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.

chuckled under

gave it a try anyway. “Thirty is when life really

feel to say

“Captain…”

did he always have to call her out like

with

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

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

a loss for words. She had known

Ellis said

time, Freya didn’t

no matter where you were. With a strong mind, she could

her heart was in pieces, that same resilience had carried

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

and Ellis chatted like old