The Seventh Miserable Bride

Chapter 68

"Did you cry?"

He saw the trace of her tears at the corner of her eyes and held her shoulders in surprise. "What happened?"

Yasmine stared at him in a daze. She really wanted to say, "It's you. No one can make me this sad except you," but she could not say it. She just moved his hand away gently and said tiredly, "I'm tired. I don't want to say anything now."

Later, Sebastian went into the bathroom to take a shower and found that Yasmine had forgotten to put away her dirty clothes on the floor. Only then did he realize that she might have been bullied. He stared blankly at the clothes stained with tomato sauce in his hand. He suddenly stood up and came to her room door. He knocked on the door. Yasmine opened it slightly and asked through the crack, "What's wrong?"

"What happened to your clothes?"

Yasmine was silent for a moment and said honestly, "It's your ex-wife's masterpiece."

"Did Raelene mess with you again?"

"What do you think?"

She closed the door and did not want to talk about this topic with him anymore. Sebastian held her clothes in his hand and slowly crumpled them into a ball. The next day was another thrilling day. First of all, the students' parents came to the school to argue. As the principal, Scott naturally tried his best to appease them even though it was not easy. Then, Raelene Ferguson, the unexpected guest, came to the office again. She said that she wanted to see Yasmine. Yasmine was in class, so Lily Adams rushed over and told her to hide. Yasmine frowned and resolutely went to the office.

"What do you want again?"

Yasmine asked with a sullen face.

Raelene pointed outside and said, "Let's talk outside."

Yasmine felt a little relieved upon hearing that she wanted to talk elsewhere. At least this woman did not come to create more trouble today.

The two of them came to the school field. When there was no one around, Raelene said, "I'm sorry about what happened yesterday. I apologize to you."

Yasmine's eyes widened, thinking that she had heard her wrongly.

"If you didn't hear me clearly, I can say it again. I'm sorry about what happened yesterday. I apologize to you."

Yasmine found it unbelievable. After just one night, this woman had changed completely.

"Well, are you done? If you are, I'll leave."

"Wait a minute."

Raelene stopped her. "Do you forgive me?"

"As long as you don't cause any more trouble for me, I don't care about forgiving you or not."

"No, you have to give me a clear answer."

Yasmine sneered, "What if I don't forgive you?"

"Then I'll come to school every day to see you until you forgive me."

What a lunatic. She changed every day. Yasmine waved her hand impatiently and said, "Fine, I forgive you. Please don't show up in front of me again in the future."

"I haven't finished."

Raelene stepped forward to stop Yasmine, as she was about to leave. Raelene handed over her mobile phone and said, "Call Sebastian and tell him that you've forgiven me."

Yasmine was stunned. "What does this have to do with him?"

"Stop pretending. If you hadn't gone back and told him what happened, he wouldn't have threatened me with anger that he would ruin my father's company if I didn't apologize!"

It was only then that Yasmine finally understood the reason why Raelene's attitude had changed. It turned out that Sebastian had stood up for her.

She took over her mobile phone and dialed Sebastian's number. Not long later, the call was connected. "Hello?"

"I have forgiven her,"

Yasmin said plainly. After a brief silence, Sebastian said, "If something like this happens again in the future, inform me immediately. Don't cry secretly like a fool."

Since Raelene was there, it was inconvenient for her to say anything else. So she softly agreed, "Okay, I'll hang up."

"Can I leave now?"

Yasmine asked after she hung up the phone.

"Don't think that you won. If it wasn't for my family's business, I would never yield to a woman like you."

Yasmine replied boldly, "If it wasn't for not wanting to see you ever again, I would never accept your hypocritical apology."

"You like Sebastian, don't you?"

Raelene was neither anxious nor annoyed. She suddenly asked about the secret in Yasmine's heart.

"I don't think it's necessary for me to report my private life to you."

"I'm not interested in your private life at all. I just want to kindly remind you that if you like him, then you'd better give up as early as possible. Because Sebastian will never like any other woman except Abigail Tanner. Do you know who she is? She's the woman that Sebastian misses day and night. I was slapped by him because I touched that woman's picture album. Until now, I can't forget his sad eyes when he looked at the album and his disgusted eyes when he looked at me."

"You know about his past quite well."

Yasmine pretended to be calm and smiled. "But I don't mind. He hasn't forgotten his first love, which shows that he's a person who is true to his feelings. He promised me that he would forget the past and start all over again."

"Ha-ha-ha-"

Raelene gave a mocking laugh and said, "Forget about the past and start all over again? Yasmine Taylor, are you really that naive? He has not forgotten her for three years and now he can because of your appearance? You really overestimated your ability. I sincerely advise you to know where you stand. Otherwise, one day you will cry buckets of tears."

The mocking laughter gradually faded away. Yasmine stood there for a long time. With a gust of wind, her sadness was blown away.

After work in the afternoon, Sebastian did not call her before coming to the school to pick her up. In the past two days, rumors about her were widely spread in the school. Most of them were the same version: her handsome husband had a new lover and was about to abandon her. In a fit of anger, she slapped the new lover. The new lover could not take it anymore, so she came to the school to fight back. That was why the horrible scene of the new lover pouring tomato sauce on her happened.

When Lily saw Sebastian, she was quite unhappy. She left without greeting him.

Yasmine walked over and asked casually, "Why are you here?"

"To pick you up from work and treat you to dinner."

"Let's just go home and eat."

She was not in the mood to go out with him for dinner, so she did not seem very happy with his suggestion.

"It's boring to go home and eat. Today I'll take you to eat something you can't eat at home. Get in the car."

Several colleagues who saw the joke yesterday saw Sebastian gently smiling at Yasmine and could not help but feel puzzled. They looked at Yasmine with envy and jealousy.

Yasmine sighed, with a faint sneer on the corner of her lips. The worst thing that Cinderella did was to give hope to all the daughters of poor families.

Sebastian drove the car to a seafood restaurant by the sea. He pointed to the sign and said to Yasmine, "See, I didn't lie to you."

Yasmine sneered. He still remembered that she liked crabs. It was really rare.

They got out of the car, walked into the restaurant, and sat down at a table facing the sea. Sebastian said to the waiter, "Steamed crabs, braised crabs, roasted crabs, fried crabs, stir-fried crabs, serve all of them."

Yasmine looked at him in surprise. "How are we supposed to finish all of that?"

"Pack it up if we can't finish. We'll bring them home and continue eating."

"What's wrong with you? You have nothing better to do?"

Sebastian looked at her gently and said, "I just want you to vent your anger and think of those who bothered you as crabs. Swallow them into your stomach, and don't even spit their shells out."

The waiter brought to the table a steamed crab, then a braised crab, and then a roasted crab. Within a quarter of an hour, the table was full of crabs. In Yasmine's eyes, the crabs all turned into Sebastian's face. Some were happy, some were unhappy, some were angry, and some were annoyed. Each of them was in front of her, making her dizzy.

"Let's start."

Sebastian put a steamed crab into her bowl. She looked at it for a few seconds, then picked it up and put it into her mouth. She chewed the shell and swallowed it, she really did not spit it out.

"You're pretending it's me, aren't you?"

he asked sensibly.

Yasmine did not admit nor deny it. Instead, she asked sadly and desolately, "Are you waiting for the person who will heal your wounds..."

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy. Sebastian did not answer. Yasmine continued, "Raelene laughed at me today. She said, if I thought that I can replace the person you've never forgotten for three years, that means that I don't know where I stand. And one day, I'm going to cry buckets of tears."

"Don't listen to that woman's nonsense."

"Isn't she telling the truth? If you don't accept me, it meant that you can't forget Abigail, right?"

Sebastian touched his forehead and sighed, "Can we not talk about this topic?"

Yasmine's heart was very sad. She sniffled and said, "Well, if you don't want to talk, then we'll stop talking about it. But I want to advise you not to think about your memories all the time, because the person in your memory may not necessarily be thinking about you as well."

That day, Yasmine ate a lot of crabs, each of which was Sebastian's shadow.

In the blink of an eye, there were only three days left until Linda's deadline. She called Yasmine and urged her, "Have you thought about it? When do you want to leave?"

Yasmine closed her eyes painfully. "Why are you in such a hurry? It's not time yet."

"So, you're already planning to leave?" This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

Linda was quite delighted.

"Whether I leave or not will not benefit you, so you better not be so happy for now. Otherwise, the more you get your hopes up, the more disappointed you will be."

"That's my business. You don't have to worry about me. As long as I can get rid of you, I can do anything I want in the future."

Yasmine had been disappointed that Sebastian refused to accept her feelings. She had no mood to deal with Linda and no way to get rid of Richie, but these two people kept pestering her like ghosts.