Jasmine lowered her head shyly. Although she was shy and didn’t tell them, but everyone knew that
she was giving the tacit admission.
Dolores was the first one to talk, “Congrats.”
Theresa couldn’t respond in a short while, she congratulated them only after a long time. Dolores was
already the mother of three children, and Jasmine had also become pregnant now.
Leaving only Armand and her who didn’t have child, she turned her head and looked at Armand, she
wanted to know how he felt when knowing that Boyce had become a dad.
However, Armand just showed a calm face. Indeed, he was startled for a while when he just heard of it,
to be exact, it was the ‘envy’.
‘Envying’ them, because he was the only one who couldn’t have child.
But soon he had realized that this was his life, there was nothing to be envied of. He would live
together with Theresa forever if they didn’t have a child, some more there were so many people who
didn’t want to have child nowadays, it was not a big deal if he didn’t have a child.
The most important thing was, he couldn’t let Theresa find out his emotion. He knew her sensitiveness
so well, so he was more concerned about Theresa’s feelings.
He smiled so happily at this moment, he even joked, “Boyce is having double happiness today, he is
promoted and he has a happy family, then there are now three people in his family already. He is
winning in life, just for this, I want to congratulate him.”
When Armand was talking, he stood up and took a glass again, then he put it in front of Boyce and
poured him the wine. Boyce had already had a glass, adding on Jasmine’s glass, now Armand had
given him another glass again, so there were three glasses in total. Armand held his glass up, “One
glass for me, three glasses for you.”
Boyce looked up, “Why is it one glass for you, but three glasses for me?”
Armand looked at him coldly, “Why, you are having double happiness, isn’t it that you shall drink three
glasses? I’m wishing you sincerely, don’t you appreciate it?”
Boyce was speechless.
‘What a nonsense?’
Fine, he couldn’t surpass Armand in speaking, so he could only drink them.
Armand and Boyce touched their glasses, but Armand only took a sip while Boyce drank the whole
glass. After the second touching of their glasses, Armand took a sip again while Boyce drank another
glass of wine. After the third touching of their glasses, Armand finished drinking the remaining wine
while Boyce finished drinking another glass of wine again.
After putting the glass down, Armand felt so happy, he immediately refilled the three glasses for Boyce,
then he talked to Matthew and Dolores, “Today is the red-letter day of Boyce, you guys shall wish him
too.”
Boyce glanced at the glasses in front of him, then he glared at Armand, “Don’t let me catch you.”
Armand laughed, “I think that you won’t have the chance, perhaps you can only prank me in the next
life.”
“Be careful, extreme joy begets sorrow.”
“If there are many difficulties in life, then I must have experienced all of them already, the remaining in
my life will be the happy days. As the saying goes, no pain, no gain. I had suffered so much already,
and now the good things have finally come, I’ll live a happy life in the future.” Armand poured a glass of
wine for himself, then he held the glass up and touched it with Theresa’s glass, “Let’s have a drink.”
Theresa glanced at him, the corners of her mouth curved up, then she gulped down the glass of wine.
Armand put the glass down and looked toward Dolores, “Dolores, quickly wish him, there is rarely an
opportunity to force him to drink and he still can’t reject it. Or else, it will be difficult to get another
chance again.”
Dolores smiled and said, “You’re right. Boyce is usually the most mature and steadiest one, his love
has arrived late, but it has arrived at the right time. He has now harvested his love and career, he really
worth the celebration.”
She held the glass up and looked at Boyce, “Congratulations.”
Boyce held his glass up helplessly, “Dolores, why do you…”
“Cut the crap, just drink, quickly drink.” Boyce pushed the bottom of his glass and forced the wine into
his mouth.
This had made everyone burst into laughter.
The gathering had finished in a satisfactory way, but Boyce had drunk too much. Dolores had drunk
with him, followed by Matthew, then Armand said again, “I feel that I want to show you that I’m wishing
you sincerely, so I congratulate you again.”
Boyce was forced to drink another three glasses again, so he was drunk.
After calling someone to drive for them, Armand and Theresa had stayed here and said that they
wanted to help Dolores to clean up the place, but Dolores had asked them to go back.
“It’s late already, when will you finish cleaning up the place if you were to do it by yourself?” Theresa
was going to help her, but Dolores pulled her hand away, “Don’t do it, just go back home with Armand. I
will clean these up and throw into the dustbin, then I will just throw it outside. There’s nothing much to
be washed, isn’t it that you guys are going back to City C? Quickly go back and rest.”
“Okay then.” It was inappropriate for Theresa to say anything again since Dolores had talked in this
way.
Matthew and Armand were talking in the living room.
Matthew told him that Oscar was old already, and he had let Armand attend more to him.
Armand understood.
When the driver arrived, Armand and Theresa went out from the bungalow, but Dolores had stopped
them, “Theresa, Armand…”
“Is there anything else, Dolores?” Armand turned his head.
Dolores wanted to ask them to help her taking care of Joshua initially, but she wanted to let her child
stay beside Jayden due to his sickness, so she needed to delay this matter.
“Nothing, be careful on the way back.”
She would just wait and tell them when the time came.
“Okay, we’re leaving now.”
Dolores waved to them, “Goodbye.”
When all of them had left, the whole bungalow became quiet in a moment. Dolores was cleaning up the
table, Matthew walked toward her, “I’ll help you.”
Dolores rejected him, “Your hands will be greasy later.”
She looked up, “Do you know how to do these?”
“I can learn.” Matthew looked calm and cold, he didn’t smile again ever since Jayden fell sick.
Dolores knew that he was unhappy, she sighed silently and said, “Help me to throw it into the dustbin
outside.”
She had cleaned up all the things on the table and put them into a rubbish bag, then she gave it to
Matthew.
The sky tonight was very dark and gentle.
When Matthew had come back from throwing rubbish, the table in the dining room was already wiped
clean. Dolores was standing in front of the sink and washing the glasses.
His body pressed against hers from the back, he put his arms around her waist. Without the erotic
feeling, he just wanted to hug her.
Dolores didn’t move, she turned down the faucet, leaving only a small volume of water flowing. She
took the glass and washed in the water, then she talked with the sound of running water surrounding
them, “There are not only good things in our life, sometimes the bad things will also happen suddenly, I
will be by your side no matter how difficult the situation is.”
She looked up, her eyelashes brushed against the corners of his eyes because they were standing too
close.
Matthew took the glass away from her hand, then he turned off the faucet, “Accompany me to sit for a
while.”
He took Dolores to the living room and sat on the sofa. The bright light shone the interior, as if it was
during the day. However, the atmosphere around them was heavy and depressing, their emotions
didn’t improve due to the bright light.
Meanwhile at the other place, Jasmine and Boyce had arrived at their accommodation.
Boyce had drunk too much, and Jasmine couldn’t support him. The driver was kind-hearted, so he had
helped her to bring Boyce into the house.
After putting Boyce onto the bed, Jasmine had poured a cup of water for the driver, “Take a sip before
you go.”
“It’s okay.” The driver waved at her and left, Jasmine then closed the door. After coming back into the
house, she put some water in a basin and placed it beside the bed, then she took off Boyce’s clothes.
Boyce was in a daze, he felt like there was someone pulling his clothes.
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