Chapter 5
“I…” Nyla’s eyes flickered, and then she sweetly smiled as she grasped Marcel’s wrist, “Mr. Doyle, I
didn’t mean to, I…”
Marcel waved her away, looked around, and saw that the art exhibition was coming to an end, but Alexa was still nowhere to be seen. Rarely, he felt a bit flustered.
The emcee of the wedding approached and supported Nyla, saying, “Mr. Doyle, don’t be upset with your wife. It’s a joyous day, so let’s just say whatever needs to be said.”
Marcel frowned, “Madam… Alexa, she came? Where is she?”
Marcel was somehow eager, eager to calm his inner uneasiness by seeing Alexa.
The emcee looked at Nyla strangely and said, “Isn’t this
your wife?”
Marcel became instantly annoyed. “She isn’t!” After spinning around twice, he pointed at Nyla and angrily scolded the emcee, “Are you blind? How can she compare to Alexa!”
Nyla’s face turned pale instantly, and the emcee awkwardly released his grip on Nyla’s hand.
The bride was late, and the guests started to cause a commotion, discussing what was happening.
“Wasn’t it said that Mr. Doyle’s fiancée was a painter? This art exhibition is organized by her, right? What time is it now? Why hasn’t she arrived yet?”
“Hey, you don’t know yet, have you seen the painting in that corner? It’s painted like that… I’m really puzzled, can anyone be an artist now?”
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“It was all thanks to Mr. Doyle’s support that she had the audacity to make everyone wait for her, I don’t know where she got the nerve.”
Marcel gritted his teeth, suppressing the unease in his heart, and after soothing the guests, he dialed my phone number.
“Alexa, where were you? The art exhibition was almost over, why haven’t you shown up yet?”
“I knew I spoke harshly, I didn’t know which painting was destroyed, I had already talked to Nyla, Alexa, please come out, I knew you were nearby.”
“You waited for this moment for five years, why do you need to hold grudges against yourself?”
Listening to Marcel’s urgent voice, I suddenly laughed.
The announcement reminding passengers to board and check their tickets came through the
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phone, and Marcel, after a moment of confusion, suddenly became flustered.
“…Alexa, where were you now?”
“You spoke, Alexa!”
As Marcel’s voice trembled, I finally spoke softly.
“Don’t get excited, it’s just a painting, and it was destroyed.”
“I don’t want the painting anymore, and I don’t want you anymore either.”
“Marcel, we were done.”
I hung up the phone and boarded the plane to a foreign land.
On the plane, I rarely had a dream, dreaming of the first time I met Marcel.
Back then, he was still very young and inexperienced. He would bring me winter pudding and the first cup of hot chocolate in autumn.
He had also distributed flyers for a whole month just to buy me a designer perfume, even though he was so exhausted that he almost suffered from heatstroke, he never complained a word.
He said with a smile, “Alexa, you deserve the best. If one day I betrayed you, please never forgive
me.”
I opened my eyes and my phone was vibrating like crazy, with text messages popping up one after
another.
“Alright Alexa, I had someone go to your studio to pick up the painting. You painted it so well, any of them can be exhibited at the wedding.”
“Don’t be angry, I deducted Nyla’s bonus for this month, and she already knows she was wrong.”
“…Alexa, why are those paintings all gone? The assistant said there are still fragments of painting paper in the shredder.”
“Alexa, answer the phone!”
I sighed imperceptibly, hung up the phone he had been calling me on, and threw the SIM card into
the trash.
Marcel, goodbye.
