Chapter 13 Blood Roses
“So, you can’t even afford a meal, almost collapsing on the street, yet you gave all your money to them!”
Jamie deliberately lowered his voice, and I could sense care in his reproachful words.
The car came to a stop on the side of the road, and Jamie handed me the 100, 000 yuan he had just received.
“This was your money. I shouldn’t interfere, but I think you must return it back.”
“If you want to escape from your current life, you need to learn to love yourself!”
I looked at him, tears streaming down my face. “Who are you to lecture me? Who are you to me?” My face turned red, and something I had carefully maintained over the years seems to have been pierced by a needle.
My body had been touched by the dirty hands of many men, and I felt nothing, but at this moment, I felt a bruise on my self-esteem.
The man in front of me, mature and intelligent, seemed like a completely different person from the young delivery boy I had seen before.
We weren’t really familiar, but he seemed to understand me very well.
Without waiting for my questions, Jamie told me a lot of things that night in the parked car by the roadside.
The first time he saw me rushing towards him like a frightened little rabbit, he fell in love with me at that moment.
I didn’t even glance at him and hurriedly ran away.
Out of curiosity and an inexplicable attraction, he wanted to get to know me, understand me.
He traced where I worked and knew that I ordered takeout almost every night.
He applied for delivery orders specifically for the route I took, just to let me see him more often.
He noticed that I always threw away the flowers from the middle-aged man who drove me home but left behind the red roses.
He started pre-ordering roses for me, sending them every three days.
He thought I was a money-hungry woman until that night when I was about to faint from hunger.
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“I lack confidence.”
“Only today did I realize that the family you sacrificed for is the abyss of your downfall.”
Listening to Jamie’s candid words, I let down my guard.
I told him about my father’s incident when I was a child.
My father lost his life because of a phone call from me.
He said it wasn’t my fault, and I shouldn’t carry burdens that shouldn’t be mine to bear.
Jamie suggested I resign, and if I wanted, he would take me back to his hometown, where there was a plot of land he had once taken care of for his grandmother.
He said we could build a home there, and he would plant a whole area of roses that I loved at the entrance.
“Will I be happy?” I asked.
“Yes.”