He would close up shop as soon as I got off from work
At first, I thought that he would eventually fail in his café venture because he wasn’t good at it. I even thought that he would lose money doing this and eventually close for good. However, for the next two years, he still wore his impeccable suit while grinding coffee at the coffee machines.
Plenty of young women were attracted to his handsome face, which made up the bulk of his customers. But when they asked him for his number, he would point at my office building and reply, “My girlfriend works there. She’s a fierce one.”
Eventually, the people at my company believed that I was his girlfriend. Meanwhile, I just couldn’t bring myself to confront the shameless pity of the man he was now becoming.
One day, Mom’s brother, Bob Grant, asked me if I was interested in going out on a blind date. I agreed at once and met up with him in Aaron’s café.
The man Uncle Bob introduced to me was a young, ambitious man, Harvey Davis, who was already an
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experienced lecturer at a nearby college at a very young age.
When he sat opposite me, with his gold–rimmed glasses, I noticed that he wasn’t as good–looking as Aaron. However, he gave me a good feeling, and his eyes were clear and bright.
He was looking at me with pure adoration in his eyes.
After exchanging contacts, we started meeting up more frequently, and I always set the meeting venue at Aaron’s café.
Aaron would get mad and turn red in the eyes every time, but he never dared to disturb or interrupt us.
At first, I treated Harvey only as a friend. But after getting to know each other better, I realized that he was a suitable partner for marriage, so we decided to officially label our relationship.
Ever since then, Aaron never turned up at the café again.
A while later, I received a parcel in the mail. It was a deed to the café, with Aaron stating that he was giving it to me for free.
I immediately transferred the money to him based on the current market price. I didn’t want to owe him any favors.
Two years later, Harvey and I got married. We had twins a year later.
Harvey treated me very well. He always stuck to me whenever we were together. Since he wasn’t too busy with classes at his college, he would always come over to my office after work to greet me so that we could go home together.
We’d then cook together, eat together, and clean together. He even remembered every single anniversary without fail.
Only then did I learn what it meant to love someone purely, perfectly, and wholeheartedly.
And that I was deserving of nothing less than that.
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