Hold My Tear, I’m Getting My Wife Back!

She was facing away from the door, but at the sound of footsteps, she sprang up to kneel, quickly sliding the cushion under her knees back beneath the table and picking up a pen to pretend she was diligently copying something.

The table was a mess, covered in papers, which were punishment assignments from Hamilton.

After scribbling a few words, she glanced back and saw it was Phillip. "Oh, it's you."

Dropping the pen, she pulled the cushion out again and sat cross-legged, lazily grabbing an apple from the fruit bowl and peeling it.

"What brings you here?" Tina asked.

"Just passing through on a business trip. I thought I should drop by for Christmas," Phillip answered briefly.

"Got any gifts for me?" Tina asked.

Having handed all his gifts to the kids, Phillip said, "Next time."

Tina didn't press on when his 'next time' would be. She wasn't really after the gift.

She bit into the apple, wincing at the sourness.

"Are you cold?" Phillip noticed her red fingers.

ice-cold. Her knees would have been

she still had to copy texts, each sheet secretly embedding

off his leather gloves

He was

saw Tina watching him from the window. The

locked eyes for a

looking at?"

papers on the table, some flying out

in the snow, Phillip helped gather them and one

Phillip... His name was everywhere

stumbled at the

shoe flying

snow on

she hopped over. S

paper, her face

the papers back, trying to play

thinkingl'd fall for you if I

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