Chapter 57 Breakup
For a while, Lucia just looked at Arthur, not saying anything, not answering.
Arthur couldn’t understand Lucia’s strange behavior and indifferent attitude, and she obviously had no intention of talking yet, so he took a deep breath and decided to ask some questions that he was eager to know first:
“You know when I went back to USA, right?”
“I know.” It was a while before Lucia finally spoke up and answered.
“Know why you didn’t contact me.” Arthur then asked.
Lucia was silent again.
Arthur asked again, “Have you and Theodore been safe all this time?”
“Hmm.” Lucia replied with a nod.
“Where’s the baby?” Arthur asked again.
“Asleep, you talk a little less.” Mentioning Theodore, Lucia’s words only seemed to become more frequent, and Arthur seized the opportunity to speak again.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.
“Why haven’t you been in touch with me?”
This time, Lucia chose to be silent again. Smart as Arthur soon found out, Lucia was not unwilling to talk to herself, but just kept avoiding talking about the lost connection.
“Don’t you have something to say to me? Say it. …”
“Arthur, let’s break up.” There was no light or shadow in the starry eyes, and Lucia just staggeringly threw the knife of heart dissection at Arthur without warning.
“What did you say?” Arthur heard the words, but he didn’t believe them.
Lucia lowered her eyes, her lips quirked a few times, wanting to speak, for a while before repeating again: “I said, let’s break up.”
Lucia’s words just fell, only to see a movement in front of him, the next second he fell into Arthur’s arms, and he stared at himself with dead eyes, said in a cold voice:
“What did you just say?! Say it again!”
Lucia looked away, she was a little afraid to look at Arthur’s eyes at that moment, but the next moment her own jaw was snapped.
Arthur used brute force to make Lucia turn back to meet his own eyes again, insisting that she say the words again, because even with a million uncertainties and impossibilities, Arthur never thought Lucia would say that to herself!
They had just established their relationship not long ago, they were intensely affectionate, they were getting more and more affectionate, did all those feelings dissipate just because of the separation of just ten days or so!
Not to mention ghosts, Arthur himself does not believe!
Forced to meet Arthur’s burning and questioning eyes, Lucia’s face indifference finally appeared cracks, but she seems to be holding back a strong general, even if the eyes become weak, but still insisted on repeating the words that make Arthur broken:
“I said … let’s break up …”
Only this time, her voice was low and weak.
Arthur Tulane let go of Lucia, turned around and bent his head, the heart of the bitterness of the unspeakable Shang, ‘break up’ the word, she said three times, she is not joking …
Seeing Arthur’s sudden negative posture, out of his sight, Lucia
Tightly bite their lower lip, starry-eyed indifference instantly replaced by bitterness, just these, can not be noticedby Arthur.
Just as the air fell into a dead silence, a confused child’s voice rang out in the direction of the bedroom: “Daddy, you’re home?”
It turns out that just now Arthur emotionally unable to control the volume, questioning the words woke up the room sleeping Theodore, Theodore heard what seemed to be Arthur’s voice, even if sleepy and also got up, at this time is rubbing his eyes standing in the living room entrance to ask Arthur.
As soon as he saw Theodore, Arthur stood up and walked over to pick him up in his arms, looking at his son with heartfelt eyes.
Arthur turned his head to look at Lucia, only to see that Lucia has somehow looked at the windowsill, he could not see her expression at the moment.
Trying to restrain himself, Arthur turned back to Theodore and kissed him on the cheek and asked, “Theodore, did you have a good Christmas and New Year?”
Arthur wants to know about Lucia and Theodore on the one hand, and Theodore on the other hand to learn some clues, but Theodore only said:
“Daddy, we had a very happy Christmas and New Year, just why didn’t Daddy come to us?”
Theodore so a question, Arthur knew that Lucia did not reveal anything to the child, do not want to let the child have too much doubt, Arthur lied:
“Daddy is too busy these days and can’t find time to visit you, sorry, let’s spend the Spring Festival together, okay?”
“Yes!” Theodore’s eyes lit up and he happily responded, then held up his little finger as if he was afraid Arthur would back out and said to him, “Daddy and Theodore pull the hook, never miss a promise again.”
Arthur looked at Theodore’s eyes full of expectation, his heart was immediately blocked by a stifling breath, but in order not to let his son disappointed, he still made an appointment with him, before carrying him back to his room, and put him to sleep before returning to the living room.
In the living room, Lucia was still sitting on the sofa, her posture had not changed, Arthur suddenly did not want to walk over, he wanted to leave directly, following the track of time, December 20th, on the day Lucia and Theodore left, capricious or domineering, he would never let them leave alone!
He was sure that Lucia must have come back from something in Chicago to break up with herself, but what was it for?
Suddenly step forward, Arthur walked straight to Lucia’s heel, at this time she was stubbornly looking out the window, even Arthur crouched in front of their own do not turn back, Arthur regardless of her indifference, grabbed her hand and asked:
“Lucia, is there any problem we can solve together?”
Whatever Lucia’s plight, Arthur can accept it and he believes he can solve it, but unfortunately … Lucia continues her indifference.
Turning her head to face Arthur with pleading eyes, the coldness under Lucia’s eyes deepened, just now Theodore appeared in the paragraph of a dozen
The minutes not only gave Arthur a chance to calm down, but also gave Lucia time to cool down again, and she looked straight at Arthur and replied in an indifferent voice:
“Arthur, I am an adult and I make my own well thought out choices, not influenced by any other factors, but only by the space and possibilities for both of us to develop. I think that we are not suitable for each other, and it is the best choice for both of us to break up early while our feelings are still not deep.”
“No deep feelings?!” Lucia said so much, Arthur only caught this point, he immediately raised his eyebrows, incredulous question.
“Right.” Lucia nods, drops her eyes and stops looking at Arthur.