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The room fell into an awkward silence.
Rocco’s brow furrowed, and his eyes showed a hint of anger.
He said in a gruff voice, “Lauren, I don’t like that joke.”
I smiled at him and didn’t want to explain it.
Right then, Helen walked over with a glass of wine.
Suddenly, she tripped, maybe on purpose, and spilled all the wine on me.
She covered her mouth and said in a soft voice, “That was clumsy of me. Are you OK, Lauren?”
Rocco glanced at me with a long face.
“It’s not your fault. She’s in your way.”
“Rocco, what are you talking about? What does it have anything to do with Laurie?”
Joyce came in front of me and spoke for me.
“Aren’t you always on her side? Why are you so cranky today?”
She was about to say something more when I stopped her.
“Never mind, Joyce. It doesn’t matter.”
Then, I ignored Rocco and went to the restroom for cleaning.
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In the mirror of the restroom, I saw Helen’s face,
She was standing behind me with a provocative look.
“Rocco said that a woman had simped over him for 5 years, That’s you, right?
“Do you know how he described you? She said you were scary and like the shadow he couldn’t get rid of,”
Although I’d decided to move on, my heart still ached for the
harsh comment.
I took a deep breath and turned around.
“Yeah? Then I hope you can be with him longer than I was!”
Helen’s smug look faded away, and her beautiful face began twisting.
Suddenly, she grabbed my hand and smiled maliciously.
“It’s just 5 years. Don’t forget you got dumped.
“Lauren, the one who becomes Rocco’s wife has to be me!”
When Rocco came, he only saw I slapped Helen hard.
“Rocco, I just wanted to apologize to her. But she…”
Helen covered her cheek with a pitiful look, tears welling up in
her eyes.
Rocco looked at me with a calm face and asked, “You slapped her?”
I could feel the pain in my palm. To set me up, Helen was
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horrible to herself.
I looked Rocco in the eye. “What if I said no?”
Rocco stared at me in silence. After some moments, he
smiled.
“Lauren, you are supposed to be a good girl.
“But you lied about that and even your marriage.
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“If you were getting married, did your husband know that you’d slap a woman because another man made you jealous?”
He seemed to be in a good mood, raising Helen’s chin with one hand and rubbing her cheek with his fingertip.
“Such a beautiful face can’t be disfigured. Let’s go. I’ll take you to the hospital.”
He wrapped his arm around Helen and was about to leave when I said, “Hold on.”
Rocco turned around and arched a brow at me.
I walked to him and opened my hand.
“Give the bracelet back.”
I meant the beaded bracelet on his wrist.
I made the beads myself when I was younger. He wore it wherever he went.
Rocco’s smile faded away. With knitted brows, he gazed at me in silence.
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He looked like he would go ballistic anytime, so Helen was so scared that she was silent too.
All of a sudden, Rocco chuckled.
He raised his wrist and asked, “You mean this crap? I’ve been thinking of getting rid of it.”
Then, he jerked it, and the beading wire left a red mark on his wrist.
He flung the bracelet to the ground. The beads fell off and bounced on the floor, giving clatters.
“Go pick them up yourself,” Rocco said in a cold voice before lifting Helen in his arms and striding out.
I looked down at the beads.
I thought I owed myself a closure, but it didn’t seem necessary now.
Thus, I took a deep breath and walked over the beads.
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