My Lucky Boyfriend(1)

Author: Chun Ya

1

Just as the train departed, my boyfriend, Henry Zimmer, suddenly turned around, held my face, and looked into my eyes. He used all his strength to speak to me, emphasizing every word. "I'm so lucky."

"Why are you saying that out of the blue?" I asked him with a smile.

"I've already gotten into this miserable state. It'll be hard for me to get back on my feet this lifetime, yet you didn't leave me and are even willing to accompany me to face everything. Tessa, I'm genuinely too lucky to be your boyfriend!"

Henry seldom said such mushy words. I surveyed him carefully. He still had terrifying wounds on his face. One of his eyes was swollen shut and there were blood stains on the corners of his mouth. Two of his teeth also fell off.

He had been beaten by the loan shark's debt collector the night before. Had I not given him the measly few hundred dollars I had to pay off his interest of that day, he would likely have been lying in the hospital at present.

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