เข้าสู่ระบบHarmonica Saint is terrified of being unable to make friends. Coupled with her crippling social anxiety, and her fear of moving away from her family to a new place for college, she is afraid she'd have no friends. But surprisingly on the first day, someone wants to be her friend…. It is just that this person is Rhett Lockhart, littered with tattoos and mysterious beyond compare, Harmony has a bad feeling about this friendship. After all, friends don't give other friends hickeys on their necks. Or do they? "So you thought our friendship was over because of that? Funny baby girl, what makes you think I'll let you go….. Just like that?" He said the words so gently as he always spoke, but it was his eyes that gave him away, those pitch-black eyes were raging with all kinds of intense emotion, each promising to swallow her whole.
ดูเพิ่มเติม「おめでとう、妊娠してる!……双子だよ!一条くん、きっと驚くね!」
専属医の三上先生の言葉が何度も頭の中で復唱されている。
「信じられない!嘘?本当に私のお腹に子どもが?しかも二人も!?」
嬉しいというよりも頭の中が真っ白だ。結婚して三年。妊活に励み子どもを授かることを待ちわびていた。ずっと、ずっと待ち望んでいた瞬間が今日、いきなり二倍になってやってきた。
病院からの帰り道、窓の景色を眺めながら私は夫の瑛斗に報告する場面を何度も想像した。彼のくしゃっと笑った顔。少し照れたような心の底から嬉しそうな顔。早くその顔が見たかった。
長年仕えている運転手が私の変化に気づき話しかけてきた。
「華お嬢様、何か良いことでもあったのですか?さきほどからとても幸せそうなお顔で微笑んでいらっしゃいますね。」
「ええ、とっても素敵で幸せなことがあったの。」
夫の一条瑛斗は、一条グループの若きCEO。切れ長の瞳、通った鼻筋、そしていつも自信に満ちた佇まい。初めて見た時、私はその完璧なまでのルックスに息を呑んだ。瑛斗のことを高校の時からずっと好きで初恋の人だった。
神宮寺家の令嬢である私は、父や祖父が決めた相手と結婚をしなくてはいけなかった。いわゆる「政略結婚」だ。家のために自分の気持ちとは関係なく結婚することは絶望的な未来に思えた。しかし、運命は残酷なだけではなかった。
お見合いの席で、一条家の御曹司として瑛斗が現れた時は信じられなくて言葉を失った。まさか初恋の相手が夫になるなんて想像もしていなかった。その夜、喜びと幸せで胸がいっぱいになり興奮して眠れなかった。こうして私たちは夫婦になった。
あれから三年。瑛斗は社長に就任して多忙な毎日を送っているが、私は初恋の相手瑛斗の妻になれたことに幸せを感じながら毎日を過ごしている。
(念願の妊娠だもん。こんな嬉しいニュースは直接伝えて瑛斗の喜ぶ顔が見たい)
病院を出てすぐに電話で報告しようと思ったが直接伝えることにした。
病院から帰ってきてすぐに瑛斗が好きなラザニアを作って帰りを待つことにした。もちろんソースは一から手作りだ。料理長の作るご飯も美味しいが、こんな特別な日は自分で作って瑛斗を喜ばせたかった。
(どんな顔をするだろう。どんな言葉をくれるだろう。)
ソースを煮込みながら、彼の喜ぶ姿とこれから始まる家族4人の生活を想像しながら彼の帰りを待っていた。出来立てを食べて欲しくて帰りが何時になるか連絡したが返事は来ない。ソファで待っているうちにうたた寝をしてしまい、車のエンジン音で目を覚ました時には既に22時を過ぎていた。
瑛斗を出迎えるため慌てて玄関へ向かう。
「おかえりなさい」
「ただいま。」
「なんだか疲れているみたいだけど大丈夫?」
「ああ。……話があるんだ。少しいいかな」
いつもより冷たく沈んだ声で瑛斗が静かに言った。疲れ切った様子の瑛斗だが、大人の男の色香をまとい、疲れた顔さえも魅力的だった。3年たった今でも瑛斗と目が合うとドキドキして胸が高鳴る。
表情がどこか硬い瑛斗の後ろを歩きリビングへ入った。
(仕事で疲れているのかもしれない。でも妊娠のことが分かったら気持ちも変わるかも!)
「先にご飯にする?今日ね、話をしたいことがあって瑛斗の好きなラザニアを作って待っていたんだ。」
「……そうやって機嫌でも取っているつもりなのか。」
「え……?」
瑛斗の言葉に耳を疑った。普段はそんなことを言う人ではない。頭の回転が早く、いつも冷静で落ち着いて、人が不快に思うような台詞は今まで一度も言ったことがないので信じられなかった。
「瑛斗、仕事で何か嫌なことや問題でもあったの?何か疲れている?私に出来ることがあるなら……」
ソファに座る瑛斗に近寄り、膝をついて手を重ねると怪訝そうな顔をしてすぐさま振り払った。
「触るな。もう放っておいてくれ。それよりここにサインをしてくれないか?」
彼は深くため息をついた後、鞄から一枚の白い封筒を取り出した。
何の書類か分からず受け取ったがタイトルを見た瞬間、頭の中が真っ白になった。
(なにこれ……)
【離婚協議書】 彼から渡された書類にはこう記されてあった。
"Yeah, I have a party tomorrow, I want you to come. My house."Harmony did in fact not like parties. There were so many people, with loud music everywhere. It was just iffy for her to even think of going to one.Or maybe you can blame it on movies like mean girls. She did start developing a phobia for parties after that one time in highschool that she got sprayed with a hose after trying to be normal and attending Bethel Madison's party.Bethel wasn't a very nice girl, and Harmony learned that day that Bethel didn't really like her even though she and Bethel had practically never had an interaction before that night.Anyway, Bethel showed her how much she didn't like Harmony with a hose that day. Everyone laughed and it was nothing but embarrassing.Since then Harmony learned for losers like her she was better left at home watching trashy early 2000s horror movies. Not that she even liked parties anyways.So the thought of attending Rhett's party didn't sit well with her. Of course al
If she placed the hand on her eyes longer then would it all be an imagination?Harmony's chest was rising and falling, and even though Harmony could tell it was in a slow and non-obvious motion, she still begged herself internally to calm down.But it was proving difficult too. Adding the piercing eyes in her direction, and one particularly hot one that was descended at her, and topping it off with the engulfing scent of musk that was pervading her senses."Harmony?" He repeated, and she could hear the confusion in his voice.Deciding it would be too much to shame herself more than she had already done, she slowly removed the hand from her face, allowing a shaky lopsided smile on her face."Hi," She muttered, her eyes looking in the direction of the cup on the table rather than the person in front of her.She felt that she must look like she was scrunching her face into a messed-up expression in her bid to look as natural as possible."Hello," She heard him reply, and this time she ga
Harmony felt she was so much calmer than she was when came to school yesterday. According to the TimeTable, she downloaded from Waylon University's student portal, she had THA101 first, and the venue was supposed to be somewhere called LR4 in the Theatre Arts department.She didn't know where that was, and the map at the school's gate she could not understand for shit, but luckily there was a glaring Banner with the Theatre Arts department written on it where she had dropped off."This school is really big," She muttered to herself as she entered the so-called Theater Arts department.Even though she had reached the department it was mainly still an open environment, though there were two huge buildings, one being in the middle and another at the side.Worst came to worst she presumed she would have to ask for directions from there. She decided to first enter the building at the side. The aroma of something tantalizing entered her nose and soon enough she realized this was most likel
The winds ushered itself inside the house through the open window. The black crow on the willow tree close to the house pierced its black eyes into the house. It seemed to be earnestly watching something inside the house, its beak once in a while crowed at the scene in front of it The moon outside was half full. It seemed to have descended closer to the earth, imposing greatly, winking at the green pastures below. It was a deep dark red while its other half hid inside a thick white fog that was the sky.The breeze danced with the green leaves that made up the floor outside, teasing them as it howled towards the house, slowly but surely the cold breeze danced towards the house, it's teasing play was no more as it banged the open window to spread wider, it's sudden intrusion made the 2 feet tall metal whistle jingle and chime.As the whistle aligned a gainst the beige wall jingled and chimed, a pair of round black eyes shot out from the clock on the shelf and darted towards the door, t






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