Chapter 67: 067. It’s really impossible now_1 Chapter 67: 067. It’s really impossible now_1 James Churchill let out a light laugh, perhaps Elly herself hadn’t noticed how intense the sadness in her eyes was when she said that sentence “There had never been a beginning between him and me.”
Elly Campbell pushed open the door of the café, and from a distance, she saw the Old Lady of the Jones Family sitting in a nondescript corner of the coffee shop, waving at her.
As she approached, Elly called out softly and sat down opposite the Old Lady.
The Old Lady was almost eighty years old, her hair already grizzled, and she was wearing black-framed reading glasses with a white women’s leisure suit. She appeared energetic and exuded an intellectual charm.
It had been over four years since they’d last met, and when Elly saw her again, the feeling of closeness hadn’t become unfamiliar because of the four-year separation. The Old Lady felt the same.
The Old Lady watched Elly with a smile, seemingly very happy.
“Four years ago, when Grandma heard you had left, I was so anxious my hair turned white. That old coot, your grandpa, wouldn’t tell me where you were, making me so anxious I nearly wanted to break his legs with my walking stick.”
The Old Lady had been close friends with William Campbell since they were young, so Elly wasn’t surprised by her manner of speaking and just smiled along.
“It was me who asked grandpa not to tell anyone.”
Back then, when she suddenly became pregnant, she was afraid that Adam Jones would learn about the child and force her to have an abortion. She knew that Adam wouldn’t allow her to have his child, so she fled.
Thinking of her little William Campbell, she was glad that she had fled all those years ago. Otherwise…
Elly didn’t dare to continue the thought, just lowered her eyes and fell silent.
At this moment, the coffee had been served. She was stirring her coffee intermittently with a spoon, trying to hide her thoughts.
The Old Lady, seeing her , sighed and said, “Elly, is there really no possibility between you and Adam?”
Her stirring paused briefly, Elly looked up at the Old Lady, then, without hesitation, nodded, “Yes.”
She saw the Old Lady’s brow furrow slightly, smiled and took her hand, saying, “Grandma, in truth, both of us know very well that if it wasn’t for your help, my marriage to him might not have even lasted three years.”
The Old Lady was anxious to object, “No, Elly, listen to me, if Adam really had no feelings for you, do you really think Grandma could have pressured him? In the four years since you left, why would he have searched the whole world for you like a madman?”
Elly’s hand, holding the spoon, tightened. The Old Lady often comforted her with these words during the three years of her marriage.
She had naively thought that maybe Adam Jones did have some feelings for her, which was why she had allowed herself to try a bit harder, and then even harder, in that precarious marriage, until…
Until Adam Jones told her to get out of the Jones family and make way for Sophie Baker. It was then that she woke up to the reality that her three years of persistence had been nothing but self-deception.
As for what the Old Lady said about him searching for her like a madman for four years…
She laughed at herself sarcastically, “Perhaps it’s because I initiated the divorce, and he couldn’t swallow his pride.”
Otherwise, how could he still refuse to sign the papers if things between them had come to this point?
If she were still naïvely thinking Adam Jones had feelings for her now, she would be the one degrading herself.