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33. Do You Think You’re Still Young?
After the little girl finished speaking, she went back to her room in a flash.
Alex stared at the bedroom door, his heart inexplicably surging, and he was unable to come back to his
senses for a long time….
When Jessie was sleeping soundly, she felt as if a huge mountain was pressing down on her. I t was
getting heavier and heavier, making her unable to breathe.
She almost could not take it anymore. She opened her eyes and saw Alex’s long eyelashes in
front of her eyes.
He kissed her, and she used her two hands to push him.
Alex let go of her, and looked down at her from above. His voice was low and hoarse, “You’re awake?”
Jessie found herself lying on the sofa in the living room.
She retreated to the side in fear.
Alex pressed down on her legs, not letting her move.
Jessie could not move. Their breaths intertwined.
He kissed her again.
Jessie was shocked. But she could not get rid of it. She could not help but blush and choke.
Alex had to let go of her lips and said with a dark look, “Are you that unwilling?”
She had said that she wanted to marry him. Could it be that he could not kiss her now?
Jessie’s long eyelashes were covered with tears. “What do you think I am?”
Her tone was a little coquettish, a little grumpy, and also a little aggrieved.
She was full of the attitude of a little girl. All of a sudden, the rising anger in Alex’s chest was
extinguished
His face became gentle, but his tone did not soften. “What else can I think of you as? You keep crying,
do you think you’re still young?”
Jessie bit her lips and her eyes became even redder.
He still had the nerve to say that. She cried because she was bullied by him.
“You will follow me in the future.” Alex looked at her like this and wanted to swallow her
tears in one gulp.
Jessie did not think that he would say such words. A fire suddenly appeared in her heart.
She turned her head and did not want to look at his face anymore. “I will not follow anyone!”
Alex was also annoyed. He held her round chin with his big hand and forced her to look at him. He said
unhappily, “Do you think that following me makes you feel wronged?”
There were many women in the R City who were in a hurry to jump into his arms. Jessie pretending to be
reserved should have a limit too!
“Yes, I am wronged!” Jessie felt pain in her chin from being pinched by him and whispered, “I n your
eyes, a divorced woman should be so casual, right? You gave me charity to follow you, s o I should be
grateful and accept it without any objections? You don’t care what I think at all. Do you think that I won’t
feel wronged like this?”
Alex stared at her. He was silent.
Jessie also stared back at him. Her chest rose and fell violently, and her body trembled slightly.
After a while, Alex said in a deep voice, “What do you think in your heart?”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“I just want to live a quiet life alone.” Her answer was partly because she was angry with him, and partly
because she was hurt by her previous marriage and wanted to escape now.
Alex’s ink-black eyes slowly narrowed, and his whole body was filled with coldness. “Alone?”
“Yes, that’s right!”
He was very angry.
She thought that he was going to be furious and wanted to hit her. She could not help but close her eyes
in fear.
However, he didn’t do anything.
The mountain-like heaviness on her body also disappeared.
Alex walked towards Felix’s room. “As you wish!”
The door of the room closed.
After Jessie received her salary at the end of the month, she habitually transferred money to her
hometown.
Just as she finished transferring the money, she received a call from her grandmother.
“Grandma…”
“Jessie, your mom went to R City to find you. She should be arriving soon, right?”
Jessie was shocked, “My mom came to R City?”
“Yes. Didn’t she call you? She saw on the television that Mike wanted to marry someone else. She didn’t
pack her luggage and went straight to the train station. What do you think is going
on? Did you divorce Mike? Why didn’t you tell us?”
Jessie originally thought that they were in the countryside and never paid attention to those
entertainment news. They probably wouldn’t find out so soon. When she went back on her annual leave,
she would tell them. She did not expect that they already knew by now.
“I’m sorry, Grandma. I was wrong. I shouldn’t have hidden it from you…”
“How can you hide such a big thing from us? Your mother is so anxious right now. What should we do if
something happens?” Grandma was scold her and Grandpa was advising Grandma not to be fierce with
Jessie again.
Jessie heard the voices of the elders and wanted to cry, “I will comfort my mother.”
Another call came in and she quickly told her grandparents for not worry anymore and then answered
another call.
It was from her mother, Jouvita. She was already at the train station.
Jessie quickly took a taxi to the train station to pick her up.
When Jessie brought her mom back to CnX Apartment from the train station, it was already dark.
“Mom, there is a bathroom over there. You go and take a shower first. I will go and cook.” Jouvita came
alone and did not even bring a change of clothes. Jessie took her clean pajamas to her mom and then
went to the kitchen to cook.
Jouvita took the clothes and said, “There is no hurry. Come over and sit with me for a while.”
Jessie knew that her mother’s health was not good. Because of this, she could not be anxious or
agitated. Jessie did not dare to push it off again and accompanied her mom to the sofa to sit down.
“Tell me, what is the matter between you and Mike? He said on the television that he wanted t o marry
Yura. Is that true?”
Jessie thought for a while and did not know how to answer. She said directly, “He and I are divorced.”
Jouvita seemed to stiffen for a moment and muttered with a blank expression, “Divorced…”
“He and I were divorced after a friendly agreement because of our personalities. Actually, there were
quite a number of couples who divorced because of their personalities. It’s good that I’m like this now.
Mom, you don’t have to worry about me.” Jessie tried her best to comfort her mother.
“When did you guys get divorced?”
“More than a month ago.”
Jouvita did not ask any more questions. She looked straight at Jessie for a long time before
standing up, “It is late, go to sleep.”
“You have been on the train for a day and definitely did not eat anything. You’d better finish eating first
before sleeping. I’ll be able to prepare simple food very soon.” Jessie advised.
Jouvita waved her hand and walked towards the bedroom. Jessie still walked towards the kitchen.
Halfway there, she heard a thud behind her.
She suddenly.turned her head and saw her mother faint on the ground.
“Mom!”
When Jouvita woke up again, it was already early in the morning.
Jessie had been guarding in the middle of the night and just as she was lying by the bed sleeping, the
sudden pain on her shoulder woke her up.
When Jessie opened her eyes, she saw her mother biting her shoulder.
Jouvita bit harder and harder.
Jessie felt that her shoulder was about to be bitten off by her mother and the pain pierced her heart.
She knew that her mother had fallen ill again and did not dare to provoke her even more. Jessie endured
the pain and softly said, “Mom, are you hungry? There is bread here. Eat a bit first and let go of your
mouth. I will feed you.”
Jessie’s mother had drowned once many years ago. Because of the water in her skull, the side effects of
her brain paralysis fell. Usually, Jouvita looked very normal. When she received a little stimulation, she
would become crazy and often hurt people. Jessie was often beaten black and blue by her mother when
she was a child. If it was not for Jessie’s grandfather and grandmother, Jessie would have died many
times.
Later on, the villagers were also attacked and Jouvita was forcefully brought into the mental hospital.
After a few years, she gradually recovered and was released.
In recent years, although Jouvita would also fall ill, it was very rare.
Jouvita’s eyes were scarlet red and she bit until her mouth was full of blood. Only then did she slowly let
go of Jessie’s shoulder.
Jessie did not care about the injury on her shoulder. Because she endured the pain, her fingers kept
trembling. Jessie tore open the wrapping of the bread and placed it in her mother’s hands.
Jessie brought another cup of water and passed it to her mother. Jouvita’s mouth was full of blood.
“Mom, rinse your mouth.”
Jouvita took it but suddenly smashed the water along with the cup towards Jessie’s head.
Jessie instinctively dodged but was unable to completely dodge.
Jessie’s forehead was smashed by the cup and made a muffled sound. Her brain buzzed.
The cup fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
Half of the water splashed on Jessie’s body and flowed down her neck. The water was so cold that her
body trembled.
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She walked forward and grabbed Jouvita’s hand, “Mom, I am Jessie. Do you recognize me?”
Jouvita pushed Jessie away. She knocked her head against the wall and her eyes were red as she
shouted, “You are not my daughter. I do not have a daughter that was dumped by a man! I do not have
such a shameless daughter! No! No!”
Jessie quickly rushed over and hugged her mother tightly, “Mom! Mom! Calm down! Don’t be like this,
please don’t be like this, okay?”
Jouvita once again used her head to hit Jessie as if she had gone crazy.
Jessie was knocked down from the hospital bed.
A voice sounded.
The back of Jessie’s head hit the floor tiles and her vision immediately turned black. It was a long time
before she could regain her senses.
“How are you?” The nurse woke her up.
“Mom! Mom!” Jessie was helped up by the nurse. She did not see her mother and her heart was
immediately lifted. She asked anxiously, “Where is my mother? Did you see my mother?”
“She just took your phone out and talked about calling her son-in-law.” Before the nurse finished
speaking, Jessie ran out like the wind.
The nurse shouted, “Miss, you have an injury on your shoulder…” Jessie searched the entire floor but
did not see her mother.
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Jessie remembered that the nurse said her mother took away her phone.
Jessie quickly borrowed a phone and dialed her number. Her phone displayed that she was o n the
phone.
The Mumen Group had recently invested in the most important environmental protection project in the
Political World of R City. Alex, Rick, and the relevant higher ups had been working overtime for this
project. These days, Alex had been living in an apartment next to the company. Tonight, Alex only
finished his work at dawn and received a phone call on his way back to
the apartment.
He did not save this number.
But Alex still recognized it at a glance. It was that woman who called. She said that she didn’t want him
and only wanted peace and quiet.
He knew that Jessie was pretending.
He thought that she could pretend for a longer time.
He did not expect Jessie to not be able to hold on for a few days.
Her words and actions were the opposite!
He sneered in his heart and directly cut off the call.
Alex drove the car into the underground garage. When he opened the car door and got out of the car, he
paused for a moment. He couldn’t help but take out his phone and call the number he had just called
After the call was connected, he asked coldly, “What is it?”
On the other side, Jouvita suddenly fainted at the hospital entrance when she was making the call. The
nurse ran over and heard the phone in Jouvita’s hand ring. The nurse immediately picked it up and
answered, “Are you the patient’s family? She has fainted in the hospital in the city center. Hurry up and
come over!” Alex drove to the hospital and checked Jessie’s name at the front desk.
A nurse beside him heard him and walked over. “You are Miss Jessie’s family?” Alex was silent for a
second and said in a deep voice, “How is she now?”
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