I cried and begged him not to push himself so hard. But he just smiled, looking content while he said, "Mandy, I know I'm not good enough for you, but I'll work hard. Please wait a little longer for me, okay?"
I waited for him for five years, enduring countless proposals from my parents and mockery from relatives. I accepted it all with a smile.
When I turned twenty-nine, Javier's company went public and he became a rising star in the tech world. He proposed to me and we had a grand wedding.
Afterward, I became pregnant easily and I thought my life was perfect. But Javier turned me into a joke.
I put down the tablet, dragging my exhausted body to clean up the vomit. An hour later, Javier returned.
He was carrying a bag of seafood porridge. He asked me, "Mandy, how are you feeling? Still unwell? There was an urgent matter at work, so I'm a bit late. Please don't be mad," he said, placing the porridge on the coffee table, looking at me with concern.
Those eyes, just like the ones I had fallen in love with years ago. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that the man who once loved me could become this person.