Love's Unspoken Symphony

Seeing my torn sleeves, she smiled maliciously. “You came out so soon? Not satisfied, right? How about I find a few more for you?”

I knew long ago that Melissa was a rotten person and her evilness was never hidden from me.

From Lance to Elmer, she never compromised and refreshed my bottom line of disgust again and again.

Thinking of what the man said just now, I couldn’t bear it anymore and slapped her hard.

When I realized something was wrong, she not only didn’t hide, but even raised a familiar grin at the corner of her mouth. She had already rolled down the stairs.

“Melissa!”

The excessive force rushed over and hit me hard against the decorative corner of the handrail.

The sharp pain exploded from my spine, making half of my body unconscious instantly.

When I recovered from the pain, Elmer’s eyes were already on me.

It was the cold, angry and violent aura that I had never seen in the past five years.

“Elmer, Erin just lost Lance and my appearance made her a little stressed. I’m fine, don’t be angry–”

Before she finished speaking, she hissed and held her wrist in pain.

Elmer’s face was like ink. “Erin, apologize.”

His voice was calm, full of a sense of coercion without anger.

I bit my lips tightly, grievances hit my brain and asked with red eyes, “Why don’t you ask what she did?”

Elmer’s face became colder. “No matter what Melissa did, it’s not a reason for you to hurt people. If I hadn’t appeared in time, would you want to kill her? I never knew that you were such a vicious person! I’ll ask you one last time, do you apologize?”

My heart seemed to be pierced by a sharp blade.

For five years, he knew exactly what kind of person I was. I was soft and optimistic and I had never hurt anyone or animals.

He even worried that I would be bullied because of this.

But now, when he met Melissa, he didn’t even bother to check and convicted me.

I tried hard to hold back the tears that were about to overflow and looked at him stubbornly. “I did nothing wrong, I won’t apologize. It was Melissa who hurt people.”

“Elmer, don’t quarrel because of me anymore, it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have come back, this hand is broken. It’s all my fault.”

Elmer hugged her tightly in his arms, looked at me expressionlessly and suddenly smiled strangely. “Okay, you go back first.”

Then, he picked up Melissa and left without looking back.

I fell down the stairs, the pain in my body and the fear in my heart made me unable to hold back anymore, I lowered my head and let the tears fall.

I cried enough, limped, endured the pain like a needle and left with difficulty.

I took a hot bath at home and wrapped myself tightly in the quilt.

In a daze, someone came to my side and gently stroked my arm.

I woke up suddenly and Elmer’s figure overlapped with the man’s figure for a moment.

I screamed in fear, but he covered my mouth.

“Erin, I spoiled you. But you have to know that you will be punished for doing wrong things.”

He got close to my face, ignored my desperate shaking of my head and kissed my forehead gently.

“It doesn’t matter. You give Melissa a hand as compensation and we’ll be even. Don’t worry, our wedding date will not change, I will take good care of you in the future and I won’t let you owe her.”

He raised the hammer and aimed at my wrist...

***

At dawn, Elmer went to the hospital with a nutritious meal.

I gritted my teeth, endured the pain of the broken hand, took my ID and took a taxi to the airport without stopping.