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Chapter 994
Chapter 994
Chapter 994
His sadness and loneliness could be told from his straight back. Emelia and Maisie gave each other a look and knowingly shook their heads.
They both went through the ups and downs in a relationship and were conscious of the suffering nature of love.
Apparently, Phil was the one who got severe hurt.
According to Julian and Ezra, Phil barely walked out of his house during the festival. The good point was that he finally quit drinking excessively after he was sent to the hospital due to drinking problem.
Emelia worried about Phil's health and was also afraid that he was poor in cooking. Therefore, she asked Julian to invite Phil to have dinner at their house.
But Julian turned her down and said, "He is good at cooking.”
Emelia was surprised, "I didn't know that he can cook.”
Although she had known Phil for years, Phil scarcely could be counted as a close friend to her because of the distant relationship between her and Julian in the early years.
Julian elaborated, "When they first got married, Anya deliberately tortured him in various ways. Asking him to cook is one of them. In their house there was a servant in charge of cooking who was good at cooking. But Anya tormented him by asking him to cook for her. Otherwise she wouldn't eat anything.
Emelia asked, "So he learnt how to cook specifically for Anya and was responsible for all meals in a day?”
"What else choice did he get? He could hardly survive without Anya.” Julian recalled how insane he thought Phil was and how he rebuked him for acting so humble to please a girl.
But he fully understood Phil now.
He also learnt how to cook to take better care of Emelia and his kids.
Thinking of this, he comforted Maisie, "Don't worry about him. He wouldn't die before Anya does.”
As a person being highly possessive, Phil wouldn't be willing to die as long as he still had feelings towards Anya. As far as Phil knew, Anya belonged with him.
"I once called him and he sent me some pictures, all of which were about the food he made. He actually had some good days, albeit being lazy in going out.”
Once the news about Phil and Anya's divorce came out, numerous people ridiculed Anya by describing her as a money-grabbing young girl who seduced Phil by her attractive appearance. Phil dumping her was only a matter of time.
In usual case, Phil would stop the spreading of all negative news about Anya because he wanted to protect Anya.
But this time he turned a blind eye to it. It remained unknown if Anya, currently in another country, could see that news.
Phil refused to go out partly because he was tired and sick all of the paparazzi intrusion.
And what Julian didn't tell Emelia about the photos was that the food he cooked was Anya's favorite.
Wouldn't Phil be sadder when the food reminded him of Anya?
Julian didn't bother to persuade Phil to get over it. The more he thought about Anya, the harder he moved on. At such a young age, did he want to spend the rest of his life torturing himself?
In the hospital.
As a bossy and possessive person, Phil would usually keep her under constant surveillance even if he let her go in normal situation. But this time he didn't.
He didn't do it only out of the fear that she might find out. Rebellious as Anya was, she wouldn't tolerate surveillance of any kind, which consumed her last affection towards him.
Besides, he might kill himself first if she committed another suicide.
Therefore, instead of sending people to stalk her, Phil surrounded himself with things that Anya left.
Except some stuff that had been sent to her at the request of Phil, Anya's things remained at the original place.
Keeping her things was both a curse and bliss.
The bright side was that he could have something to look at and remember Anya. The bad sides were that the things kept reminding him of Anya's departure and days without Anya next to him.
Every second, every day was a struggle to him. He wanted to have the servant clean out her room but was destitute of the courage to do so.
Julian said Phil was tormenting himself. And he was right.
Lorie's room was quiet and clean as it always did.
Phil trimmed the flowers he brought and put them in a vase. He talked to Lorie in casual manner. "Presumably it was known to you that your daughter has settled.”
"Why can't she stay a little longer, at least after Valentine's Day? Now I am all alone. Sadly I have to deal with Julian and Ezra bragging about their wives.”
"I was the earliest to get married among them and boasted it all the time. Finally it is my turn to be envious of them.”
Phil let out a sigh and continued, "People are strange. I never celebrate anything, not even birthday before I met her.”
"But after we got into a relationship, I began to memorize all the important dates, anniversaries, festival and birthday. After she left, I accustomed to celebration.”
"Your daughter was a master of manipulating.”
"When we were married, she didn't like me and even got annoyed by me. So she picked on me in various ways, sometimes by asking me to cook for her, sometimes by requiring me to celebrate festivals of all kinds.”
"Of course I wouldn't be angry with her since she was still an immature girl. So I changed myself.”
"I learnt how to cook. I made her every meal when I had time. But she got sick of it very soon and would rather eat in the school canteen.
"I put every important dates in mind and surprised her in those dates by giving her several presents. But she accused me of being ‘extravagant' and forbade me from celebrating.”
"She really is hard to deal with, isn't she?”
He complained her while putting the flowers one by one into the vase. Soon all flowered were put into the vase.
He cleaned his hands and sat down beside Lorie's bed. He said in low voice, "Happy Valentine's Day. Please wake up soon so that you could celebrate with someone.”
His words were like a joke. Lorie probably wanted to wake from the unconsciousness if she could hear him.
How come Lorie still wanted to celebrate Valentine's Day when she had reached her retirement age.
But the joke was so typical of Phil. It showed his genuine care towards Lorie.
Phil explained, "Please don't think I wasn't serious. Ezra's mother recently just found her love. As much as we don't know the result, it proved that love isn't about age at all. You can still fall in love in your age.”
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