She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 591:

“Are you seriously job hunting?” she asked. She had no idea what his family was involved in—and she wasn’t about to start digging.

“Yeah.” There was a stillness in Ellis’s gaze, the kind that made it impossible to tell if he was dead serious or just messing around. “I’m turning thirty next month. If someone asks what I do for a living on a date, I can’t exactly say I’m unemployed.”

The simplicity of the remark somehow struck a chord in Freya, sparking an unexpected worry.

Without thinking, she blurted, “That’s true. You’re not getting any younger.”

Ellis let out a soft, exasperated laugh. Was she seriously calling him old?

“I don’t have the youthful stamina you do,” Ellis said evenly, unbothered.

Freya scrambled to clarify, “That’s not what I meant.”

“You’re saying I’m not old?”

Freya opened her mouth, but no words came out.

under his

but she gave it a try anyway. “Thirty is when life really begins. You’re still

to say something you don’t

“Captain…”

to call her

with finality.

snapped back to

𝕷𝖆𝖙𝖊𝓼𝓉 с𝗁αρ𝗍𝓮𝗋𝓈 g⍺𝗅𝗇𝖔ⲃ𝖊𝗅𝘀﹒ⅽ𝗈𝗆

and she knew—her captain was a sly one. He’d pulled out every trick in the book: distracting her, throwing her off

work on balancing offense and defense,” Ellis rose to his full height, those long legs of his impossible to ignore. “Have you

words. She had

eat,” Ellis

time, Freya

mind, she could push forward or

pieces, that same resilience

But did he have to come down on her so hard the very

and Ellis chatted like old