Chapter 339 Sisters
Yan i waited just inside the door; her ears pitched for the sound of a hocoming. Her hands fluttered in anxiety as she brushed it down her pantsuit, sweeping away non-existent lint.
One would think she didn't have anything to worry about but the fact remained that the situation was too close to the bone for her.
Once upon a ti she had lost, alone and dead inside; she idly wondered how her life would have changed if there had been soone to pick her up if there had been soone who had brought her 'ho'. She wondered how she would have turned out if she hadn't had to pick up the pieces of her life on her own.
She knows soone would call her stupid for accepting her husband ex into her ho but she had her reasons. For so reason, she saw herself in the girl's shoes and she knew how much Yue Yan ans to her husband.
Also, even though she doesn't know if Yue Yan will be a friend or foe. She wanted to keep her close. Keep your friends close but your enemy closer they say. Hopefully, Yue Yan will not disappoint her goodwill.
The low-throated roar of the Jaguar filtered through her senses and she quickly unlatched the door, absentmindedly noticing the flurry of motion from the nurse and the housekeeper around her.
The first sight to greet her sense was the vision of her husband exiting the car, his face twisted in worry before he ran to the other side to aid the person seated beside him. Before he got there, the nurse and housekeeper had arrived, easing the girl to the ground and carefully aiding her to stand.
"I'm not an invalid" was the cutting response to their gestures but even from there, Yan i could see that her expression was more of frustration than anger. She could sympathize with that, being sick was stressful.
The girl lifted her head and caught sight of Yan i for the first ti after a long sweeping gaze, smiled brightly at her, at this point Yan i was almost to the car, within talking distance.
"I guess you're the one who took enough pity on this guy and married him" the stranger gestured with her chin at Lei Zhao who was hovering.
Yan i couldn't stop the smile that the comnt brought to her face not when she was seeing Lei Zhao in full mother-hen mode.
"I object" Lei Zhao tensed, shifted back in an exaggerated motion, and sniffed in self-righteous anger.
"Shush" the girl rely rolled her eyes at his antics before smiling up at Layne
Yan i was happy at the camaraderie between the two of them, happier still that it included her "I think we both pitied each other" she offered as a compromise
"Keep telling yourself that," the girl retorted with a smile that dimd slightly "thank you for inviting to your ho"
"Please, it's was not-" she never finished her sentence
"No, it's everything" her guest replied with a determined gaze.
"Then I'm glad, where are manners, please let's get inside the house," Yan i replied ushering them through the door.
A few minutes later found all of them situated comfortably in the cozy living room with a drink, Yue Yan as she had introduced herself was demolishing a strawberry smoothie and crisp wafers with rabid hunger.
"Hospital food is the pits" Yan i comnted, eyeing the thodological demolition of delicious stacks of wafers.
Yue Yan laughed as she slurped down the rich smoothie "That's the reason he convinced with, not that he had much arguing to do, I wouldn't feed a dog that slop."
Yan i laughed before she replied "They claim it's healthy," unable to keep the disgust out of her voice
"Not for my mind it isn't" Yue Yan insisted impishly and the three of them laughed, then subsided into a comfortable long pause in which everyone focused on their als or drinks in the case of Lei Zhao and Yan i.
She finally cleared her throat with her solemn words "I want you to know that you can stay here for as long as you want, I know how it is to get a jarring new lease on life."
The words held more than their aning, across from her Lei Zhao reached and caught her hands, squeezing them softly to comfort her and she squeezed right back.
Yue Yan smiled at the gesture that passed between the two of them but it was a rueful smile that said her mind was a million miles away in dark waters "I still can't get used to it, the amnesia is not helping"
"Oh my God" Yan i couldn't stop the gasp that spilled from her
"I'm still alive" Yue Yan replied, but her smile was bitter
"I'm sorry for ruining the mont." Yan i scrambled to apologize but she waved it off.
"No, I'm just happy to be here, and that brings to the second promise Lei Zhao made to change my mind"
"Anything" was the reply
"Careful what you wish for," Yue Yan warned with a soft laugh before getting serious, her eyes riveted on hers, "he promised I would be getting a cool sister to hang out with"
Yan i smiled, she couldn't quite help it, tired, faded, and exhausted, Yue Yan looked so brave and hopeful with those words that she found that there was only one response to it "I guess you better rest and get your strength up sis, I'm a very demanding sister and I'm sure you have a million things to see"
Yue Yan smiled, a huge expression that exposed her teeth and drew attention to the faint glimrs of tears in her eyes "thank you so much Yan i , I'll be the best sister ever"
An hour later when Yue Yan was nestled comfortably in bed, while she and Lei Zhao were ensconced in his study, sitting in the loveseat in each other's arms she heard the words again "thank you so much, Yan i"
"Don't, don't thank , love, I'm only being a decent human being." She murmured, enjoying her closeness and warmth.
"There are so many reasons for you not to entertain the thought and you would be perfectly within your own rights" he replied, his voice raw with a curious quality.
"I know who she is to you" she replied as if that was all that mattered
"An ex-girlfriend" he replied acidly, it wasn't exactly true but that was splitting hairs.
"A good friend, a tie with the past, and even if she wasn't, I couldn't have done anything else than what I did" she retorted, chasing the last of the tenseness away.
"You're a better person than I, I don't think I would have been that kind to your ex-husband." He confessed, his voice a whisper between the two of them
She shook her head, rustling her cheeks against the fabric of his chest before she nestled back into his embrace "I can't ask that of you"
He kissed her forehead "you are perfection"
"Besides I can't hate her for the cri of loving you, I did exactly the sa thing. Plus, I can just tell we're going to be close friends and that's everything in my books" she pointed out easily.
"I don't deserve you" he countered,
"You do and I love you"
"I love you too!" his voice vehent with conviction
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