The driver was driving the car while trying to block out his master's conversation. However, he couldn't filter out the sound of Avery's crying, which had reached his ears.
He couldn't help but glance at the rearview mirror and was surprised to see her leaning against Ethan, her tears staining his clothes.
Except for Chad, who had been with Ethan for many years, Peter had been with him even longer. In his impression, Ethan was a cold and ruthless person with a serious case of OCD. He didn't allow anyone to touch him, even if it was just shaking hands with a client. He couldn't break the habit of washing his hands afterwards.
Not to mention a woman being so close to his body, and even leaning against him.
When a woman cries, tears are inevitable, and all those tears were wiped onto his clothes. Yet, Ethan didn't push Avery away and let her act recklessly?
As Peter was thinking about this, he suddenly met rthans cold gaze through the rearview mirror. His heart rate accelerated instantly, and he quickly averted his gaze and focused on driving.
"Feeling better now?" Ethan withdrew his gaze and looked down at the girl in front of him, whose body was trembling from sobbing. He raised his hand and gently patted her shoulder.
Avery wasn't actually feeling uncomfortable, she was just too moved.
She had only known this man for less than half a month, yet he had helped and protected her in every way possible.
She knew that he only felt a sense of responsibility towards her and not the love that every girl hoped for. However, what he had done for her was enough for her to give her heart to him.
Leaving his embrace, although she tried her best to control herself, her little face was still teary and pitiful.
Seeing her like this, a slight curve appeared at the corner of Ethan's lips.
"Such a little kitten."
As he spoke, he had already wiped away the tears from her face one by one.
"I'm not a little kitten." Avery widened her eyes and looked at Ethan, her eyes shining like stars, as if there were a sea of stars living in them.
Little kitten!
Has Third Master become so intimate with Avery that they are now flirting with each other?
Peter, who couldn't help but eavesdrop, couldn't control his gossiping heart from rising.
He really wanted to turn his head and look back, to see the look on Third Master's face when he spoke so tenderly, but he thought of Third Master's cold glare just now and hesitated.
Avery went to the hospital with Gu Hansheng to visit Julian.
During this period of time, Lena knew that Ethan was very busy, so she would leave work early to prepare food for Julian.
When the two of them arrived, Julian was having dinner.
Avery took the initiative to take the bowl and chopsticks from Lena's hand and fed Julian the leftover food.
Although Julian still didn't speak, his condition was much better in front of Avery than before.
The little one would smile, and when he did, he looked a lot like Ethan, with her beautiful eyes shining black, very adorable.
Avery only knew about the similarities between Julian's eyebrows and eyes and Ethan's, but she didn't know that Julian's lip line was exactly the same as hers. Lena stood behind and looked at it casually, then looked at Ethan who was watching the two of them attentively not far away. His face was full of dignity, but his heart was full of emotion.
Before this, Lena never believed that there could be two people who looked so alike.
Now, she believed it. What surprised her even more was that the child born to Ethan also looked exactly like Avery.
Two years ago, that person left, and two years later, a girl who looked exactly like her appeared and replaced her by appearing by Ethan's side.
Perhaps this was fate.
Lena was even more worried about what kind of disaster Avery's appearance would bring to Ethan.
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Blackwood villa.
When they returned, Chad had already arranged for the eleven servants he had hired from the housekeeping company.
"Come, all of you come and meet Third Master." In the living room, the eleven servants lined up in a row. After Chad introduced Ethan and Avery to everyone, he said, "This is our Third Master, the owner of this house, and she is the Madam. When you serve by Third Master and Madam's side in the future, you must be careful."
"Yes, Sir."
The servants respectfully bowed their heads and saluted Ethan and Avery.
"Hello, Third Master, hello, Madam."
"Hello." Avery was not used to this kind of scene. "Ethan, I'll go upstairs and put things away first."
"Okay."
He watched her go upstairs until she disappeared from sight. After a dozen seconds, he withdrew his gaze and fell on the new servants.
He scanned each of them one by one. These people were dressed neatly and had clean faces, and they didn't make him feel uncomfortable.
"Alright, you all can go rest now. Work will start tomorrow, and Qin will arrange your respective positions," Ethan nodded towards Qin, who was standing beside him. "Qin, you can take them out first and tell them about the rules of the house."
"Understood, sir," Qin stepped forward and led the group out. "Follow me, everyone."
After everyone had left, before going upstairs, Ethan glanced at Chad and said, "It's getting late. You should go rest too."
Chad had been busy all day and was already very tired. He bowed to express his gratitude for the pardon from Ethan and left the living room.
Qin led the dozen or so people to the center of the courtyard outside and explained the rules of the house and the time for work and rest. Then he let everyone go back to their own rooms.
Within a three-kilometer radius of this villa area, it was all Ethan's territory.
The main house was where Ethan lived. About a kilometer away, there was a smaller villa specially prepared for the housemaids.
The maids walked in groups of two or three towards the second house, with Gray walking at the back.
A taxi stopped on the road, and Alexis, who had just returned, got out of the car. When she passed by Gray, she slowed down her pace slightly.
"Can't we do it tonight?" She whispered to Gray in a volume that only the two of them could hear.
Gray made a gesture and replied, "Don't worry, tonight won't work. We'll find the right time tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll believe you this time," said Alexis as she quickened her pace towards the main house.Soon after, she received a text message from Gray.
"Alexis, I took a risk to help you this time. Don't forget what you promised me after we succeed."
Alexis was extremely impatient when she saw this message.
She hated being spoken to in this tone, it was practically a threat.
But thinking of Ethan's half-evil and handsome face, she held back and replied to Gray's message, "I got it."
She promised Gray that after they succeeded, she would spend a night with him.
After returning to the main house, Alexis did not appear at the dining table or linger in the public area.
She went back to her own guest room, locked the door, and carefully planned the next steps.
In the afternoon, her father called and asked her to bring Avery back to the Wells family as soon as possible.
Alexis didn't care because, compared to bringing the Avery back to the family, separating her sister and Ethan was the most important thing to her.
After a while, the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs from the direction of the staircase could be heard.
Alexis looked at the time, it was already eleven o'clock at night. Was Ethan planning to return to the master bedroom and stay with her sister ?
That was not acceptable!
Thinking of this, Alexis quickly went barefoot out of the guest room and tiptoed towards the master bedroom.