Chapter97

As Harriet quietly went about her own business, Ellsworth suddenly picked up his phone, opened a WhatsApp chat, andzily said, “Grandma, do you know what time it is? If you keep sending me those things, I’m going to block you.”

Hearing Ellsworth’s voice message, Harriet thought of the short dramas and videos Tamera shared and couldn’t help but stifle a

Ellsworth noticed herughing.

Looking at Harriet, Ellsworth said with a straight face, “Very funny, huh? You think it’s amusing?”

At this point, Ellsworth could guess with his toes that it was

probably Harriet and Kathie who taught Tamera.

Seeing this, Harriet immediatelyposed herself and shook

her head. “No.”

Ellsworth beckoned to her, “Come here.”

Thinking Ellsworth had something serious to discuss, Harriet put down her towel and walked over.

But as soon as she got close, Ellsworth pulled her by the arm

and made her sit on hisp.

Startled, Harriet was about to get up when Ellsworth pointed at theputer and said, “Weren’t you in charge of these projects

before?”

Hearing his question, Harriet turned to look at theputer.

After ncing at the files, she said, “Yes, I was in charge. Is

there a problem?”

With one arm around her waist and the other on the mouse,

Ellsworth said gently, “You did a great job managing these.

projects. I regret letting you go.”

Harriet didn’t know how to respond to that.

She softly reminded him, “I’ll just get a chair and sit next to you.”

Ellsworth kept his eyes on theputer and said unhurriedly,

“Do you really think I don’t feel bad? That I don’t care? You won’t

even let me hold you?”

“…” Looking at Ellsworth, Harriet was left speechless.

She realized that Ellsworth could be quite good at acting

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spoiled and taking advantage of situations.

Noticing Harriet staring at him, Ellsworth looked back at her.

Their eyes met. Seeing that Ellsworth didn’t think holding her was inappropriate, Harriet looked into his eyes and said, “So, do

I have tofort you in bedter too?”

It was rare for Harriet to joke like this, and Ellsworth burst out

happy.”

“Heh.” She gave him a mock smile and said, “Keep dreaming.”

Just as Harriet was about to remove his hand from her waist,

Ellsworth’s phone rang.

Ellsworth turned to look at his phone, and Harriet instinctively

nced over as well.

Kelsey.

Kelsey’s name was disyed on the screen.

In an instant, the smile vanished from Ellsworth’s face, and he

loosened his grip on Harriet’s waist.

Harriet looked back at Ellsworth, and he said, “I need to take

this call.”

Hearing this, Harriet sensibly got up from hisp, quietly walked away from the desk, picked up her own phone by the bedside table, and pretended nothing had happened-pretending she hadn’t been held, hadn’t sat in hisp, hadn’t seen Kelsey’s

name on the caller ID.

By then, Ellsworth had already walked to the floor-to-ceiling

window and answered the call.

“I’m already back in Auburn Heights.”

“It’s fine, nothing serious. Don’t worry.”

“Alright, let’s talk more when we meet tomorrow.”

The conversation was quite normal, and Ellsworth didn’t avoid

Harriet while taking the call.

But after the call, the earlier atmosphere was gone. When

Ellsworth turned around, the smile from before had disappeared

from his face.

When their eyes met, Harriet, trying to hide that she minded the call, gently reminded him, “It’s gettingte. Don’t work toote.”

In fact, she really didn’t mind.

“Mm.” Ellsworth responded nonchntly, then added, “You go rest first. I’ll be done soon.”

“Okay.” Responding to Ellsworth, Harriet made the bed and

went to rest first.

***

The next day at noon.

While eating lunch and scrolling through her phone in the office, Harriet suddenly found herself trending again.

Ellsworth picks up Harriet after work.

Ellsworth and Harriet return to the Townsend’s mansion

together.

Their rtionship is unchanged, still very loving.

Harriet holds 10% of the Townsend Group shares.

Harriet clicked on these trending topics, only to see a flood of

photos of her and Ellsworth-him picking her up after work, the two of them returning to and leaving the Townsend’s mansion-

all candid shots.

She flipped through the photos and the nearly identical reports, her spoon paused at her lips, finding it both funny and helpless.

So… this was what Ellsworth meant by picking her up yesterday. But it wasn’t surprising; this was how things had always been

handled before.

What she hadn’t expected was that Ellsworth’s acting was so good-he almost fooled her yesterday.

He made her believe that everything he did yesterday was real.

Exiting the gossip trending topics, Harriet felt little emotional

fluctuation. As she put another bite of food in her mouth, she opened her stock app.