Tenant's Secret Love

Chapter 3: I love only you

With an umbrella, I sadly left the small house where I had lived for 2 years. In fact, I didn't feel good at all. The request for cohabitation that the woman and I made was not a joke or taking advantage of her. At the moment, I felt like a homeless child, who had lost the feeling of warmth, but no one knew that I wanted to cry a little.

But people have to learn to respect reality, don't they? When Jason sold this house, my leaving was already inevitable.

I found an ATM nearby and withdrew the agreed 1,000 yuan from my card, and also checked the user information, which is how I learned that the woman who was a little too beautiful was named Renee.

I like her name very much. It represents wealth and splendor. Life is undoubtedly happy if it is rich and colorful, but I don't have either of those things. My life is now reduced to hunger and black and white. So Renee's appearance is more like a kind of irony to me! Irony about my having nothing and being at my wit's end!

...

There was a hotel at the corner of the long street, and I stayed there. After a night of wind and rain, I fell asleep in a daze and woke up almost noon.

I looked at the phone and found a dozen missed calls, all from Violetta. She really is persistent. Seeing that I didn't answer the phone, she sent me a message saying, "I should have given birth to the baby and used it to punish me for the rest of my life."

I found it a bit funny. She's not afraid of being a single mother, so why should I be afraid of being a cheap father? Obviously, her complaints didn't cause me a single ounce of psychological burden...

After a quick wash, I hurried to the hospital. Perhaps I went because of the last vestiges of kindness in me, or perhaps it was out of sympathy between friends with benefits. I can't really say why, because often people don't really know themselves.

When I arrived at the Maternal and Child Health Hospital and got out of the taxi, I saw Violetta waiting under an umbrella at the hospital entrance.

She spotted me first and her expression of insecurity finally eased a little as she walked towards me.

I was furious, but I held back when I thought about the fact that she had once been lying on the operating table here facing the cold scalpel.

Violetta took my arm with a grave expression and looked at her belly again, as if she deeply loved me but I didn't cherish her.

I broke free and finally said unhappily, "You son of a bitch! Tell me honestly, who got you pregnant?"

"You, Lucas!"

"Do you believe I'll strangle you?" I said to Violetta with my eyes wide.

"You animal, go ahead and strangle me. If you did it yesterday, we'd both be dead, and today you'd be the lead story on the news, and the whole country would know about you!" Violetta narrowed her eyes at me, but her body pressed even closer to mine.

"Damn it, will you ever stop? I slept with you two months ago, so how long have you been pregnant? Show me the test results."

Violetta ignored my doubts, but her tone suddenly softened. With deep regret, she took my arm and said, "Lucas, if we didn't have the operation yesterday to give birth to this child, and let him call you dad, how happy you would be!"

I suppressed my anger and pushed her aside, saying, "Stop playing around, will you? ... You hurry up and go for a follow-up examination. Once you walk out of this hospital door, you can consider me dead and never bother me again!"

Violetta lowered her head and said to me after a while, "Don't talk about dying or anything like that. I won't bother you anymore!"

...

Violetta was having a follow-up examination and was hooked up to an IV in the hospital room, while I sat by her side like a family member, keeping her company, but I was always reluctant to say a word. I felt a little suffocated.

The doctor pulled me outside the ward door and said to me, "Young man, your girlfriend is very weak and has mild symptoms of anaemia. She must not be careless with her post-abortion recovery, or she will get sick roots when she gets older. I'll prescribe some recuperation medicine and health products for you, and you can get them at the pharmacy on the second floor."

I nodded without thinking too much about it, just thinking that the 1,000 yuan I used Renee's bank card to withdraw yesterday should be enough to get the medicine.

With the prescription in hand, I went to the second floor. It took the staff five minutes to hand me a bag full of medicine and health products, and then they threw down a sentence: "A total of 3,016 yuan, do you want to pay by card or in cash?"

I was stunned, and then I cursed, "What the hell is this magic pill that costs over 3,000 yuan? Do you think I have a lot of money and rip me off!"

The staff member, not surprised by my outburst, looked at the man who had just bought medicine at the next window and said to me, "You see, that person just bought 8,000 yuan worth of health products and medicine. If you don't have the money, don't let your girlfriend get pregnant!"

"You're so happy to be a fool, idiot!" I cursed at the man's back, and then I remembered Violetta's weak and helpless appearance after the abortion, so I held back my anger and took out Renee's bank card from my wallet and said, "Give me a discount, or just round down the 16 yuan."

The staff member took the bank card from my hand, gave me a cold stare and said, "That's new. Have you ever seen a hospital that gives discounts?"

Carrying the medicine I bought from the pharmacy, my heart was bleeding. This casual sex partner is really expensive!

...

I helped Violetta, who was weak after the IV, out of the hospital. The rain was still drizzling, and the air was also dull and depressing due to the incessant rain, making people feel depressed.

Violetta snuggled up to me for a while, and suddenly and unexpectedly asked me, "Lucas, a film crew has invited me to Hengdian to film next month. Do you think I should go?"

"Is it reliable?" I asked as softly as possible, not wanting to upset her, but in fact I wasn't at all interested in where she was going to film.

"I've already tried on the makeup, and the director and producer are very satisfied, and they think I'm quite suitable for the role."

"Okay, you print models, aren't you all sharpening your heads to get into the entertainment industry? It's a chance for you to seize it... By the way, this is a health product prescribed by the doctor for post-operative recovery. Take it back and take it regularly. I'll send you a message later telling you how to take it." I said, and handed her the bag I was holding.

Violetta did not take the bag I handed her, but stared at me for a long time and said softly, "My work as a print model is only a transitional period. I actually graduated from the acting department of the Shanghai Theater Academy."

"Fuck! No wonder you looked so professional when you cheated me. You're a professional! I really was blind and didn't recognize you as a top student from the Shanghai Theater Academy!" I exclaimed half sarcastically and half teasingly.

Violetta paid no attention to my ranting and asked me, staring at me, "Lucas, do you think I'm pretty?"

"If you weren't beautiful, could I sleep with you?" I stared at Violetta and asked in return. She was indeed a beauty, and a kind of down-to-earth beauty, with bright eyes, red lips and white teeth, and a little sexy and charming.

Violetta nodded: 'Lucas, forget Brittany, when I become a movie star, I will only love you!' After saying that, she took the bag from me and left like the wind.

...

I came back to my senses after a while, and a cold wind blew. I suddenly remembered that I had promised Renee to go move a little while ago. It was already 1:30. I immediately reached out and stopped a taxi and drove to the old place. On the way, I remembered that I had just used Renee's bank card to swipe 3,016 yuan for health products and medicine. I had told her to only swipe 1,000 yuan, and now I owed 4,016 yuan. How was I going to pay back so much money?

I thought of Renee's expressionless but overly beautiful face, and I was at a loss!