Elly Campbell glared at him fiercely and looked away.
Adam Jones approached her with a grin, "Did it hurt when I bit you? Let hubby blow on it."
As he spoke, he leaned in to kiss her, but Elly blocked him.
This time, Adam didn’t insist on kissing her. Instead, he embraced Elly, and his tone suddenly became serious, "Wife."
Elly glanced at him, "What now?"
"In those three years we were married, what exactly did Lily Jones tell you?"
He had always guessed that Lily would say things in front of Elly, suggesting that his true love was Sophie Baker, and that Elly was the one who destroyed his relationship with Sophie.
Back then, harboring resentment, he didn’t want to explain, especially since even when Elly knew about Sophie’s existence, she never confronted him, making him think she simply didn’t care about him.
Thinking that way only deepened his resentment.
What he hadn’t considered was how forbearing she had been, all because of her love for him.
Rather than say it was Lily’s hostility towards her, to put it bluntly, he had tacitly allowed it.
Realizing this, Adam felt even more remorse and gently kissed Elly on the cheek, "I’m sorry, Elly."
He himself felt that for Elly to have endured him for three years was truly enough.
"It wasn’t much, just some words meant to provoke me, like how my brother truly loves Sophie, and that I am the third party. If I hadn’t used tricks to marry my brother, he would have never wed me," Elly said irritably. Thinking of Lily’s words in the past, she would get so angry she wanted to kick Lily out, but she always restrained herself because of Adam.
Now she wondered, why should she have to tolerate Lily?
Just imagining it made Adam realize how much it must have hurt her, to have been insulted and challenged face-to-face by Lily.
Adam held Elly even tighter.
More apologies seemed meaningless to him, as the damage had already been done, so in the future, however she treated Lily, he felt he could forgive her.
Elly wouldn’t say something insincere like "It’s okay, I don’t mind."
She was petty, and she did care, which is why the sight of Lily irritated her so deeply. She had resolved that if Lily didn’t bother her, she would let it be. But if Lily did provoke her, then Elly wouldn’t hold back.
She absolutely wouldn’t show any leniency just because Lily was Adam’s sister, but she didn’t stress this to Adam.
She also didn’t continue this topic with Adam, saying, "What’s past is past, I can’t blame you alone for it. As I said before, at that time, you didn’t trust me, and I didn’t trust you. The result that followed was inevitable. If Lily and Sophie were able to exploit that gap, to be honest, it was provided by us. We can’t blame others."
Adam pursed his lips and remained silent.
Indeed, Elly was right. Lily was certainly hateful, but her hate was enabled by him.
If only he had been as protective and unconditionally supportive of Elly as he was now, what could Lily have done with her divisive intentions?
No amount of apologies could make up for the pain caused in the past, so all he could do was be there for her, to accompany her and cherish her for a lifetime.
"Alright, let’s not talk about the past anymore. Let’s sleep," he said.
Elly nodded, turned off her phone, and lay down on the bed.
This was the first time she had lain in the same bed with Adam Jones with such a clear mind.