Lita was so ashamed that she gnashed her teeth. But with Bella around, she couldn't struggle too hard in order to break away from the man's big hand that was holding her wrist. She could only glare at this arrogant and rude man fiercely.
As her view was blocked by the big figure in suit, Bella did not see any small interaction between Alex and Lita.
"Mr. Selmy is right. I'll take my leave. Good night, Lita, good night, Mr. Selmy." It was unpleasant to be refused, but Bella maintained her smile. If she didn't leave now, it would be unseemly under the situation.
Watching the red BMW leave the Selmy house, Lita cast her disguise away and turned into a hedgehog with all its thorns erected.
"Alex, let go of me! For the sake of your brother, I forgive you once! If you do this to me again, I will tell your brother. He has saved you at the cost of his own life. How can you have the heart to treat his wife like this?"
The words hit Alex's soft spot, and he loosened his hand that grabbed Lita's wrist. Lita took the chance to run into the living room.
"Mrs. Selmy, you are back." Seeing Lita back, Alice was very happy. It seemed that Lita was willing to forgive Alex.
"Alice, where's Ethan?" Lita felt guilty when she thought of him, her "husband". Not to mention that she left him alone in the bedroom on the wedding night, she ran back to Bishop family yesterday in anger. She was indeed a bit wayward.
"He's still in the treatment room," Alice replied sadly. In order to make Alex bring Lita back, Ethan really got angry this time.
"I'll help Ethan with his dinner. From tonight on, I'll sleep in the treatment room with Ethan," Lita said firmly. On the way back to Selmy Family, she had made up her mind.
Alice was really stunned. She looked at Alex in an inquiring way and said in a hurry, "You don't have to do that, Mrs. Selmy. Doctor Owen is accompanying him in the treatment room. Besides, there is no place for you to sleep in there."
"It's okay. I can sleep on the floor!" Lita was determined to enter the treatment room to take care of Ethan.
Alex's eyes darkened, and his handsome face became colder.
"You go to cook something for my brother first. The fruit salad last time is good." After reminding her, Alex went upstairs quickly.
Lita took a glance at Alex's back and went into the kitchen obediently to prepare food for Ethan.
Half an hour later, when the dinner for Ethan was almost ready, Harry came into the kitchen.
"Mrs. Selmy, Doctor Owen has just finished checking on Mr. Selmy. He is waiting for you in the bedroom upstairs. Hurry up and go upstairs." Harry's address had always been careful, but this time he didn't say specifically which Mr. Selmy he was referring to.
"Oh, okay! I'll send the dinner upstairs to Ethan." Lita quickly picked up the dinner tray and went upstairs.
Outside the door of the bedroom, Lita stopped. The evil man, Alex, appeared in her mind. "Will he be in the room again? No, he won't be there! Even if he is, with Ethan in the same room, he wouldn't dare to bully me."
Lita knocked on the door twice, and an old and hoarse voice sounded from inside, "Come in."
When Lita pushed the door open, she saw Ethan sitting in a wheelchair. In fact, it was Alex in the scarred artificial skin.
Originally, these props were intended for dealing with their uncle Ellie, who coveted Selmy's Group. But Alex didn't expect that they could be used for another purpose: to test a woman who had evil intentions!
This was all because Lita's willingness to marry Ethan couldn't be explained with the innocence of a woman. Alex was not sure whether this woman had any connection with Ellie. Probably she was coming to spy on Ethan's conditions and would report to Ellie so that he could be prepared to inherit Selmy's Group.
The moment Alex was brought back to Selmy family by his father, Samuel, as an illegitimate child, the old lady, his grandma, deprived him of the right to inherit Selmy's Group. Of course, Alex didn't care about Selmy's Group at all.
Selmy's Group was inherited by Alex's half brother, Ethan, and that made his uncle dissatisfied. According to the will of Grandma Selmy, Ellie was the second successor of Selmy's Group. That was to say, if Ethan died, Selmy's Group would become Ellie's possession.
Of course, Alex would not let the business kingdom Ethan built fall into the hands of Ellie. What was more, Ellie had the motive for the disaster that caused Ethan injury. So before Alex found out the truth, he had to make Ellie think that Ethan's conditions were not serious, so that he would have to give up his ambition of claiming himself the owner of Selmy's Group.
If Alex could prove that Ellie was the person who harmed Ethan, he would definitely bring him to justice. There was no doubt about that!
But this was what Ethan hated to see. He really didn't want to see the family members hurt each other.
Seeing the man in the wheelchair, Lita felt her nose sore and her eyes suddenly turned red. Compared with the panic and horror she had on their first meeting, she was not so scared this time when she looked at the scarred face the fire left him.
She had deep sympathy and compassion for this man in the wheelchair, and at the same time she felt that she had similar fate as he did.
Strangely, the woman's soft whisper made Alex stunned, and he didn't know how to react to her tenderness.
Lita put the dinner tray on a low cabinet by the side, moved over softly, and got down on one knee in front of the wheelchair. She held Alex's scarred hand in her palms. It was still ferocious and horrible, but Lita was no longer afraid.
"Ethan, I'm sorry...I shouldn't have left you alone on the night we got married." Lita slowly put her face on the back of Alex's scarred hand and asked softly, "Do these scars still hurt?"
Alex's body got stiff for a moment. He felt as if his cold and stony heart had been soaked in the bubbling hot spring. He didn't feel as miserable as before, as if his heart melted. The warm stream made it softened.
"Ethan, believe me, I will take good care of you! I will share my life with you..." Lita put her head on Alex's strong legs like a docile cat. She was totally different from the sharp tongued woman in front of Alex earlier.
Slowly, as if he was spellbound, Alex spread out his hand and gently stroked her black smooth hair. A different kind of warmth passed through the two sad hearts. The atmosphere was so pure, as if there wasn't a trace of dust in it.
"Lita," Alex said. As he wore a voice changer, his voice sounded old and low. "Did Ailen bully you?" he asked.
Lita paused for a short while. Her lips trembled because of her contradictory mood, but she said something against her will in the end. "No... no! Alex is... quite respectful to me."
This was only her wish. It had nothing to do with the reality at all.
Maybe she just didn't want to see the brothers fall out.
Seeing the aggrieved tears on the woman's cheeks, Alex reached out his rough hand naturally to wipe them off from her face.
Although there was a layer of artificial skin between them, Alex's hand could still feel the silky skin of Lita's face; his posture also made it easy for him to see from above clearly the woman's soft and full breasts.
They were like creamy, round and attractive snow balls.
She was slim but sexy.
Alex's breathing became heavier. Only then did he realize that he hadn't touched a for a long time.
"Lita," he whispered to her, and his aged voice was sentimental now as there was affection in it. He asked, "We haven't had our first time yet, right?"