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

strong suit, but she gave it a try

does it feel to say something you

“Captain…”

always have to

piece with finality. “Freya,

back

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

on balancing offense and defense,” Ellis rose to his full height, those long

words. She had known this was a

eat,” Ellis

Freya didn’t

where you were. With a strong mind, she could push forward or hold the line, survive

in pieces, that same resilience had carried

to come down on her so hard the very first

Josiah and Ellis