Chapter 39
“Kaleb, I’m at the coffee shop near your house. I didn’t bring an umbrella, and the rain is too heavy to walk. If you haven’t gone to work yet, can you come and pick me up on your way?”
Kaleb replied, “Give me two minutes.”
Annalise’s lips curled up as she quickly picked up her phone and pretended to dial a number. She muttered beside me, “I didn’t expect it to rain so heavily. I’ll have Kaleb come pick me up.”
After finishing, she pretended to dial a number and put the phone to her ear. After a few seconds, she said, “Kaleb, I’m at the Lucky Cafe near your house. It’s raining heavily. Can you come and pick me up… Okay… Two minutes, right? Oh, by the way, your wife is also here. She didn’t bring an umbrella. Maybe you can also drop her off at the Drug Development Institute… Okay…”
After Annalise finished giving orders, she put her phone back in her bag and said to me, “Mrs. Barton, I will have Kaleb send you back to the Drug Development Institute first.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Annalise couldn’t wait to pick up her bag, turn around, and walk outside to wait at the door.
My gaze remained fixed on the rain outside the window, feeling gloomy and unhappy. My husband specially came to pick up Annalise, obediently following her arrangement and incidentally giving her a ride? Annalise was quite good at role reversal. Hadn’t she always been like this?
She could be mad at the world, but not at my own time. It was better to get back to my lab where test tubes didn’t talk back than to waste hours here stewing over the dumb drama that wouldn’t make actual progress.
In an instant, I picked up my backpack, slowly moved the chair aside, and walked out of the coffee shop. I pushed
open
the glass door, and the cold wind, mixed with the rainwater, poured into my nostrils and brushed across my cheeks. A shiver ran through my body, from head to toe.
I could only make out the taillights and license plate of Kaleb’s car through the pouring rain, watching them grow smaller and fainter until they vanished utterly from my sight. I stood at the doorway like a fool, my eyes a bit sore, my body a bit cold, and my heart empty.
I went back to the coffee shop and sat in the original seat, listening to the wind and watching the rain. I was waiting for the rain to stop.
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