Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 324

"Ivy, aren't you married? You're out eating alone with a single, unmarried man. Aren't you worried your husband will get the wrong idea?"

In reality, he had watched Ivy get into Alaric's car right outside the hospital.

So he had tailed them the whole way here.

He had just gotten caught at two red lights halfway there, delaying his arrival.

Ivy's eyes darted nervously, her fingers twisting together.

She shot a quick glance across the table at Alaric, but he remained utterly unreadable and made no move to explain.

A pang of disappointment hit her.

But knowing he still refused to make their relationship public, she quickly straightened her spine and lied to Ethan.

"I asked Alaric out. I needed to update him on Stella's medical results."

Ethan clearly wasn't buying it. "Don't you pick Stella up from Alaric's place every single day? You have plenty of chances to tell him. Why schedule a lunch date here?"

He turned his furious gaze on Alaric.

"Alaric, you explicitly told me yourself that you didn't have feelings for Ivy. Plus, you never take women out to eat. So why did you drive all the way to the hospital just to pick her up today?"

Alaric's lips pressed into a thin line, his face hardening like ice.

"Since when do my actions require a report to you, let alone your approval?"

"But Ivy is a married woman! The two of you doing this is—"

"Ethan."

Ivy cut him off, her own temper finally flaring.

"I just told you, I asked Alaric out solely to discuss Stella. Furthermore, this is none of your business. What right do you have to interrogate us?"

Ethan whipped his head back toward Ivy. Unable to keep up the charade any longer, his eyes turned red as he confessed,

"I don't believe you haven't realized how I feel about you. Do I really need to spell it out?!"

Ethan ignored her entirely. He completely missed the murderous, freezing aura radiating from his uncle as he barreled on.

"Every time I ended up in that hospital after that, it was intentional! Just so I could stay close to you and have you take care of me, I drove my damn car into a wall and almost died in it!"

"Ivy, I know your marriage is a lie. But you can't fall for Alaric. He's a full ten years older than you and has a five-year-old daughter!"

"That's enough!"

Ivy clamped her hands over her ears, refusing to hear another word. She cast a desperate, pleading look across the table at Alaric.

Alaric's face was a mask of glacial frost.

Yet he maintained his rigid composure, sitting perfectly straight, locked in total silence.

Ethan finally turned his attention back to the older man, begging,

"Alaric, you're an older man. Please don't try to steal Ivy away from me.

If you just stay away from her, I'll do whatever you say from now on. If you never get married, I'll take care of you in your old age. I swear I'll honor you like my own father."