Chapter 287 Humble and Affectionate Ex-Husband

 

When it was about noon, Hailey helped Owen sit up, set the small table, and served the dishes. Owen looked at the hearty meal and smiled. To her eyes, his smile was awkward and weird. She had opened his skull but had not done anything to his brain. Why did he keep smiling?

“What are you smiling about?”

Owen looked up at her. “Doesn’t this feel Déjà vu?”

Huh? Hailey was puzzled but soon realized what he was talking about. It was true. A few days ago, she was the patient, and he visited her with a lunchbox. Now it was the other way around.

Hailey laughed bitterly, “What a bad year! Both of us end up in the hospital.”

The word “us” made Owen’s heart tremble. He stared at her unblinkingly. His dark, deep eyes were twinkling.

“Why are you looking at me like that? Is there rice on my face?” Hailey gave him no chance to hit on her. She handed the knife and fork to him before saying, “Dig in.”

“Oh,” Owen clutched the fork like an obedient kid and asked, “Have you eaten?”

“Yeah, go ahead with your dinner,” she replied.

the table and took out the garbage. Owen stopped her, “You can

done such

bottom of his heart. It was true. She did all kinds of chores when she was taking care of him back

sorrow and worries back then. He was discouraged and pessimistic, hurting those around him. He failed to feel her kindness, affection, and devotion. He took everything for

he felt ashamed of himself. How much she was disappointed that she signed the papers without hesitation when he filed

was sweeping the floor and gazed at her. “Stop the work.

at him strangely. “What do you

with your business.

and affectionate stance was a bit too much for her. People would think that he was crazy about her. Then again, she was glad to stop cleaning

to clean up an area for her to work here. Although she was not in Poya, she still needed to get busy. It was the same with Owen. Even

Patrick’s description of her was not quite the same as what he saw. Hailey was much more serious when she was working. She seemed to be tireless. She talked fast. Her words were logical and analytic. Her tongue was venomous when she criticized people. He couldn’t help wondering how hard it was to work for her. It posed no difficulty for him though since he was much smarter than Chris. In the future, if

could take Chris’ place and become her right-hand man. He would protect her and solve all kinds of problems for her. He suddenly

would soon open for business. Not in Poya, she put Ryker in charge of the project, but there were still a lot of things yet to be done. She urged Ryker to get things ready as soon as possible and open up on schedule. “Okay, that’s

was about to hang up, Ryker mentioned something else. Hailey frowned and said, “The Mazedew Group oversees the spa hotel. It happens that I’m with Mr. Moore now. You can ask

phone, she turned around and came over. Owen collected his thoughts and asked,

the racecourse has some

I’ll talk to

a teleconference to finalize the details. When the conference was over, it

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