One hoarse “honey” after another overlapped with moments from my memory.
My last memory was of the sky breaking dawn, and then Adrian pouncing over again, tirelessly biting my collarbone.
We didn’t fall asleep until it was almost daylight.
But early in the morning, I needed to use the bathroom again.
I pried Adrian’s hands off and struggled to sit up in bed.
But immediately realized something was wrong, very wrong, extremely wrong.
I looked down, sucked in a cold breath of anger, and directly turned back to slap the person behind me.
Adrian was slapped awake, but didn’t feel any pain. He shamelessly snuggled up again, his warm breath blowing on the back of my neck.
Tsk.
Who says this old man is old?
This old man is too amazing.
(Main story ends)
Epilogue: Adrian’s self–awareness and responsibility as an older husband.
Adrian first realized he was five years older than Olivia at her college graduation ceremony.
Olivia waved to him from among the crowd in her graduation gown.
While he stood in the parents‘ section, dressed in a suit, holding a bouquet of her favorite sunflowers.
Olivia’s roommate teased her: “Olivia, is that your brother? He’s so handsome.”
He didn’t hear how Olivia answered, but a hint of sourness rose in his heart.
The calm self–control and emotional restraint he had always prided himself on seemed to fail again and again when it came to Olivia.
He knew he shouldn’t be like this, yet he willingly sank deeper.
Olivia after college graduation was like a newborn bird.
Flapping her wings, wanting to rush into the storm.
And he was grateful that he had already honed a suit of armor in the overt and covert struggles of the business world.
He had enough ability to shield her from all wind and rain, sparing no effort to lift her up, to prop up a sky for her.
The love of an older man.
Is to predict all dangers and accidents in advance, and then silently eliminate them for her.
Is to lift her up without a sound, willingly becoming the steps under her feet, letting her stand higher, go further, yet never asking for credit.
The first time Olivia went on a business trip alone with a young male colleague.
Adrian behaved properly when seeing her off at the airport, even nodding politely to the male colleague, rationally wrapping a scarf around
