Not until Lita took an ashtray from the living room and put it next to Alex's hand did his sharp eyes soften.
A cigarette was held between his shapely fingers. He elegantly sent it to the ashtray to knock off the ash, and then sent it to his thin lips again and inhaled deeply. After that, he puffed out smoke to her pretty face, which made her retreat in disgust. However, Alex grabbed her wrist.
"Do you hate me?" he asked. His thin lips held the cigarette tightly, made him look unspeakable evil.
Lita froze, as if she didn't expect Alex to reflect on himself. She should hate him! Every time he molested her, Lita was furious. Of course, she didn't know that Alex was her legal husband! If she knew, would she have hated him so much?
"No when you respect me as your sister-in law and don't mess around with me." There was a little resentment in her soft voice, which was really comfortable to the ears of the man.
Alex smiled faintly, looked noble and proud. He let go of Lita's wrist and wound a lock of her long hair around one of his fingers. "Why do you have to call yourself 'sister-in-law' all the time? Do you like to be my brother's woman so much?"
Why was there some kind of intangible jealousy in his words? It couldn't be possible, because Alex was a cold person. Love and affection were not in his consideration at all.
Litaa didn't dare to discuss this topic with Alex somehow. She felt that it wasn't an appropriate topic for a woman to discuss with her husband's brother.
Seeing the man light another cigarette, Lita frowned slightly. When he drew deeply on his cigarette and then knocked it on the ashtray, she reached out her hand without hesitation to pluck it from his fingers...She made it, to her surprise.
When her slender fingers touched the cigarette, Alex instinctively resisted. However, under her gentle force, she successfully pulled the burning cigarette out of Alex's fingers. Then she squeezed it against the ashtray and extinguished it.
As reward, he got a potato cake. She made some this after when she prepared dinner for Ethan. She liked them very much herself.
The cigarette was replaced by a small potato cake. Subtle change of expression flashed across Alex's handsome face. This woman was...so childish!
He put the small potato cake to his mouth and took a bite. It was soft and sweet, and it tasted all right.
"Is it delicious?" Seeing that the man had tasted it, Lita couldn't help but feel slightly cheered up. Perhaps she knew that she shouldn't be so close to Alex, let alone ask such intimate question.
"It's okay. Just too sweet." Alex put the rest of the small potato cake into his mouth.
'Too sweet but you still ate it all?' Lita pursed her rosy lips. However, she was very happy in her heart. To be honest, she wished he could be nice. She would definitely take care of him as her younger brother.
'Oh, no, Alex seems to be several years older than I am! It's impossible for him to be my younger brother!'
Anyway, she learned a fact that Alex did not like sweet food.
"Has the wound on your back got better?" Alex asked. Looking at the woman who blushed from time to time, he felt that his heart calm and peaceful. It brightened his days to tease her sometimes.
In fact, the woman regarded him as her brother-in-law and was bound by morality, and at the same time, she was bullied by this brother-in-law, which turned her from a docile cat into an aggressive tigress in a frenzy of anger. This was really fun for him..
"Yes, it's better," Lita answered honestly.
"Let me have a look." Alex deliberately raised his voice. "I won't be assured until I see it myself."
Lita immediately moved back in alarm. "No, it's not necessary! Alice has already applied the scald ointment to me this afternoon."
Alex frowned slightly and thought, 'Why is Alice so meddlesome? It's not her business. Why did she have to do it?'
Speaking of the devil, here he comes. Alice, who was worried that Alice would be hungry, brought the delicious Italian beef noodles she personally cooked.
"Mr. Alex, eat while it's hot. You haven't had dinner yet." Alice adored Alex so much, stopping only short of feed him personally.
"Okay, just leave it there." There was a slight unpleasantness in Alex's eyes after being disturbed.
"It won't taste good when it gets cold." Alice insisted on sending the plate to Alex's hand. "You've lost some weight recently."
Did he lose weight? Why couldn't she see it? He was as strong as an bull! If he had lost some weight, then how strong he should be before! On the other hand, Alice's love for Alex was more than a mother's love for her son.
While the man was eating noodles, Lita trotted toward the door.
"Where are you going?" Alex snapped. Although he didn't even raise his eyes, he could sense Lita was leaving. He was really a cunning man.
"Oh...I'm going to get you some water," Lita answered his question smartly.
Because she had gone to take the ashtray and returned, Alex allowed her to leave this time. He reckoned that she could not escape under his nose.
In fact, Lita did have some other intention to leave. She wanted to go upstairs to see Ethan while Alice was serving Alex to eat the noodles.
Perhaps it was not because she missed Ethan so much, but because of her responsibility as his wife. Otherwise, she would have lost the meaning of her existence in Selmy family.
At the door of the treatment room, Lita waited quietly for a while, then she gently knocked on the door twice. She knew that at this time, Doctor Owen would definitely be inside. He was very dedicated to Ethan's health. Except for spending half a day a week with his family, he stayed with Ethan all the time.
After two or three minutes, the door of the treatment room was opened from inside. It was Doctor Cullen.
"Doctor Cullen, can I go in and have a look at Ethan?" Lita asked sadly, as she had been refused too many times.
"Mrs. Selmy, Mr. Ethan needs to be in sterile environment recently." Doctor Cullen used almost every excuse he could find to refuse her. He felt terrible about it too, as he knew that Mrs. Selmy just cared about Ethan and had nothing to do with the so called conspiracy.
But this was the order of Mr. Alex. No one was allowed to enter the treatment room to see Ethan, including Mrs. Selmy.
"I can wear an asepsis smock," Lita muttered. She didn't want to make things difficult for Doctor Cullen, but she didn't want to give up hope of seeing Ethan.
"Um... Mr. Ethan isn't in a good condition lately, so he doesn't want to see anyone." Doctor Cullen sighed slightly.
Lita understood Doctor Cullen's dilemma, as he just followed the order. She nodded sadly, took a long gaze at the dark room, and then quietly left.
Her heart hurt, and also felt bitter. She was just worried about Ethan's illness, but Selmy family still excluded her.
A pair of sharp and profound eyes were closely fixed on Lita's every movement. The eyes were as deep as the bottomless ponds and nobody could read the expression of them.