Things that used to make her feel disgusted now actually made her look forward to them. Elisa was beautiful, so the child born from her womb shouldn’t be too bad either.
What Hamish didn’t know was that his state of mind had already changed. The woman he once extremely loathed had quietly entered his heart, like a seed planted in the soil.
“When will Lila be discharged from the hospital?”
Hamish gripped the steering wheel, eyes looking straight ahead. Hearing Elisa’s question, his hands unconsciously tightened around the wheel.
“She’ll be discharged in a couple days. Her spirit was shocked a bit, so when she comes back you should apologize to her and not agitate her.”
Elisa found his self-righteousness a bit laughable. Up until now, Hamish still wanted her to apologize to Lila.
“There’s no way I’ll apologize. I don’t feel like I did anything wrong, but to avoid this kind of thing happening again, I’ve decided to go out and work. That way we won’t see each other much during the day and won’t get into conflicts. What do you think?” She kindly proposed.
Hamish’s eyes narrowed slightly: “The Powell Group is gone, where are you going to work?”
“Bankshire is so big, is there really not a single company that can accommodate me?”
Elisa used to be the princess of the Powell family, but now she had fallen to become someone everyone could step on. He didn’t believe that with her arrogant personality, she could tolerate other people’s finger pointing.
Additionally, his latent possessiveness didn’t want Elisa to go out and work. In his current view, Elisa, who had lost everything, was like a flower that should be placed in a greenhouse for people to appreciate, with no need for socializing or working.
She should draw a line under her previous life and accept the arrangements he was giving her now.
To Elisa, her current life was like being kept by Hamish as a mistress. Calling her a mistress was elevating her too much even, since mistresses could still get money and fake affection from their employers, while she had nothing.
Elisa was beautiful. As soon as she went out, many people would stare at her. When she was still the princess of the Powell family it was fine – although she received many gazes, most were polite and didn’t stare directly. But now, the people staring at her were unscrupulous, not even seeing her as a person. Their naked gazes were as if wanting to tear her clothes off.
Hamish could imagine such a scene, and he felt averse to it, which made him even more against letting Elisa go out to work.
“Stay at home and behave. Don’t go out!”
“Hamish, are you done? You want me to peacefully coexist with Lila but also restrict my freedom. Do you think the world revolves around you?”
Elisa leaned on her chin, continuing to stare out the window. “Also, you don’t seem to understand your sweetheart very well. Now that this has happened once, it will happen a second time. Her mouth is on her face and my hands are on my body. Either make her shut her mouth, or if she can’t shut it, I can only hit her until she can’t open her mouth.”
“You dare!” Hamish suddenly slammed the brakes. Because of inertia, Elisa’s body directly lurched forward. Fortunately she had her seatbelt on, otherwise she definitely would have smashed into the window and ruined her face.
“Do you see if I dare or not?” Elisa quickly composed herself and leisurely said, “Don’t threaten me with Ivan either. If you push me too far, I’ll just die. No one cares about my life anyway, might as well die cleanly.”
There was an arrogant flame in Elisa’s eyes, as if something inside had disappeared without a trace.
This woman had changed. He didn’t know if someone had said something to her at the hospital to give her this backbone to be so brazen.
But being arrogant for a moment was not being arrogant forever.
The two stared at each other as the atmosphere in the car gradually became frozen and rigid, making it hard to even breathe.
In the end, the car horn from behind broke this moment of icy atmosphere.
Hamish stomped on the gas pedal again. The two didn’t speak another word the rest of the drive, but Hamish had already made up his mind. Since Elisa wanted to go out, then go. Some people only turned back after crashing into a wall, only shed tears after seeing the coffin.
He wanted to see if she could still be so composed when she found out the Baker Group was also going bankrupt.