He knew that Theresa was having great pressure to stay with him, but he couldn’t do anything for her.
“Theresa, if you feel that you’re too tired, I…” He paused when he wanted to say that he would let her go. It was easy to think in his mind, but he realized that it was not so easy when he wanted to say it out, he looked up, “I’m unwilling to let you go.”
Theresa seemed to be realizing the contradiction in him, she looked into his eyes and said, “I know.”
“I’ll do good and accumulate the merits in the future, I hope that the god will have mercy on us and let us have a child successfully, so that we won’t have to worry about the child again.” Armand took her into his arms.
Theresa leaned in his arms, “Let’s go out.”
Armand agreed, they went to have a meal, then a movie which was popular recently, there were lots of people there.
Most of the movies nowadays liked to include some sentiment scenes, so those who were sensitive would shed tears in the cinema.
Theresa was also considered sensitive, Armand told her that she would cry because she was a woman.
“Don’t men cry?” Theresa gave him a dirty look.
Armand said, “Men will also cry, but it’s more difficult, this kind of sentiment scene still can’t make me cry.”
Theresa took his arm and bit hard on it, Armand didn’t move, he just frowned slightly, it was painful.
Theresa felt unhappy and she was venting on him, but she didn’t notice of her strength. She only realized it when her mouth was full of the scent of blood, then she immediately let go of his arm. There was a deep row of teeth marks, some sites were bleeding.
“Why don’t you tell me that it’s painful?” Theresa asked.
Armand said, “It’s not painful, why should I say that it’s painful?”
Theresa was speechless.
“It’s not painful, right? Okay, then I will bite you again!” Theresa pulled his arm, pretending that she wanted to bite him again, but Armand still didn’t move, he said, “I’ll make it as the marks left by you. I’ll go to the tattoo studio and have the teeth marks tattooed on my arm, is it okay?”
“Are you a freak?” Theresa couldn’t understand his thinking at all. ‘He is a lawyer, having a tattoo on his arm will make other people feel that he is not a serious lawyer when seeing it. Some more, the teeth marks don’t look nice. What it will be like to have a circle tattooed on his arm?’
“You can if you want to have a tattoo, just have me tattooed on your heart!” Theresa pointed at his chest.
Armand laughed and grabbed her hand which was pointing at his chest; he held it tightly in his hand and kissed it. He put one of his arms around Theresa while another hand in the pocket, then he talked while he walked, “Let’s go find a tattoo studio and have you tattooed on my heart, I’ll let the tattooist use the best tattoo ink, which cannot be removed using any methods.”
“Do they have that kind of ink?” Theresa continued his words and chartered.
“We can go and ask,” Armand said smilingly.
Theresa was not willing to go, “Will they think that you’re crazy?”
Armand said, “Do I look like a crazy person?”
Theresa looked him up and down, then she curled her lips, “You look like a crazy person entirely!”
She ran away quickly after saying this, Armand then chased her, “Don’t run.”
“No.” Theresa turned her head to see him while running.
Armand ran very fast and caught her finally.
‘Ah…’
Armand hugged her from her back, “You can’t run already, right?” His lips touched her face while he was talking; Theresa then pushed his face and said, “We’re in the public.” “But we didn’t do anything.”
Armand put his arm around her waist, “Let’s go home.”
Theresa said, “Let’s walk back; I want to take a walk.”
Armand agreed since their home was not too far away.
They reached the entrance of their residential area after walking for approximately thirty minutes; they could see from far away that there were two familiar people walking around in front of the entrance. Theresa touched Armand, she pointed at the entrance and asked, “Is it them who are in front of the entrance?”
Armand looked toward the direction pointed by Theresa, the people who were walking around in front of the entrance, were his litigants. He had taken the case, so the mother and younger brother of the deceased were his current litigants.
Theresa glanced at him, “Are they looking for you because they need your help?”
“Perhaps.” Armand held Theresa’s hand and crossed the road, walking toward them.
“Mr. Bernie.” The woman and her son walked in front when they saw him.
“What’s the matter?” Armand asked.
The woman looked ghastly, and his son didn’t look well too, they were looking at Armand and it seemed like they found it difficult to start the conversation. “Hmm…Mr. Bernie, it’s because…”
Her son pulled her arm when the woman stuttered, “Let me tell Mr. Bernie.”
Armand looked at him.
“It’s because we don’t want to litigate and sue them anymore.” The person who talked was the woman’s son.
“Why?” Armand couldn’t understand. ‘They were so angry before this, they wanted to seek justice for the deceased even if they were going to lose everything, but they had changed their opinion so sudden?’ “There is no reason; we don’t want to sue them anymore.” He then pulled the woman and left after saying these.
Armand didn’t move, he had some guesses in his mind, perhaps they were forced by the power of the Day family. He had taken this case under the pressure from those lawyers in the firm, just because he wanted to help them, but they had withdrawn when he hadn’t even withdrawn.
The woman pulled her son when she had walked for a distance, she then came back and bowed toward Armand, “Thank you for taking our case, there are so many people who are worried of getting into troubles, so they are staying away from us as far as possible. We don’t want to sue them anymore, not because we don’t hate them, but it’s because we still have to move on with our lives, or else we can’t continue our life.”
The tears dropped again when the woman talked. They were just from a normal family; the Day family had married her daughter during that time, just because her daughter looked pretty.
Now, the Day family knew that they wanted to sue them and expose this matter to the public, so the Day family had put pressure on them, causing her son and daughter-in-law to lose their jobs already. “We can’t offend the Day family. It’s fine to let us suffer from injustice, but my grandson is still young, and he still need to study and have a bright future. We can’t make those who are still alive suffer for a person who had died, so we don’t want to sue them anymore.” The woman wiped her tears away and looked up at Armand, “I still want to thank you.”
He was willing to help them even if he knew that this was a difficult case. Just for this reason, she was extremely grateful to Armand.
“The reason that my grandson could study at Pearl School was because of the help from the Day family, but now my grandson may be expelled from the school anytime,” the woman said resignedly. They could only give in now, her daughter had gone, and she couldn’t let her grandson lose his future anymore.
They still wanted to continue their life, they wouldn’t be able to continue their life here if they were to vex the Day family.
They didn’t wish to make a concession, but this world was based on the survival of the fittest, did justice really exist all the time?
Armand said, “I understand.”
“Thank you.” The woman thanked Armand again sincerely. Their relatives who were not so close with them, were all staying away from them because they were worried of getting into troubles. During that time when her daughter just married into the Day family, those unfamiliar relatives had also come to them, but now they had disappeared completely.
The fickleness of human nature, there were many people who would stay closer with you when you were glorious. However, there would be little of them who would help you when you were poor. This was the human nature, there was no one to blame.
“Don’t mention it, I didn’t do anything,” Armand said, “Since you have decided in this way, I won’t intervene anymore, take care.”
“Thank you, Mr. Bernie, I…” The woman’s son said but hesitated, “I’m useless.”
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.