Oh Please, My Ex-wife novel Chapter 144

In the evening, Edward does not come back. Alice goes out the room after the children fall asleep. What an empty living room! She hesitates, and finally enters a string of numbers in her phone.

Memory is a strange thing. She believes she have forgotten the number, however, when she thinks of it, it just pops up.

As she presses the CALL button, her hand wets a little bit with an unconscious tense.

It gets through quite soon. "Alice?" The voice coming from the other end of the line seems unreal.

She pauses, then answers quietly: "Yes. I'd like to talk to you."

The other end is silent. Alice wonders if he feels surprise or he does not hear it. When she is about to speak again, a deep male voice comes over the phone, "What about tomorrow?"

"Ok." Alice nods. When she is about to hang up, the voice speaks again, "Wait."

Her hand stops there with the phone still beside the ear.

However, the silent remains as the time passes. It seems that the word "wait" is an illusion as Edward speaks nothing after that. Alice frowns and says, "Let's talk tomorrow. It is getting late now. Have an early rest tonight."

There is no respond. Alice hangs up the phone.

Alice goes upstairs to see her two little kids. They are sleeping soundly; she covers them with the quilt and kisses their foreheads. Then she walks to the next room and goes to bed.

It is mid-night when a helicopter lands in the island. A travel-stained man shows up at the door of the villa. No one is expecting this. He gives a sign to his servants and bodyguards to stop saying anything but step out.

He goes up to the second floor and enters the room for the two kids.

Edward's heart is softened as he sees their innocence and tranquil faces. "How nice that they are babies of Alice and me," he thinks.

However, he does not come back in the mid-night for the children, but for their mother, Alice.

He walks lightly so as not to wake her up. As he enters the room, he sees her sleeping quietly like an angle under the yellowish light. He can't move his eyes.

He is jealous of that two children at a moment as they gain 100% love from Alice. While for him…He loses it due to the mistake he made five years ago.

How can he win back her love again?

He is eager for the answer.

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In the next morning, the sunlight goes through the dark purple curtain and pours over the person in the bed. Alice awakes and rubs her eyes slightly with a gentle yawn. As she opens her eyes, the other pair of black eyes are staring at her, so focusing and untiring.

She stuns. The warm sunlight shines on his angled face. He looks so handsome but also has a sense of unspeakable loneliness, like a prince living in the dark. Her heart aches a little.

"You…why are you here?" He told her over the phone last night that he would come back today, so she assumes he's busy and may be back until the afternoon.

Edward smiles leisurely, "Because you asked."

His tone is so casual and careless, as if he would abandon all important things and come to her immediately just because she wants to see him. It is all because of her.