No One But You

I felt that if I struck him, I would get my hands dirty.

I don't know when Daniel became like this.

It seemed to be too hasty for me and him from love to get a license for a year.

I shook off his hand and strode over to his house.

He followed me, brainwashing me along the way, "My mother cooked a lot of food to welcome your parents today. It's hard for her to do that."

Yeah, she never liked me, so when we got married and the parents met, she kept a cool face.

My mother advised me that because Daniel's mother had raised him up alone, and now he was married, there was always a sense of loss. She asked me not to mind it.

I didn't mind these little things, but his mother cooked lots of dishes today not because she had a conscience, but because did it for her son.

"Did you kneel to your mother many times in private?" I saw with my own eyes, Daniel knelt in front of his mother to beg for forgiveness.

Such mother-child relationship was relatively rare to see.

"Anyway, Josephine, don't be angry. If you're in a bad mood, you know my mother's temper. If she tells your parents everything and they find out you're having someone else's baby, they will be shameless." As I looked at Daniel, my anger had peaked.

If it weren't for the law, I'd shoot him.

However, I didn't argue with them that it was because him that I got pregnant. I just looked at him, "Daniel, you know my personality. Even they know about it, they are my parents, they will understand me, but you will have no way back.

"Josephine." He suddenly plumped down on his knees in front of me, clutching my hand and ignoring the passers-by who were watching us.

"Get up." I looked down at the top of his head through gritted teeth. "You are embarrassing me."

"Josephine, I know you're mad at me, but you had no idea what was going on that day, and I was afraid you might be worried, so I did not tell you," he said.

"Fuck off. I don't want to know what happened." I gave him an impatient kick.

"Look, look." He suddenly uncovered his clothes, revealing two black and purple shoulder blades. "It's been more than a month, and those people aren't people at all."

I looked at his back in surprise and forgot to pull him up. "How did that happen?"

"That night, after we had dinner and you were too drunk, when I was going to take you home, they approached me and asked me to leave you, of course I said no. They directly took both of my arms off without a word."

"Took off?"

"Dislocated, both arms were dislocated. It was so painful!" He raised his arm. "I'm no match for them," he said, "They're professional. They can squeeze me to die with their little fingers. I could only watch them take you away."

"You mean I was robbed?"

"Yes."

I stared at him and almost believed him.

"I was taken away, why didn't you call the police? And you didn't tell me afterwards. And then you hid it from me, asked me to give birth to the kid and took you a million?"

"Those people are powerful. If I called the police, you would be in danger. When you woke up and seemed not to remember what happened that night, so I did not say anything, lest it would leave a shadow in your heart."

"That is very touching. Should I be moved?" I took a step back. "Stay on your knees if you want to!"

Then I turned around and I heard him get up to keep up.

He grabbed my hand. "Josephine, you are the victim, but I am the one who suffers the most. Do you think it's good for me that my wife is pregnant with someone else's child? But things have come to this and we just have to accept it. So what if you have the kid aborted? It's all happened, and if they give us the money, we deserve it, why not take it?"

What Daniel said was very reasonable. Anyway thing happened, it would be useless to call the police. Why don't we take that person's money?

I began to admire Daniel's eloquence, he always failed to quarrel with me, but he said plausibly with the evil theory.

"You only want to absolve yourself of the responsibility of saying that you did not sell me. Then I ask you, who is it?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. I haven't seen the boss behind the scenes, but I can responsibly tell you, it was absolutely not Calvin. It has nothing good if you stay with him."

"Not only I will stay with him, but also I'll marry him and have the child."

He stared at me dumbstruck. "You're crazy," he said, "You hate evil so much. How will you be willing to marry the man who buys you?"

"Didn't you say it wasn't him?"

"You think it's him!"

"At least he is willing to buy me. Buy you sold me!" I did not want to talk with him anymore and shook off his hand, "You deserve!"

I walked into his front door and smelt the fragrance as soon as I got in.

My parents and Daniel's mother were sitting around the table, giving me the illusion of happiness.

Seeing me, Daniel's mother was stunned for a moment. Then she stood up and came to me, saying, "Josephine, you are back. Come in."

She had never been so warm to me. It was a real first.

I bent down and pulled open the shoe cabinet, but I couldn't find my slippers.

I was stunned and later understood. I raised head and said with a smile, "Grace, did you throw away my slipper?"

She was embarrassed and immediately took off her slippers, "Take mine!"

I looked at her fake smile, "Can I not take off shoes?"

Her floor was shiny. Every day she devoted herself to cleaning and making the house bright.

It was a good thing to love cleanliness, but I suffered a lot from Daniel's mother before because of hygiene.

I put my shoes on the floor of his house, and I knew that Daniel's mother's heart was bleeding.

I went to my parents and found there was a wine glass in front of my father. He had a bad heart, and my mother stopped him from drinking for a long time.

I removed the wine glass in front of him. "Don't drink if you have a bad heart."

"I am happy today." My dad brought it back. "I'll have a small glass today," he said. "I'll have more on your wedding day."

My mother clutched my hand, with eyes flashed gratified smile, "You look good, I can rest assured now. Your mother-in-law have taken care of you well, you should be filial to her."

I smiled and gave my mother a prawn, put it into her bowl, "Thank you."

She didn't understand and bent down to take a bite.

The cooking of Daniel' mother was a little salty, because Daniel had a strong taste, so she cooked every dish very salty, although my taste was light.

She never thought about me. In her mind, I was not as good as a fingernail of her son.

She suddenly gave me a piece of fish meat, "Josephine, you like to eat the fish face meat. You know how to eat, this is the best for the whole fish. Daniel is reluctant to eat, every time he leaves to you."

I smiled faintly, put the fish face meat into my mouth, "Yes, eating will repair where is painful, and my face is in pain."☐☐☐☐☐