She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 582:

Once the call ended, Freya and Ethel sat down to eat together.

All throughout dinner, Ethel kept sneaking glances at Freya, her lips parting now and then like she wanted to say something, but always holding back at the last second.

Freya noticed. “Go on, what’s been eating at you all day?”

Ethel’s eyes widened in surprise. “How did you know?”

“You kept staring at me over breakfast—and again while we were watching TV this morning,” Freya said, familiar with her every little quirk. “So, what’s going on?”

“It’s not that big of a deal. I just…” Ethel fumbled for words, her cheeks turning pink.

Freya gave her a look and made a wild guess. “Is it about your boyfriend?”

Ethel blinked like she’d just seen a ghost. How did Freya always know?

about him,” she admitted at last, deciding to just say it. “He wants

lifted an eyebrow. “Meet me?

to face Dad,” Ethel confessed, sheepish. “He figured it’d be better to meet you first—then talk to

without

him?” Ethel’s whole face lit up with

“Yes.”

“Thank you!” Ethel beamed.

Freya agreed, talking Hugh into it would be a thousand times

lifting a hand. “If it’s on the sixth, I might not be able to make

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Ethel said quickly, grinning. “It’s on the

froze halfway

The seventh?

that the day her captain was

the shift in her expression. “What’s

be once you’ve decided.” She was already planning it all out—on the evening of the sixth, she’d tell Trent she had to take a