In the treatment room of the Selmy's house.
The ventilator on Ethan's face had been removed. He always wanted to show his best side in front of Alex.
"Why don't you tell Lita that you are her legal husband?" Ethan's breathing was short and labored.
"Why don't you do skin grafting then?" Instead of answering Ethan's question, he asked.
"Alex... You have to get along well with Lita. She is a nice girl! As long as you treat her sincerely, she will fall in love with you." Ethan's topic was always about Lita.
And Alex's topic had always been about skin grafting surgery. "You insist on not doing skin grafting surgery, is it because of Yen? So this woman makes you determine to abandon me?"
"Alex, give up on me! Maybe going to the other world is my best choice!" Ethan reached out his hand to hold Alex's, but Alex dodged him.
"Give up on you?" Alex sneered. "Then why didn't you give up on me in the underground warehouse?"
Ethan went silent. After a long while, he sighed softly and said, "All right, Lita is a good girl. I won't allow you to bully her again and again!"
"Didn't you decide to die? If you go to another world, it won't be your business whether I bully her or not."
Alex snorted. "You can imagine that I would play with her severely, and then abandon her mercilessly! I'll make her become a deserted woman who no one dares to marry or touch! She would live a terrible life like in hell!"
"Alex!" Ethan shouted in anger. "I don't allow you to treat Lydia like that!"
"My dear brother, don't get angry! You chose Lita for me. If you don't want to see her being played by me, you should take some responsibility." The smile on Alex's face was extremely cold.
"Alex, you can't find another giri as nice as Lita! If you treat her like that, you will regret it one day!" Ethan lamented again.
"I'll regret? I have been regret for three months. I wish even in my dreams that the person who stayed to open the gate was me!" The past reoccurred vividly in his mind and filled his heart with hatred.
"Alex... Don't..." Ethan's heart felt a pang of piercing pain.
"Ethan, I want to save your heart, just as you saved my life! Think about skin grafting surgery!" After these words, Alex turned around and left him resolutely.
Seeing Alex's strong back disappear behind the door, Ethan's heart ached again. If only he died in the ruins! Now he couldn't live on, and he couldn't die either. What was the point of keeping his broken heart beating?
With the depression he couldn't get rid of, Alex slowly walked into his and Lita's bedroom.
The room was so quiet that it was almost suffocating. Lita wasn't in the bed. There was only dazzling red sheets and quilts.
Why didn't she stay in her bed? Where did the idiotic woman go this time? To Bishop family?
Alex threw his powerfully-built body to the mattress, and a human-shaped indentation was made immediately on it. Who gave her the courage to run away again? After lying there for less than three minutes, he jumped up again. His thought was written on his face: he had to go catch that woman back.
Downstairs, Alice was going upstairs to ask what Alex wanted to eat for dinner, because she saw Alex come out of the treatment room with suppressed anger on his handsome face a moment ago.
"Mr. Alex, what do you want to eat for dinner?" Alice asked in a soft voice. She was sad for him.
"Where's Lita?" Alex asked coldly.
"Mrs. Selmy is reading a book in a guest room downstairs. She didn't go out this afternoon." Alice reported to Alex about the whereabouts of Lita for half a day. At hearing Alice out, Alex instructed Alice not to let Lita get out of the house.
Moving into the guest room downstairs? This woman was really restless. At least she hadn't left the house. This made Alex's furrowed eyebrows spread out slightly. So she still got some sense, If he had to go to Bishop family to bring her back again, he wouldn't act as nicely as last time.
The door of the guest room was closed but not locked. When Alex pushed the door open and entered, Lita was lying on the bed reading a medical book about burns treatment. Although she couldn't be as professional in burns treatment as Doctor Owen, she had already learned some knowledge of diets that were good for burns healing.
As her back still hurt when touched, Lita wore a backless pajama.
When she heard the door opened, she turned back warily. It turned out to be Alex!
This man was really impolite. He didn't even know the formality of knocking on door before came in. Lita immediately pulled a thin blanket over and covered her body tightly.
Seeing his gloomy and dark face, Lita realized that the man must be in a bad mood at the moment, so she didn't ask why he didn't knock on the door. She thought it wouldn't be an easy job to teach him etiquette. Besides, that was his parents' business, and Lita wouldn't be able to transform this brute!
After came out of the treatment room, Alex's mood was terrible. Under Lita's gaze, he walked straight to the big bed and lay down next to her.
Lita was shocked. She climbed up from the bed hurriedly, but a cold voice rang in her ears.
"If you dare to run away, I will f*ck you now!" This time, Alex's words were very direct. The word "f*ck" made Lita unable to move.
She calculated that it would take at least half a minute for her to run out of the guest room and another half a minute to pass through the living room and the courtyard, but the man lying there might only need ten seconds to get up and catch her up and throw himself at her.
Lita felt that it was too risky to run away. Even if she rushed to the living room to ask Ethan for help, with Ethan's disabled condition, after he got out of the treatment room in a wheelchair, probably Alex had already got what he wanted from her. And she couldn't count on Alice or Harry either, as they were literally Alex's accomplices now.
On the other hand, if she wouldn't run, would he not do that to her? But being in the room with this man alone, Lita was both scared and sad.
"Do you mind if smoke?" Alex's hoarse voice sounded like it came from the depths of his throat. It seemed that he didn't care the answer at all. Before the shaky Lita could answer anything, he had already taken out a cigarette from a golden box and lit it up.
The pungent smoke swirled around his lungs, and his mood seemed to calm down a little. His handsome face that was shrouded in smoke was mysterious and inexplicable.
Lita had been silent for a long time. Later, she stood up and walked to the door of the room silently.
"Come back!" Alex growled like a lion. That was the last warning before he got angry.
"I'll go to get you an ashtray." Lita's voice was soft, which seemed to be able to dissolve the man's violent anger.
In fact, to Lita, the violent Alex was not so horrible; the horrible one was the evil Alex. The former would only yell at her, while the latter would molest her immorally.