Chapter 357 Ethan confesses he had a first love
"Evelina, you weren't like this before, what's wrong today? Just because I didn't tell you the truth? I was afraid... afraid that you would be upset if you heard that I met Karen, I don't want to make you upset." Alex held Evelina. "You are the only one in my heart, you are the most important person to me."
She found it grating, didn't want to listen.
"Go to sleep." She smiled at Alex, as if nothing had happened.
He sighed in relief. "I know I was wrong, let's sleep first, I will make it up to you."
She didn't say anything.
She had been with him for over twenty years, never had a child of her own, devoted herself entirely to him.
But on the matter of Karen, she was truly hurt.
For a moment, Evelina wondered, what had she sacrificed so much for? Just for this man?
She'd been his rock for over twenty years, backing his business endeavors, offering support and company. Seeing his success now was proof enough of her love for him.
If there were a rift in her heart, perhaps it was time to consider cooling off.
"Alex, have you ever thought about having your own child?" she asked.
He held her tightly. "Don't overthink it."
"I know you owe Karen a debt." She actually understood everything.
In the past, when she was young, she thought she didn't care, after all, Karen was his past.
But some hurdles, one could never get over in a lifetime.
"Karen was pregnant with your child, forced by the Stevens family to have an abortion, right?" Karen and Alex's secret affair was discovered by the Stevens family, also because of the Stevens family servant discovering Karen's pregnancy.
Karen even considered eloping with him.
But they failed in confronting the family's power at that time.
He was tortured badly by Karen's father and grandfather, driven out of Silverlight City.
Karen was forced to have an abortion and married Benjamin.
"After Karen married Benjamin, she didn't live well, you secretly supported the Wilson Family many times, do you think I don't know, right?" Alex’s fingers holding her hand felt numb.
"After acting out love for someone for so long, the mask becomes hard to take off." She felt like laughing.
They were the model couple known throughout the business circle.
They were very affectionate.
"Because of you, Benjamin isn't good to Karen, he has many women outside, even had an affair with the maid in their house without Karen's knowledge, these things caused quite a stir back then, it was the true or false heiress case of the Wilson Residence." She actually knew everything.
She just didn't say it.
"Evelina, trust me." He didn't know how to explain.
He thought, ‘Do women always mind a man's past?’
‘But to me, those were all in the past.’
"Go to sleep," she whispered.
He fell asleep, but she couldn't.
She thought, ’Am I really narrow-minded? How would other women think if they were in my shoes?’
’If I make a fuss with Alex over a crush from over twenty years ago, outsiders would surely think I am immature, spoiled by Alex.’
’But only I know the true feelings in my heart.’
The only person who had made her feel troubled all these years was Karen.
Pushing his hand away, she got up from the bed and walked to the bedroom.
She opened a bottle of wine, poured it into a decanter, thought for a long time, and finally messaged Jasmine.
Mrs. Everhart: [Tomorrow, Alex will make an exception to invest in both of your projects, don't be stubborn, if he's willing to invest, you should accept it.]
Jasmine: [Mrs. Everhart, go look at the stars in the yard, the night sky is beautiful.]
She knew Mrs. Everhart must be unhappy.
But when it came to matters of the feelings, she wasn't suited to say much.
Mrs. Everhart sighed helplessly, Jasmine was really thoughtful, she really got along well with Jasmine.
With a glass of wine in hand, she walked out of the living room and sat on a lounge chair in the yard, gazing at the night sky.
Jasmine sent another message.
She took a photo of the starry sky.
Jasmine: [Mrs. Everhart, the universe is vast, each star is so insignificant, yet each star has its own light, independent and beautiful.]
The universe was so vast, but in the vast cosmos, she was just a speck of dust.
Humans themselves were but dust in the vastness of the universe.
Thinking too much about certain things only made her feel troubled.
Mrs. Everhart: [Did Ethan have a crush before?]
Mrs. Everhart opened up to a young girl she wasn't very familiar with for the first time.
Hotel.
Jasmine sat on the balcony, looking at the stars and asked Ethan, "Did you have a crush before?"
He nodded. "Yes."
She was a little unhappy. "Oh."
"I used to have a crush on a girl, but I didn't realize it." He opened up for the first time about his past.
"She was standing on stage, dancing solo, the spotlight was on her, which was the first time I was deeply attracted to the opposite sex." He thought no woman could truly captivate him.
But in reality, she had already captured his heart long ago, he just didn't realize it, he chose to ignore it.
"That year's ballet solo in Silverlight City caused a sensation, she was called Jasmine, bright and beautiful, confident and poised, every pore of hers radiated light." He glanced at Jasmine. "My first crush, made Mitchell and Connor inquire about you for me."
"But that night, we met again, at the Douglas family's first meeting, do you remember?" he asked jealously.
He was captivated by her on stage, but when he returned home, he found out that this woman was the girlfriend of his least favorite younger brother!
"I remember that meeting, you seemed to not like me very much." She remembered saying hello to him, and he coldly turned and left.
Ethan felt angry when he thought about it. "At that time, I thought, your taste must be terrible, to actually like Daniel."
At that time, he had a biased impression of her.
He thought, ’How could a good girl like someone like Daniel?’
Soon, he completely suppressed the astonishment in his heart.
But now looking back, he wished he could go back in time, give himself a slap, and then do everything to snatch his wife from Daniel.
He would snatch her even if he had to!
She chuckled and messaged Mrs. Everhart.
Jasmine: [He said his first crush was me.]
Mrs. Everhart: [That's good, a first crush is a mark that men can never erase from their hearts, if you don't mind, it's fine, but if you do, it can really become a thorn that makes you very uncomfortable.]
Jasmine: [Love can overcome everything.]
Jasmine felt that if you truly love someone, it can overcome everything, including so-called first crushes.
If there was still a first crush in your heart, it simply meant you didn't love enough.
"Ethan, you used to like me, right?" she leaned on his shoulder. "So when you went to the wrong room in the hotel that day, was it planned?"
His back tensed, he quickly swore. "Darling, I swear, that day I was truly unconscious."
That incident wasn't calculated by him.
But if given a second chance, who knows.
Even if it were calculated, he would still choose to make love to her that day.
Then he would keep her by his side, protect her carefully.
Let her do as she pleased.
Let her always be proud.
He wouldn't let her be hurt.
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