No Renewal My Contract Husband (Nella and Alfred) novel Chapter 34

Chapter 34 A Missed Promise

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After a simple dinner, she took a walk on the large lawn outside the surgery building.

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Along the way, she ran into a few familiar patients, slowly walking with help from their families.

She chatted with them for a bit and reminded them of a few precautions. Before she knew it, more than an hour had passed.

When she stepped out of the elevator and turned the corner, she saw a familiar figure leaning against the wall outside her office.

His head was lowered, as if lost in thought.

Nella paused for a few seconds, then walked over.

Hearing her footsteps, Alfred looked up and met her questioning gaze.

“Why are you here?”

Nella walked up, unlocked her office, and went inside.

Alfred followed her in with a cold expression. His deep eyes stayed on her face as he asked in a low voice,

“Why didn’t you answer your phone?”

Nella glanced at him in surprise. She was honestly puzzled about why Alfred was here at all.

Hadn’t he gone to take Zoey home?

“I called you several times and waited here for an hour,” Alfred said. There was a faint trace of grievance in his tone.

“Oh?” Nella looked even more confused. “Did you need something urgently?”

She asked casually, then took her phone out of the drawer where she had left it.

“Sorry. I didn’t have my phone on me.”

Hearing her distant, offhand apology, Alfred suddenly fell silent.

He studied her face without a word. The anger and frustration he had built up over the past hour were abruptly blocked by her indifferent attitude.

After a long moment, he spoke in a low voice, “Didn’t I tell you at noon that we’d have dinner

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together tonight?”

Nella fell silent.

She had forgotten.

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Or rather, after too many times of taking Alfred’s words seriously, only to be stood up again because of Zoey, she had stopped believing him.

So when Alfred mentioned dinner at noon, she had agreed casually without thinking much of it, and naturally didn’t remember it later.

Yet she hadn’t taken it seriously, while Alfred had.

Now the situation was awkward.

Watching her expression, Alfred unusually understood what it meant.

The anger he was holding pressed against his chest, unable to rise or fall. He asked coldly, “Have you eaten?”

Nella paused, then nodded.

“So you forgot our plan,” Alfred said, his voice turning even colder.

Nella didn’t want to admit it.

So she explained instead.

“I thought you’d have dinner with Ms. Mack and changed your plans. So I ate first.”

After all, standing her up was something he had done more than once.

If she had remembered and waited, only to be ditched again, she would have gone hungry for nothing.

She heard Alfred let out a long breath, as if forcing the anger in his chest back down.

“If I agreed to eat with you, how could I break that promise?” he said.

When Alfred finished speaking, he met Nella’s unreadable gaze,

There was a hint of unspoken irony in her eyes.

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