She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 791:

How could a boy ask a girl that? It had been painfully awkward.

He wanted to deny ever knowing Ellis if anyone brought that story up.

When the girl heard Ellis’s question, she’d said instinctively, “Shouldn’t boys protect girls?”

“I’m not like them. I only like people who can defeat me and protect me.”

That was Ellis’s infamous reply. Locke remembered every word of it. And the sheer deadpan delivery made it even worse. It was absolutely mortifying.

“Finish your tasks first—then we’ll talk,” Ellis said, giving nothing away.

Locke was speechless.

Just as he’d suspected, Ellis was as cryptic as ever.

“Is the woman stronger than you?” Locke tried a different tactic. “Does she have eight-pack abs, biceps like rocks, and bench presses cars? Could she toss you over her shoulder?”

bother replying. What kind

the silence as confirmation, his imagination running wild. “Mr. Lambert, your

that woman stood side by side? He would look like a fragile husband next to a battle-hardened

couldn’t even begin to guess how

on the task,” Ellis cut in sharply. “Don’t overthink. Fail this,

done!”

passed the news on to Ellis’s parents, Caldwell and

half an

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o’clock, Ellis received a

loaded glances, and Caldwell finally blurted,

Ellis replied, suspecting it had something

asked, cutting straight to

texted, Caldwell had already blocked him, and Kendra hadn’t mentioned

arched a brow slightly, but

hesitated. “The woman you’re chasing—does

“What did he say?”