“Ooh! Looks like you have quite an exciting life, Simon!”
Bertha was shocked when she heard this, and the grapes she had just eaten suddenly tasted poisonous. Pain spread from her throat straight down to her stomach.
She looked at Simon, only to see that his eyes were still filled with love. At that moment, her blood ran cold as if she had been thrown into a blizzard.
“Enough, pipe down. Don’t let Bertha notice that something’s off.” Simon only thought that she was curious about why they were laughing, and he snapped at the group.
“Come on. You don’t have to be scared. It’s not like Bertha can hear you. Just tell her later that we were talking about the wedding tomorrow.”
“By the way, Simon, who’s better? Bertha or Luna?”
Simon slumped against the couch. His expression remained the same, but his tone was intriguing. “Bertha’s special to me, but everyone needs a sense of novelty in life.”
The cheers in the room grew louder, and they were making Bertha’s mind go blank.
Simon picked up a grape and fondled it for a moment before he added, “Luna’s young and pretty. She’s open in bed, and she has plenty of bedroom tricks…”
He had not finished his entire statement, but everyone got even more excited. He pointed at Bertha and motioned for everyone to fall silent with a look. After he peeled the skin off the grape, he fed it to Bertha.
However, Bertha remembered how he had just fondled the grape, and she could not swallow it.
Perhaps he noticed her unusual behavior, but Simon patiently signed to her, “What’s wrong? Are you sick of it? Do you want to eat something else?”
When Bertha saw the words “sick of it,” her entire body trembled.
“No. If I like something, that will be the only thing I like. I won’t ever change.”
With a doting look, Simon held her hand and smiled as he stared into her eyes. “I’m the same.”
Bertha met Simon’s gaze. His eyes remained as gentle as ever as he confessed his love through sign with practiced ease.
If she had not heard him say those things with her own ears, Bertha would never have believed how fake her husband was. After she listened to their conversation, Bertha finally understood that everyone knew about his affair with Luna. She was the only one who had been kept in the dark like an idiot.
