"I am sorry but I couldn't face you. Even today, when I first saw you pass me by with your boss, I thought to myself that I should find a way to hide from you. I guess, once a coward, always a coward," he typed, apology and bitterness in his words.
Jia Li got so incensed with his attitude that she walked up to him and slapped hard across his face.
"Is my love only meant for your good times? Am I meant only for your healthy days? What if this would have happened after we were engaged or married? You would have still chosen to walk away from me just because your fragile male ego can't handle being dependent upon me? Or is this your way of telling me that if ever some sort of tragedy was to fall on me, you would not be around to support me? All those proclamations of love over the years have been so shallow that they got wiped off by the first sign of trouble?" she was raining punches on his chest while she uttered these words.
Grabbing her hands with one hand, he brought her flaming face next to his cold cheek. Holding it there, he pulled her next to him on the bed and made her sit in the crook created by his arm.
"I am sorry. Though I kept you away from me, not one moment went by when I didn't feel the torture of your absence. I also had the guilt eating me up from inside about how painful the wait and the unknown cause for it, would have been for you. I have no excuses and no appropriate words to soothe you. Hell, I can't even hold you properly in my arms since one of them lies wasted next to me. Do you know how frustrated that makes me feel, how incomplete, how not good enough for you…' his fingers couldn't type anymore.
Jia Li turned to face him and said, "you don't get it, do you? I told someone recently that I used to be a metal long ago, who amalgamated into becoming an alloy when my heart merged with yours. So, whether in happiness, illness, peace or war, you and I are stuck with each other. There is no other alternate available. Do you comprehend what I am saying?" she asked him.
Tang was staring at her intensely and wrote, "who did you say this to? Your boss? Did he make a move on you?"
"Oh God!!! Did you even hear what I said? Can you leave the petty jealousy aside? And, interestingly, all this while you have been keeping me away from you, how do you care who says what to me? Basically, you don't want the cake, and you don't want others to eat it too?" she mocked him.
Tang got riled up at her words and suddenly grabbed her hairbun painfully. Pulling it back, he arched her neck and sunk his teeth on one side. Taken aback at the aggression, Jia Li tried to pull back but he had shifted slightly so that her body lay trapped under his now.
She whimpered as the pleasured pain tingled right upto her toes. His lips were busy trying to make up for the teeth's assault as they sucked, laved and sucked again.
By the time he was done with it, she had a love bite the size of an almond, on her slender neck.
Reaching for his phone, he typed one word –"MINE."
She rolled her eyes at his caveman behaviour but her traitorous heart flipped and flipped again looking at the message. She could hear his heart thundering as well.
Lifting her gaze, she brought her palms to hold his face in them and touched her lips to his own.
His breath, his cologne, his contours… she absorbed everything inside. Pushing him back against the headboard, she poured her hurt, her loneliness, her anger, all of it in him. She raised herself on her knees and gave a free reign to her fingers to roam all over his broad back, his nape. Moving away from his lips restlessly, she kissed his eye lids, his cheeks, his nose, the cleft in his chin and lastly, the Adam's apple bobbing at his neck.
Tang's throat emitted a frustrated moan.
In desperation, he typed out, "you have got to stop. This is driving me crazy and I can't do even ten percent of what I wish to, right now."
Jia Li read the message and gave him a purely feline smile.
"So what if YOU can't," with that, she threw his phone away.
Reaching for his lips again, she let her hands go for his shirt buttons. But before she was done halfway, the doorbell chimed.
Looking at each other in surprise, Jia Li got up nonetheless to open the door.
My Gorgeous readers, when I said that the book is headed towards closure I didn't mean that I will leave people midway through their journeys. I think, in the past few months, you may have realised that I hate dragging plots unnecessarily. And hence the decision to end the book where I think they start living their happily ever afters. But it also doesn't necessarily mean that everyone will get a closure. I personally believe that Ying Hui is too nice and quirky a character to probably deserve a story of his own, don't you think? So maybe one day, we could give him one.
As for starting a new story, I am too immersed in Tang & Jia Li's world currently to do justice to anything else. But, I should have one ready to start tentatively by end of November.
In the meanwhile, if you wanna chat with me, I will be visiting the comments section of this book every alternate day. So drop in a message... cos I for sure, would be missing you people!!
"I am sorry but I couldn't face you. Even today, when I first saw you pass me by with your boss, I thought to myself that I should find a way to hide from you. I guess, once a coward, always a coward," he typed, apology and bitterness in his words.
Jia Li got so incensed with his attitude that she walked up to him and slapped hard across his face.
"Is my love only meant for your good times? Am I meant only for your healthy days? What if this would have happened after we were engaged or married? You would have still chosen to walk away from me just because your fragile male ego can't handle being dependent upon me? Or is this your way of telling me that if ever some sort of tragedy was to fall on me, you would not be around to support me? All those proclamations of love over the years have been so shallow that they got wiped off by the first sign of trouble?" she was raining punches on his chest while she uttered these words.
Grabbing her hands with one hand, he brought her flaming face next to his cold cheek. Holding it there, he pulled her next to him on the bed and made her sit in the crook created by his arm.
"I am sorry. Though I kept you away from me, not one moment went by when I didn't feel the torture of your absence. I also had the guilt eating me up from inside about how painful the wait and the unknown cause for it, would have been for you. I have no excuses and no appropriate words to soothe you. Hell, I can't even hold you properly in my arms since one of them lies wasted next to me. Do you know how frustrated that makes me feel, how incomplete, how not good enough for you…' his fingers couldn't type anymore.
Jia Li turned to face him and said, "you don't get it, do you? I told someone recently that I used to be a metal long ago, who amalgamated into becoming an alloy when my heart merged with yours. So, whether in happiness, illness, peace or war, you and I are stuck with each other. There is no other alternate available. Do you comprehend what I am saying?" she asked him.
Tang was staring at her intensely and wrote, "who did you say this to? Your boss? Did he make a move on you?"
"Oh God!!! Did you even hear what I said? Can you leave the petty jealousy aside? And, interestingly, all this while you have been keeping me away from you, how do you care who says what to me? Basically, you don't want the cake, and you don't want others to eat it too?" she mocked him.
Tang got riled up at her words and suddenly grabbed her hairbun painfully. Pulling it back, he arched her neck and sunk his teeth on one side. Taken aback at the aggression, Jia Li tried to pull back but he had shifted slightly so that her body lay trapped under his now.
She whimpered as the pleasured pain tingled right upto her toes. His lips were busy trying to make up for the teeth's assault as they sucked, laved and sucked again.
By the time he was done with it, she had a love bite the size of an almond, on her slender neck.
Reaching for his phone, he typed one word –"MINE."
She rolled her eyes at his caveman behaviour but her traitorous heart flipped and flipped again looking at the message. She could hear his heart thundering as well.
Lifting her gaze, she brought her palms to hold his face in them and touched her lips to his own.
His breath, his cologne, his contours… she absorbed everything inside. Pushing him back against the headboard, she poured her hurt, her loneliness, her anger, all of it in him. She raised herself on her knees and gave a free reign to her fingers to roam all over his broad back, his nape. Moving away from his lips restlessly, she kissed his eye lids, his cheeks, his nose, the cleft in his chin and lastly, the Adam's apple bobbing at his neck.
Tang's throat emitted a frustrated moan.
In desperation, he typed out, "you have got to stop. This is driving me crazy and I can't do even ten percent of what I wish to, right now."
Jia Li read the message and gave him a purely feline smile.
"So what if YOU can't," with that, she threw his phone away.
Reaching for his lips again, she let her hands go for his shirt buttons. But before she was done halfway, the doorbell chimed.
Looking at each other in surprise, Jia Li got up nonetheless to open the door.
My Gorgeous readers, when I said that the book is headed towards closure I didn't mean that I will leave people midway through their journeys. I think, in the past few months, you may have realised that I hate dragging plots unnecessarily. And hence the decision to end the book where I think they start living their happily ever afters. But it also doesn't necessarily mean that everyone will get a closure. I personally believe that Ying Hui is too nice and quirky a character to probably deserve a story of his own, don't you think? So maybe one day, we could give him one.
As for starting a new story, I am too immersed in Tang & Jia Li's world currently to do justice to anything else. But, I should have one ready to start tentatively by end of November.
In the meanwhile, if you wanna chat with me, I will be visiting the comments section of this book every alternate day. So drop in a message... cos I for sure, would be missing you people!!
