Chapter 14
“How come again…..”
Before he could finish his sentence, Jessic had already thrown herself into his arms again.
Her arms were tightly wrapped around his neck, her voice trembling with unrestrained joy.
“James, Isabella left!”
“No one could ever come between us again!”
“And James, I already knew. You liked me.”
James’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, as if it had been hit hard by something.
“How did you know? he asked hoarsely.”
Jessie laughed with her eyes crinkling, “Isabella told me.”
“She told me everything you did for me.”
“She said you had always quietly done a lot for me, just not good at expressing it.”
“I was really happy and touched after listening.”
“James, I finally found out that I wasn’t the only one in a one–sided love.”
“Turns out, you have always liked me too.”
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Listening to Jessie’s confession, which he had longed for in the past, James surprisingly felt no emotion at all at this moment.
I have fantasized about countless hugs, but now, pressed against his body temperature, it couldn’t warm his frozen heart at all.
He thought he would be overjoyed.
But he didn’t.
In my mind surged nothing but Isabella’s face.
She laughed, she cried, she got angry, she felt lost…
Every expression was so clear, so profound, as if engraved in his bones. and blood.
Jessie saw that James remained silent for a long time, thinking that he was just so happy. She released him from her embrace, lifted the train of her wedding dress, and gracefully spun a few circles in front of him.
“James, do I look good?”
James’s gaze was fixed firmly on that expanse of pure white.
Jessie’s face in front of me gradually blurred and transformed into the image of Isabella wearing this wedding dress.
He lost his focus, his Adam’s apple bobbing as he muttered, “Good- looking.”
The surrounding scene, with its changing lights and shadows, suddenly became the image of St Giles‘ Cathedral in Edinburgh from my memory.
The sky was filled with a shower of flowers, falling gently and gracefully.
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He remembered the priest’s solemn inquiry.
He remembered that Isabella turned her head to look at him, her clear eyes. filled with passion and sincerity.
And in his heart at that time, there was actually some fluctuation.
At least, in the moment when he said “I do“, he was sincere.
At that time, he was still deceiving himself, thinking that the crazy pounding heartbeat was just a backdrop to the wedding atmosphere.
But now, I can clearly remember how she looked standing in front of him in this wedding dress.
His heart was still beating uncontrollably, pounding faster and almost about to burst out of his chest.
Jessie heard this and smiled even brighter, “Of course it’s beautiful.”
“Wasn’t this specially tailored for me by you according to my measurements in the first place?”
“If it weren’t for Isabella reminding me, I would still be in the dark.”
James was suddenly shaken, as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over his head, instantly jolting him awake from the grand and surreal wedding memory.
He clearly remembered that the wedding dress was personally ordered by him, instructing the designer to customize it strictly according to Isabella’s
measurements.
He thought, since he had already taken advantage of her as such a proud noble lady, at least in the matter of the wedding dress, he could not mistreat her.
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He even sent someone to investigate Isabella’s preferences.
Knowing that she liked floral patterns, she specifically instructed the designer to embroider them stitch by stitch.
How did it become that, in Jessie’s mouth, everything was made according to her size?
Soon, he remembered.
At that time, he casually ordered the servant to deal with the wedding dress size adjustment, wasn’t it the trusted maid who had always been by Jessie’s side? James‘ gaze was like a sharpened blade of ice, suddenly sweeping towards the maid standing not far behind Jessie.
The maid trembled all over when he looked at her, instinctively shrinking back, avoiding his gaze, and guiltily lowering her head.
James immediately understood in his heart.
Like a huge boulder suddenly crashing into a deep pool, his heart sank even further, feeling cold.
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