Way Back Into Love (Essie)

Chapter 70 An Inconvenient Burden

Not only was Sunny a bad character, she was also a lamentably poor gambler.

Noting her silence, Hanson concluded that Essie remained worried, so he quickly said to reassure her,

"I will warn people around me not to breathe a word. Sunny will not know anything further." He was still

in no position to sever his ties with Sunny, so he could only hide the truth from her in the meantime.

However, the feeling of hiding something from her was not a comfortable one. He felt like a rat

burrowing in the ground to hide.

"Hanson," Essie said quietly. She lowered her head and unconsciously waved her fingers toward the Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

bed. "Where there's smoke, there's fire. If we kept meeting so often, Sunny and her family would

inevitably find out and be suspicious of you. Your father will definitely be unhappy once he hears about

it. I think you should focus on Bella. I can't stay here for too long."

He frowned sadly and said, "What's the point of acquiring Bella if I lost you?"

She raised her eyes, which were shimmering faintly with unshed tears, to meet his gaze and a gentle

smile lifted up the corners of her mouth. "I won't run away."

"Zac will take you away." His breathing became labored, and his face took on an stressed,

apprehensive look.

She kept silent and looked out the window at the clouds in the sky. A dark specter seemed to hover,

appearing to tell her a message. Her glance snapped back to Hanson, as if to escape. She blinked her

eyes and turned her head. "I'm not dating him. He's just my... Zac's just my roommate." Her voice

sounded gloomy and weak. She felt that she should explain to Hanson her marriage registration with

Zac, but she bit the words back after some struggle with herself. Besides, it would take a lot of her

energy to tell Hanson the whole story.

Starlight seemed to fly into Hanson's eyes, brightening his whole face. "Really?"

"Yes." She nodded and forced a faint smile, but it appeared cold and sad. "He has a girlfriend and they

grew up together. So that's good." Zac was so kind that he would forgive anyone, even an unwanted

troublemaker who got between him and his girlfriend.

In a stark contrast to her glum expression, Hanson was practically glowing. Flashing a bright smile her

way, he said warmly, "You should have told me earlier. You have no idea how worried I was. I couldn't

eat or sleep properly for days."

She swallowed and pushed back all of the inexplicable, tender emotions threatening to surface. She

stood up and poured him a bowl of bone soup. "Do you think you can eat well now?"

"I'd be happy to have soup every day." His gentle voice comforted her.

She pressed a hand on the bed and leaned over to offer the soup to him. He took a sip and sighed

contentedly and happily. "The person who gets to marry you must be the happiest man in the world,

and that man can be no one else but me,"

he said tenderly. His charming smile was as bright as the sun, gently sweeping away the haze in her

heart.

She didn't lose anything. The man she had loved and worshiped for five years was beside her. His

heart belonged only to her... if only she could say the same for herself.

After Hanson finished his soup, Essie peeled an orange for him.

He crossed his arms in front of his chest and smiled playfully. "Feed me!"

She was slightly stunned by his behavior, and her cheeks flamed with a blush. "Your hand's not even

hurt!" she mumbled shyly.

"My hands are weak after eating the soup." He was acting like a spoiled child.

She pouted and glanced at him. Then, she took a piece of orange and held it in front of his mouth.

A low cough came from the door, interrupting the sweet atmosphere inside the room.

Essie turned her head, and her eyes met the newcomer's sharp-eyed stare. Immediately, she jumped

up from the chair beside the bed like being stung by a needle.