A Moment in Destiny novel Chapter 601

Elijah let go of her just when the elevator door opened, but before Esther could barely stand, he picked her up and ran straight to his car.

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t come here anymore, Esther,” Elijah said in a deep voice.

“Why?”

“She’ll be fully recovered soon, and you no longer owe her so there’s no need to keep coming.”

“But she likes you!” Esther’s voice couldn’t help but to go dreary. “Did anything happen between you two?”

Elijah raised an eyebrow, “What do you think should happen between us?”

What was going through her head?

“Okay, I believe you!” Esther nodded her head with sudden excitement, “And nothing can happen between you and her in the future! Also, you are not allowed to like her, it can only be me!”

“Of course I only like you!” A gentle smile suffused Elijah’s lips, softening his steely features. The sun’s light cast in through the front windshield and shined on his handsome face, as bright and handsome as a God.

“Keep your word!”

“Esther, married couples have to trust each other. Am I so unworthy of your trust?” Elijah’s tone sounded hurt. He stopped the car by the side of the road suddenly and turned his head to look at her.

“Why did you stop?” Esther glared at him.

Elijah met with Esther’s clear eyes and in a sudden, his tightly pursed thin lips slightly rose into a nice bewitching arc. A faint smile that could barely be found appeared on his stiffened face, “I want to know what you are thinking in your heart.”

“My heart?” Esther was dumbfounded, “What’s there about my heart?”

“Do you love me?” Elijah asked.

“Elijah Perry?!” Esther was stunned for a moment—Did she love him?

That moment of silence made Elijah laugh at himself. After all, she didn’t love him more than he loved her somehow. Ultimately, he was the most frightened one and the one that was most afraid of losing.

Elijah placed his hand on the steering wheel and was prepared to drive.

“Elijah!” Esther’s mind was in momentary confusion. She quickly grabbed Elijah’s cold hard hand when he was about to step on the gas pedal, stopping his movement. Esther wrinkled her eyebrows and asked, “Do you love me then?”

A deep low sigh sounded in the car. Elijah looked up and gently picked up her loose hair, a self-deprecating smile spread across his handsome face, “I asked you first.”

Esther’s eyebrows which were already furrowed together wrinkled even deeper. She looked at Elijah who was talking, her thoughts flying around, “I like you!”

She didn’t know if that was love, but she liked him. Watching Elijah being gentle with other women made her sad and her heart ached. Was that love?

But for a long time in her life, the person she loved was Hudson. Although her heart was racing fast and there was that feeling of dizziness when she looked at Elijah but was that love?

Could a person love two people in a lifetime? Or did she become promiscuous?

“You didn’t have true feelings for me ultimately.” Elijah lightly smiled and shook his head, his face flashed a trace of helplessness. Elijah faded away from his usual coldness and locked his gaze quietly at Esther, he faintly murmured, “I lost.”

Elijah sneered and his deep gaze flashed a trace of gentleness and bitterness. Looking at his bitter smile, Esther’s heart jerked and arched slightly. She didn’t want to see his expression like that.

“Elijah, I…” Esther wanted to say something, but she didn’t know what to say.

“I understand.” Elijah smiled bitterly again, somewhat helplessly.

Yet seeing his helpless smile, Esther panicked, “You? Then do you love me?”

Elijah looked sideways and answered her with his lingering deep kiss.

Until she was released by him, panting, and until he drove away, Esther still didn’t understand what his answer meant. He loved her or not? What could a kiss mean?

“Let’s move back to the villa, Esther.” Elijah said all of a sudden after a long moment of silence, “Let’s go back and stay at the villa.”

“Why?” Esther wondered.

“You don’t want to?”

“It feels a bit empty in a house that’s too big.” Esther was afraid of being lonely, being alone and no one to accompany her.

“Mrs. Carr is at the villa,” Elijah said.

“Let’s talk about it later.” Esther shook her head.

When Kattie was discharged from the hospital on Saturday, Esther finally knew why Elijah insisted on moving back to the villa. It turned out that the person who lived across from their apartment was Kattie.

It turned out that they had always been neighbors.

Esther knew about this on the day she went to personally pick up Kattie from the hospital with her driver.