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?”

What

Locke took the silence as confirmation, his imagination running wild. “Mr. Lambert, your taste is…

was too much. What if Ellis and that woman stood side by side?

even begin to guess how

sharply. “Don’t overthink. Fail

it done!” Locke’s confidence

the call, he immediately passed the news on to Ellis’s

couple half an hour to absorb

??????

Ellis received a video

loaded glances, and Caldwell finally blurted,

suspecting it had something to do with holiday

just told us you’re chasing someone?” Caldwell asked, cutting

already blocked him, and Kendra hadn’t mentioned

brow slightly, but

hesitated. “The woman you’re chasing—does she

“What did he say?”