Page 433 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

me...and I didn't love him...! I don't know how to tell you now...! If
my parent is still alive... my life was not like this way...! "

She said with a throb of emotion in her voice.

Nguyen had a sigh, his eyes resting on a picture, that hang on
the wall of a tiger chasing a deer, and a deer was efforts a futile
attempt straining to run faster and faster to the tiger's ever lessening
the distance.

" Love is blind. Sometimes the morals and virtue amount to
nothing and

the voice of the heart cannot refuse. " Nguyen replies with a
glance at her.

Phuong sighed, and wiped her tears, she continues:

" I had followed my brother-in-law to the ball few times, dancing
with him only, and not suspecting what he would do to me, and said
love me without my defending myself or resisting... The steps of the
dance, that I learned from him, I've used to make my living for over
the years now. I will never forget that night, and hated him...! "

She said in sobbing.

" How about your sister? Did she know your problem? "

Phuong shook her head.

" No, about a week after it happened, I told her all about, but

she did not believe me. Blinded by her jealousy, She thought
that

I was trying to steal him from her love. She did not care about
my sorrow and threw me out of her house. Over three years now I
left her home, I have lived in a depraved state with an extremely
sorry until now."

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