Lita didn't dare to think about it, nor could she think about it. Her husband was sitting in front of her. Although his face was ruined, he was still her legal husband. Lita really didn't want to hurt him.
She shook her head repeatedly, with a little panic and helplessness. "No...no! I can't fall in love with him."
"You can't fall in love with him or you won't fall in love with him?" Alex did not get a satisfactory answer, so he asked again sharply.
She couldn't fall in love with him maybe because of some realistic reasons, such as because she was his brother's wife.
But if she wouldn't fall in love with him, it would be the problem of her heart. It was very important to make clear of this!
"I can't fall in love with him, nor will I fall in love with him!" Lita raised her head and stared deeply into Ethan's eyes. But Ethan didn't want to meet her eyes now, so he looked away.
Vaguely, Lita could feel that the man had got angry, because he suddenly used a lot of strength on his finger that was entangled with her hair. It hurt her scalp, forcing her to approach him so as to reduce the pain.
"Then how do you explain that you and Alex spent a whole night outside?" Alex was unwilling to give up and asked again with suppressed anger.
Perhaps at this moment, Alex didn't really care whether this woman had fallen in love with him or not. He just didn't want to lose to the man called Austin.
He might not love this woman! However, his wife, Alex's wife, must belong to him physically and mentally!
The logic of robbers! The overbearing arrogance that made people gnash their teeth! It had the power to destroy the world!
'It seemed that Ethan has already known about it!'
'Thinking about it now, the bowl of porridge I drank that day... must have been added drug. That stuff made me unable to control myself and have sex with Alex. If those kidnappers did it on purpose, it is natural that Ethan knew about it.'
"Ethan, I'm sorry...it's me, it's me who took the initiative to seduce Alex! It has nothing to do with Alex... It's my fault for being dissolute!'
Lita knelt down in front of Ethan with tears in her eyes. She held the man's hand tightly and emphasized again and again that it was all her fault. It had nothing to do with Alex.
Alex was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect that the woman would defend him. "What... You and Alex have done that?"
Lita's face was bathed in tears now. She raised her bright eyes and sadly stared at the man in the wheelchair. "Ethan, there will be no next time! Please don't blame Alex. It has nothing to do with him. He has always respected you. It's all my fault...It's my fault. I couldn't stand the loneliness. I'm the one who seduced him!"
"You seduced him? Why can't I believe it? Men always take the initiative to seduce women...It must be Alex who bullied you!"
Alex's angry face eased a little. "Why did you defend Alex like that? Did you really fall in love with him?"
This was the topic Alex was really interested in. He wanted to let this woman admit that she had fallen in love with him.
However, what Lita cared more about was the affection between the two brothers. She didn't want to create a barrier between them and lead them to bear grudge against each other or even hate each other.
If that was the consequence, Lita felt that she was even more unforgivable.
"Ethan, it's really my fault! It has nothing to do with Alex! He always respects you! If...if you think I'm dirty, then...then divorce me!" Lita was eager to defend Alex.
Divorce? This word obviously stung Alex's ears!
He snapped, "Shut up! Why, you can't wait to leave me? Do you think I'm too ugly? Or do you think I've made you embarrassed in front of the outsiders?"
"No, no! Ethan, even if we get divorced, I will still stay at Selmy family to take care of you! I will take care of you all your life!"
Lita held Alex's scarred hand tightly, eager to express her thoughts.
She was kind, so she would not abandon Ethan, who was disabled and could not even take care of himself.
She seemed to want to preserve the humble love that could never see the light. Perhaps she would never be able to tell anybody about it, but she knew it existed in her heart vivid and real. She couldn't deceive herself.
She wanted to keep that feeling at the bottom of her heart.
But at the same time she was worried that she would be thinking about another man when she took care of her husband. Besides, this man was the one she shouldn't fall in love with the most. It would be unfair to Ethan.
That was why Lita felt it might be better she divorced Ethan, and then stayed by his side as his sister or maid to take care of him. She would feel more at ease.
"But don't dislike you! Just continue to be my good wife!"
Ethan curled up his uneven index finger and gently rubbed against Lita little face, repeating this monotonous action again and again.
"..." Lita was stunned for a moment, but in the end, she had nothing to say.
"You are so eager to defend Alex. Is it because you want to divorce me and then marry Alex?" Ethan asked casually.
Although her defending him had already explained something, Alex would like to hear the woman say it out personally.
By the way, who was that man called Austin? Was he really her first love, as she said?
With Alex's keenness, it was not difficult to figure out that this so-called first love was made up by her. How could she say that she had a first love while she was even so awkward in kissing?
And her clean body, from inside to outside, had no trace of other men. A small touch and kiss made her so sensitive and nervous.
What the hell of "sunny, outgoing and kind, like the first ray of morning sun"? Even if it was platonic love, he wouldn't allow it.
Lita panicked again, and her heartbeat almost came to a stop.
She didn't dare to look at Ethan's eyes as if she were caught cheating him on the spot. She lowered her head and blinked her tearful eyes.
After she took a deep breath to calm down, she said, "Ethan, let me take care of you in the treatment room. If you wouldn't let me get in there, or if you think that I have ulterior motives to approach you...then we'd better get divorced, because I can't do what a wife is supposed to do. Why would you want to have a wife like me?"
"Then tell me, what's a wife supposed to do?" Alex asked in whisper.
"Take care of you. Isn't this your purpose to marry me?" Lita asked tactfully.
"Okay...then tonight, I'll give you a chance to take care of me...But besides taking care of me...is there anything else we can do as husband and wife?"
As Alex said, some things were indeed easy to get addicted to. They were both young, vigorous, pleasing to the eye physically, like juicy fruits.
Look at the woman in front of him, she was full, ripe, as fresh as peppermint. He could do whatever he wanted with her beautiful body, from inside to outside, to enjoy the utmost sensual pleasure.
"Then...are you hungry?" Lita's thoughts were still quite pure. She naively thought that Ethan's agreeing to let her take care of him only meant taking care of his eating and sleeping. She thought of nothing else between men and women.
As she mentioned it, Alex felt that he was hungry. He had been dealing with Yen for two days and still couldn't get any useful information out of her mouth about the mastermind of the conspiracy.
With Alex's influence in Lisbon, it was impossible for him to know nothing about the mastermind who had hurt him and his brother. But according to his investigation in the past few months, this person didn't belong to the local circle. He must be from outside the city.
This puzzled Alex even more. A person outside Lisbon tried to hurt them in this city. How powerful he would have to be?
Not only did he know very well the under society of Lisbon, but he also bought a lot of people of private banks to work for him. He must be extremely powerful financially.
And he was powerful in other aspects too, as Alex couldn't find out who he was so far.
Of course, a person who could scheme to harm the two brothers of them in Lisbon wouldn't be a simple person.
"Yes, a little," Alex responded lightly. When he thought of the scene that the woman fed him the food, he was still a little longing for it.
"I'll go downstairs and get you some porridge. Alice has made black sticky rice porridge today." Litaquickly stood up and walked to the door.
Hearing that the woman was going to make him eat porridge again, Alex frowned. He really didn't like to eat that tasteless food, but he couldn't order the woman to bring him the strong flavored Italian noodles, could he?
Anyway, everything was still very warm and harmonious. His virtuous wife was going downstairs to prepare food for him.
However the harmony was suddenly broken by the untimely ringing of a mobile phone on the small cabinet.
Obviously, it was Alex's mobile phone, but it was ringing on the small cabinet in the room. What did it mean? It meant that Alex must have been to this room. Where was he now? Lita turned around abruptly to look at the direction of the sound. She happened to catch a glimpse of Ethan reaching out his hand to pick up the ringing phone.
If it weren't for his ferocious face and scarred hands, Lita would have thought that the man in pajamas sitting in the wheelchair was Alex!
Both his figure and the agility of his movements were very similar to Alex's.
Especially the speed at which Ethan moved to get his mobile phone was so fast that he didn't look like a seriously ill patient who had to rely on a ventilator sometimes to maintain his life at all.
"Is that Alex's cell phone? Where is he?" Lita asked without thinking.
Alex's hand, which was holding the mobile phone, paused for a tenth of a second. He almost betrayed himself.
If the silly woman called out "Alex" to him, probably he would answer her and gave himself away. But this little meek lamb couldn't outwit the wolf after all.
"He was bickering with me just now! He should have left the house. The muddleheaded boy left his phone here."
Alex pressed the call off and the persistent ringing finally stopped. With Lita at present, he couldn't answer the phone, though he had seen the caller was Zen. It should be something about that vicious woman Yen.
Lita only felt a little strange, but she couldn't make out what was wrong. So she didn't say a word, but just turned around and walked out of the room to get the food for the man.