“Agree to what?” Geff suddenly pushed the hospital room door open.
I did not know how much he had heard, so I quickly hung up the phone in panic.
His eyes went to where I hid my phone, then he coldly looked away.
Seeing him like this, I suddenly felt my actions were silly. After all, why would he care?
“The doctor said you need to walk more during recovery. Get ready. I will send someone to pick you up later.”
I stared at him in a daze for a few seconds. But very soon, the little hope in my heart was crushed again because I saw Elise in the car.
She was sitting in the front passenger seat, smiling warmly and waving at me.
She looked completely different from the cruel face she showed when I woke up.
Geff’s calm voice came from the side. “You should thank Elise. She said she felt lonely and wanted you to keep her company…”
His sharp gaze fell on me. “Otherwise, I would never give you another chance to get close to her.”
Elise gently tapped the man’s arm and pretended to be upset. “Geff, did I not tell you? That whole thing was because Tyara was too scared. She did not mean it. Do not be so harsh to her.”
Geff’s voice softened at once. “Alright, alright, my fault, my darling. I was just afraid she might hurt you again.”
“With you here, no one can hurt me.”
I stood there, biting my lower lip hard. Watching how close they were, it felt like my heart was suddenly emptied.
It was as if an ice spike had gone through me — cold and painful.
In ten years of marriage, I had tried to be close to him before. But every time, he would say, “Tyara, as Mrs. Sincle, you should be proper and dignified. You should know manners, not act like a bar girl who cannot control herself when she sees a man.”
That sentence made me sad for a long time. But in the end, I convinced myself that maybe he just needed a proper wife who would support him and help him.
Now I saw Elise clinging to him like a spoiled little cat, and Geff calling her “my darling,” with love clearly shining in his eyes.
So even someone as proud and distant as Geff would lower his head for a woman he truly loved.
I did not know how I ended up sitting in the back seat of the car. By the time I came back to my senses, I was already in a wedding dress shop.
Elise looked like a child, marveling at how beautiful every wedding dress was.
Geff followed behind her, answering her again and again without any impatience.
That scene made it look like they were a real engaged couple, and I was just an unimportant outsider.
“Tyara!”
Elise did not want me to disappear like that.
She ran to me with a bright smile. “Tyara, what kind of wedding dress did you wear when you married Geff? Was it pretty?”
She looked so innocent, but every word felt like a needle stabbing into my heart.
“She never wore a wedding dress.”
I looked up at Geff in shock. The careless look on his face made my heart sink even colder. That was true.
When I first asked Geff to go see wedding dresses with me and full of hope, he pushed me away. “Tyara, the company is growing. I want to put all the money into the business. We already registered the marriage, so we can have the wedding later.”
With that one word “later,” he delayed it for ten years.
Elise pretended to be surprised, her face full of apology. “I am sorry, Tyara. I did not know…”
Geff quickly comforted the woman in his arms in a gentle voice. “It has nothing to do with you. If she really wants a wedding, I will give her one.”
I could not help letting out a cold laugh. So that was what he called “giving.”
I looked at the loving couple in front of me and smiled lightly. There was no warmth in my eyes, but in a corner no one could see, my hands were trembling.
After a moment, I looked into Geff’s eyes and slowly said, “No need. It is a waste of money.”
