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After a sleepless night. Ellie woke up a bit late the next day
From a distance, she saw Alex, fully dressed and limping slightly, waiting for her at the entrance.
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Alex pushed past Barry and hopped on one leg to Ellie’s side, saying. I’m going back to the Thompson residence with you?
“It’s not convenient for you to come with me.” Ellie tried to dissuade him.
However, Alex was determined to accompany her.
They tugged and pulled all the way to the staircase before Ellie suggested thinking it over and going another day, which finally made Alex let go and allow her to go i
As Ellie descended the stairs, Quinlee happened to enter the living room.
“I’m so sorry, Ellie. I shouldn’t have called you to ask about Carlos condition and let you know I was sick,“Quinlee said, naturally taking Ellie’s hand.
“Actually. I could have held on. People at the church were afraid of taking responsibility. A girl called you while I was asleep. using my phone, and got you into danger.”
“Nobody wants these kinds of things to happen, Ellie replied
“If it weren’t for Mr. Warren showing up in time, I can’t even imagine what kind of terrible things might have happened. It’s all my fault. I’ll formally apologize to you another day with a proper dinner, Quinlee said
“We’re all friends; there’s no need for such formality,” Ellie responded, subtly pulling her hand away from Quinlee’s sapphire–blue contact lenses.
After the incident, Ellie had many doubts in her mind and didn’t believe in so many coincidences.
But she had seen the news that on a foggy day in Harwood, there indeed had been a gang–related car–smashing robbery.
She had calculated the time and compared the locations, which finally dispelled her doubts.
“Ellie. I heard that Mr. Warren was seriously injured while saving you. May I go upstairs and visit him?” Quinlee’s voice brought Ellie back to reality.
Ellie looked up at the second floor and met Alex’s gaze.
She was the fiancée of Orion, though he had passed away many years ago.
Nancy’s attitude toward Quinlee had improved and she was allowed to visit the Warren Manor at anytime after helping with Carlos malter
But Quinler’s relationship with Alex was not close enough to allow her to visit him in his bedroom.
“Ms. Janssen, we are close enough that you can visit me in my room? News to me,” Alex said, standing by the upstairs railing and looking down at Quinlee with a condescending and sarcastic tone, leaving Quinlee too embarrassed to respond.
Alex shifted his gaze back to Ellie and said, Tll wait for you to come back for dinner
His voice was gentle and cautious when he spoke to Ellie as if he were a completely different person. With that, he hopped back to his bedroom on one leg
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“Ms. Thompson, I’ll prepare the car,” Barry said, sensing the awkwardness and quickly excusing himself.
“Ms. Janssen, I’m really sorry, but I have to go out for something Quinlee said, feeling awkward and having no choice but to
leave first.
Alex had always had this unruly and unyielding temperament, and Ellie simply couldn’t do anything about it.
Alex completely ignored her. With Ellie about to leave, Quinler, feeling awkward, had no choice but to take her leave first.
When Ellie arrived at the Thompson residence, her family had just finished lunch.
Seeing Ellie’s sudden return, the atmosphere at the Thompson residence was unusually subdued, unlike the past when they would be overjoyed to see her.
Ellie noticed her mother’s furrowed brows, her aunts and uncles uneasy glances, and Aaron’s serious, somewhat heavy expression. Her hands clenched unconsciously by her sides.
“Why didn’t yo
you call ahead before coming back?” Whitney pulled Ellie to the living room sofa and sat her down.
The atmosphere in the living room was inexplicably somber. Ellie sat on the edge of the sofa, her back very stiff.
For so many years, she had never openly discussed her personal feelings with her family.
Before entering the Warren Manor, she had even promised Aaron that she would maintain the status quo and not make any decisions on her own until she regained all her memories.
It was her own weakness.
Faced with Alex’s passionate and resolute gaze, his ambiguous yet cautious actions, the way he protected her recklessly as in the past, and his humble, emotional confessions, she simply couldn’t remain indifferent.
She wanted to confess her feelings for Alex to her family and gain their approval and support.
“Mom, Jason, Whitney, and Aaron, I came back today to tell you something important, Ellie mustered up t break the silence in the living room.
the courage
She clasped her hands tightly in front of her, looked at everyone, and took a deep breath. “I… I want to be with Alex,” she said.
After she spoke, the spacious living room fell into a long, heavy lence.
Ellie, watching everyone’s stern faces and their silence, felt so nervous she could hardly breathe.
She kept taking deep breaths to calm her nerves and then spoke again to break the silence. “There’s something I’ve never told you all. Actually, I’ve liked Alex for a very, very long time.”
“Although he’s crazy and has a bad temper, he’s truly, truly good to me. I think…” she continued.
“Ellie, do you remember the promise you made to me?” Aaron errupted her before she could finish, his voice deep and
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Ellie looked at Aaron, guiltily lowering her head. “Aaron, I haven forgotten, but I really…” She didn’t spoke out that she really wanted to give Alex a response.
“You lost memories of more than two years, it’s not just a few days or months, Aaron said, standing up solemnly, his tone serious and sharp. “Do you have any idea what happened between you two during those two years?”
“Ellie, we choose not to tell you certain things for your own good But if you break your promise with me. I’ll have to tell you
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everything. Are you sure you can handle it?” he continued.
“Aaron,” Joanna suddenly spoke, interrupting her son.
“Aaron?” Ellie stared at her brother in shock. She had never seen him lose his temper before and was terrified.
Aaron, sensing his mother’s gaze, turned to the window to calm himself down
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Joanna took Ellie’s hand and said calmly, “You’ve grown up. Whether life is bitter or sweet, you have to live it yourself. I won’t stop you.”
“Remember, if you ever feel wronged and have nowhere to go, come back to me,” Joanna added.
“Mom,” Ellie burst into tears and threw herself into her mother’s arms. With Joanna’s words, Jason and Whitney had no
more to say.
After Ellie left. Aaron knocked on the door of his mother’s room and entered.
Joanna was quietly sitting by the bed, wiping the portrait of her late husband. Harold.
Seeing his father’s portrait, Aaron was overwhelmed with emotions. His eyes turned red, and he questioned, “Mom, why didn’t you let me tell her?”
Joanna stared at her husband’s portrait, her voice calm. “That summer, your father limped to the fields to far for me.
fell in a madam’s field and was scolded as a lamer.
“From that day on, everyone in the village mocked him. I argued with them, but he just laughed it off and didn’t take it seriously.
“He said that as long as Ellie was fine, being lame was nothing. Parents can bear any grievance,”
He
Joanna continued, “He also said that as long as you all were well, everything else was insignificant. He was happy to endure everything for your sake.”
“But Mom, Ellie has only temporarily forgotten all the bad things that happened between her and Alex. If she remembers everything, she’ll hate us for keeping it from her and will be even more painful!” Aaron argued.
“Aaron, I’m not educated and don’t understand big principles, but I knew your father. If he were still alive, he would have agreed,” Joanna said.
She stood up, put her husband’s portrait back into the cabinet, and murmured, “When children grow up, they’re no longer under their parents‘ control. She’s amnesiac now, and stopping her will only make her suffer more.”
“Even if you told her and she believed you, it would still be her who suffers,” Joanna added. “There’s no choice.”
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