At the kitchen downstairs.
Alice was cleaning up the tableware. A plate of Italian noodles that had been just eaten a few mouthfuls were left on the bar counter.
Surely Alex must have eaten it, but why did he just eat a little?
"Alice, where is Alex? Did he go out again?" Lita asked casually as she walked to the electric rice cooker.
Alice wanted to say that Alex was in the bedroom upstairs, the one who just talked with you was Alex himself, but she ended up sighing slightly. She didn't know how long would Alex kept the secret from Lita. And Ethan's conditions hadn't had much improvement. How vexing all these things were!
Seeing Lita go to get the black sticky rice porridge, Alice smiled softly and asked, "Mrs. Selmy, are you hungry? The nights are longer at this season, so you'd better eat more. Don't get hungry in the middle of the night."
"It's for Ethan. He's a little hungry," Lita said.
"Ethan?" Alice whispered, and then she understood that the "Ethan" Lita meant should be Alex. So she replied quickly, "Well, let me heat this dish of noodles for him."
Lita was amazed. "Alice, you are confused. Ethan can't eat this strong flavored noodles. He can only eat fluid."
In fact, Lita also had doubts. From Ethan's strong physique, he didn't look like a person who had to rely on a ventilator for breathing or eat fluid. But it was better to be cautious. Lita didn't dare to take the risk to let Ethan eat other kinds of food.
Watching Lita go upstairs with a bowl of tasteless black sticky rice porridge, Alice sighed slightly and shook her head. 'Alex hates this tasteless porridge most.
In the bedroom, Alex's cell phone rang twice. So he turned off the phone simply.
He had not figured out how to deal with Yen yet. It was easy to kill her, but she was the woman Ethan loved deeply. And at the same time, it was too good to her if he just killed her. She still owed a blood debt to Ethan.
When Lita came in with a bowl of porridge, Alex frowned, his face became longer, and he felt his head aching. He really hated this porridge without taste. It was worse than water, as water was more fluid, and it was worse than cooked rice too, as rice was at least chewy.
"Ethan, sorry for keeping you waiting. I've added some honey and it would taste better."
Since he got large area burn in the fire, Ethan's diet had always been light in taste. When Alex heard that the woman said that she had added honey, his eyebrows furrowed even tighter.
Porridge was terrible but at least he could take it as thicker fluid, but after adding honey...he never liked eating sweet food.
When Lita sent the spoon to Alex's lips, Alex really didn't want to open his mouth.
"Ethan, aren't you hungry? Come on, open your mouth," Lita was very patient. This was because she always worked as volunteer for a period of time every year in the orphanage. She had her way in dealing with the naughty little kids.
"I want to eat noodles!" Alex said directly.
He would never treat his stomach badly.
Even though it was a very romantic moment, the bottom line was that the food had to be eatable to him.
Such horrible sweet and sticky porridge made Alex reluctant to open his mouth.
"Ethan, are you tired of soup and liquid food? Liquid food is good for your recovery." Lita could understand Ethan's behavior of refusing to eat porridge.
"Don't call me Ethan! Call me Honey!" Alex couldn't stand being called Ethan by the woman over and over again.
It irritated him to death.
"...Honey," Lita said shyly, but her tone unintentionally made the atmosphere romantic. She didn't have the intention to go to downstairs to change the porridge to noodles. "Come on, eat some. This black sticky rice porridge is not only nutritious but also easy to digest."
Lita sent the spoon to his mouth again while he kept his thin lips tightly closed stubbornly.
She was gentle but persistent.
She held the spoon persistently until Alex opened his mouth.
She won finally. She smiled gently and said in a tone of approving, "That's good!"
The sticky rice porridge was quite thick, with the sweetness of honey, so it was not as horrible as he imagined. Under the persistence of Lita, Alex actually finished the whole bowl of porridge.
When Alex licked his lips, Lita saw his neat white teeth. Why? His teeth looked so healthy!
"Ethan, your teeth... are very nice. Why did Alice say that you can't eat hard food?" said Lita straightly, without giving it any deep thought.
Whenever she thought of this in the future, she couldn't help exclaiming how stupid she had been. So many times Alex exposed his true self but she blindly believed that the person in front of her was Ethan.
The man then comforted her that it wasn't because she was stupid but because she had an innocent and pure soul.
"Aren't they look like fake teeth?" Alex chose his words carefully. He wouldn't make the statement himself, but just tried to guide her to deduce the conclusion herself.
"Are they fake? really can't see that!" Lita reached out her index finger to tap them and check whether they were indeed fake teeth, but the man closed his mouth and caught her finger between his lips.
That feeling was like the sudden ripples on a calm lake, spreading from her finger to the recess of her heart.
"You, why are you biting me?" Lita quickly retracted her finger, which was stained with the man's mouth water.
"I'm tired! Let's go to bed early." Such intimacy like biting finger was far from enough to satisfy Alex's desire.
"Oh, okay," Lita replied mechanically. Then she realized that the man said "we" instead of "her" or "he".
Did he mean he would stay with her tonight?
Lita did not feel glad secretly. Instead, she was slightly worried. She only hoped that Ethan would not reject her anymore and would treat her as a family member and allow her to enter the treatment room like Alice and Harry.
"Ethan, if you really regard me as your wife, let me take care of you in the treatment room. I need you to treat me like a family member. I want to go into the treatment room to take care you as Alice and Harry do.
If you don't agree, that means I'm not qualified enough to be your wife, isn't it?" Lita squatted down, so that her eyes were at the same level as Ethan's. But the man's eyes were always drifting, and it seemed that he was avoiding her eyes.
"Let's go to sleep. I'm tired!" Alex sighed and said, "Maybe we can talk while lying in the bed!"
This was indeed a good idea!
It was really uncomfortable to sleep wearing that artificial skin. No matter how excellent the material was, it wasn't his own skin after all. Alex, who was trapped under the leather, felt restless. He wrapped his arms around Lita waist and pressed against her back.
Such a posture could prevent Lita from staring at him for a long time. Because of the depression, Alex's arms around her waist tightened a little bit. Lita groaned slightly because of the discomfort.
"Ethan, are you feeling uncomfortable?" Lita gently patted Alex's strong arm around her waist, indicating him to relax.
"Right, uncomfortable." Alex mumbled.
Winding her long hair on the temple around his finger again and again seemed to be his favorite motion. He released the hair and then winded again, kept repeating the same monotonous action.
Even the fierce beast had its gentle moment.
Suddenly, Lita realized that there was another person who also liked to do the same thing. He liked to wind her long hair around his finger and play with it.
Alex!
Lita was shocked by the sudden thought of that man. How could she act like this? Lying in the arms of her husband and thinking of another man! And the man was her husband's brother!
'Am I bewitched? How can I miss that demon?"
'I'm heading to hell!'
After struggling with her thought for a long time, Lita fell asleep in the man's arms.
Her soft and delicate body then was showed in front of his eyes, all at his disposal.
He had already quietly got up and removed the obstacles on his body.
He felt much more relaxed, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.
He stared at the woman who was in the dream quietly. She had long eyelashes like butterfly's wings, a white and smooth face, and beautiful red glow on her cheeks. Her soft breathing made the quiet atmosphere full of affection.
Thinking about the process of her transforming from a girl to a woman, Alex was aroused automatically.
He was just a normal adult.
'How could Ethan choose such an ordinary girl to perform the duty of producing offspring for me?"
'No doubt she is clean and fresh, looking like a piece of fruit that just ripes. Men can't help being aroused by her at the first glance.'
'She is indeed beautiful!'
'As for a child...
'A child that carries my blood?"
'Am I going to have a baby with this woman?' In the dark, Alex frowned slightly. He felt that this was their destiny.
So, Alex reached out his hand and unbuttoned the nightgown she wore...
The small storeroom was filled with a strong smell of blood.
An inscrutable smile appeared on Yen porcelain-doll-like face.
Behind the angelic smile, there was a demon's heart!
"You...don't look at me like that. It's useless!" Yen long time staring made Zen hair stand on end. "You just saw it. I've called Alex twice, but he didn't answer... Now, his phone is off!"
"Then call to his house!" A gloomy voice came out of Yen beautiful lips.
"Call...call to his house? Now? It's almost two o'clock in the morning! Please don't bother me anymore, my dear lady!"
Zen found that he really couldn't be too cruel to this woman. Her eyes were full of tenderness and helplessness.
It seemed that she was questioning him, "Are you still a man or not? Do you still have any humanity?"