“What makes you think I would go with you, Tammy Lynch?! You can just say you regret it? Who do you take me for?” Jun said proudly, “Back when we were together, I listened to you all the time, but it doesn’t mean that you are right about everything! It’s just because I love you that I stood by your actions, even when you were wrong!” “Then keep loving me!” Tammy felt a lump in her throat and shouted.
Everyone below the stage burst into laughter.
“Just look at you, Tammy Lynch! You are still as arrogant as ever. You have no respect for my ego!” Jun broke free from her hand and said, “You were the one who insisted on divorcing me and wouldn’t listen no matter how hard I begged. Now, you are asking me to ignore all your mistakes just because you say so? Impossible!”
“I’m sorry!” Tammy broke down in tears. “I apologize to you, Jun Hertz! I apologize, okay?” Averie’s heart ached when she heard Tammy crying. Just then, the screen of her phone lit up once again from another message Elyette sent her. ‘I can apologize to you in public as well.’
Averie’s face burned and swiftly moved her fingers across the screen to type. ‘Go ahead if you want to embarrass yourself. Don’t drag me along.’
She didn’t think that what was happening between Jun and Tammy was embarrassing; everyone had their own ways to handle issues and there were different degrees to what people could accept. She did not enjoy having her family and friends as audiences for her private matters. Jun took the microphone from the emcee and said, “Tammy Lynch, if we get back together, are you going to divorce me again?!”
He asked his question and directed the microphone at Tammy.
“…Never again! Jun, even if you don’t want me anymore in the future, I will never let go again!
“Are you going to find another guy just to annoy me again?!”
“Never! I won’t do that again!” Tammy cried out and threw herself into his arms, before wrapping her arms around him. Below the stage, Mike shouted, “Kiss! Kiss!”
No one else cheered along, because this was not what Jun’s parents had hoped to see. They had sincerely wanted their son to marry again and start a new life. On the other end, everyone on the bride’s side, except for the bride herself, was furious. Chad regretted sitting next to Mike. “Can’t you use that mouth of yours to eat?” “Ah! They are kissing!” Mike shouted in excitement, “Tammy initiated it!”
Had Jun been hesitant and upset before, all the hesitation had faded the moment Tammy kissed him, and he responded passionately. Shortly after, he took Tammy’s hand and went towards his parents. “Dad, Mom, I’m not getting married. It would be great if you can accept Tammy; if you can’t, then I will marry into her family instead.”
With that, he dragged Tammy away swiftly. Averie was relieved to see the two leave together, but at the same time, she looked over at the bride with concern.
“Don’t worry, Averie. The bride studied in the same elementary school as Jun. She knows that Jun is still in love with Tammy and has predicted this outcome. This is just her playing along with the plot for Jun. He will thank her properly later,” Ben explained.
Averie relaxed.
Though the wedding was called off, all the food was already on the table so there was no reason for the guests to noted eat.
After lunch, Averie planned on delivering Tammy’s purse but Ben immediately snatched it away from her. “Averie, Jun told us to go to his place later so I will pass Tammy her purse.”
Averie took out her phone awkwardly to send Tammy a message about this; by the time she was done, everyone was gone and Elyette was the only one standing by her side.
She went straight towards the elevator. “Elyette, stop sending me messages like that. I can’t give you another chance.” Elyette followed her into the elevator and asked, “Do you have any plans for the rest of the94 day?”
Averie s original plan was to accompany Tammy as she attended Jun’s wedding; with the wedding canceled and Tammy back together with Jun, she planned on heading home to sleep. *If you don’t have any plans, let’s hang out for a bit!” Elyette proposed, “I won’t make you do anything or force our children into acknowledging me as their father.” The elevator stopped at the first floor and the two stepped out of the hotel.
The weather was great. Though the temperature was not at all low, it wasd3 windy.
Averie was dressed in an emerald green vintage dress with a thin jacket on the outside. When the cold breeze blew by, she felt frozen to the bones. Elyette took his jacket off and rested it on her shoulders. *I’m not cold ” Averie noticed that he only had a shirt inside the jacket and immediately returned his jacket to him. “Neither am I.” He took her palm into his hands. His big, strong hands wrapped around her freezing hand with warmth She instantly blushed.
“You are weak to the cold during winter, why would you come out here baring your legs?” He placed the jacket on her once again and turned his attention to her smooth, fair legs.
She had been in a hurry when she headed out in the morning. Without paying much attention to the weather, she grabbed a jacket and left her house; apart from that, she had not intended on staying outside for long. “Let’s grab a cup of coffee!” He suggested, “I don’t want to.” She had too much to eat at lunch. “Let’s just walk!”
“Sure.”
With his jacket on her shoulders, she could sense his scent penetrating into her as he occupied her thoughts
If the man next to her wasn’t Elyette, she would definitely not remain out in the cold wind. “You have misunderstood me the last time we spoke on the phone,” he said, breaking the silence. “I didn’t mention Shea to evade the topic. I was sad that you said that.” Averie’s heart settled down at his low, husky voice, though she might have argued with him had he mentioned this on the phone.
“Why did you mention Shea then? Elyette, we aren’t kids anymore and I don’t enjoy guessing around.” She raised her leg and kicked at a small rock on the roadside. She had forgotten that she was wearing heels and stumbled, so she frantically grabbed onto his arm to steady herself and he immediately wrapped his arm around her.
Their faces were inches away from one another, close enough to easily read the emotions in each other’s eyes.
“Are your feet okay?” He swallowed hard and asked in a hoarse voice.
She immediately shoved his arm away and shook her head after regaining her balance.” Should be.”
“Let’s go get coffee.” After a moment of hesitation, he started looking around for a cafe.
“I don’t want coffee, Elyette.” She stood still and stared at his back. “If this was the past and you wanted coffee when I didn’t, I might have compromised, thinking that I can make you happy by obeying you on small things like that; but now, I don’t want to obey you against my will any longer.”
He was stunned by her words.
The reason he insisted on getting coffee was not because he actually wanted coffee, but because he didn’t want her to be exposed in the cold or stumble on her feeted again.
There was merely a meter between the two, which felt neither distant nor close. She did not walk towards him, and neither did he approach her. The wind was howling as though it was mocking the dilemma they werele in.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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