Chapter 476
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Ellie hailed a cab back to the Thompson residence, arriving around nine. Her family was still awake, chatting in the living room. When she walked in, they all stood up.
Noticing everyone’s reactions, Ellie glanced down at herself. Despite her calm demeanor, after rolling out of Alex’s car and getting mud all over herself, she looked quite messy indeed.
“Ran into that nutcase, had a little spat, but everything’s fine now,” Ellie assured them, leaving out half the story. If she told them she had almost fallen off a cliff with Alex, her family wouldn’t sleep tonight–or ever again.
“As long as you’re okay,” Joanna replied, not probing further. She gently nudged Ellie upstairs to take a shower and rest. Strangely, Ellie thought she’d be too upset to sleep, but she drifted off and slept soundly.
The next morning, Ellie went to work as usual. Life is like riding a bike; you have to keep pedaling to stay balanced. Diana invited her to dinner, and she happily accepted. She found shoulder–to–shoulder friendship more appealing than hand–in- hand romance.
After work, Ellie arrived at the Earl Hotel as planned. Inside the private room, it was just Lacey and Diana, and Ellie finally felt at ease.
“Quinlee said that Alex was after you again?” Diana pulled Ellie down to sit beside her.
Ellie nodded, accepting the juice Lacey handed her.
“I don’t even know what to say about this ‘madman. You could call him trash, but he’s trashier than the trashiest. And if you say he’s evil, he’s so intimidating that even bad guys shiver at the sight of him.
“But if you think about it, he’s kind of pitiful too,” Lacey recalled Layton’s stories about Alex, how Alex got beaten up by Jason and almost buried alive, and couldn’t help but grumble.
“Pitiful people always have something despicable about them!” Diana gave Lacey a knowing look.
Lacey quickly added with a smile, “Right, he totally deserves it!”
“Don’t worry about me, say whatever you want, even curse if you need to,” Ellie sat between the two, looking indifferent. Whether it was praise or insults, anything about Alex didn’t matter to her anymore.
In her heart, Alex was already dead. After her memory loss, Alex was nothing but ashes in her mind, completely vanished.
“Let me tell you, Layton is in an even worse situation than Alex,” Lacey laughed, shifting the subject. “Recently, he has been chasing after Nalani all over the place, begging her to come back and marry him, but she just won’t. He’s tearing his hair out over it!”
The three girls hadn’t chatted together in a while, and once they started, they couldn’t help but talk about relationships.
“I’m heading to the restroom,” Ellie said as she rose after more than an hour, while Lacey and Diana were still sipping their drinks.
Ellie emerged from the restroom and immediately spotted Alex in the hallway. He was wearing black pants and a black shirt, leaning against the wall with one hand, clearly intoxicated.
Beside him stood a curvy woman, carrying a man’s suit jacket over her arm, which Ellie instantly recognized as Alex’s. The woman was carefully attending to Alex by supporting his arm.
Ellie discreetly averted her gaze and gracefully walked past them. If this woman could have something going on with Alex, it would be absolutely fantastic.
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Alex was slightly hunched, his peripheral vision locked on Ellie as she made her way down the hallway. He kept his eyes on her until she turned a corner and vanished from sight, finally straightening up once she was out of view.
He stumbled backward, shoving the woman beside him aside, and growled, “Get lost!”
