Chapter 633
“You guys chat. I’m off to get some work done, Ellie said, picking up the thermos from the coffee table and leaving the hospital room. Once Ellie was gone, Alex slowly straightened up.
Ellie left Orion’s hospital room and returned to her office, where she ran into Lacey, who was there to see Mark. They paused to chat for a bit by the elevator.
“Come on, let’s go. It’s tough to get tickets for superstar Sebastian’s concert. I’m all set. You, me, and Diana–we haven’t hung out in ages,” Lacey urged Ellie to join her at the concert.
“Alright, I’ll try,” Ellie agreed cheerfully. It had been a while since the three of them had gone out together.
“Mr. Warren,” Lacey greeted Alex as she saw him approaching.
Alex paused, his gaze briefly landing on Ellie. Nodding halfheartedly, he stuck his hands into his suit pants pockets and waited for the elevator.
Lacey looked back and forth between Ellie and Alex. She was dumbfounded and thought, ‘Alex isn’t acting arrogant around Ellie as usual? That is unheard of. Lacey stared at them in disbelief.
“Lacey, Dr. Grant is in his office, you should go,” Ellie reminded her, and Lacey took the hint and left.
“Mr. Warren.” Ellie approached him. Seeing that Alex hadn’t moved, Ellie decided to apologize. “It was my fault for leaving during your dinner last night, I’m sorry,” she said, feeling it was necessary to apologize to Alex.
Yesterday, it was rude of Ellie to leave the dinner with Alex. Plus, since Alex didn’t remember anything, it was unintentional. There was no need to make a big deal out of it.
They stood face to face by the elevator. Ellie sincerely apologized while Alex looked down at her.
After a while, Alex suddenly said, “No need to apologize, Ellie. I wasn’t interested in dinner last night anyway.”
Ellie was momentarily stunned.
“The bracelet I gave you yesterday, Ellie, was just a freebie from a store promotion. I didn’t need it, so I gave it to you,” Alex said.
“A freebie?” Ellie couldn’t help
but
frown.
“Yes, a freebie, so there’s no need to overthink it,” Alex said as he stepped into the elevator.
Ellie stood outside the elevator, her mind filled with overlapping voices, both current and past.
“It was a promotional freebie. I didn’t need it, so I gave it to you. It was free. Ellie, there’s no need to overthink it.”
“Even if the bracelet was a freebie, with your salary, you couldn’t afford it anyway.”
“Haley decided she didn’t want it, and you think I would just give it to you?”
*****
Holding back the tears in her eyes with all her might, Ellie’s hands, hanging at her sides, clenched on their own. She thought, ‘Stupid jerk. Thanks for the reminder!‘
As the elevator doors slowly closed, she watched Alex inside and gradually calmed down.
Standing in the elevator, Alex saw the tears well up in Ellie’s eyes, feeling an unexpected tightness in his chest. He couldn’t
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A few minutes later, Alex came up the stairs, but Ellie had already left. Sweat covered his forehead, and he breathed heavily as he stood there, panting. His gaze fell on the lunchbox on the windowsill, eyes slowly narrowed and then narrowed even
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