Weird Tattoo

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Mark was thirty-eight years old and had no girlfriend.

I found it very strange. He was good-looking and rich. Why was there no woman around him?

Later, I asked him a few times and learned he was widowed and hadn't gotten over his previous relationship.

But I thought he liked me. He looked at me with eagerness and tenderness at times. He also praised me, saying I was beautiful and my skin was so fair. He took good care of me, remembered my birthday, gave me expensive cosmetics, and even prepaid my salary for one year in one lump sum so that I could pay off my student loans.

But he never confessed his love to me and always kept a distance from me.

We lived together peacefully for a year. We went to the store together during the day and went home together at night. After we had dinner together, he went back to his bedroom, and I went to read without disturbing each other. We got along so well.