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She was styling her hair, applying foundation, drawing eyebrow lines…
On the way to the Morgan Family’s old house, my mother kept talking and laughing with
Lucia.
After receiving a call from John, Lucia’s smile quickly disappeared. She suggested that we take a taxi ourselves, but I refused. Only my car had AED emergency equipment and I couldn’t take this risk.
My mother saw Lucia’s anxiety and eagerness and winked at me. I had always been filial, so I didn’t dare to go against my mother’s wishes and finally got out of the car.
But I never expected that within a minute of getting off the car, my mother would suffer from heat stroke and cardiac arrest…
The more I thought about it, the colder my heart became and the more it hurt.
I wanted to slap myself in the face.
If I had been more resolute at that time, perhaps my mother would not have died.
Seeing that I had not spoken, Lucia lost her patience.
“Gerald, I am so disappointed in you. Well, since you like to get stuck in a dead end, I will let your mom judge and see who is right and who is wrong in this matter.”
Just as she picked up the phone, the ringtone suddenly rang.
A very special exclusive ringtone from her phone. It was exactly the same as the one I heard in the car on the Luminaria Festival.
Lucia’s expression changed slightly and she walked quickly to the balcony before answering the phone.
Some voices came faintly.
“Who are you? What? John is drunk and passed out on the roadside?”
“… OK, thank you, I’ll be there soon!”
Lucia left in a hurry. She didn’t even bother to explain to me.
Just as resolute and decisive as when she left me and my mother on the Luminaria
Festival.
Bitterness appeared on my face. No matter what time, John was irreplaceable in her mind. In this case, it was time for me to leave.
In addition to seeing me get married and have children, my mother’s most cherished wish before her death was to travel to Luxembourg. That was where she and my father first met and there were too many beautiful memories.
In order to take care of Lucia over the years, this wish has not been realized.
I decided to take my mother’s precious thing and take a trip around the world.
The last stop was in Luxembourg.
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While I was looking up information and searching for guides, John’s social media was updated again. I didn’t want to see it, but my fingers still clicked it.
In the first photo, Lucia, who had never been in the kitchen, was cooking noodles without touching the water. In the second photo, Lucia was feeding John noodles, her face was full of concern and heartache and tenderness that I had never seen before. In the third photo, Lucia was carefully cleaning the stains on the carpet and sofa.
My heart was once again filled with sorrow and bitterness.
Last Bloomhaven Festival, for an important project of Morgan Group, I drank three bottles of red wine with my clients and vomited all over the place.
Lucia looked at me drunk on the sofa and was at a loss and finally called my mother to help. While my mother was busy, she covered her nose and stood far away, disliking that my vomit was too smelly and too pungent.
But in front of John, she didn’t dislike it at all and was more considerate than a real wife. Lucia didn’t come back overnight and didn’t show up in the next few days.
I didn’t care about these and was busy preparing for my global trip.
On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Lucia’s secretary called and informed me that a new product launch conference would be held tomorrow.
I didn’t want to attend, but I agreed when I thought that this was the result of my hard work for many years.
After confirming my relationship with Lucia five years ago, I declined the high–paying position of the world’s top 500 companies and joined the Morgan Group.
