Ex Cried as I Wed a Tycoon

Chapter 381

Effie froze, forgetting what she was supposed to do, her gaze locked on Lyman as her breathing slowed.

"What now?" Lyman's voice was rough, his eyes fixed on her. There was

something about his gaze-dark and deep, as if he could pull her in and never let go.

"Hm?" Effie looked at him, puzzled.

"This is all your fault," Lyman said quietly.

Before Effie could react, he leaned in and kissed her again...

By the time Effie and Lyman slipped quietly out of the house, her grandmother had already left. Breakfast sat waiting on the table, alongside a neat note in her grandmother's graceful handwriting: "Gone to buy groceries. Make sure you eat before heading to work."

Effie said, "I want to get Grandma a car. Whenever we're busy, she has to take the bus everywhere-it's just not convenient."

Lyman nodded. "Alright. I'll come with you to pick one out for her."

"Aren't you going to ask if she even knows how to drive?" Effie joked.

why would you buy her a car? Wouldn't it just

his offer to get her a better car. She'd insisted she already had one, and for her daily commute, something

Effie had planned to let her grandmother use her own car, since she usually rode to

the old gas car

she's always been driving. Later, when Grandpa got sick and needed money for treatment, the family had to sell almost everything-including her beloved

for a spin. Even now, in her seventies, she goes for a medical check-up every year, passes all the

I won't let something like that happen to your family

gave

only person she

once sworn up and down he'd take care of her mother and their family. But when Grandpa fell ill and they needed money Shepard always found an excuse-he

like that old saying: only you know if the water you drink

Effie headed home to take her

Aren't you going to

already did," Effie

last-minute meeting with some international

first. If you

like, we'll

for him and come