Capture Her Heart After Marriage

When Evelyn didn’t get a response right away, she spoke again. "Who are you exactly? Tell me now or I’ll hang up the phone and block you."

"Wait a minute!" Alexia said urgently.

Evelyn paused. "Tell me then."

"OK." Alexia took a deep breath and calmed herself down. "I am Chaim's wife. And you are?"

"His wife?" Evelyn scoffed. "Let me get this straight. You’re Chaim's wife?"

"Yes."

Evelyn sneered, "Miss, you should know Chaim has never been married and as such has no wife yet. Next time you should find yourself a better story excuse."

Hearing the Evelyn’s cruel words, Alexia’s heart sank. She was legally Chaim's wife, but Chaim had forbidden anyone from speaking of the marriage so to the rest of the world, Chaim was still single. It also didn’t help that Alexia felt that she was a terrible wife, so Evelyn’s word cut right through her.

It was late and instead of Chaim answering, it was some other woman. Unless Chaim had a close relationship with the woman on the other end of the phone, it didn’t make sense for a random woman to answer Alexia’s call.

Realizing all of that, Alexia had to fight down her anxiety and jealousy as she continued. "Miss, you didn't answer my question. Who are you?"

"Evelyn," the woman replied curtly.

"Wait, you’re Evelyn!" Alexia asked in surprise, her voice rising in pitch as her eyes widened in shock.

Alexia might not have been able to meet Evelyn that afternoon, but she was speaking to Evelyn on the phone.

"Wait, how do you know who I am?" Evelyn asking in surprise, raising her eyebrow; or brow bone seeing as her eyebrows had fallen out from the chemo.

Alexia held the phone tightly, "I don’t know who you are specifically… but I have heard of you."

"You have?" Evelyn squinted at the phone in disbelief.

“Yes,” Alexia mumbled, before gaining the courage to ask another question. "Miss Evelyn, is Chaim there with you?"

"He’s taking a shower now. Do you want to talk to him?"

Alexia bit her tongue hard, struggling with her emotions. "No, never mind. I… I just called to say hi…"

‘Taking a shower…’

was late, and Chaim was taking

was sick. Chaim was so insistent on needing Alexia’s bone marrow that he wouldn’t want to

phone on the table and curled up in the nearest chair. She pulled her legs to her chest and buried her

finished clearing the dishes by then and headed to the living room to check on Alexia, only to find her curled

what's the matter?" Aunt Song asked,

mumbled, from where she buried her face between

Song patted Alexia on the shoulder. "Did you have a fight

Alexia shook her head.

Song was certain she had guessed right

sniffed sadly. "He

Song gasped, "Is

"No, he isn’t sick. He’s staying there to take care of Evelyn like

did you say Evelyn?" Aunt Song asked,

Alexia as she

how to respond. "She’s

looked at Alexia and stopped talking

Alexia asked, a ball forming in the pit of her stomach seeing

hands and started backing up toward the door. "Never mind what I said, dear. Since Mr. Lancaster won't be home

take off the apron before she

by herself, the whole situation growing even more complicated as

instead confirmed Alexia’s suspicion that Chaim and Evelyn had some sort of history. That just left Alexia to wonder if Evelyn was Chaim’s secret crush, or maybe

Alexia patted her face and cheered herself up. She

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again." Evelyn called to Chaim who was just getting out

paused drying his

a text but you don’t have the number saved." Evelyn peeked at the phone, rage

‘It’s that girl again!'

getting dressed and picked up the phone to look at

the message. "I’m not waiting up

I told her to wait

chose her next words

You can ignore her," Chaim said placing his phone in

Chaim’s response. "By the way, she called you before too. Can you

back to drying off his hair, not really

she was

his hair and spoke slowly. "Did she