Francis replied, “Not at all. Maybe it is because of me that you got into trouble.” Hearing that Francis bore all the responsibility, Zora smiled guiltily. She knew all the trouble maybe resulted from her kiss.

Her telephone rang again, on which the familiar name flashed.

Zora glanced at the phone calmly and then put it down. She felt glad because he was worried now. She felt he deserved it. This morning while waiting in the coffee shop, she was very worried about him. She worried he might get traffic accidents on the road. She even checked the city’s traffic news.

At present, she wondered if he was worried about her because she didn’t answer his phone. She looked at her phone, which was off and the screen turned back to black. Her heart turned dark too. Then she heard Francis say to her, “You are not happy? How about taking you to one place?”

Nothing to do then, Zora nodded her head.

Francis was glad. He took her hand and they went away together. Zora could feel the warmth from his hand because they were running out of the crowd and rushing into the corner in the street. Suddenly Zora stopped, smiled to him apologetically and took back her hand.

Francis was a little hurt. He thought she was unwilling to take his hand. But then he guessed he should not be so hasty. He asked her, “Did you do all these to irritate your boyfriend?”

Boyfriend? Sam had never admitted she was his girlfriend, even though they were husband and wife legally. Thinking about this, Zora shook her head sadly.

Francis was happy to see that and replied, “I supposed…”

Zora suddenly interrupted him and asked, “What did you suppose? Do you think I am naïve to test others by this means?”

“No, not at all. Oh, I just want to say I am willing to be made use of by you.” Francis managed to speak out this and his face turned red.

Zora didn’t expect he would reply this way. She coughed embarrassedly. Then she changed the topic and asked, “Didn’t you say you would take me somewhere?”

Zora didn’t know the place until they got there. It was a small pub where Francis used to sing before he was famous.

She found a corner in the pub, ordered a glass of beer and listened to Francis singing with guitar on the platform. That night, he sang many songs, one after another.

As soon as she got home, she hurriedly took out her phone and noticed it was already out of power.

She was worried and quickly charged the phone. When she could at last turn on her phone, the first thing to do was to check whether there were missed calls or unread messages.

Apart from a few Sam’s missed calls, the others were all messages from Erin, in which she wrote—

“Zora, you are hot online. What happened?”

“Zora, where are you? Were you hurt? It is said online that there is a riot in the square.”

“Zora, I can’t get in touch with you. I am worried. Call me back if you read my message.”

…….

She read one message after another, but she didn’t find one one from Sam. She was very disappointed.

“Sam, you bastard!” Zora was so angry that she threw away her phone, pulled up a quilt to her head and lied down. In her heart, she cursed Sam thousands of times. She was irritated because he didn’t send any messages to her for so long even though she didn’t answer his phone.

If any others dared to be so cold to her, she might have dumped him away. But that was Sam.

She decided not to act like those bitching women who doubted and questioned their husbands all day if they had betrayed them. She would not go and assail him why he didn’t care about her. She believed if he really did not love you, your anger and complaint could change nothing.

Maybe she was tired. She went to sleep and dreamt very quickly. In the dream, she went to Sam crying. She censured him why he married her if he didn’t love her and why he never went back home since they married.

Still, Sam looked at her coldly and replied sarcastically, “Zora Qiao, it was you who begged me to marry you. Why? Regret?”

She shook her head crying and she dragged him desperately.

Suddenly a woman shouted from behind, “Sam, don’t waste your time gossiping with this shameless woman.”

Zora turned around and saw Kay, who was pregnant, standing there sneering at her. She was so shocked that she woke up suddenly sweating.

The first thing she did after she got up was to turn on her phone. However, there was no news there at all.

The merciless face in the dream was hurting her like a dagger, even though she knew it was not true. But whenever she thought about it, she could not help feeling sick. She swore she would never let Kay be.

Telephone suddenly rang there. She quickly picked it up. It was from Erin asking her worriedly, “Zora, What happened yesterday? Why didn’t you answer my phone? Do you know I worried about you so much?”

Zora felt warm hearing this and apologized to her.

Erin felt better and told her, “But yesterday, you and Francis? Weren’t you afraid being seen by Sam?”

Zora sighed hearing Sam mentioned and told her, “He has known about it. But he only called me twice yesterday and nothing more since then.”

Erin replied, “Zora, if I were him, I would not send any message either. To you, if Sam keeps spoiling you, you don’t know how unruly you will be? So I know why Sam didn’t contact you.”

“Why? Zora asked.

“He went abroad last night. He is a busy boss managing a big company.” Erin told her.

Sam went abroad last night? Even very busy, he should have time to send a message. Zora kept on asking herself and she felt stomachache again. She decided to go shopping with Erin in the afternoon so that she could forget Sam completely.