Lita handed the note to Alex after she finished writing, thinking that he would throw it away after he read it. But to her surprise, he didn't take a glance at all but just slid it into his suit pocket.
"Wait," he said, and then he took the car key and left. He went via the passage inside the villa to the garage, so that he didn't have to go into the rain.
Lita was left sitting on the sofa in the living room, shocked and moved. It was out of her imagination that a proud and noble guy like Alex would really go to buy her feminine hygiene products. How embarrassing it would be for him to buy this kind of things for a woman!
Lita didn't dare imagine the scene of Alex carefully picking out the items she named from all sorts of feminine hygiene products.
Lita started to feel her cheeks burning. She wrote that list in a sulk and thought he would give up the idea of helping her when he saw it. She didn't expect him to really go buy those things. Now she couldn't help but blame herself. Lita, Lita, how could you take revenge on others like this? After all, he is your husband's brother. What if Ethan know that you have done this to his brother? And Alice and Housekeeper Harry would definitely blame me for being so wayward.'
Soon Alice came out of the kitchen with a glass of brown sugar water. She looked around and asked, "Mrs. Selmy, where is Mr. Alex? What did he ask you to write just now?"
Lita pursed her lips in embarrassment and didn't know how to answer. If she told Alice the truth, probably she would feel sad for him. How could Alex, the apple in her eye, condescend to buy feminine hygiene products? If she lied to her, her heart wouldn't have peace. So she could only keep silent.
"Mrs. Selmy, don't blame Mr. Alex. Mr. Ethan's health condition makes him feel bad. That's why he is rude to you. You have to be more forgiving of him.'
Here came her favorite topic again. As long as Alice was free, she would pour out all her praises for Alex to Lita. In the end, Lita would feel that she would be too cruel if she didn't forgive all the bad things Alex had done.
Lita had a few sips of the brown sugar water and felt much better in her stomach. Thinking of something, Lita asked Alice in confusion, "Alice, how is Ethan's condition now?"
"Alas..." Alice sighed again. "Mr. Ethan's condition, I'm afraid..." Then Alice choked and began to wipe tears off her cheeks.
Lita felt a pain in her heart, but then she became more confused. Just now in the bedroom, Ethan didn't look so sick as Alice said. Although his voice was a little husky, in terms of strength and heartbeat, he was almost the same as an ordinary person. Why couldn't he be cured? Was Ethan trying to hide his condition deliberately from Alice?
It looked absolutely unnecessary in her eyes. Alice was devoted to this family. She almost regarded the two brothers as her own sons. so how could she do anything harmful to them?
"Alice, you have seen Ethan every day. How... how is his appetite now?" Lita asked in a roundabout way.
"Well," When it came to Ethan, Alice always sighed. "Mr. Ethan can't take his eyes off Miss Kipping's photo. Whatever food you send to his mouth, he just eats a little and then says enough. How could he get well if he eats so little?"
Lita felt frustrated. Her legal husband stared at another women's photo every day. What an embarrassment it was to her! Lita wasn't jealous of Miss Kipping, but Ethan's refusing to eat or drink because of her definitely meant that he wanted to abandon his own life.
Instantly, Lita was puzzled again. She had seen Ethan a few times, and she even spent almost half a day with him yesterday. She didn't see that Ethan was so weak. Except for his ruined face and voice, his health condition wasn't so bad. At least he had more strength than Lita.
'Did Ethan show me and Alice different sides of him? Perhaps that is why Selmy family doesn't allow me to go into the treatment room.
'It is easy to pretend to be sick, but it was difficult to pretend to be healthy. Why does Ethan want to pretend to be so seriously ill in front of Alice?'
The matters of the rich and powerful families are really complicated!'
On the other hand, Alex failed to get what he wanted from a woman, instead, he was fooled by her. Now, he had to go to buy feminine hygiene products for her in a stormy night, which was really a humiliation.
In the convenience store, Alex's pulled a long face. Indeed, how could he be cheerful when he was doing this?
But of course, he wouldn't be as silly as Lita imagined - burying his head among all brands of feminine hygiene products and selecting the items she named. How could a smart man like him make a fool of himself like that?
And the point was he didn't need to do that.
Alex stopped a shop assistant who was arranging the products on the shelf. He handed her the note and two hundred dollars. "Please do me a favor. Get these items for me, pay the bill and take the change as a tip."
The shop assistant took a quick glance at the note and smiled knowingly. "You are a good man to come to buy these things for your woman in such a raining night!"
'A good man?' Alex frowned slightly. The term good man seemed to have nothing to do with him. Even he himself couldn't understand why he lost his head and came out in the middle of the night to buy feminine hygiene products for a woman.
'What an idiotic woman! How dare she play a trick on me? When the time is convenient, I would make her pay him back.
Lita, who sat in the living room, suddenly felt her ears burning. 'Is somebody talking about her?' she wondered. 'All right, I am innocent. My menstruation suddenly came. It is not what I want either!
The shop assistant collected all the items of the list and packed them in a doggy bag. Then she put the change and a note she wrote into the bag too.
Alex took the bag, after said thanks to her, he ran into the rain towards his Ferrari. The Ferrari backed off gracefully and turned around, then sped to the Selmy house.
In the living room, Lita took a sip of the brown sugar water from time to time. Her stomach was much more comfortable now, but she couldn't calm down. She kept wondering if the man would really buy those things for her. It would be terribly embarrassing for an arrogant guy like him to buy those things for a woman.
It was totally out of her imagination. She couldn't picture it in her mind the scene he standing among the shelves of feminine hygiene products and selecting the right brands and right items.
But she was completely wrong about him this time. Alex not only brought back the right items, but also did it smartly and came back quickly.
It was still raining hard outside and Alex's shirt was slightly wet. The fabric stuck to his muscular body and his powerful physique was revealed clearly.