Substitute Marriage With the Illegitimate Son novel Chapter 217

Janet was a stubborn woman. Not only was she angry with Ethan, but she was also displeased that he was speaking to her in that tone. She shook off his hand and smoothed her hair which had been messed up by the cold night breeze. After she put her hair behind her ears, she faced him squarely. "Mind your words, Ethan. This might be a hotel, but it came with the restaurant downstairs. Kent booked a table in the restaurant and we were just having dinner. I've done nothing else with him. Or did you catch me doing anything out of line?"

Ethan suppressed his anger when he realized that he had been too harsh and his wife was getting angrier. He fixed his eyes on her and said softly, "You should have declined his invitation."

"You and I know this is not just an ordinary invitation. It's for work. Kent and I have to work together in the future. There's no way I can decline seeing him always." Janet lowered her eyes to stare at the ground. The warm gleam in Ethan's eyes and his soft voice made her feel guilty.

"I get that, but you should have told me in advance. You shouldn't have hung up the phone without giving me a chance to talk. How do you think that makes me feel?" Ethan queried calmly.

Janet's anger which was previously dying down was reignited by his last sentence.

'Humph! See who's talking about feelings? Yes, I came to have dinner with Kent in a fit of pique. I was wrong for not informing him. But what makes him any different? After all, he hid his past with Charis from me. Why is it a big deal that I'm dining with my client? How dare he criticize me? Oh, please!' She chewed him out in her mind.

Balls of fury swirled inside Janet as she thought about it. Charis' affectionate face when she talked about Ethan also flashed through her mind. It made her blood boil.

The next second, she lost her cool. She raised her blazing eyes and looked at Ethan. She then shouted angrily, "Spare me your moral high ground, Ethan. You have no right to guilt-trip me. You kept your words intentionally vague when it came to Charis. I'm your wife, but you didn't tell me that she confessed her love to you before! Not once did you tell me that she had feelings for you. Why then are you concerned about who I have dinner with? Answer me!"

Many people were moving in and out of the hotel. They stole glances at the couple and whispered to each other. They all thought that it was just a normal lovers' tiff, so none of them interfered.

Ethan was rendered speechless. After a while, he frowned and said, "Yes, it's true Charis once professed her love to me. But I didn't like her, so I refused her immediately. If she still hasn't moved on, how is that my fault?"

All these could be traced back to high school. As far as Ethan was concerned, Charis' confession of love was a trivial matter. He felt that it wasn't supposed to be causing a fight in his marriage.