Chapter 612
“Help me with this,” Alex said, placing the bag in front of Ellie.
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As soon as Alex set the bag down and was about to sit, Ellie couldn’t hold back any longer and spoke up, “Isn’t your shirt a bit too tight?”
“Educate yourself before speaking. This is a fitted style, and it’s meant to look like this,” Alex replied with a deep breath as he sat down.
Ellie turned around to grab a bottle of water for him.
“This meal doesn’t count. Next time, you have to take me to a proper dinner,” Alex said seriously when he saw Ellie’s casual nod. “Dr. Thompson, I saved the three of you. Can you at least treat me a bit better?”
They sat across from each other in the lounge. “Even if you hadn’t saved us, we would’ve just gotten a beating and nothing that would kill us. Don’t exaggerate,” Ellie said, twisting open a bottle of water and handing it to Alex. “Anyway, thanks.”
Alex stared at the bottle of water Ellie had opened for him but didn’t take it. “Dr. Thompson, you never need a man, right?”
Ellie placed the water next to Alex’s hand. When she looked up again, she noticed his expression had changed. Their eyes met, and Ellie didn’t quite understand what his words meant. “What do you mean by that, Mr. Warren?”
Alex smirked. “You can handle everything well yourself, right?”
Ellie seemed to realize something. She gently twisted the cap of her bottled water and then hesitantly offered it to Alex. “I can’t seem to open this one. Mr. Warren, could you help me?”
She saw Alex’s lips curve into a smile as he took the water from her hand. Ellie felt a wave of disbelief and thought, ‘What a childish man!”
When Alex opened the bottle and handed it back to Ellie, his voice softened without him even realizing it. “Don’t do everything yourself. You can rely on me.”
The atmosphere suddenly grew a bit awkward. Ellie picked up her fork and lowered her head to eat her meal. She had been through too much. Emotionally and physically, she couldn’t bring herself to accept anyone else.
Since the day Alex went to prison five years ago and the day she decided to raise her two children alone, she had made peace with the idea that she would never marry in this lifetime.
“You’re too slender. You need more protein,” Alex said as he placed some beef into Ellie’s plate. Ellie paused, her fork hovering over the meat.
As she listened to Alex ramble on while eating, Ellie picked up a piece of beef and put it into her mouth. Back then, they had fought so fiercely–she hated him so much that she wanted to kill him with her own hands.
Never did she imagine that one day, she would be sitting quietly with him, sharing a meal.
She’d always believed that, given enough time, it would help filter out all the ‘noise‘ and leave only the most valuable things behind. For a while, she thought Alex had been filtered out by time, but here he was, five years later, still there.
When Diana left years ago, Aaron once said, “Time is both cruel and gentle. It sees more clearly than the eyes ever could. It brings harm, and it heals us.”
Ellie wondered if, someday, time would heal her too.
“Remember, you owe me a suit. Your taste isn’t as good as mine, I’ll have to pick it myself,” Alex’s voice snapped Ellie back to the present.
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Ellie looked at her outfit, then at Alex’s, and couldn’t understand how he could possibly think her taste was worse than bis.
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