Chapter 38

ETHAN. "I don't understand why you felt the need to do that. You made me embarrass myself in front of her, and the bum whose name was John," I tell grandmother as I drop the basket filled with pastries on the kitchen counter. I can't get the image out of my head. The one where she had laughed at what he said. She gives him her bright smile and she lets me sleep on the cold floor without feeling even an ounce of remorse. "You need to start treating her like your wife and not a stranger you feel utmost distrust for. That is the only way you both can grow your relationship. May is a beautiful, wonderful woman. If you keep pushing her, you will lose her," Granny says, her eyes stern and unyielding. I hold her scrutinizing gaze. "Lose her? I never even had her in the first place. Drop the schemes. I won't get jealous." "What then might we call your display from earlier?" My jaw ticks. "I was caught off guard and surprised. That is all it was. I'd appreciate if you stopped trying." Sh