Beloved Old Lover

In the following days, Kevin kept his promise, he neither went to the tailor shop nor the motel room.

Without him bothering her, her work went more smoothly. She focused on cutting and sewing, trying not to spend time thinking about memories with him.

“Are you working so hard that you don’t even know anyone is coming?” Kurt knocked twice on the table, squinting his eyes and asking.

“Ah, because you walked too lightly.” She quickly raised her head and laughed.

Kurt glanced at the open notebook and saw the customer’s name was Kevin.

Kurt knew that Kevin came here to sew clothes through the tailor shop owner when he called her and asked about Emily’s work and relationships with the employees in the tailor shop.

“I’m going back to my hometown this weekend, do you want to go with me? Occasionally go to the mountains to breathe fresh air.” Kurt flipped through each page in the notebook and asked.

“Okay. Anyway, no customer urged me to sew quickly.”

Because it was lunchtime, Kurt took Emily out to eat, not to the restaurant opposite the tailor shop but a little further away, to a luxury restaurant to eat many dishes.

After several weeks of not seeing him in person, she saw him as much older, with a tired look on his face.

That’s right, the first process when starting a business is always like that, it will be better when everything goes into orbit.

“At the end of this week, I will quit my job at the pub and focus on my new company.” Kurt raised his hand to signal Emily not to touch the plate of shrimp, then carefully took one and peeled it for her.

“No matter what you do, you should pay attention to your health.”

“Uh. Emily, after the company goes into operation, do you want to accompany me?”

Kurt knows clearly that Emily’s current job is going very well and that the field he wants to do business in is not her expertise or interest.

But he still wanted to ask her again because before, both of them had promised to make money together.

He did not know that she also wanted to leave this city but did not dare to go alone. Furthermore, she owed him a lot of gratitude, now that he had proposed, how could she shake her head?

“Yes, Kurt, I’ll go with you.”

Both of them smiled at the same time, the sympathetic smile of hearts that had once been engulfed in suffering but still tried to struggle to find a way to live and live better.

Kurt has connected with the product outputs and now, he only worries about finding human resources, purchasing raw materials for production, and building factories.

After three more days, Emily completed Kevin’s order. She looked up at the clock and realized it was eleven o’clock at night.

Her slender hands stroked the white shirt over and over, then carefully folded it and put it in the bag.

She didn’t know if he would come to receive the goods or send someone else to receive them for him when he received notice that the clothes were finished.

Why did she expect that he would come? She felt she was evil.

“Daniel, I’m probably about to leave the city. Do you like mountainous areas? Surely you will like it.” She reached out and caressed the photo on the table, gently speaking.

Another night of torment and sadness passed and when the alarm clock rang, Emily quickly got out of the blanket and prepared to go to work.

Like every day, she spent a few minutes applying makeup to cover the dark circles under her eyes.

It was only six thirty so she guessed Kevin was at home. Unicons Group starts work at eight o’clock, unlike the tailor shop she works at, which opens at seven o’clock and has a longer lunch break than other places, enough for the tailor to take a long nap or go on a date.

Her finger was placed in front of the phone screen for a long time. If she texted, she was afraid he wouldn’t read it because he was too busy, but if she called…

Finally, she took a deep breath, regained her professionalism, dialed the phone number, and called him.

The constant ringing of the bells made her heart beat irregularly and until the man’s voice rang out, her heart almost stopped beating.

“Oh, hello president, your clothes have been sewn, you can come pick them up at any time.” She said and tightened the hem of her skirt, causing it to become a bit wrinkled.

“Okay.”

The call was quickly ended by Kevin. He rubbed his head a few times, then lifted the blanket, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom.

He had been looking forward to the day she called to have an excuse to go there one last time, so she wouldn’t think he didn’t keep his promise.

These days, he can’t even use alcohol to relieve his sadness because there are too many meetings and important things that he needs to be alert to handle.

He felt like he was about to enter the coffin. Trying hard to suppress his emotions because of the corporation made him lose his breath.

“How disgusting?” He raised his hand to touch the face reflected in the water-stained mirror and wondered.

This morning, he had a meeting with leaders of the city’s construction department about speeding up the completion of key national projects, which are expected to last until noon.

Projects have many contractors participating, but Unicons Group is always the largest contractor. Of course, the work that the group undertakes is always looked at and urged the most.

On the north side of the city, all morning, Emily kept nervously looking towards the main door of the tailor shop, waiting for Kevin’s figure.

Although he didn’t say he would stop by today, she still waited. It wasn’t until four o’clock in the afternoon that she was taking measurements for a male customer when she saw Venn enter.

Disappointment suddenly overwhelmed her. Turns out, Kevin asked someone to get the things for him.

“You just keep working, I can wait.” Venn spoke up and sat down on the chair.

Emily nodded and continued her work. After writing down the customer’s measurements and phone number in the notebook, she sent him off some distance and bowed according to the tailor shop’s regulations.

However, when she looked up, she saw long, straight legs and when she stood completely straight, the face of the man she was waiting for met her eyes.

Turns out, he was with Venn.

“I came here to get my clothes.” Kevin spoke up.

“Yes, please come in here.”

She quickly turned around, went straight inside, opened the glass door, took out the large bag, placed it on the table, and asked Kevin to check again.

However, Kevin didn’t need to look at it but turned to look at Venn and Venn quickly stood up, walked over, grabbed the bag, and walked out.

This afternoon, Venn and Kevin came here to check on a few projects. When he was about to leave, Kevin told him to stop by the Rose tailor shop.

Venn didn’t expect Kevin to secretly come here and make so many clothes.

“This is the amount that needs to be paid.” Emily brought out the bill and said.

Kevin didn’t say anything, quietly pulled out the black card, and gave it to her.

She was a bit surprised because she thought he would use cash like before, but she still quickly took it and put it into the card swipe machine.

“Password, please.” She held the card swipe machine towards him.

“Same as before.” He replied briefly.

Her trembling hands entered the number and completed the payment. She knew that if she made a slight mistake, the wall she had successfully built to prevent him from coming to her would completely disappear.

After completing the operation, she returned the card to him with both hands. She understands her position is always first in his heart but she has no other choice.

Everything she did was because she hoped he wouldn’t regret it. The wife can choose, but the mother and father only have one.

A marriage will not be happy if both people are not blessed by their loved ones.

“Why? Why so? Emily… you… you know better than anyone, you know how much I love you.” He put his hands on the table and looked painfully into her eyes.

“Love needs to come from both sides. When I stop loving someone, I realize that love is not as valuable as I thought. Don’t you see that I live better and happier without you by my side?”

Kevin’s hands gripped the table even tighter. His head bowed, and tears fell like rain, each drop continuously falling onto the smooth wooden table, his shoulders kept shaking and then, he burst into tears like an abandoned child.

Could it be that he had to give up his love today and here? He doesn’t want to.

Why was he the only one embracing this love in the end? Why did the girl he loved with all his heart turn into a cold-blooded and changeable person?

Emily’s nails dug deep into her skin, leaving marks. She had to hurt herself to remind herself that this was the end of the wall.

As long as she tries a little more, just needs to get through today, everything will pass, bringing him and her back to their old orbit, no longer related to each other.

After five minutes, Kevin stood up straight, faced the ceiling, swallowed the remaining tears, and staggered away.

At this moment, Emily’s eyes began to turn red and teary. She quickly left the table, followed behind him for a while, then bowed low.

“Thank you, hope to serve you again.”

Kevin could no longer hear anything, vaguely moving forward.

Is this the pain a person feels when a thousand arrows pierce their heart? He was in so much pain that he almost stopped breathing.

Behind him, the poor girl was still bowing her head, tears falling one after another, flowing down the tip of her nose and dripping onto the floor. Her lips pursed tightly, preventing herself from sobbing.

When he reached the front door, he stubbornly turned around and looked back again. He told himself that if he caught her eyes still following him, he would regardless of everything, run inside and drag her away.

However, the image that caught his eye was her back slowly walking towards the desk and then focusing on cutting fabric, not looking at him.

It turns out that when people fall out of love, will they be so cold?© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“Boss, are you okay?” Venn quickly ran over and caught Kevin when he saw him staggering and almost falling.

“It’s okay, take me home.”

Venn hurriedly helped Kevin into the car. Even if Venn ate tiger liver or drank leopard bile, he still wouldn’t dare ask Kevin what happened. Venn was extremely worried because his boss looked like he was about to die.

Kevin’s whole body was limp, lying sprawled on the back seat, eyes closed.

The moment the car moved, Emily stopped and raised her head to look up. Her feet unconsciously ran out and stopped on the side of the road, her teary eyes watched the car gradually disappear into the crowded traffic in the late afternoon.

“Sorry. Sorry…”