Chapter 89: Open or Closed?
**Rosalie‘s POV
“Do you know Soren?” I asked Ethan.
I should‘ve asked this question much sooner, but I was very used to seeing Soren, so their similarity no longer bothered me. And the past few days, I‘d been so distracted that this question never came to mind… until just now.
Ethan and Soren looked alike… was there any relationship between them, or was this purely coincidence?
He looked at me, and his eyes filled with a mix of emotions.
Ethan finally replied, “I know him now.”
I looked at him in confusion, not quite understanding what he meant.
He smiled bitterly, and looked at me with a heartbroken expression on his face. “He‘s my rival in love.”
Thad not expected that to be the answer, and was struck dumb for a moment.
Then, I felt my face beginning to heat up, and I heard myself trying to explain, “He… he‘s a good friend of mine!”
Why did I feel the need to explain myself to him?!
Ethan visibly relaxed a bit, and the corner of his lips turned up slightly.
“I’m glad he was here to help you when you needed him,” he said.
I let out a deep breath, feeling relieved.
Soren never mentioned anything about his family, and I didn‘t remember hearing about Ethan having brothers when I was back in the Drogomor pack. It was just that I had a strange feeling that I was missing something, so wanted to be sure.
“What sort of trouble did you have when you got here?” Ethan asked. It was obvious that he didn‘t want to talk about Soren any more.
Was he… jealous?
“I was robbed. It was awful.”
Ethan was immediately nervous. “Were you hurt? Are you okay now? And the baby?”
“Yes, we‘re fine now,” I smiled. “Thanks to Sor.. my friend, and the doctor he provided us with.”
Feeling uncomfortable talking about Soren after what Ethan had said, I stood up from the swing. “Really, Ethan, / need to go,” I said, walking towards my cottage.
“Rosalie!” His voice stopped me in my tracks.
I turned and looked over my shoulder.
“Was it stolen from
whether
a moment, and
it wasn‘t taken,” I answered. “At first, I held onto that necklace because I wanted a piece of you with me, Ethan. But the longer I was away from you, the more I realized I could do this on my own. So.. I sold it, so that I could move
was trying to
every word that I had said, but seeing him suffer still broke my heart, even
and softened my tone. “I need to get back inside and get to.bed. I‘m tired. Goodbye, Ethan.” “All right,” he replied with a sigh. “I‘ll come back tomorrow. If the window‘s open, I’ll
should leave,” I said. My hands were on my abdomen,
“Good
respond–only waved and went back into the
tried to process everything that had happened
up outside of my cottage again or if I should be furious at him for waiting
those three days, I‘d come to a decision. I was going to stay here and live my
he had time for me again and start giving me reasons
SO
have just stayed secure in
I stared at the ceiling with pillows shoved under
Had he really apologized?
he was sorry, to
kind of a world was I living in
he really had changed, and he deserved me giving him a second
my eyes and reminded myself of how kind Soren had been to me. How in the world could I tell him that I was going back to the life I had left, the one that
wrong to feel
back at the capital. Just because he said he wanted to be with me and didn‘t want to be with Madalynn, that didn‘t mean that he was going to be able to get out of what
in my
***
morning, I woke up a little
routine, and then I went over to Soren‘s house to check on things, like I
still distracted, but I did my best to stay more focused than I had the last three day, during which I‘d constantly dropped things, had stabbed myself with the sewing needle,
cottage, Lola asked me, “Are you going to prepare
said, having temporarily forgotten he was coming back that afternoon. I had been thinking about it a lot the day before, but my mind
her. I liked to make dinner for Soren
“Do you
think so,” I told
to leave it that way. I knew it was the window Ethan would be looking at to see if I wanted him to come back that evening. It was the one
another thought, I went over and pushed the
think about it anymore. I had made my
about the time he arrived, but it had to cook very slowly to keep all of the flavors in. I added all
preparing it, my mind kept going back
before. At one point,
opportunity to speak to me. Was that so wrong? Wasn‘t I being awfully cruel in not even
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