Chapter 22

　　Karella left, but she gave me a sharp look before she went gone. Parts of me wanted to pity her — God knew how I did not like to see someone crying — but parts of me believed she deserved it. For sure, she all stained my name by badmouthing me like what she did to Pia and Madam before.

　　"I am sorry. I did not mean to interrupt you like that." I walked and sat in a small chair that was kinda far from his but I made this intentional as he seemed not ready to be close to someone right at this moment.

　　"Let us give this a shot," I heard him. He was now dancing himself in his swivel chair. He looked in rage but the seriousness on his face won. "I mean, this marriage, let us give this a shot."

　　I wondered what made him change his mind. He almost cursed me before. And now he was acting like a desperate husband trying to love his desperate wife. I looked away as I thought something. Is this what I was waiting for? But how could I be sure this was not just part of his play again?