Oh Please, My Ex-wife novel Chapter 89

"It's nothing," Alice replies plainly.

A deep frown forms between Edward's prominent brows as he hears what she says, he takes a step forward and closes the distance between them. She wants to take a step back but his hand is already touching her face, caressing the wound on her right cheek.

As if he is testing how bad the wound is, he presses against the wound slightly, and she grimaces in pain.

"You call this nothing?" The man sounds a bit unhappy.

Alice isn't saying anything, Edward's face darkens, it's only been a few days and she already gets herself in this much trouble. He initially wants to play hard to get and just neglects her for a bit, just so that she realizes how important she is to him.

At the same time, he is also throwing a tantrum, because lately, she doesn't take much notice of him.

But in the end, she doesn't really care about him even if he leaves her alone.

He is getting angrier just thinking about it.

Yet looking at her all wounded, the anger he feels turns into sympathy.

"Who did this?" His velvet-smooth voice sends shivers down everybody's spines, all of them immediately know that he is crossed and they are done for.

"It was me, so what, Edward. What are you going to do about it, are you going to hit me back?" Edna is annoyed that Edward's attention is all over Alice the moment he gets here.

She is also very offended. Her wonderful daughter is way better than Alice in every way, but for some reason, Edward likes that wench instead.

Edward turns around and looks at Edna and Joanna for the first time as if he just notices that they are there.

Joanna is feeling wronged as Edward ignores her as he walks past just now, but the moment he looks over, she immediately puts on an act, acting all pitiful while saying, "Edward, she started it. Look at us, we are in a much worse state than her."

Edward squints his eyes, Joanna and Edna are indeed more wounded than Alice.

It can only mean that Alice is good at protecting herself, not letting people take advantage of her.

Fernando tries to smooth the matter over, after all the brawl takes place at his art exhibition. The people standing here are VIPs, one a business tycoon that nobody dares to mess with, the other two are someone related to the mayor.

'Mr. Smith, let's each one step backwards, this is just a misunderstanding."

"A misunderstanding?" Edward replies bleakly. Fernando has nothing to say, he glances at Alice trying to ask her to help him resolve the matter and convince Edward to not pursue the matter any further.

He has inkling that if anything happens to Alice today, Edward is going to go against the person even if the person is related to the mayor.

Joanna's face grows pale seeing that Edward ignores her completely, and flushes red out of frustration knowing that Edward is defending Alice. She hates Alice even more now.

"Is it painful?"

Edward's eyes are set on Alice even though there are other people there, the way he is caressing Alice's cheek makes her heart beats faster, "It's not painful at all."

"Really?"

Alice is quiet again, Edward continues asking, "Should I help you settle the score?"

"This is none of your business."

The atmosphere immediately frozen over, there is a flash of anger in Edward's eyes, does she want to cut ties with him so badly?

"Is this what you wish for?"

"Thank you for your help, but I wasn't taken advantage of." She is grateful that he offers to help her, but she doesn't want their relationship to become like what it is before, she is relying on him too much.

Once bitten, twice shy.

She has more things to worry about now and needs to be stronger to protect the people around her. She cannot go all length and love him the way she does before.