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Chapter 2

Author: Ink Brimm
All Gina did was massage her eyes after listening to me. She said softly, "I'm a little tired, Conrad. I'm really in no mood to think about this."

I believed her, and in the end, I quietly bought the gift box online.

Gina was never really tired. She just did not want to go through the trouble for me. I took a deep breath and stood up.

When Gina heard me standing up, she looked up at me. Her lips parted, looking like she wanted to say something to me. That was when Mike tugged on her arm. "The photo studio said they've introduced a new package. Which do you think we should choose?"

Gina paused a moment before turning to Mike.

I grabbed my bag and walked out the door to hail a taxi. When the taxi driver asked where I wanted to go, I realized I had nowhere to go after thinking about it for a long time. I had lived in this city for three years, but there was nowhere for me here.

In the end, I gave him my house address. I needed to close the door on all this.

I did not turn on the lights when I got home. I sat at the door and called the hotel's number to cancel the wedding venue. The front desk did a quick check and said, "Ms. Winston already canceled it last month.

All I could hear was buzzing in my ears. It felt like something exploded in my mind. My grip on the phone tightened.

"Did you make a mistake?" My heart sank. "Can you check again? It's Gina Winston. It's the wedding venue she booked."

"Sir, we refunded the deposit last month on the 17th. It's all in our records."

Last month on the 17th.

That night, Gina hugged me and told me that our wedding would be held in spring, and she wanted me to prepare for it. I believed her, and like the silly man I was, I ran around looking at locations, comparing prices, picking the flowers, and planning the wedding program.

When Gina hugged me that night with a smile, the wedding venue had been canceled for three whole days.

My phone slipped from my hands and smashed to the ground, leaving a crack on the screen, but I did not pick it up. I leaned against the door and slowly crouched on the floor. It took three tries for me to light my cigarette because my hands were trembling badly.

The door opened, and Gina walked in to turn on the lights.

She was taken aback to see me on the floor with the phone lying by my side. Gina came over and crouched next to me, reaching out to help me up. "Why didn't you turn the lights on? Have you had dinner?"

Gina poured a glass of water, making sure that the temperature was just right before handing it to me. This was how she had always been. No matter how late she returned home from work, the first thing she did when she walked through the door was approach me quietly to massage my shoulders and ask, "Are you hungry, Conrad?"

If I nodded, Gina would tie her hair up in a ponytail and head into the kitchen to make me something no matter how tired she was. When she came to me tonight, she was still holding the dessert she got for Mike to taste-test.

"You know everything now." Gina's voice was trembling slightly. "I was going to tell you about it, but you were so busy planning the wedding that I… I had no idea how to bring it up with you."

She paused for a moment. "I'll marry you. You're the one who will be my husband. As for Mike, I promise to settle whatever I have with him. After that—"

"That's enough," I cut her off. My voice sounded like it came from deep inside my chest.

When Gina and I first got together, we were so poor that all we had was each other. We wanted to build a life for ourselves in this city, and we rented a dark, damp basement to live together.

Gina would entertain clients late at night and drink until she was admitted to the hospital, just to make more sales.

I accompanied her through office buildings all over the city, wearing out two pairs of leather shoes.

There was one New Year's Eve when we were so broke that we could only afford a cheap burger between us. She broke it in half and gave me the bigger piece, holding my hand with tears in her eyes when she said to me, "I promise that you're the only one I'll love, Conrad."

Gina's eyes looked so bright then because she truly wanted to give me a happy future.

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