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.
he asked. “Was it stolen from you when you
trying to confirm whether I actually did
a moment, and decided
longer I was
a moment, looking like he was
that I had said, but seeing him suffer still broke my heart, even after
to.bed. I‘m tired. Goodbye, Ethan.” “All right,” he replied
said. My hands were
nodded. “Good night,
respond–only waved and went back into
to process everything
up outside of my cottage again or if I should be furious at him for waiting
I‘d come to a decision. I was going to stay here and live my new
me again and start giving me
SO
I should have just stayed secure in the decision I had
there, uncomfortable because of the baby anyway. I stared at the ceiling with pillows shoved under my back and under my
Had he really apologized?
he
a world was
he deserved me giving
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 I had fled to come here? He‘d be so
wouldn‘t be wrong to feel
Just because he said he wanted to be with me and didn‘t want to be with Madalynn, that
in my
***
up a little later
routine, and then I went over to Soren‘s house to check on
focused than I had the last three day, during which I‘d constantly dropped things, had stabbed myself with the sewing needle, and
mansion and went back to the cottage, Lola asked me, “Are you
a lot the day before, but my mind had been on Ethan today, and
liked to make dinner for Soren when he came back from one of
“Do you
don‘t think
wanted 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
another thought, I went over and pushed
was that. I didn‘t need to think about it anymore. I had made my
dish I‘d made for Soren before. I knew he really enjoyed it. It would be done about the time he arrived, but it had to cook very slowly to keep
it, my mind kept going back to
before. At one point, I
asking of me was the opportunity to speak to me. Was that so wrong? Wasn‘t I being awfully cruel in not even giving him
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