Chapter 11: Love or Guilt

"Chloe......" Olive was not sure if she had misunderstood something, but

when she heard it from her mouth, she was shocked and wondered

how to comfort her, "Since you all know it, how can you......"

It was really not like her personality.

Chloe pulled out a cigarette box from her bag. She lit a cigarette and

laughed softly between the clouds and mists, "Are you asking, how can

I tolerate that he chased after loose women?"

Olive did not say anything.

"When I was with him, his family disagreed, but he fought with his

family for me until his parents gave in. Because I need to follow the

rules of his family, woman should assist her husband and educate her

children at home, but I can not work outside. After graduation, I did not

go to work, but I learned the habit of profligacy. A month's expenditure

is often hundreds of thousands, he does not care, sometimes he even

behind his parents and asks me if I have enough money......"

Olive wondered whether it was love or guilt, or because Bruce was so

generous to every woman.

"I worked as a tutor in college for several times, I sold beer in night

clubs, and I worked as a waiter in a coffee shop, I don't have much work

experience. I'm not as brave as you are, you dare to raise a child

unmarried and work hard. Maybe it's easy to get from thrift to luxury,

but difficult to get from luxury to frugality. So, as long as he can ensure

that I am comfortable with food and clothing, and he can clean up

those things, and at least he can maintain my face as his wife, I will not

divorce, or do something to make him feel disgusted......"

She didn't want to make him feel disgusted, because Chloe still loved

that bastard in her heart.

Olive was worried, but if Bruce lost his last bit of guilt one day, Chloe

might be kicked out by him.

When a man was ruthless, he would never take care of his old feelings.

But after all, she didn't say it. Chloe probably knew all these things, but

she still had to deceive herself and she would live the rest life by

keeping her love.

"Olive, I know you care about me, but today, can you pretend not to

know that and leave me some pride. You know, my favorite thing is

face, okay?" Chloe grabbed Olive's finger and shook it. Just now her

lonely tone was replaced by the laughing tone at the moment. When

she said the last sentence, she even acted like a spoiled child as usual.

"All right.” Olive sighed softly, finally she didn't know what the food in

her mouth tasted like. For the sake of face, how many helplessness and

heartache were reflected. What Chloe did, eventually was plugging

others’ ears while stealing a bell.

How far could the couple who slept in the same bed but dreamed

different dreams go?

Olive waited until after work to go home. She didn't want her parents

to know about the unemployment and make them worry about it.

Her mother was not in good health, but also helped her take care of

Annie. Her father was lame. Although he had a job that guarded the

door of a small factory, but his salary was very low. The family was

basically dependent on her income, she couldn't collapse.

In fact, they were not her biological parents.

Mother couldn't bear children, but father never abandoned her. At that

time, they ran all over the infertility specialty of large and small

hospitals, just then, she was abandoned at the hospital gate by her

cruel biological parents. They took her back and regarded her as their

own daughter.

Annie's arrival did not cause a stir in the family. They from the initial

shock to the final calm acceptance of the little life, his father even

comforted her, "I was thinking that the family Steele had no offspring,

so Olive sent us a little princess and she looks just like our Olive."

Annie followed his father's surname Steele and went to Steele's

household registration and became the granddaughter of family Steele.

Olive was so moved that she vowed to be twice as kind to them as ever.