Chapter 113-Where the hell is my wife?!
Watching in silence, Elijah smiled at Peach taking off her heels in the car, tossing them aside on the floor, and then sluggishly relaxing on the seat, admiring the slightly dark evening sky before letting out, “Today was exhausting.
Who knew running a company could be so much work, even for just a day?”
“So, you don‘t want to do it again?"
Elijah
responded, his voice jovial.
Immediately shaking her head, Peach met his eyes and replied, “No, no! That‘s not what I meant at all.
I love work… I do.
And this is not me being ungrateful… It was just
A laugh escaped from Elijah‘s lips at her reaction, and then his attention pulled away when the car came to a stop.
Then he turned back to Peach, took her shoe, and reached his hand for her feet, pulling them towards him gently and then slipping it onto her foot, mumbling, "
It‘s okay to be tired, darling.
You are not a robot.”
As Elijah slid the other shoe on, she sighed contentedly, smiling softly as she watched him and then let out, “Thanks.”
A moment later, when Elijah led Peach out of the car, her hand locked in his, they were a few feet away from the hotel entrance when a voice they both knew too well made them halt in their tracks.
“Elijah,"
Melina‘s voice sounded behind them as she approached, her steps light, and a smile lighting up her face.
Subconsciously, Peach squeezed Elijah‘s hand tightly, trying to keep herself calm.
After everything that has been going on with Melina, Peach never thought a sense of jealousy was something she would feel towards someone, especially someone who was practically family.
But knowing that Melina was Elijah‘s ex made her uneasy.
But she held it all together and then turned to see her cousin, focusing directly on Elijah‘s eyes with a smile.
“What do you want?"
Elijah asked, his tone dead of emotions and tone.
“After we talked on the phone the other day, I thought it would be best to see you to say this,"
this look that made her
talked
silently in Elijah‘s
then glared at Melina, saying, “I don‘t
bit… I need to
ignoring his last
don‘t want to spring anything
frown appeared between Elijah‘s eyebrows,
Melina
“Please, Elijah."
tone changed and she
“Just for a second.”
had in her life, and when she looked up at Elijah‘s eyes, which glittered with anger and annoyance,
your hands off me,
and
I can‘t do
after him as he turned to
intuition translating those words into one meaning, and it messed up her
with my head,
said as he turned to
“I am pregnant, Elijah!"
out, tears streaming down
back came crashing down
she did was cover her mouth with her hand, trying desperately to suppress the cry that almost tore through her
of slow steps back, away from
Melina… You were on pills, remember… claiming that you were
way that you are
spoke firmly but his voice was
There‘s no way,”
“Yes.
they can fail, and women can get pregnant while on the pill, okay…? I am just as shocked as you, Elijah! Because it has been eighteen plus weeks
“Stop, Melina.
God if this is one of your shitty
rigid and his
two now… she didn‘t want to hear it… Even if it was before he loved her, before he touched
have done a lot of messed–up things in the time of our marriage, but this… this is not one of my stupid tricks… I didn‘t realize it soon because of all that was
But I…"
trailed off and glanced at Elijah with
“I took the test because I was not feeling well, and it showed
to tell
I swear
but his voice shook
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