Chapter 225
Ethan’s gaze made Olivia’s skin crawl. She coughed lightly. “I saw a janitor in your office yesterday.”
He thought she was going to say something fluttering, but she mentioned an outsider.
“Olivia Fordham, are you suspecting that I’m having an affair with a janitor?” Fury seeped into his voice.
“What are you thinking about? I’m just curious why someone is cleaning your office during office hours. It’s an important place.”
He replied without much thought. “Stephanie lives far from here, so she clocks off early. She cleans my office early at times when I’m working.
“What’s the matter? You don’t care about Marina, but now you care about a janitor?”
“Since when did Miller Group provide such good employee welfare?”
Ethan was cutting his steak into pieces as he answered indifferently, “Stephanie is different. She saved my life before. It won’t hurt to provide her some perks.”
“When? How come I didn’t know about it?” Olivia put her cutleries down.
“Are you worried about me?” A smile adorned across his l*ps.
He continued, “It happened a few years ago. Someone had a death wish and ambushed me at the underground parking lot.
“He wanted to run into me with a car, but Stephanie saved me by pushing me out of the way.”
She frowned. “You’re quick enough to dodge that, though.”
“I was distracted at that time.”
“Why?”
Ethan stared at her face. “It was your birthday. I ordered a cake for you.”
Olivia comprehended the situation immediately. At that time, he was doting on her in every way possible.
Prior to her birthday, she kept whining about wanting a custom-made cake from Northern Bakeshop.
Its cakes had special designs made with expensive ingredients, hence its expensive price.
They were literally works of art.
It was supposed to be Crystal Crossing-neck Swans Cake, but one of the swan’s heads flopped on the cake when he brought it
to her.
She didn’t make a ruckus over it. She simply felt like it was an omen.
Ethan kept apologizing for it. A few days later, she received a Swan Castle Cake.
It took Northern Bakeshop a week to make it.
At that time, she was touched by the two crystal swans, which crossed their necks on the pond.
Yet, it turned out that he almost lost his life that day.
He must be worried that she would be disappointed about the ruined cake.
That’s why there was a chance for the bad guy to hurt him.
Olivia was touched. Even her voice sounded unnatural when she asked, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
“It’s fine ’cause I survived it.”
She slammed her hands on the table and rose from her seat.
“If you don’t plan on telling me, are you planning to tell me in my dreams after you’re dead? How many times has it been?”
He stopped cutting his steak, as he didn’t foresee such a huge reaction from her. “It’s not that frequent. It happens about ten times a year.”
It was no wonder that Ethan would get hurt sometimes.
He pulled her to her seat. “It’s in the past. I rooted the enemies out.”
Speculation flashed across her mind. It seemed like he didn’t want her to get involved in the fray, so he hid her identity back
then.
Her identity could serve as a protection for her.
However, she shrugged that off as soon as she thought of Marina.
Ethan explained, “Stephanie happened to be there after clocking off work, so she managed to save me.
“But she hurt her leg instead. She hasn’t recovered from it yet.
“I initially wanted to repay the favor by buying her a house as her retirement gift because she didn’t have a family.
“But she’s willing to continue her job as a janitor, so I let her stay.”
“I see. Ethan, there’s actually something I want to tell you.”
“Tell me.”
“Have you never thought that my father might not be the murderer behind your sister’s death?”
As soon as she finished, the harmonious mood was swept away.
He threw his cutleries on his plate and smirked. “Olivia Fordham, is this why you were trying to please me? Because you wanna know this?”
It seems Ethan only ever married Olivia to take revenge for what happened to his little sister. While Olivia is plagued by her sickness, he holds her chin and says coldly, “This is what your family owes me.” Now, she has no family and no future.
Her father becomes comatose after a car accident, leaving her with nothing to live for. Thus, she hurls herself from a building. “The life my family owes will now be repaid.” At this, Ethan, who’s usually calm, panics while begging for Olivia to come back as if he’s in a state of frenzy …
