Way Back Into Love (Essie) novel Chapter 70

Not only was Sunny a bad character, she was also a lamentably poor gambler.

Noting her silence, Hanson concluded that Essie remained worried, so he quickly said to reassure her, "I will warn people around me not to breathe a word. Sunny will not know anything further." He was still in no position to sever his ties with Sunny, so he could only hide the truth from her in the meantime. However, the feeling of hiding something from her was not a comfortable one. He felt like a rat burrowing in the ground to hide.

"Hanson," Essie said quietly. She lowered her head and unconsciously waved her fingers toward the bed. "Where there's smoke, there's fire. If we kept meeting so often, Sunny and her family would inevitably find out and be suspicious of you. Your father will definitely be unhappy once he hears about it. I think you should focus on Bella. I can't stay here for too long."

He frowned sadly and said, "What's the point of acquiring Bella if I lost you?"

She raised her eyes, which were shimmering faintly with unshed tears, to meet his gaze and a gentle smile lifted up the corners of her mouth. "I won't run away."

"Zac will take you away." His breathing became labored, and his face took on an stressed, apprehensive look.

She kept silent and looked out the window at the clouds in the sky. A dark specter seemed to hover, appearing to tell her a message. Her glance snapped back to Hanson, as if to escape. She blinked her eyes and turned her head. "I'm not dating him. He's just my... Zac's just my roommate." Her voice sounded gloomy and weak. She felt that she should explain to Hanson her marriage registration with Zac, but she bit the words back after some struggle with herself. Besides, it would take a lot of her energy to tell Hanson the whole story.

Starlight seemed to fly into Hanson's eyes, brightening his whole face. "Really?"

"Yes." She nodded and forced a faint smile, but it appeared cold and sad. "He has a girlfriend and they grew up together. So that's good." Zac was so kind that he would forgive anyone, even an unwanted troublemaker who got between him and his girlfriend.

In a stark contrast to her glum expression, Hanson was practically glowing. Flashing a bright smile her way, he said warmly, "You should have told me earlier. You have no idea how worried I was. I couldn't eat or sleep properly for days."

She swallowed and pushed back all of the inexplicable, tender emotions threatening to surface. She stood up and poured him a bowl of bone soup. "Do you think you can eat well now?"