A Matter of Wife and Love by Mila

Chapter 58

“What? Who?” Bafflement laced Elyse’s voice, causing Leo to ponder. However, he didn’t answer her in the end. “Nothing. Rest early.”

He decided to keep it from her and personally verify it first.

“But Leo-Elyse wanted to use the chance to ask Leo to keep her company, but the man had hung up on her before she could say a thing!

Elyse bit her lips in exasperation as she listened to the busy tone coming from her phone.

Though Leo had agreed to date her, she couldn’t find the sensation she used to feel when they dated in the past anymore.

Back then, he always waited for her to hang up before he did, and he could even give her his life just by calling him ‘Leo’.

More importantly, the question he asked just now wasn’t just a random thought. What was he trying to ask?

She mulled over it but couldn’t come to a conclusion even if she racked her brains.

She found it harder and harder to understand the man now, and Elyse couldn’t help rubbing her temples.

Suddenly, she felt a weight on her back, and she was shackled.

The next second, the grip on her waist tightened, and she fell into a burning embrace.

“How boring it is to drink alone. I’ll join you,” said an amorously ambiguous voice by her ear.

The dim lighting highlighted the man’s profile, but because his back was to the light, his face was indistinguishable. That said, his voice was exceptionally alluring on this cloudy night.

He pinched super tactfully on the side of her waist, causing her to jolt involuntarily while he swooped in for a kiss. However, Elyse shoved him away at once and put a great distance between them.

“What are you doing here?” Her voice and countenance frosted over. However, the man remained in the shadows with his arms crossed.

lonely without company on such a romantic night?” he drawled, and his tone was even laced

composure in check. “You’d

his breath with amusement. “You were

an instinctive reaction. It doesn’t mean anything.” Elyse took a sip of her liquor to conceal her awkwardness. However, the man bluntly unmasked

that, Elyse’s hand that was

people used Leo against her, but this time, she nodded

tilted his head and chuckled in response. “Is this still the unbridled Elyse I

words.” She looked gravely at the man. “I’m no

she behaved obstinate, wayward, imperious, and unconscionable because she had Leo’s love, believing he would defend and accept her

behaved.

got married without warning. It was

four years she lost Leo, and only now

leave.” She turned her back to the man, who responded with just another snort and left,

tightened her grip on the glass she pressed against her

years ago, and this time, she wouldn’t make the

Leo and become the

“This way, Mr. Alston.”

to his office when he should’ve and instead came

hospital but to

tightly wrapped, so no one has dared to disclose it. I spent some money and asked people to locate the attending physician involved in the incident,” Laura whispered

look visibly tall and slender as her heels clicked-clacked against the floor

the entrance to open the door for her boss. “The attending physician is inside, and the groundwork has already been laid. He’ll tell you whatever you need to

no indication the entire time, only ever pulling a stern face. However, Laura was long used to his graveness and just led him to

of a sudden, Leo took a hasty step and grabbed the handle, causing Laura to frown slightly, for she rarely ever saw the man this worked

an incident or how dire the situation was, he always remained calm and never once

Leo didn’t open the door immediately but instead hesitated for a

but himself knew what he was thinking, and all Laura saw on his handsome, mature face was tightly furrowed brows, profound gaze,

he finally pushed the door open and entered to find a middle-aged man waiting

he was fresh and clean, and a faint smell of