Too Late to Beg, Ex-Husband Chapter 05

Too Late to Beg, Ex-Husband Chapter 05 Their First Kiss

Daging Stella’s sophomore year of college, Ethan returned from America with three massive Wall Street deals, took control of Hawthorne Group, and became Seaview City’s youngest business titan.

He picked her up outside the school in a limited-edition Kingsley Continental.

Stella climbed in with a dark look and strapped at him, “Ethan, if you don’t want everyone calling me a gold digger, stop picking me up in cars like this.”

Before she finished, Ethan pulled her close and kissed her, catching her completely off guard:

Stella flushed from head to toe.

Lucas discreetly raised the privacy screen, leaving only Stella and Ethan’s heated kiss sparking through the enclosed back

seat.

Ethan kissed her for a long time.

It was their first kiss. The kiss left Stella dazed, her thoughts muddled, her eyes unfocused, and her body weak.

Ethan looked at her and said, “Stella, I’ve wanted to do that for years.”

Stella stared at him blankly, not even realizing that he had just confessed his feelings.

After more than a decade of arguing and teasing, she was unprepared for this unfamiliar side of Ethan.

A real, grown-up Ethan.

After a long pause, Stella said, “So you are surprisingly patient.”

Ethan was speechless. He pinched her. “Stella, you really are an idiot.”

Stella tilted her head with a grin. “If I’m an idiot and you like me, what does that make you?” she said.

Ethan smiled. “Yes. I’m a complete idiot.”

Inside the limited-edition custom Kingsley Continental worth millions, the two idiots looked at each other and laughed until their faces reddened, happiness spilling over.

During their first year together, Stella and Ethan still bickered as before, with a minor fight every two days and a major one every three.

Most of the time, however, Ethan was the one who apologized first.

Stella never told anyone how defenseless she became whenever Ethan’s eyes reddened and he looked close to tears.

Whenever she saw him like that, she could no longer stay angry.

Then, during the holidays, Ethan brought Stella to the Hawthorne estate and found Cynthia, Jason, and their parents already waiting inside.

The two families were discussing a marriage alliance between Ethan and Cynthia.

Stella confronted Ethan. He insisted he knew nothing about it and accused her of overreacting.

Furious, Stella ran out alone.

Jason drove it to look for her ife was killed in seated on the way

he hospital, Mr. Evans struck Stella twice, forced her head down, and made her how before Jacent body

Take a walking corpse, Stella felt neither pain nor humaliation the seemed dethed from her body, mint to purrything around her

she could not understand why it had happened

Jason’s parents wanted Stella buried with hum Ethan arrived, shielded her, and declared she was now Mrs Heathe Anyone who touched her would answer to him

Ethan married Stella, transferred two enormous projects to the Kwans, and granted them five percent of tawthorne Coy before they finally stopped pursuing her.

No matter what, Stella became the one everyone blamed.

Jason had died while searching for her Even when others claimed to forgive Stella, she could never extend that wine meny to herself.

What she found even harder to forgive was their married life over the past few years.

Three years of pressure transformed the lively, fearless Stella into an isolated woman who barely dared leave home

After showering, Ethan approached the bed and found Stella scrolling on her phone. One glance told him her ring finger was bare

Ethan looked at her bare hand. “Where’s the ring?” he asked.

He dried his hair as water ran down his muscular chest and abdomen, disappearing beneath the towel wrapped around has

waist

Without looking up from her chat with Cindy, Stella said, “It’s worth ten million If I throw it away during an argument. I’ll regret the money”

Ethan raised a brow and retorted, “Then stop being angry

“That’s nearly impossible,” Stella replied dryly. “This world contains far too many idiots, and one of them is standing beside

Ethan watched her, then glanced toward her phone Stella noticed and immediately angled the screen away from him

Even so, he caught a glimpse of Cindy’s profile picture.

It was impossible to miss, with huge white letters reading “GET RICH against a bright red background

Ethan narrowed his eyes. “Complaining about me to your best friend again?” he said.

Stella turned off her phone, buried herself under the covers, and said nothing.

Cindy’s crude message echoed in her mind. [Cynthia copied everything you did, even if you farted. You should keep doing it until the imitation finally stank Cynthia out.]

The advice was crude but made sense. Stella laughed despite herself, and her mood improved a little.

Then warmth pressed against her waist Ethan’s arm pulled her closer while his hand slipped beneath her nightgown.

Stella locked his hand and said. “Ethan, what are your doing

Wong my duty as your husband, Khan replied He kissed her neck Tut you miss me this week

Ekans hot breath washed over her skin, and within moments, her breathing grew heavier under im terh

He knew her badly well she remembered their first night, when everything after the initial fan felt good to bad asked how he was so skilled and whether it was truly his first time

Ethan had replied, ‘I may not have done it, but I knew how it worked. I prepared for years. Of course I won’t disapp

you

Stella scoffed Men really do think with what’s below the waist. You spent years planning for those few into

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Ethan gritted his teeth. Other women might want those few inches, but I wouldn’t give them a thing

Stella shot back, “So what? Other men have begged to give me theirs, and I didn’t want them either

Ethan was speechless.

She had always been sharp-tongued with him and never lost an argument.

At some point, she had gradually stopped trading barbs with him or picking lights for fun.

It probably began last year, when they fought again because Ethan was too attentive to Cynthia. His face hardened before he replied.

Tonly look after her because Jason is gone,” Ethan said. “You know whose sister she is.”

For once, Stella had nothing to say. She had believed that even if the entire world used Jason’s death against her, Ethan never wighild

She had believed Ethan understood her deepest wound and the guilt that had haunted her for years. She had never thought he would be the one to reopen it.

But he had

The more Stella trusted him, the more disappointed she was in the end.