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Ellsworth paused, teacup in hand, and just looked at Harriet.
After staring at her for a while, he let out a short laugh and said,
“You’ve been doing quite a lot behind my back.”
After Ellsworth spoke, the waiter began serving the dishes.
Ellsworth didn’t say anything more, but instead served Harriet
some soup and rice.
When picking food for Harriet, he would always remove the
seasonings she didn’t like, and even picked out the fish bones
for her.
Harriet noticed Ellsworth’s tenderness that night, but said
nothing.
She waited quietly for him, waiting for him to lay his cards on
the table.
Because Ellsworth’s tenderness tonight felt very much like a farewell before parting.
After dinner, Ellsworth even took Harriet for a walk by the river.
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He held her hand, and for a moment, they were just like they
used to be.
It wasn’t until after nine o’clock at night, when the car stopped
in front of Auburn Heights, that Harriet woke from a nap to find
Ellsworth leaning in close to her. Harriet stared at him without
moving.
By now, it was already dark outside.
The blue ambient lights in the car made the atmosphere feel
ambiguous… and intimate.
Leaning in toward Harriet, Ellsworth had originally meant to help
her unbuckle her seatbelt, but seeing her open her eyes, he
paused, just looking at her.
Their eyes met, and outside the yard, frogs and insects could be
heard.
Looking down at Harriet, Ellsworth saw his own reflection in her
eyes–clear and bright.
Moved, Ellsworth leaned in even closer, pressing down and
kissing Harriet directly on the lips.
Harriet frowned and tried to push him away, but Ellsworth was
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prepared. He grabbed her hand, interlaced their fingers, and
easily pinned her down.
The car was so quiet that they could hear each other’s
heartbeat and breathing.
Ellsworth’s lips were soft. He was good at kissing, good at
controlling the rhythm, and good at… controlling her.
The atmosphere was so charged, so intimate, that Harriet
couldn’t resist.
So intimate that all she could do was stare at Ellsworth.
After a long, heated kiss, Harriet looked at Ellsworth calmly and
said, “Ellsworth, you shouldn’t do this. You shouldn’t make me
misunderstand.”
If he hadn’t been cold to her for three years, she might have
thought Ellsworth liked her.
After all, in the past, he had given her too many reasons to
misunderstand.
At Harriet’s words, Ellsworth leaned against her side, smiled,
and asked, “What did I make you misunderstand?”
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Without looking away from Ellsworth’s face, Harriet gazed at
him and said calmly, “If you hadn’t fought for me, if you hadn’t
helped me skip class, hadn’t let me sleep in your room, hadn’t
let me hold your waist when you gave me a ride on your bike,
if…”
Halfway through, Harriet suddenly couldn’t go on.
Still looking straight into Ellsworth’s eyes, she stared at him for
a long moment before speaking again: “If none of those things
had happened, we probably wouldn’t have gotten married.”
If he had only saved her, she wouldn’t have dared to express her
feelings back then–she would have kept them hidden in her
heart.
It was he who made her believe that he liked her.
As Harriet recalled the past, Ellsworth’s gaze grew even softer.
With a faint smile on his face, Ellsworth held Harriet’s hand,
gently kneading it as he said, “You still remember all that.”
At this point, Ellsworth suddenly changed the subject and
asked, “Harriet, did you ever like me? Did you ever have feelings
for me?”
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Have feelings for him?
She had far more than just a little feeling.
Back then, she liked him so much it hurt. She wished she could
think about him twenty–four hours a day, with her mind full of
nothing but him.
No one knew that when Raymond arranged for her to marry
Kenneth, she nearly broke down, so anxious she couldn’t sleep
for days and nights. In the end, she mustered all her courage to
talk things out with her grandfather.
Only then did she get the chance for his grandfather to ask her
about her situation.
She just never expected that all her joy would be exchanged for
these three years.
Looking into Ellsworth’s eyes, Harriet thought of him standing
by Kelsey’s side at Rushtar Group acquisition signing press
conference that morning.
Thinking of that, she remembered her own humiliation over the
past three years, and his repeated indifference.
Swallowing, Harriet was about to say something when
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Ellsworth’s face darkened. He suddenly sat up straight and, as
if nothing had happened, smiled and said, “Alright, I won’t make
things hard for you. Let’s go back.”
He had actually already seen the answer in her diary, and her
silence was an answer, too.
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