Chapter 79: Life is like a Play
Chapter 79: Life is like a Play
Louis pursed his lips and gazed at her blushed cheek with his sharp eyes.
Her cheek looked pink and tender which made him really want to have a bite. Suddenly, he felt his
heart was pounding fast at that moment.
“But why those are only architectural sketches? You told me that you were drawing a picture of me...
Where is it?” Jessica opened her eyes wide and tried to find it out.
However, she didn’t see any picture of her at all!
When she flipped through the last pictures, he pointed at the screen coolly and Jessica looked at where
he was pointing, she found that in a drawing with a tall building, there was a pathetic dog lying on the
corner of the screen...
She was wide-eyed!
“A dog?”
She couldn’t believe what she saw so that she zoomed into the image and had a careful look at it
again.
It was indeed a poor dog that was lying on the ground feeling so wronged!
Jessica was in a rage suddenly.
“Louis Carter... What do you mean?”
But Louis raised his lips and looked so composed, “what do you think?”
“Damn it!” She threw the Sketchpad back to him angrily and chimed, “I’ve squatted under the burning
sun for four hours! And I’ve got sunburn! But you just drew such an ugly dog? You even drew a bone in
its mouth!”
All of a sudden, the good and touching feeling towards him all vanished because of that ugly dog he
drew!
She was staring at him as furious as a lion.
However, he was still deadpan and put back the Sketchpad into the backpack.
Then he pulled her up from the chair and ignored her glaring eyes.
He lay down and occupied the entire deck chair.
“Louis Carter!” Jessica was punching his chest, “you are such an asshole! Where are your manner?”
Louis snorted and then pulled her towards him.
Jessica fell into his arms and lay on his body.
Suddenly, the atmosphere was erotic...
She could feel that people around were peeking at them.
“Asshole! Lecher! Let go of me!” She was so embarrassed.
Louis snorted and placed his legs around hers and his arms around her back. He looked down at her
and grinned, “Why? You just lured me and seemed like that you are going to pay me back with a sex.
But why you are so nervous now?”
“Louis Carter, you went too far!”
She admitted that when she was in great danger, he saved her out like an angel. Any woman would be
touched by that.
However, after four hours’ exposure under such a scorching sun, he drew her as a dog!
How couldn’t she be angry?
The dog he drew was like a basin of cold water which had woken her up completely and stopped her
daydreaming.
She almost opened up to him and showed her true feeling deep in her mind to him without hiding it.
But, he saw her as a dog!
A dog that would obey what its owner said!
There seemed like a cut in her heart.
It seemed that she finally awoke from her dreams and saw through the facts. Her eyes turned darker.
“Asshole, piss off!” Jessica was angry and struggled to get rid of him.
Louis took a breath and wrapped his arms around her and threatened her in a low voice, “stop moving,
and don’t challenge my patience.”
She felt the coldness from her fingers.
“Louis Carter! You asshole! What do you think I am...?”
She punched and kicked him like a little lion but Louis could avoid each move of her.
They were in silence for a while but Jessica was still under his control.
Louis was a bit annoyed and he growled in a low voice, “What do you think you are?”
Jessica was breathless and sneered, “a dog! You think I am a dog and a toy, don’t you?”
He frowned but didn’t reply.
She thought he admitted.
She felt her heart was broken into pieces.
Jessica sneered bitterly.
The scene of a family of them which got in her mind was just her fantasy!
She almost indulged in his tenderness and she nearly misunderstood that she was the one he loved
and spoiled. She almost...
Everything was just her fantasy!
He was Louis Carter, the one who was always cruel and cool...
Everything was back to the starting point.
They were not on speaking terms when they were back from the Mediterranean Gold Coast.
The next day, they flew back to Chicago.
Keith was waiting for them when they landed off.
Louis was emotionless and got in the car. Jessica was holding her baggage and waited for a cab
outside the airport.
“Miss Wilson, don’t you get in the car?” Keith found something was wrong and asked her carefully.
Jessica didn’t reply.
After three seconds, Louis who looked as cold as ice and blurted out impatiently, “just go!”
Then Keith drove the car away...
Jessica was left alone at the gate of the airport.
The tears welled up her eyes when she saw the car disappeared in her sight.
The days in Barcelona were just like a dream and a play where he was gentle and she was innocent.
Life was like a play.
In their play, she could fully enjoy the moment she had words with him and acted cute to him. It
seemed that she had never been so free of worry in her life.
If they were how they were in the play, it would be so good.
She couldn’t help rubbing the pendant she was wearing and she felt it so real.
But she had to wake herself from the dream and was back to where she was.
She was just his toy after all.
Jessica thought that she didn’t have a right to be that pure and innocent since her life was such a
mess.
Right, she was daydreaming.
She bit her lips and then was about to raise her arms to catch a cab.
But suddenly, she heard a gentle voice from her back.
“Jessica?”
Her fingers couldn’t help trembling.
At the moment she heard such a warm voice, her back stiffened immediately but she didn’t dare to turn
around.
She even wanted to run away...
“Wait! Jessica!”
Her arm was grabbed by someone.
Then a fair and handsome face came into her sight...
Her heart was pounding so fast.
“Jeremy...” Her voice was nearly husky.
It had never occurred to her that she would come across him when she had been through hardship.
Jeremy was the one who had accompanied her in her youth. He looked even more gorgeous and taller
than he used to be.
“Why are you here alone? Are you going abroad?”
His voice which gently smoothed her heart was still so warm and soft.
He was the same as what he was five years ago. He wasn’t like a stranger to her and he would never
be false to her.
The moment he saw her, he showed his caring.
Jessica suddenly choked with a sob and her heart was in such a mess and all she could do was to hide
her true feeling since she didn’t want him to see her pain.
She tried hard to force herself to smile and greeted him like an old friend, “it’s been a long time,
Jeremy! I was just back to Chicago, how about you?”
Jeremy’s eyebrows furrowed and he slightly raised his eyebrows, and smiled at her but the smile was a
bit sorrowful.
“Yes, it’s been a long time since you don’t want to see me.” He answered gently but also bitterly.
She was a bit embarrassed and changed the topic immediately. “No, I don’t. How about you? Are you
going abroad? Then you should hurry up...”
Then she picked up the baggage and was about to run away...
Jeremy shouldn’t have shown up when she was in great pain... She would felt too shameless.
“Jessica.” Jeremy held her wrist firmly and said, “I was back a few days ago. But I need to fly to New
York City to deal with some problems.”
Jessica’s fingers were trembling slightly and her eyes turned darker. She didn’t know how she could
face him so she answered slightly, “well, it’s good...”
He was holding her wrist tighter but his voice was still gentle, “Jessica, we haven’t seen each other for
five years. You don’t have anything to say to me, do you?”
Jessica was so guilty when she saw his eyes which were as clean and pure as before.
Even though it had been five years, his eyes were still so clean. Owned by NôvelDrama.Org.
However, she wasn’t that innocent and pure ever.
“No, no...” She bit her lips but she still avoided looking into his eyes. “I am just a bit surprised.”
“Surprise? Because you come across me? But I am not surprised.” Jeremy said determinedly. Jessica
raised her head feeling shocked. “Because I always know that we will see each other again. No matter
how many years have passed, you are always in my mind...”
Her heart felt like being stabbed by something and she felt it so painful.
She was flurried and shook off his hands, “Jeremy... I am so happy to see you again, my friend. I miss
you too, and I miss our old friends...”
“Jessica!” He cut in and wanted to say something else. But he didn’t and let go of her hand. Then he
smiled politely, “really? You miss me? How have you been these five years?”
“Not... not bad.” Speaking of these five years, she would be too nervous to say a word and she would
stutter.
She might be able to tell others with a smile that her life these five years were not bad because she
had got her son who accompanied her all the time. However, she couldn’t tell the same to Jeremy...
Jeremy lapsed for silence for a while and gave a careful glance at her eyebrows then chimed in, “but I
am not good.”
Jessica drew a blank.
He smiled bitterly, “Jessica, my life without you these five years wasn’t good at all.”
She felt suffocation from her heart.
“Jeremy... No...” Her voice became husky.
He raised his fingers and rubbed gently her hair in front of her forehead then smile delighted but
gloomily, “but its fine. I know everything is going to be better...”
Then there was broadcast at the airport. “Ladies and Gentle, Flight cz5263 to New York City is now
boarding at Gate. Please take your belongings and show your boarding card. Thank you for
cooperation. Have a good flight.”
“It’s the flight to New York City. Jeremy, is that yours?”
He frowned and nodded.
“So... You’d better hurry up and check in.” She reminded him and she was afraid that she would waste
his time.