It seemed that Alex deserved his reputation as an upstart in Lisbon. And such a rich guy was also blessed with a handsome face. God favored him so much!
Lita, who was immersed in her thoughts about Alex, suddenly realized something and sighed secretly. 'Why do always think about that man these two days? No matter how handsome he is, he has nothing to do with me, okay? He is just my husband's brother.'
Thinking of Ethan, Lita felt happy anyway. Although he was disfigured by the fire, he was still a talented man.
Lita didn't pray for much. She only hoped that her husband Ethan could get better soon and she could take care of him personally.
"Lita... Lita, what are you thinking about?" Seeing that Lita keep silent for a long time, Jack urged, "How about this weekend? You surely will complete this important mission of inviting him to come here to have dinner, won't you?"
Lita was startled and replied tactically in a hurry, "Uncle Jack, wouldn't it be better you invite him personally? You would look more sincere that way."
She hadn't forgotten the severe humiliation she received from him last time when she asked him for one hundred thousand dollars to give to charity. Now it was one billion dollars. She didn't know what he would do to her. She could endure if he yelled at her or called her names, but his habit of molesting her whenever he felt like to was scary to her. She shuddered at the unspeakable embarrassment.
"I wouldn't be able to see him. I went to GK International some time ago and was stopped by his secretary. I wanted to see him at the Selmy house, but Housekeeper Harry always said that Alex was too busy to meet me."
Jack sighed. "Lita, I'm all counting on you now!"
Lita didn't know if her uncle had really gone to Selmy family as he said, at least she hadn't seen him go there when she was in Selmy family.
"Uncle Jack, I don't know much about your business with Alex. Besides, I'm just an outsider to the members of Selmy family. I'm of humble position and what I say is of little weight. How would Alex listen to me?"
She wasn't evading the task. These were facts about her current situation in Selmy family. As Ethan's wife, she couldn't even see her husband as she liked, let alone ordering Alex. Besides, one billion was indeed an astronomical number for Lita. How could she pull strings to get this done?
'I would not only fail the task, but also seek humiliation voluntarily from Alex."
"But you are Alex's sister-in-law! Alex loves his brother so much. He will definitely agree if you ask him," Belle didn't wait for Lita to finish her words and interjected.
"..." Lita was really speechless. It was true that Alex loved his brother, but the way he treated his brother's wife was totally a different thing. He not only didn't respect her at all, but also molested her from time to time...
But this wasn't something Lita could tell Jack. Perhaps even if she told him, he wouldn't believe it. Probably he would say she must have acted willfully and wasn't kind enough to her husband's brother.
"Uncle Jack...I'm afraid I can't do it." Lita did not want to promise something she couldn't do, because she clearly understood that this was beyond her ability.
"Lita, your uncle had supported you for over twenty years. He brought you to Bishop family as soon as you came to this world. He is more like a father to you than an uncle. Now he only asked you send a message to Alex. And you wouldn't help him?"
Said Maria, joining the verbal battle against Lita too. She appealed to Lita's conscience. She made it look as if Lita wouldn't help, she would be the most ungrateful and heartless person in the world.
In the end, Lita had to give in. She knew that if she didn't agree, Maria would bombard her with criticism endlessly until she was driven crazy.
Sometimes Lita wondered if her life would be totally different if her uncle sent her to the orphanage instead of bringing her to Bishop family.
After she returned to Selmy Family that afternoon, she spent two hours working on the outline of her graduation thesis. At about half past five in the evening, she and Alice started to prepare Ethan's dinner.
When she sent the tonic diet and fruit juice to the treatment room, she was kept outside the door as usual. Doctor Owen only allowed Doctor Cullen to take the plate of food from her and bring it into the room. She was still rejected as an outsider of the family.
As Lita wasn't feeling very well herself, Alice made her some puree added with red jujube and her favorite purple yum cakes.
However, Lita didn't feel like to eat. She sat quietly at the table preoccupied. She thought of what she promised her uncle under pressure, she felt depressed and spiritless.
When Alex returned to Selmy Family, he saw Lita sitting there quietly like a beauty in an oil painting, but she was a confined beauty, graceful but sad.
Hearing the steady footsteps, Lita raised her head and met Alex's bottomless eyes. After a quick glance, Lita lowered her head with guilt, as if she was afraid that her shady plan would be seen through.
The scene she asked him for one hundred thousand dollars was still fresh in her mind. She sweated as she recalled it and she couldn't help but lament how unease one's heart would be when one had to ask for others' favor.
Alex took a brief glance at Lita who sat at the table and then went upstairs. It was his habit to get a shower as soon as he came back home before going into the treatment room to see Ethan.
Lita looked at the red jujube puree and stirred it with a spoon absent-minded. A dull pain in her stomach made her little face paler and more pitiful. Inadvertently, she looked up and looked in the direction of the treatment room on the second floor. She happened to see Alex's tall and strong figure which looked noble and steady.
She reluctantly took a few spoons of the puree. It warmed her up a little, but she felt as if she was eating something as tasteless as cotton.
After helping Ethan have his dinner, Alex walked out of the treatment room and came downstairs. At the sight of Lita whose mind seemed to be wondering somewhere else, he asked Alice, "Why does she eat something so light? I've told you to buy some pig bones to feed her."
He furrowed his nice-looking brows at the skinny Lita. It seemed that he was displeased to see the woman as thin as if she could be blown away by a gust of wind.
"Mr. Alex, a woman in her period couldn't eat something too greasy. I made her some red jujube puree which is nourishing," explained Alice, feeling happy that Alex was concerned
"But why does it look like she hasn't touch the puree at all?" Alex took a glimpse at the spoon that laid in the bowl. He thought Lita didn't like it, so he asked Alice coldly.
"Mrs. Selmy has been brooding over something the whole afternoon. She sent the dinner to Mr. Ethan and was shut out of the door again. Probably she felt sad about it, Alice said with a sigh.
"Does she care so much about my brother? Does she have to be so depressed just being separated from him for one day?" Alex's handsome face turned cold.