Chapter 25: Chapter 25

CHAPTER 25: ASKED HIM A FAVOR

I went home early because I wanted to talk to my husband. As soon as I entered the house, not one of them was home. Ethan, who was always the first to come home from his business, hadn’t arrived yet. I was surprised. Well, as for my husband, I’m not surprised at all because he always comes home really late. That’s luck if he comes home early.

When I found out they weren’t there yet, I looked for an opportunity to cook for them both.

I quickly went upstairs to get dressed and when I put on my house clothes. I tied my long black hair in a ponytail, and then I hurried out of the room again. I was in the kitchen already. I opened the refrigerator and looked for food to cook tonight.

Exactly, when I open it, there was newly bought fresh fish. I thought of making it a fish soup. I also spotted cucumber, so I also thought of making a cucumber salad and many other foods.

I have prepared my ingredients to start cooking until I finished cooking. I immediately designed the cutlery on the table.

I sat in the dining chair laid both hands on the table, waiting for the siblings, but none of them had arrived yet. I looked at the clock on top of the refrigerator. It was 8:00 pm, but even Ethan wasn’t here yet. I wondered why he wasn’t here yet and was a little nervous.

I am thinking of calling Ethan, but I felt awkward; what if he gives meaning to my call? So I didn’t call.

I got up from my seat to go to the living room; maybe one of them may come home. When I got to the living room, the door opened just in time, that’s why I felt excited.

I thought it might be Ethan. I waited at the door, so we could eat and fill my stomach, but what unfolded before me was my husband, who seemed out of the mood. I didn’t say a word while staring at him.

“Why are you here at the door?” he asked me with his eyebrows furrowed.

I didn’t want him to know that I was expecting his younger brother to arrive. He might wonder and will be annoyed with me. I can’t think of a reason, so I straight away told him while smiling. “Hmm, dinner is ready. Would you mind eating with me?”

I immediately took the suitcase he was carrying. He also took off his coat, and I voluntarily took it from him.

“Thanks,” he thanked me.

I replied to him with a smile, then said, “would you mind waiting for me here? I’ll just put it in the bedroom.” I raised my hands that were holding his coat and briefcase.

He nodded to me, walked straight to the couch, and sit down while I hurried upstairs to put his belongings in our room.

When I arrived at our bedroom, I hurriedly put his coat in the laundry basket while his briefcase I placed in the closet.

Before I left the room, I first looked at my face in the mirror and retie-up my hair again, then put a little perfume on my body to smell nice. I have finished, so I left the room. As I returned to the living room, I saw my husband fall asleep on the couch. I slowly approached him to wake him up.

When I was in front of him, I couldn’t help but stare at my sleeping husband. For the first time, I got a chance to stare at him while he was sleeping. I noticed that he had long eyelashes and a heart-shaped face.

My husband is handsome, but it’s a pity that we are married, but he doesn’t love me. I suddenly felt sad again when I remembered what had happened to the two of us, so I smiled for no time while remembering what happened.

“What happened to you? Why are you smiling alone? It’s as if you’re not on yourself?” astonished my husband asked. I was embarrassed.

“Nothing,” I said to him at once stands up.

“Let’s eat,” I told him as I turned my back at him and walked away from him straight to the kitchen.

My husband stood up on the couch he was lying on and followed me into the dining room. We were both already sitting in the dining chair and started eating. He didn’t speak. I didn’t talk either. I was about to finish eating, but we still didn’t chat with each other. I decided to chat with him first.

“Hmmm, how’s work?”

He stopped eating, looked at me, and answered, “Just fine,” he continued eating. “Oh, okay,” I said.

He seemed to know that I needed something from him, so he said to me, “If you want something to tell me, do it after we ate, okay,” I nodded to him, “And by the way, the food is delicious.” He added.

I was happy with what he said, so I smiled. I hasten the meal. After we ate, Leonard got up from his seat, and he told me, “I’ll wait for you in the bedroom to discuss whatever you need of me.

“Okay,” I answered him.

He left me in the kitchen while I was busy putting away our food.

After a couple of minutes, I finished cleaning up. I hurried upstairs. Maybe Leonard might sleep again, and I can’t tell him what I need.

When I entered the room, he was already sitting in the chair on the side. His legs crossed and hands clasped with each other.

“What do you want to say?” he asked me directly.

I was still out of breath in a hurry. I relaxed first before I answered. “Hmmm, can I ask you for money? I have to pay for something.

My husband smirked at me and stood up in his seat. Then, he walked over to the walk-in closet and entered.

About a few minutes later, he came out to the closet holding a cheque and a ball pen. He sat back in the chair, laid the cheque he carried on the table, and wrote it down.

After he wrote, he handed me the cheque and said. “Is that enough?”

I took the cheque in his hand, looked at how much he had entered when my eyes widened at what I read.