Returning from the Dead: His Secret Lover novel Chapter 1858

"Wait for me outside.'

Bang!

Without giving Susan time to respond, Ian slammed the door shut in her face and proceeded to get dressed.

Delighted, Susan hurried downstairs to the kitchen to retrieve two eggs she had boiled earlier before waiting for him at their rendezvous point.

Not long after, the sound of the door opening prompted her to look up, only to have a handsome young man clad in a white shirt meet her gaze. Looking like he had just stepped out of the pages of a comic book, Ian descended the stairs with grace and aplomb.

"Are you all set? Let’s get going, or we won't be able to catch the minibus to the market."

Urging him, Susan beamed as she handed him the two hot eggs still in her hands.

Ian did not refuse.

The pair soon arrived at the bus stop. Due to the market that day, many villagers already stood in line.

I didn't think it would be such a long queue! Would he feel irritated?

Familiar with his aversion to crowds, Susan began to worry.

Fortunately, the villagers parted in the middle to allow the two university students to ascend the minibus when it arrived. They were still very impressed with how Ian made the farmer a third more than he would usually earn with the sale of timber.

"Have your nephew sit over here, Ms. Jadeson. It's a prime seat on this bus."

"This seat is fine too, Ms. Jadeson."

The villagers were simple, kind-hearted folk who wouldn't think twice about paying kindness shown to them forward.

Susan and Ian finally decided on a very comfortable position by the window. Although the softness in the seats was wanting, Susan did not notice any discomfort in her companion along the journey.

"Why don't you eat the eggs?" she asked after a while. "Aren't you hungry?"

"I'll have them now.”

Seated next to her without a word, Ian finally picked up an egg hesitantly as he feared the unsanitary implications of eating in public.

Not to mention it also seems awfully impolite.

Determined to make that day an exception for Susan's sake, he took the peeled egg handed by the young woman beside him.

Just then, one particularly daring villager gathered enough courage to ask the question his fellows were dying to ask. "What's the age gap between you and your nephew, Ms. Jadeson? You seem to be the same age. Do you have many older siblings?"

Upon their initial arrival, the villagers had assumed that the handsome pair of university-educated youngsters were a couple.

Only later did they discover through the Villagers' Committee that they were aunt and nephew.

"We-” Susan began.