Cohabitation With My Ex-Husband

Sarah's eyes widened at that. She didn't expect there is interaction between Mr. Collins and Michael at all.

"You called father?" asked Sarah, turning around to look at Michael's face. She couldn't hide her curiosity.

Michael was a little confused by Sarah's question, why did the woman look curious? Before he finally shook his head.

"No, dad called me," Michael explained.

Sarah's brow furrowed at this.

"Father called you?" Sarah asked again, making sure she hadn't heard anything wrong.

Michael nodded.

"When did he call you? Did he say something?" asked Sarah in succession.

Although during this time she often visited Mr. Collins, the man never told her that he contacted Michael, and asked her how Michael was.

Michael's brow furrowed slightly at Sarah's behavior. Was it something strange if his father contacted him?

"About last week, not much, dad just asked about the the company, then..." Michael hung his words a little, making Sarah even more curious and moving her face closer to Michael.

"Then tell me to treat you well. Actually I'm a little confused about it, have I not treated you well all this time?" asked Michael.

One day, while he was at work, his cell phone rang and his father called him. Even though his father asked how things were going with the company, Michael could tell that that wasn't what his father wanted to call him.

His father then asked how his marriage was, which made Michael even more confused about it, but he still answered by saying everything was fine.

Before hanging up the phone, his father gave him a message to treat his wife well.

Michael's face immediately turned to surprise when he saw that the tears had flowed back down Sarah's cheeks.

"Why are you crying? Did I not treat you well?" Michael asked, then immediately touched Sarah's face and wiped her tears.

Lately his wife is crying more easily, is this a sign of menopause?

"No, it's not like that, I..." Sarah tried to stay calm and not cry.

It was true that Michael did not treat her well. They got divorced, remember?

However, what made Sarah cry was Mr Collins.

The man really loved her like his own daughter, to the point of asking his son to treat her well.

Mr. Collins had always told her that, that he loved her, and things like that, but Sarah didn't expect Mr. Collins calls Michael without her knowledge and tells Michael about it.

And he was sick!

Sarah's heart ached, the old man loved her very much, but they were no longer family. Why did everything have to be like this?

Can't she find a family that loves her and doesn't part with her?

Sarah suddenly regrets that she has divorced Michael.

"Shh… don't cry anymore, wifey. I don't know what I did, but I'm sorry," Michael said softly as he wiped tears from Sarah's cheeks and kissed her forehead.

"Sob... I'm not crying because of you, it's… your father was so good to me, it made me wonder if I deserved this," Sarah said finally telling Michael how she felt.

Did she, the child abandoned by her own parents, deserve such affection from Mr Collins?

"Of course you deserve it! You have married me, my family automatically has become your family too. That's why you call my dad, father, because he has become your father," Michael said with a smile.

Sarah was silent when she heard that, could she really deserve it?

***

When she was at work, Sarah still do as usual, only when she was free she tried to visit Mr. Collins.

After learning that the old man really loved her, Sarah's heart was very touched and kept coming to visit him and sometimes talking to him.

Without Sarah knowing it, there was a pair of eyes that kept watching Sarah. That's Steve.

Steve felt pain every time he saw Sarah come to visit Mr. Collins and come out of his room wiping her tears.

He felt like a failure, and wanted to make her not cry anymore, but… he didn't know how!

He'd tried to crack a joke when they had lunch at the hospital, but it felt like Sarah still had that sad look in her eyes.

Sarah is currently getting ready to tidy up her desk and get ready to go home.

After Sarah finished tidying her desk, she took her bag and got ready to go home, but suddenly her cellphone rang, indicating that someone was calling her.

Sarah's brow furrowed when she saw that it was an unknown number, but she picked up the call anyway.

"Hello?"

"Hello, Sarah?" A woman's voice was heard from the other side. That sounds familiar.

"Mrs. Brown?" Sarah asked, a little unsure.

She couldn't believe that Mrs Brown would call her. Sarah didn't have to ask where the old woman got her number because Steve had to give it to her.

"Yeah, it's me! Thank goodness you still remember me!" replied the old woman, sounding pleased.

Sarah's lips involuntarily smiled.

"Is there anything I can help you with, Mrs Brown?" asked Sarah curiously.

"I'm sad. Why do you sound so cold? Can't I call you?" Mrs Brown asked, sounding feigned sorrow.

Sarah was a little flustered to hear that.

"No, it's not like that, I thought you called me because you wanted to ask me for help," Sarah said hastily explained.

"I'm just kidding, you don't have to feel bad," said Mrs Brown and chuckled.

Now Sarah understood where Steve got his mischievous nature, it had to be from his mother.

"Oh yeah, you still remember my offer at that time? To ask you to have dinner together?" Mrs Brown reminded her.

Sarah pursed her lips when she heard that. She almost forgot about it!

"Ah… yes, I apologize I didn't contact you earlier about that," Sarah said awkwardly.

"It's fine. Then do you want to have dinner with me?" asked Mrs. Brown.

"Eh?" Sarah was a little surprised by that.

"Sure. We can arrange a time to do it," replied Sarah, who thought it would not hurt to meet the old woman again.

Well… so far the old woman was nice to her, unlike Mrs. Collins, she would probably make excuses if Mrs. Collins asked her to have dinner together, because she didn't want to meet the old woman.

"Are you busy?"

"No, my shift is over and I'll be home in a minute," Sarah replied, thinking Mrs. Brown thought the she was bothering her.

"Then how about tonight?" asked Mrs. Brown, sounding pleased.

"Eh?" Sarah was a little confused.

"You're not busy, are you? Let's have dinner tonight," Mrs Brown repeated.