How could her period come at the most critical moment? This was too coincidentall Probably she was too nervous.
Lita only had a thin panty liner, and she knew that it couldn't last long. Moreover, the amount of blood on the first day wouldn't be small, so she couldn't rely on it till tomorrow. But after rummaging through the whole room, she couldn't find any feminine hygiene products. Lita had to go downstairs to ask Alice for help.
After being tortured by Ethan, the red glow on Lita's face wouldn't fade away. Why was Ethan so barbaric and violent? He resembled his precious brother amazingly. At the thought of Alex, Lita's motion stopped for a while as she walked downstairs. Faintly, she seemed to have smelled something strange...
But some warm current rushed out of her body and interrupted her thought. She had to the urgent matter first. It could be a big disaster if she didn't deal with it asap.
She hurried downstairs, and went straight to Alice's room to look for her. She didn't hold out much hope for her help, as Alice was already in her fifties. Presumably, she didn't have period for a long time. Therefore, the chance that she had feminine hygiene products was small.
However, no matter how small the chance was, she was the only person she could ask for. If she didn't have this kind of things, nobody else would have in this family. She couldn't count on the two brothers or Housekeeper Harry to have.
Alice was not in her room. Lita went to the kitchen then.
But Alice wasn't alone in the kitchen, a person Lita didn't want to see was there too. Alex was eating Italian noodles made by Alice there.
"Alice..." When Lita saw Alex, she swallowed what she wanted to said.
Alex heard her voice, turned his head and took an unreadable glance at her. There seemed to be some anger and resentment in his eyes.
'I haven't offended this man today, have I?
Why is he glaring at me with a dark face?' Since he didn't greet her, Lita wouldn't talk to the brute voluntarily. She didn't want to invite humiliation.
"Mrs. Selmy, what's the matter? I just cooked some noodles. Would you like to have some?" Alice invited her to try with enthusiasm.
"No, thanks, I'm not hungry." Lita glanced at the dark-faced Alex and said to Alice in a low voice, "Alice, can you come out? I have something to say to you." She didn't want to talk about such a private thing in front of Alex.
"Oh, okay." Alice took a glance at Alex and walked out of the kitchen with Lita.
In the corridor, Lita lowered her voice. "Alice, do you have some feminine hygiene products? My period just came and I was caught off guard."
It suddenly dawned on Alice that that was the reason why Alex pulled a long face when he came downstairs to the kitchen and asked her to cook him some noodles. It turned out that his wife was having her period. Surely, the good thing he was expecting was ruined.
'Alas, what a coincidence! it's almost hard to imagine. Maybe they are not destined to be together for the time being.'
"Alice, why are you sighing?" Lita was stunned by the heavy sigh of Alice. She was in her fifties and probably didn't have her period, which was completely normal. Why would she be so sad?
Alice realized she made a gaffe when she heard Lita's question. And then she recalled the cold glances and hostile manners when the two persons met in the kitchen. Hence she judged that Lita still had no idea that the person who stayed with her in the bedroom was in fact Alex. Since then, Alice could only keep quiet and let things take their course.
"Mrs. Selmy, I don't use those things for a long time. There is a convenience store at the entrance of the community. I will go buy some for you now." Alice took off her apron and was ready to go out.
At this moment, a thunderstorm suddenly broke. Lightning lit up the sky and thunder broke the silence and woke up all the creatures of the earth with a start. The heavy rain poured down with devastating violence and hit everything in this world mercilessly. The rain was sweeping across the windows in sheets.
"Alice, I'll go myself." Lita couldn't bear to let Alice go out to buy this kind of things for herself at such a stormy night.
"No, you can't go out. The rain is so heavy outside, and you are having your period. It will be bad if you catch a cold." Alice wouldn't let Lita, who looked fragile, to go into the rain.
"Mrs. Selmy, what kind of brand do you usually use?" Alice asked as she put on the raincoat and was ready to go out.
However, as soon as she opened the double doors of the living room, a gale blew in and threw her onto the carpet of the floor.
"Alice, are you all right?" Lita rushed over to help her up.
"Mrs. Selmy, stay away from the door... The wind is too strong and the rain too heavy. Be careful not to catch a cold." Although Alice cared about Alex most, she also adored Litaa very much.
Lita tried to push the door close with her thin shoulders. However, under the strong wind and heavy rain, she felt powerless. Half of her shoulder that exposed outside the door was instantly wetted by the rain.
A strong arm reached out and helped her shut the door. Lita wiped her wet face and turned back to find that it was Alex who helped her.
"You can't even close a door. The food you ate in the past over twenty years has been wasted." Alex's handsome face was still dark and cold.
Lita pursed her lips. She didn't refute the man's mockery, nor did she thank him for his help. In addition, she felt a little uncomfortable in her lower abdomen; so she didn't bother to talk with this rude and man.
"Mrs. Selmy, maybe I call the people in the convenience store and ask them to send the things here?" Alice suggested.
"It's okay, Alice. Let's wait until the rain quiets down a little bit. It's not easy for them to run such a small business." A dull pain carne from her abdomen and she bent down instinctively and wrapped her belly with both hands.
"Mrs. Selmy, are you in pain? Go sit down and have some rest. I'll get you a glass of brown sugar water." Alice helped Lita to sit on the sofa in the living room and went into the kitchen to get the water.
A pen and a piece of paper were handed to Lita. Lita raised her head and saw the man's cold face.
"Put down what you need on the paper." Alex's voice was still cold.
Lita was stunned. 'What is the man doing? Is he going to buy feminine hygiene products for me?' She was sure that he didn't know what she wanted to buy. Given his noble identity, if he knew, he would burst with rage.
Lita blushed slightly and shook her head feebly. "No, thanks. I'll go buy them myself when the rain quiets down."
However, Lita was grateful to this man. At least it was a gesture of kindness.
"If I ask you to write, then write them down! Don't waste my time," Alex shouted, with a fierce look of anger.
Lita was startled by the man's outburst of anger. 'I just don't want him to be embarrassed to go to buy such kind of things. What an ungrateful guy!'
Then, she changed her mind immediately. She took the paper and began to write quickly. Two packs of silky dry night use pads, two packs of cotton surface day use pads and some pastes for back protection.