Ethan felt a lot better after he talked with Iris. He didn’t have any idea why, but her presence was very calming and even when she didn’t say anything, the fact that she listened to him without judging him was enough for him.
Was it because she was going to be a mother, thus her presence became very comforting?
"Fine, I will talk with her. I don’t think I will be able to avoid her for long." Ethan stood up from the chair and then glanced at her stomach. "Can I?" he raised his hand with a grin.
"The baby is sleeping." Iris knew what Ethan meant, he wanted to feel the baby’s movement. The last time, he was ecstatic when he was allowed to feel the baby.
"What a pity..." Ethan sighed, but his eyes lit up again. "We are going to meet with the baby around two months from now, right? Do you have any idea is the baby boy or girl?"
Iris chuckled. "I don’t know."
And after that, they conversed about the baby briefly before Ethan walked out of the room and informed Lou that he could go inside and meet with Iris.
"Iris said she wanted to meet with him." Ethan held Aliana back when she wanted to go inside too. "Let’s them talk alone."
Aliana raised her brows when she heard this, but she crossed her arms stubbornly. "I don’t understand with you, Ethan. Why are you acting like this? Why are you taking his side now?"
Eron and Dyne looked at each other. The other warriors felt like this situation was rather confusing. They didn’t think Lou fell into category of dangerous, but he obviously fell into annoying category. Yet, Ethan and Lou had never seen something eye to eye, but now the gamma took his side.
"Because he saved your life," Ethan replied with a sigh.
"Right! I saved your life, at least, showed some respect to your savior!" Lou chimed in, but Ethan glared at him to not provoke Aliana.
"How could he save my life?" Aliana frowned at Lou and then looked at Ethan. "Why are you acting so weird? Stop avoiding me, I don’t understand with your attitude recently. If you have a problem talk to me."
Ethan stared at Aliana as she rambled about how he ignored her. Was she really dense? Or she just pretended she didn’t know the obvious reason? Ethan had enough.
Amidst Aliana complained, he leaned over and captured her lips. The kiss lasted for less than two seconds, it could be barely called as a kiss, but all of them gasped and froze, as if the winter became even colder and they didn’t know how to react with what they were seeing.
"Stop talking like you don’t understand. You know how I feel, Aliana."
That was the only thing that Ethan said before he strode away, leaving them flabbergasted, especially Aliana. She didn’t even react at all when Lou sneaked into the room and met with Iris, while the other five warriors felt the atmosphere became very awkward. They couldn’t leave, but they didn’t know what to do if they stayed.
Ugh! Why would Ethan act very impulsive like that?!
"Iris!" Lou wailed once he was inside the room and saw Iris was eating her meal. "Can you believe it? I just tainted my eyes! That gamma tainted my innocent eyes!"
"There is nothing about you is innocent, Lou."
Lou clicked his tongue. "Do you know that the crazy gamma was kissing that crazy woman a moment ago?"
Iris’s eyes lit up. "Really?!"
Seeing that, Lou was speechless, he then looked at Ezra, who was holding Lil Thing and decided to drop the topic about Ethan.
"It seems, you have gotten what you wanted." Lou nodded at Ezra. "Diamond from white diamond tiger has great quality. The more he is in pain, the better the quality of the diamond."
Hearing that, Ezra scurried away to the bathroom with the sleeping Lil Thing.
"Lou!" Iris glared at him. "If that’s all you wanted to say, you can leave!"
Lou raised both of his hands. "I only wanted to break the ice!"
This merchant surely had a weird way to break the ice.
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