She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 841:

“No, I don’t think it’s right to keep lying to his parents.” Ethel exchanged a look with Hugh.

Hugh figured it was time to clue his daughter in, or she’d stay blissfully clueless about affairs of the heart.

“Mina.”

“Yeah?”

“I need to talk to you about something. Got a minute?”

“Go ahead.”

“I think Ellis has a crush on you,” Hugh said gently, testing the waters.

knew, her father and Ellis had never

“Even though I haven’t met him, as a man, I can tell. Asking you to play the part

much into it,” Freya answered,

looked a little wounded.

that unusual to have someone pretend to be your partner,” Freya replied casually. “Times have changed since you

debate? He pressed, “If you have a crush on

even blink.

you won’t even be able to stay friends?” Ethel jumped in, her

now

truly baffled. “Why wouldn’t we be able to be

a whole marriage, Freya’s view of love was still charmingly innocent. If real feelings were the price to win her

earnestness. “If you don’t confess, you’re scared of missing the chance.

finding the whole thing a bit convoluted. To her, loving someone meant just saying it—and if it didn’t work out, then so

Ethel began, her voice carrying both warmth and weight, “but also a bittersweet echo of youthful innocence.” She turned

assumed suitors had swarmed around her like bees to a blossom. Why was her sister still so