Chapter 213: Conflict
After mentioning it that day, Liam never mentioned about moving to her homeland again. So, she thought that he must have weighed in the factors and thought that it won’t be suitable for them to move here.
That’s fine too.
But she wanted to move out of that penthouse suite as soon as possible. Once he starts getting a steady flow of income, the first thing she is going to ask him is to get a mansion with acres of land around them.
She is not built for apartment life. She needs space; lots of space. She wants to see the stars with her naked eye and breathe in the clean and fresh air.
That evening she was taking a walk in the garden as usual. She had found that she had gained some weight after losing a lot earlier. She was walking a lot, and yet she started gaining weight. She must be eating so much.
She thought she heard Ian’s voice. She heard a woman’s voice too and she had her Spidey senses prickling. It sounded like Elizabeth. She walked carefully so as not to alert them. She wanted to "overhear" what they are talking about.
Ian was indeed chatting with Elizabeth. Rory could not hear what they were talking about clearly because the wind was not cooperating with her eavesdropping, but their body language was clearly very odd. Aunt Isabelle said that Elizabeth asked for leave that day and she is here, in the mansion, talking to Ian.
The sense of familiarity between them is not surprising considering that Elizabeth is working in the mansion for more than four years. And they know each other practically all their life.
It was just a very usual scene in the garden that she had seen in a lot of romance dramas-- a man taking a stuck leaf from the hair of the woman.
But the blush on Elizabeth’s face and the way Ian was smiling, his shaking fingers, and the way he stuttered looking into her eyes... There is something going on here.
She observed Ian some more. He looked stumped and acted like a nincompoop, staggering and tripping on grass. Isn’t that a tell-tale sign of men falling in love as portrayed in romance dramas?
Unfortunately, they were not standing too close or kissing, or doing any salacious acts. That only confused Rory more. She thought that maybe she is projecting her wish for Ian to marry Elizabeth onto their innocent conversation and seeing something that was not there.