Chapter 410


    I shut my eyes, the heart that had been suspended in mid-air because I couldn''t reach him finallynded.


    "What about you? Where are you?" I countered.


    "At the doorstep."


    Hearing that, I could almost see him standing there in the empty house.


    I had moved away, unable to reach him, so he didn''t know and had gone there again.


    "Your phone was off; I checked with Susie, she said you went home. Fanny had surgery again, couldn''t get a hold of you," Ernest offered an exnation.


    I took a deep breath, slowly opened my eyes, and looked around my new ce, "I couldn''t reach you either."


    "I know," his reply made me give a wry smile.


    But before I could ask why I couldn''t reach him, he added, "Did you move, Licia?"


    I had moved.


    Ernest didn''t know about this new ce. He had mentioned renting a ce earlier, wanting me to move in with him, and I had agreed at the time. But his unavability today forced me to move here instead.


    "Yeah, I moved your stuff over too," I said, ncing at his suitcase on the floor.


    His belongings were few; he had rented the apartment opposite mine, and many items were provided by thendlord, which naturally went back to thendlord.


    He was silent, leaving me to wonder what he was thinking, so I just went ahead, "Take a cab to Grandview Gardens, I''ll wait for you at the entrance." "Okay," Ernest agreed.


    After hanging up, I went to the kitchen to boil some water, poured two sses to cool, and then changed my shoes to head out.


    Thisplex waspletedst year, the surroundings were really nice.


    I took a leisurely stroll in the garden before heading to the entrance.


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    Just my luck, there was a fruit stand that had just opened, offering discounts. I went in to pick some fruits and as I was about to pay, Ernest called.


    "I''m at the fruit stand,e in," I said, and soon Ernest''s tall figure appeared at the entrance.


    I waved at him, and he walked over quickly, his gaze fixed on me.


    That look elerated my heartbeat.


    I started to speak, "What would you like, I got..."


    My words got stuck as he grasped my wrist, my heartbeat racing even faster.


    "Let''s not buy it, let''s go home," Ernest''s voice was husky.


    The heat from where he held me


    was intense, blurring my senses, as he paid for the fruits and led


    of the stand.


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    distance inside theplex that I began to speak, "I tried calling you it was unreachable. I couldn''t find you, andst night was so urgent, Herschel had a severe bleeding, so I.


    So I had left him abruptly to follow Conrad.


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    Even though I had my reasons, leaving him was a fact.


    He must have felt bad about it.


    "I got it," Ernest picked up the thread of my exnation.


    "Ernest, I came back as fast as I could, only because of Herschel, because he was seriously ill," I added.


    "Yeah." His responses were all affirmative, but I still felt uneasy.


    Especially since his phone was always unreachable, I felt it was rted to me leaving him in the middle of the night.


    "Why couldn''t I reach your phone?" I asked.


    "Let''s talk at home," Ernest seemed to be keeping me in suspense.


    "Why can''t you tell me now?" I stopped walking.


    He had no choice but to stop as well, his gaze deep and intense, "What, worried I''m mad?"