After the Divorce, I Embrace My Own Light

Chapter 4 Sister, You're Not Angry, Are You?

"No, she's not that stingy."

If it were in the past, Skyler would definitely comfort Marina. However, for some reason, the image of Piper helping him put on his tie this morning flashed through his mind. When he heard what Marina said, he felt a little strange.

Marina's expression was stiff and quickly returned to normal. She affectionately went to hold the arm of Skyler, "Then treat me to dinner, let's go to eat Italian food, shall we?"

Skyler was silent for a moment.

In the early years when he took over the company, he immersed himself in it day and night. He didn't eat regularly, and his stomach was spoiled at that time. However, he had never been good at showing his emotions, so even few members of the Shaw family knew about his illness.

Only Piper noticed that although she didn't say it directly, Skyler knew that she would take special care of him every time she cooked.

Italian food was so spicy that his stomach couldn't stand it at all.

Marina didn't notice his silence and continued, "I heard that there is an Italian food restaurant. Why don't we go there and eat..."

"Skyler, go with me, please." Seeing that he did not speak, Marina took his hand and shook it again.

Skyler had never known how to refuse the request of Marina. He could only think about eating less later, so he agreed, "... Okay."

The meal was torturous for him. The dishes on the table were all red with chili. Skyler did not force himself. He took a few bites and then put down his chopsticks. Even so, after eating, he still felt a burning pain in his stomach. Marina wanted to take him somewhere else, but her agent called her and urged her to go back to record the song. She could only hold Skyler's hand and act like a spoiled child.

"Let's go somewhere else next time, okay?"

She held Skyler's hand and didn't feel the behavior was beyond their relationship.

Skyler ran out of patience and said a few perfunctory words before Marina reluctantly said goodbye to him and then left.

Seeing Marina get in the car and disappear from his sight, Skyler finally couldn't help pressing his slender fingers hard on his stomach, and he frowned again.

Skyler had been taken good care of by Piper for the past year. He had almost forgotten that he easily got a stomachache.

Skyler found his assistant's Twitter and sent him the location, telling him to pick him up in half an hour. Then he got in the car, threw his mobile phone aside, and endured the sharp pain in his stomach.

He missed Piper.

Piper put the trimmed flowers in the vase and placed the vase on the windowsill at a good angle. The sun shone through the window, reflecting the snow on the lake last night. Piper suddenly became interested and simply turned over the painting tools to put in the main hall.

She had nothing to do in the daytime. The things she used to like had been given up since she married Skyler. This was the first time she had drawn in the past year. Her fingers, which used to be able to draw with a brush, were a little stiff at this time. Piper took a deep breath, got rid of her messy thoughts, dipped it in paint, and began to paint.

In the past, her teacher praised her for her talent. The last time Piper went to see her teacher, she told her teacher that she would never paint again.

At that time, the teacher looked at Piper with disappointment. "Piper, your talent is definitely more than this. If you continue to study, your paintings will be hung up in the art hall sooner or later. Why do you give up?"

Piper couldn't say that she gave up painting because of a man. She kept silent. The teacher was heartbroken because of her attitude and thought that she was giving up on herself. Her teacher only said that he respected her choice, but from now on, she didn't have to come to see him.

Piper seemed to have given up a lot of things after marrying Skyler.

Whether it was dancing, painting, or violin which was placed in the Richard family.

At the age of 17, Piper would still be a brilliant and enviable genius girl on the campus stage. She would also work hard for her dreams.

The 22-year-old Piper no longer thought about these things. She had become mediocre and was no different from an ordinary person. She was trapped in a cocoon of hopeless love for Skyler

The doorbell suddenly rang, followed by the sound of the fingerprint lock being unlocked.

Piper was a little confused. Logically speaking, Skyler would never have come back during the day, but the person standing at the door was indeed him. It was just that he was fine when he went out in the morning, but now his face was pale and he was sweating with his hands covering his stomach.

Piper was shocked and quickly put down her brush to help him up.

The assistant greeted her, "Hello, Ms. Richard."