Relentless Pursuit After Divorce-Chapter 1280. Waiting for the one who holds a special place in one’s heart

Jenna Clark’s gaze withdrew from the sea of flowers before her.

Turning back, she met Jamuna Ford’s deep and steady eyes, which caused her to be startled for a moment.

In her heart, it was as if something suddenly pricked her, bringing a sense of oddness.

"Senior Sister, do you still remember asking me what kind of person could end my bachelorhood?"

Jenna was not foolish nor inexperienced in love, so how could she not know what Jamuna was about to say.

But...

She is no longer a young girl, after all, with many things she thinks more about and sees farther into the future.

She looked at the unwavering determination in Jamuna’s eyes, let out a sigh, and asked, "Why put yourself through this?"

"Why put myself through this?"

Jamuna’s mouth curved into a faint smile, "What exactly do you mean by ’Why put myself through this’, Senior Sister?"

Jenna hadn’t expected Jamuna to ask this and didn’t know how to respond for a moment.

But Jamuna didn’t give her any chance to reply and continued:

"Are you asking why I’ve been waiting for you for over twenty years without getting married, or are you questioning why I don’t pursue any of the young and attractive girls, instead wanting to marry someone who’s about to become a grandmother?"

Shock filled Jenna’s face upon hearing Jamuna’s words – not at the latter part, but the former.

He said he had been waiting for her for more than twenty years?

He hadn’t married at his age because... he was waiting for her?

The shock in Jenna’s eyes grew ever larger.

She knew Jamuna well; he would never say such sweet nothings unless he truly meant them.

Perhaps seeing the shock in Jenna’s eyes, Jamuna smiled gently, always the graceful, elegant academic, and said:

"There’s no ’putting myself through this’, because... it’s not a hardship."

He suddenly leaned a bit closer to Jenna, breaching the usual polite distance.

Though Jamuna always held Jenna in his heart, he had maintained a respectful distance when they were together, never overstepping his bounds,

Never causing her any distress or harm to her reputation.

So, when he suddenly came so close at that moment, his distinctly masculine scent mixed with his elegant demeanor threw Jenna off balance.

Yet she just stood there, forgetting to move.

Jamuna was much taller than her. Now that he was close, and with the emotions swelling between them, Jenna felt an overwhelming pressure she didn’t usually feel from Jamuna.

"If you’re waiting for the one your heart cherishes, waiting won’t feel long or bitter, so where does the saying ’putting myself through this’ come from?"

Jamuna looked intently into Jenna’s somewhat flustered eyes and continued:

"Don’t ask me why, because I don’t know why. As long as it’s you, there aren’t so many questions. Whatever kind of person you are, all I want is you."

When you like someone, it’s not about having many reasons.

Jamuna Ford was a quintessential science and engineering man; his expertise went far beyond mathematics.

Physics, biology, he also had lofty achievements in those but was never slick-tongued.

Once, Jenna had teased him, saying that as a straightforward STEM man who couldn’t even sweet talk, his future wife would probably resent him every day.

What had he said back then?

He said it wasn’t that he couldn’t sweet-talk, but that he hadn’t married the person he would want to say those sweet nothings to.

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