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The next day, perhaps because of the change of environment, Zoe Bell woke up early feeling unrested. William Hale had drunk alcohol and was soundly asleep, so she didn’t wake him. She washed up and left the room herself, and aside from the cleaning staff, there was no one else in the main hall.
Zoe Bell took a stroll in the yard.
The garden was styled with a unique elegance, each view a separate beauty.
Not daring to wander too far, she meandered nearby and unexpectedly saw Old Sir Hale squatting down and tending to something in a fenced–off garden. He heard her footsteps and looked up at her.
As their eyes met, Zoe Bell courteously called out, “Old Sir Hale, good morning.”
“You’re up quite early,” Old Sir Hale responded with a
stern tone.
He was holding a pair of scissors, pruning the
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branches, looking quite serious and seemingly difficult to approach.
Feeling nervous inside but with a gentle smile on her face, Zoe said, “Did you plant all these flowers?”
Old Sir Hale raised an eyebrow.
This area was originally his vegetable garden, freshly planted with flowers a few days ago. He was simply bored and decided to do some pruning.
But before he could explain, he heard Zoe Bell say:
“You’re really amazing, these flowers must be difficult to grow, yet you’ve managed so well?”
Old Sir Hale was silent.
“One can tell, you’ve put a lot of effort into caring for this place.”
“The whole garden is looked after so well, not a single weed to be found, it shows how attentive you are.”
Zoe Bell thought that flattery, especially with a smile, never hurts, and even the most serious of people are unlikely to be too harsh on you.
When Brock Hale and his wife got up and went out for
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a walk, passing by the vegetable garden, they saw their old man…
Snip, snip, the scissors danced lightly in his hands.
Zoe Bell continuously praised him on the side.
Brock Hale rubbed his brow, “This girl, she wouldn’t be trying to flatter my old man to death, would she?” @
After wandering around for a while longer, Zoe Bell returned to her room, to find Old Sir Hale sweating profusely from the heat.
“What have you been doing so early in the morning, catching fish in the water?” Old Lady Hale eyed her husband, perspiring and panting without knowing what he had been up to.
“Ah,” the old man rubbed his lower back, “this girl that William found, not bad at all.”
“What about her?”
“She praised my skill in pruning the flowers!”
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“Those smelly boys of ours, they just know how to put me down. Ever since I started this vegetable garden, not once have I heard a good word from them about it. But this girl, she’s sweet–talking and heartfelt.”
Old Lady Hale shook her head with a smile.
Others grow vegetables and can at least harvest a few, but he instead grew a garden full of weeds.
A few sweet words have him spinning around in circles, and he still has the nerve to criticize William for having love on his brain!
When Zoe Bell returned to her room, William Hale had not yet woken up. She had already been nervous
enough facing Old Sir Hale alone; she had intended to just compliment him a bit before leaving, but as the old man became more and more enthusiastic with his
pruning, she had to keep up the act.
It was almost time for breakfast, and she didn’t dare face so many members of the Hale family alone, so she decided to wake up William Hale:
Zoe Bell looked at the still–sleeping William Hale on
the hed
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Every time she got up, William Hale had already left;
this was the first time she saw him wake up later than
herself.
“Mr. Hale?”
Zoe Bell had gotten used to addressing him this way, and it rolled off her tongue.
“Mr. Hale.”
No response the first time, still asleep the second time.
Zoe Bell walked straight to the bedside and tried to shake him awake, but when she touched his arm, he grabbed her wrist. In the pull and tug, she fell into his arms, and as she tried to get up, she found her waist was already held down.
“Zoe,” his voice was huskier than usual.
Pressing against her, his tone was low and dense with
an intense sultriness.
“Hmm?”
“Stay and sleep with me a little longer.”
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cold and distant like usual, but tender and entangling.
Zoe Bell said in a muffled voice, “It’s time for
breakfast.”
“I’m too tired, just stay with me for a while.”
Zoe Bell bit her lip, hesitating.
But William Hale gently rubbed his chin against the top of her hair.
The gesture made her heart soften.
During her time living at Larkhill, she had seen how busy William truly was–with endless documents and nonstop meetings–but he always managed to handle everything in the most efficient way possible.
As if he were indefatigable, never tiring.
Actually,
he did get tired.
What was most irresistible was probably the moment a
person in power bowed their head.
Especially in front of her, with such words, Zoe
couldn’t refuse him, so she readjusted her position slightly and joined him to rest.
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But in a place she couldn’t see, someone’s lips were curving up slightly:
His Zoe,
was just too soft–hearted.
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Old Sir Hale, after bathing and changing clothes, was waiting to have dinner with his grandson and his wife. But wait as he might, they didn’t show up at the dining room, which made him frown and prepare to send someone to call them.
“Grandpa, are you really feeling embarrassed?” Wyatt Hale had just finished his last bite of food, “If the young couple is not eating, they must be sleeping.”
“That girl is already up.”
“Then they are having a nap, they are newlyweds after all, what’s wrong with sleeping more?”
Wyatt continued, “You have no idea how busy my brother is usually, especially recently, if he doesn’t stay out, he comes home only to work and sleeps in the study.”
“They probably haven’t slept together for a long time.”
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Old Sir Hale wished he could pick up the chopsticks and whip him with them.
So unfiltered.
What is this talk of sleeping more? The way he talks about sleeping back and forth, doesn’t he feel
ashamed?
Uttering such nonsense.
After saying his piece, Wyatt put down his chopsticks
and ran off.
“You wild boy, stop right there!”
“Dad, he’s just like that, why do you bother with him.” Lily Lott smiled as she handed Old Sir Hale a glass of sweet soy milk, trying to smooth things over for her
son.
“That little rascal, coming back just to annoy me.”
“William is busy with work, you’ve always been telling him to rest more, let the two of them sleep in a bit,” Lily said, smiling.
He caught a glimpse of Brock Hale, who was only focused on eating, and felt a headache coming on.
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His own son’s lifelong affairs didn’t seem to concern him one bit; all he knew was to eat, eat, eat. Once Brock finished eating, he glanced at his parents, “Dad, Mom, I’m going to work.”
“Your son brings his wife back and you still have the mind to go to work?”
“Should I take leave and accompany them?”
“Forget it, just go on.”
Brock knew his son’s nature too well.
Choosing Zoe Bell must have been after deep contemplation and even long–term planning.
Even if he himself, or the entire Hale family, didn’t like her, it’d probably be hard to change his decision.
His two sons had vastly different personalities. William had been very decisive since he was young, making many decisions on his own, and even when he informed his father, it was just a notification.
As for the younger son… well,
anything as simple as a fart or a burp had to be reported!
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Zoe didn’t sleep well last night, and had planned to lie down for a few minutes, but when she woke up, it was
almost 11 o’clock, and her first visit to the old house to meet the parents had turned out like this.
Her body hadn’t adjusted to this bed yet, thinking she was on the large bed at Larkhill, she subconsciously turned over and almost fell off, bashing her knee on the edge of the bed, which made her cry out in pain involuntarily.
“What happened!”
William Hale came out from the bathroom; he was in
the middle of a shower.
Water droplets fell from his neck, tracing a path over his firm, lean waist and abdomen, disappearing into
the towel tied around his waist.
Zoe had accidentally seen him after a shower before, but at least then he was wearing a bathrobe, unlike now, with his upper body bare, the towel around his waist only loosely hung, his Adonis belt vividly defined.
All she felt was heat in her eyes–she had never noticed before how attractive his physique was.
Che bowed her hood alightly not daring to look but
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her eyelashes trembled fiercely…
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