She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 589:

Ellis stepped forward and sat down where Josiah had just been. “Sit.”

Freya sat down without protest. She still couldn’t wrap her head around it—wasn’t he supposed to come back on the seventh? But today was only the sixth.

“Feel like sweating it out with a hardcore workout?” Ellis handed her a glass of water, his tone light and easy. “Might help you loosen up.”

Freya stayed quiet. She didn’t need it!

“Freya,” Ellis called out to her.

She instinctively answered, “Huh?”

“Let’s play a game.”

“But we’re about to eat.”

was ready,”

but her mind was racing. She couldn’t stop worrying that Ellis might bring up her last

her neck, and she was just waiting for

sharp as he noticed how distracted she was. “So, do you want to talk about how you used me to calm yourself down last

“Chess,” Freya replied instantly.

looked at her, his eyes unreadable. “Did getting married make

“Huh?”

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 gⲁ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⫶ⅽ𝗈𝗺

pretty bold,” he said with

you,” Freya muttered, then quickly shifted gears. “Didn’t Trent say you’d be back on the seventh?

With his short-cropped hair and tall frame, he looked rugged and polished all at once. The crisp white shirt added a scholarly charm to his

at all. If Frederick and Alan ever heard her say that, they’d definitely

little trick,”

Freya frowned. “What?”

eyes gleaming with insight. “If I’m not mistaken, your original plan