Chapter 72: Heartache for Him
York Charlie took Blanche Capra downstairs and quickly got the band-aids.
As soon as the item was purchased, York Charlie put it on her in front of the supermarket, looking at her fingers after it was put on, before a gentle smile spread out, and naturally and immensely patting the top of her head gently with his hand, “That’s a relief.”
It was so doting, and so familiar.
Blanche Capra bowed her head while York Charlie picked up the phone.
When he hangs up and Blanche Capra looks over at him, York Charlie says, “I’ll take you upstairs first, and you stay home. I’ve got something going on at the office and I need to get there right away.”
Blanche Capra nods.
York Charlie did drop her off at the house and left without entering the door, looking like he had a real emergency. He stood in the doorway before he left and looked deeply at her, then suddenly smiled tenderly and patted the top of her head gently, then turned and left without a word.
Blanche Capra’s heart was again patted by him so gently, beat without rhythm, beat for a while but then deep deep sink.
Sitting at home for a while thinking about what had happened with him over the last few days, finally the memory went to last night when she had switched his programme and burnt the original one. She was starting to get a little uneasy; York Charlie would have had the programme with him yesterday, which meant that there was a good chance he would use it today.
Then the fact that he had just left in such a hurry also meant that he was most likely going to attend to something to do with that programme. The more Blanche Capra thought about it the more uneasy she felt. She had to see for herself. Yes she had to go and see for herself before she could do that. The more she thought about it the more uneasy she felt. She had to go and see for herself.
So just as York Charlie was catching up with the project meeting, Blanche Capra was already on her way to his company. Blanche Capra arrived at the Charlie Group and asked the staff again and sat outside the meeting room for a while before waiting for the people inside to come out.
The first one was York Charlie.
Blanche Capra immediately stood up, he walked out with a sullen face, obviously in a bad mood, but the first thing he saw was her. At that moment, Blanche Capra was surprisingly very vain, and the finger with the band-aid on it, which he had handled carefully, suddenly jerked in pain.
York Charlie unexpectedly saw Blanche Capra standing outside waiting for him, and quickly walked up, his glowering face returning to its original state, even with a hint of warmth, as he took her hand and asked, “What brings you here?”
Blanche Capra bursts into a smile, “I told you, I don’t like to wait.”
Yeah, don’t like to wait, that’s a pretty good excuse. Blanche Capra looks at York Charlie with some heartache.
York Charlie naturally believed it, the corners of his mouth quirked up as he was infected by her square smile, “Good, then I’ll try not to keep you waiting from now on.”
The two of them smiled at each other, but Blanche Capra’s heart was so guilty that she didn’t feel good.
At that moment, a man walks up behind York Charlie, Blanche Capra takes a look and the man greets her with a smile, “Hello Miss Capra, I’m the president’s secretary, Lean.”
Blanche Capra nods and smiles politely as well, “Hello, Lean.”
York Charlie suddenly frowns, turning to SECRETARY Lean, “We have to look into what happened today, how the project proposal was suddenly changed.” Blanche Capra’s heart stuttered.
SECRETARY Lean instantly became serious, “Yes, President.”
“What? Did something happen?” Blanche Capra asked tentatively.
York Charlie sulked, “An accident of no small magnitude.”
Blanche Capra made a slight show of surprise, “And was it a big impact?”
York Charlie didn’t nod or shake his head, just said, “I’ll find out.”
“Then you stay on and work!” Blanche Capra said, a little embarrassed, “I’m just bored staying home and want to hang out. When I’m done shopping, we’ll have dinner together!”
York Charlie saw her smiling happily, but still asked, “You want to go shopping alone? You don’t need my company?”
“Of course not, I just want to walk around alone,” she still smiled, “You go and get busy, everyone is waiting for you!”
The loss of the project did have serious implications this time, and York Charlie needed to go and deal with the aftermath, arranging to go down and formulate another countermeasure. So he nodded, “Alright, call me when you’re done shopping.”
Blanche Capra agreed and turned to go.
York Charlie pulled her from behind, “Be careful.” Then let go.
Blanche Capra turned back to him and smiled, a smile that stiffened when she turned her head. How could those hard-boiled smiles last, even if they were realistic?
Blanche Capra thought she was driving herself crazy.
She walked out of the the Charlie Group building, walking carelessly, tired for the first time of not wanting to think about anything, wanting to empty herself completely, but not being able to do so. Always will … keep thinking about him.
He is love or hate, love and hate or, no matter how, his figure is always out of the mind.
But just when she was thinking about York Charlie, a man who always appears out of nowhere suddenly appeared.
Moore Howard was halfway across the street when he reached down and dragged Blanche Capra into the car, slamming the door behind him instantly, and Blanche Capra faced him, still apprehensive, but distracted. Her heart, still hanging on to the man’s-
“Good performance this time!” The familiar voice took on a rare softness.
Blanche Capra nodded.
Moore Howard, seeing her moody demeanour, asked her suspiciously, “You’re not in love with York Charlie, are you?”
Blanche Capra is flustered, but instead of denying it in a hurry, she pauses and smiles softly again, “How can that be?” She saw that Moore Howard was staring at her, trying to see something in her face, and laughed at herself again, “I’ll never forget what he did to me.”
Blanche Capra’s words were hard on herself first as soon as they were out of her mouth. What had he done to her that Moore Howard didn’t already know about? He’d hurt her, made her heart ache and suffer, but he’d also … He’d also given her a tender love that she still couldn’t let go of ah …
He gave everything, whether good or bad, she probably can never forget. In this emotional entanglement, she for her own pain, but also for his pain, especially when she thought of his tears that night, he cried to her to say that he loved her and said that he was sorry for her, she felt that her heart hurt so much. Two sharp pains that almost suffocated her.
Moore Howard said nothing more than that to Blanche Capra, and when he let her go at the end, he said the usual, “Remember, don’t forget who you are.”
Blanche Capra got out of the car and realized she was standing under her own house.
She turned back to the far-off car, deep thought gradually colouring her eyes.
York Charlie was still very efficient over there.
The loss of this project really made the group lose a lot of money, but since things have already happened, York Charlie lost his temper and went over it, and now what he wants to know more is that the programme that was inexplicably altered. But how he did not find out a clue, why the programme in hand was suddenly changed into this? This programme was handled by not many people, are a few company old man he trusted, could it be that the people around them are not clean?© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.
York Charlie is quietly pondering, mobile phone call rang again. Expecting it to be Blanche Capra, he didn’t realise that it was his grandmother.
“Hello, Grandma.” York Charlie’s voice was coloured with undisguised surprise.
“York, why don’t you come back for dinner tonight! Your mum and I are waiting for you at home.” Old lady Elsa’s long-lost voice came from over there.