HOW YOU LIKE THAT | JENLISA

Chapter 62

Jennie

I kept the journal hidden at all times and would only read it late at night or when I was alone in the room. I couldn't risk Lisa reading it because the contents in the diary could possibly affect her. I wasn't sure what other vile family secrets were in here, but I was going to find out.

After dinner, I was taking a stroll outside. Lisa was being moody and sitting on the floor watching the trains move. She was upset because of the argument that we had yesterday.

"Well, why didn't you ask me before?" I'd asked Lisa when I came home after being told that I was co-chairperson of Manoban Enterprise by Nichkhun.

Lisa stared at me incredulously. "Asked you what?"

"Lisa, do you even realise that I'm not qualified to become a co-chairperson of your company? Why did you sign those papers without asking me first?"

"You're my wife, and you'll... make decisions for me when I can't. What's so hard to understand?"

"You say that I'm your wife, but you never seek my opinion about anything, not even when the decisions are directly affecting me."

"Fuck, Jen. I don't know... what the hell you want." She said, totally frustrated. "Why don't you just fucking say it?"

"What I want is for people in this house to stop deciding for me! That includes you too! And for God's sake, don't listen to your brother..."

She was sitting on the floor now, clearly upset by my outburst, and rocking back and forth, mumbling to herself, while the toy trains moved through the tracks, zigzagging, blowing smoke and whistle, moving through the tunnel in the hill.

"Don't talk to me like that!" She was breathing erratically.

I sighed, while realising my mistake. I started walking towards her, "Lisa... I'm sorry... I was just..."

"I said don't talk to me! Leave!" She screamed, while swiping her hand over the moving toy trains and toppling them over. The engine lay on the ground on the side with its wheels turning.

I snapped back to reality. Lisa has never been upset with me before, never screamed at me, so right now my heart ached with the thought that I was the very reason she was feeling so horrible. I shouldn't have said anything... I should have just let it go.