Obedience No More He's the One I Deserved novel Chapter 400

Chapter 400 So You’re Really Over Him?

Chapter 400 So You’re Really Over Him?

Moments like this warmed her heart without her even noticing.

“Mommy.”

Benjamin grinned. “I washed my hands.”

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That innocent little voice snapped her back to reality. Dawn gasped, sounding apologetic. “Sorry, Mr. Jackson. I’m just used to setting the table for the three of us. I forgot you were here. I’ll get another set of utensils right away!”

Ethan froze for a second, feeling like someone had just driven a sharp blade straight into his already heavy chest.

For Ethan, the whole meal was pure agony.

Three people sat across from him, looking every bit like a real family: a serious man, a gentle woman, and a lively, adorable child.

Dawn kept putting food on Benjamin’s plate, always smiling as she encouraged him to compliment Aidan’s cooking.

“Isn’t Daddy’s cooking amazing?”

“Yes!”

“So what should Benjamin say to Daddy?”

“Umm…

Benjamin tilted his head back, and all sorts of new words rushed through his mind. “Aidan, your cooking is really great. I love it!”

Ethan’s shoulders jerked, and his heart seized up

That kind of address and that way of talking were clearly not something Benjamin would come up with on his own.

Which meant… she was used to addressing the man this way.

Dawn, catching sight of the man’s cold face from the corner of her eye, pretended not to see. She gave Benjamin’s head an encouraging pat. “Good job, but you can’t call him Aidan. I’m the only one who gets to call him that.”

Benjamin wasn’t happy. “Hmph, but I want to!”

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“Careful, he might beat you up!”

“It’s fine. Mommy will protect me anyway. Momny, don’t you care about your baby anymore?”

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The two of them bickered away, acting like no one else was there. Aidan still didn’t say a word, just kept quietly filling their plates with food, attentive as ever.

That scene hit Ethan harder than anything else could have.

After what felt like an eternity, he finally managed to get through the meal. Aidan cleared the dishes and headed to the kitchen. Dawn stood behind the couch, dropping hints for Ethan to leave.

“Dinner’s over, and it’s getting late. Mr. Jackson, shouldn’t you get going and rest?”

Ethan’s gaze was piercing as he said, “Ms. West, aren’t you going to see me out?”

“You mean to the door or all the way home?”

“Which one do you prefer?”

With just a few words, he tossed the question back at her.

Dawn looked at his striking face. The distance between them was neither too close nor too far. She could practically smell his cologne in the air.

His eyes were as black as a pool, and she felt like she could get lost in them with just one glance.

Her gaze flickered, and she pretended to be calm. “It’s too late for that. Taking you home wouldn’t be convenient. If you really don’t know the way back home, you can always use GPS for navigation.”

Ethan drummed his fingers on the table, acting as if he didn’t care. “You’re not leaving?”

“That’s right.”

There was no telling if Dawn meant it or not. “This is my home, too. Where else would I go?”

He let out a cold, quiet laugh and stood up.

Dawn wore flats, which left her clearly shorter than him. She had to tip her head up to meet his eyes.

His dark eyes bore into her, and he spoke every word slowly. “Ms. Porter, these past three years were a lot more eventful than I’d imagined”

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With that, he strode off without a backward glance.

Dawn stared at his back, not blinking for a long me.

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She had no idea how long she stood there before someone suddenly blocked the light beside

her.

Aidan’s low voice sounded beside her. “He’s gone, but you can’t let go?”

Dawn quietly pulled her gaze back, walked around the couch, and sat where Ethan had been. “He’s just a man. There’s nothing I can’t let go of

“So you’re really over him?”

“Of course.”

“Then why’d you come back?”

The moment he asked that question, the room went silent.

Aidan stood by the side of the couch. From that angle, all he could see was her delicate jawline, with her dark curls cascading down over her shoulders, hiding most of her face.

After a few seconds, she turned to him.

“You don’t have to keep testing me with these questions. How’s the thing that I asked you to look into?”

If it were anyone else, Aidan would never accept such a blunt change of subject.

But this woman wasn’t just anyone.

He studied her for two seconds, then turned to a nearby cabinet.

He opened a drawer and took out a stack of

He then handed them to Dawn.

papers.

“Roxanne may be an orphan, but most orphans have some sort of history. She has none. Your father scrubbed her past clean–this is all I could find.

“She arrived at the Wests when she was eight. Vincent sponsored six kids in all, but she was the only one he kept close. She got the best of everything–upbringing, education, you name it.”

He spoke while Dawn leafed through the papers “So, is this why Roxanne respects Vincent so much?”

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No, it wasn’t respect.

It was fear.

Whenever Vincent said something, Roxanne would obey, even if she hated it.

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