Armand said yes.
Hearing that the not-so-familiar maid called him Armand, he was disgusted. He was not close to her. Their relationship was just a boss and a maid.
“… Grandma, grandma is on the brim of death. Faster come back to visit her.” Dora stumbled.
Armand knew that it was a lie. She just wanted him to go back home.
At first, he wanted to visit her after going out for so many days. He did not expect that she was so anxious.
Armand said, “Ask grandma to pick up the call.”
“Okay… Cannot, grandma is not able to pick up.” Dora went back on her word after she agreed. It was obvious that someone was instigating her, that was why she behaved strangely. Armand stopped his car by the roadside, “Ask grandma to pick up the call. Tell her that I won’t go back if she doesn’t pick up the call.”
It seemed that the microphone of the phone was covered. Armand could only hear a brief noise and then there was no sound.
He was in no hurry, so he waited quietly.
After a while, the call was picked up by Elizabeth. She questioned him, “You don’t want your grandma after getting married, right?” Armand leant back in his chair. He looked outside of the window, “You sound energetic.”
Elizabeth stammered, “You want me to die?”
“No, I hope that you can live a long life. I’ll die first.” Armand had no choice but to hide himself from her.
Luckily, her legs had some problems, so she could not stir up huge trouble.
Knowing that Armand was hiding himself from her, Elizabeth lowered her voice, “Do you really want to abandon me?”
Armand was annoyed and said, “You raised me, how can I abandon you?”
“Then, you…”
“Grandma, I’ll go back to visit you tomorrow, I’m busy today, I’ll hang up now.”
He hung up immediately and switched off his phone to prevent her from calling him again. He did not wish to face her.
He sat inside his car for a while and then turned around his car to go back home.
Inside the house, Theresa sat on the hanging chair in the balcony. She looked at the fish in the fish tank boringly.
She curled her legs and took out her phone to send Oscar a text message, ‘What are you doing?’
Soon, Oscar replied, ‘Yo, why are you sending me a message?’
‘Why can’t I?’ Theresa replied.
‘Can, can, Uncle is always around.’
Theresa lowered her eyes and paused for a moment, ‘Uncle, I’m not happy.’
“Why are you feeling unhappy? Did Armand bully you?”
Theresa looked at her phone, she said after keeping silent for quite a while, “No.”
Her unhappiness was not caused by Armand; it was caused by the surroundings. After all, Armand’s grandma was still blocking between Armand and her although she was staying away from Armand’s grandma.
The child was the obstacle that they couldn’t overcome.
Oscar sent her a helpless emoji.
Oscar sent her a voice recording after a while, Theresa then clicked on it. She thought that Oscar was going to tell her something, but to her surprise, it was a piece of music.
The music was from the classic scene of Journey to the West, in which the Monk Pig was carrying his wife on his back, quite amusing.
Theresa pulled a wry face in a moment.
A message popped up again on the screen, “The Monk Pig was so happy even if he was carrying the monkey on his back, but you are unhappy all the time even if you have a handsome husband.” Theresa couldn’t help laughing, “Uncle, your comforting words are different from others.”
“Of course, I am what I am, the one and only me.”
Theresa laughed and replied quickly, “Are you really getting carried away?”
“Haha, isn’t it that uncle is trying to make you happy?”
Theresa replied, “I know.”
“Then please take good care of yourself since you know it, being angry will make you older, so you should laugh more. You will not want to look in the mirror anymore one day when there are wrinkles on your face like me.”
“There is no wrinkle on uncle’s face, there are just the marks left by the time.”
“You’re a good talker.”
“I’m just telling the truth.”
“I haven’t seen you for just a few days, you’re so sweet now.”
“I’ve learnt from uncle.”
“Haha, am I so good in teaching?”
“You look so happy, who are you chatting with?” Armand leaned against the door frame and looked at her.
He had come back for quite a while, and then he saw that Theresa was smiling while looking at her phone, so he was curious and didn’t disturb her. Theresa was so concentrated; she didn’t notice that he was back.
Theresa turned her head, staring at him surprisingly, “Isn’t it that you had gone back home already?”
Armand walked toward her and said, “I’m back because I’m worried that you may be boring.” His eyes fell on Theresa’s phone screen when he was talking.
Theresa kept her phone when she noticed that Armand was looking at it, she then stood up from the hanging chair and said, “Shall we go for a movie?” Armand kept silent while looking at her.
Theresa frowned, “Why are you looking at me?”
Armand lowered his eyes and said, “Nothing.”
Indeed, he wanted to ask, ‘Are you unhappy when staying with me? If not, why you have never laughed so happily in front of me?’
However, when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he noticed that Theresa was unhappy because of the pressure from his family.
If he put himself in her shoes, he wouldn’t feel happy as well.
Therefore, he didn’t ask.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.