Chapter57
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Noticing Harriet’s change in expression, Ellsworth tossed the cigarette and lighter back onto the table and didn’t smoke.
Looking up and meeting Harriet’s eyes, he asked with a half-
smile, “Is your friend Reginald?”
When Ellsworth mentioned Reginald, Harriet looked up at him,
instantly on guard.
Ellsworth wasn’t here to talk about divorce-he was picking a
fight.
Looking at Ellsworth without giving anything away, Harriet
replied calmly, “Yes, it was Reginald.”
After Harriet admitted it, the smile on Ellsworth’s face quickly
faded. He stared at Harriet and sneered, “He’s more than ten
years older than you. You’re really not picky, are you?”
Harriet’s expression instantly darkened.
She stared at Ellsworth for a long moment before finally saying,
“Ellsworth, your heart is dirty, so you see everything as dirty. You
think everyone else is like you because that’s what you are.”
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At this point, Harriet couldn’t be bothered to argue further and
stood up, saying, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll go take a shower.”
She and Reginald?
They had only just met today. What was Ellsworth thinking?
As Harriet got up to leave, Ellsworth’s eyes darkened. He
grabbed her wrist and pulled her back.
Stumbling backward, Harriet shook off his hand, rubbed her
wrist, and frowned, “Ellsworth, don’t go too far.”
At this point, Ellsworth stood up as well.
With both hands in his pockets, he looked down at Harriet and
asked coldly, “Harriet, am I the one going too far, or are you the
one who doesn’t know your boundaries and crossed the line?”
Ellsworth turned the accusation on her. Harriet looked up at
him, finding him utterly unreasonable.
After looking at him for a while, Harriet said with a laugh, “I don’t
know my boundaries? I crossed the line? All I did was have two
meals with Reginald and talk a bit about work, and you feel
embarrassed, uncomfortable?”
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Before Ellsworth could speak, Harriet argued back, “Ellsworth, have you respected boundaries in the past three years? Have you ever stayed within the lines? Every time I had to clean up your messes, did you ever consider my feelings? Did you ever think I might be uncomfortable?”
“You took Kelsey everywhere with you, treated her like your wife-did you ever think about how I felt?”
Staring at Ellsworth, Harriet’s fair face was flushed as she finished speaking.
In the end, her emotions got the better of her.
She paused, then continued, “Boundaries are a good thing, but Ellsworth, since you don’t have them, you have no right to demand them from me.”
She had given in for three years, watched him have his fun outside for three years, and never said a word or interfered.
Even when he and Kelsey had been going everywhere together these past few days, she hadn’t said anything.
But now Ellsworth was turning it all on her, and Harriet couldn’t
take it anymore.
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She liked him, she was easygoing, but she wasn’t stupid.
Harriet’s sudden anger and pushback left Ellsworth stunned.
In all the years he’d known Harriet, and in their three years of
marriage, this was the first time she’d raised her voice at him,
the first time she’d had such a bad attitude.
He never expected she could have a temper too.
Ellsworth stared at her in silence as Harriet’s emotions
gradually calmed.
She lowered her eyes, swallowed, and her voice softened,
“Ellsworth, if it weren’t for you…” If it weren’t for him saving her
back then, if it weren’t for how much she used to like him, she
wouldn’t have married him or kept tolerating him.
But she didn’t finish the sentence. Instead, she changed the
subject, “I’ve already signed the divorce papers. If you’re
worried about losing face, just sign them when you get back.”
With that, Harriet turned to leave, but Ellsworth grabbed her arm
again and pulled her back.
Harriet tensed, looked up, and said, “Ellsworth, I’ve already explained to you, there’s nothing between me and Regi…”
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Before Harriet could finish, Ellsworth grabbed her face and
kissed her.
When she was just arguing with him, he had wanted to shut her
So… she could be fierce with him.
So she had kept track of all his wrongs.
With both hands pressed against Ellsworth’s chest, Harriet frowned tightly and pushed him away, saying, “Ellsworth, what are you doing? Didn’t you just accuse me of being with someone else? Aren’t you disgusted by me?”
They had just argued-she wasn’t in the mood to play games
with him.
She didn’t want to be with him anymore. She wanted a divorce.
As Harriet resisted, Ellsworth bent down, hoisted her onto his shoulder, walked to the bed, and tossed her onto it.
The hotel bed was very soft. After being thrown down, Harriet propped herself up with her hands and quickly sat up again.
