom once in a year. Though they were not as fragrant as those roses, my mother respected them for their low-profile and proud.
"Like you, low-profile and proud."
"Are you admiring or criticizing ?"
"Admiring you. Don’t you understand?" he said, showing an innocent expression on the face.
He blinked his black eyes.
Edie could see the confusion on his face.
He was really not good at admiring. His voice was flat. He talked like he was telling sothing boring.
Edie smiled for a while and asked him to have breakfast. The food would get cold soon.
In the middle, while they were having breakfast, Stuart’s phone rang.
He answered the phone. When hearing news from the other side, his face changed imdiately. Edie guessed he might be confronted with sothing difficult.
"Sorry. Dear, I need to go back now. Ivan has already co here to pick up."
"Now?"
"Yes."
He stood up. Edie took his coat and caught up with him.
Stuart stood at the door and held her body into his arms. Then he kissed her lips slightly.
"I would co again tonight. Wait here for ."
Then, he turned around and left.
However, he didn’t return back at night.
Edie called him. For the first ti, no one answered. The second ti, no one answered. The third ti, he finally answered the call.
He told Edie he had sothing to deal with tonight. He could not co to her tonight.
But he forgot to tell her.
After hearing these words, Edie asked him not to co if he had work to do. Then, she hangs up the phone imdiately.
Her hands holding the phone gradually cooled down.
Those cute students looked towards Edie together. Seeing the expression on Edie’s face, they started worrying about her, "What happened to your cute boy?"
"Would he co here today?"
"He would not co today, right? So sad."
"He would not co today. Yes, you are right."
Edie wanted to raise a smile at the corner of her mouth. But at the mont, the smile on her face looked uglier than her crying face.
Those students felt Edie’s sadness. They imdiately chose things they wanted to buy and paid the bill. Then they left imdiately, leaving Edie alone in the store, organizing those goods in the store.
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