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.”

didn’t say it was ready,” he

her mind was racing. She couldn’t stop worrying that Ellis

felt like there was a blade hanging over her neck, and she

how distracted she was. “So, do you want to talk about

“Chess,” Freya replied instantly.

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

“Huh?”

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be pretty bold,” he said with a sly

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

his lips together. 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

mind—Ellis wasn’t bad-looking at all. If Frederick and Alan

little trick,”

Freya frowned. “What?”

with insight. “If I’m not mistaken, your original plan was to talk

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