Ethan’s Vengeance of Love
Chapter 100

Chapter 100

Caroline’s eyes widened and blinked a few times before she speedily threw her room door open to rushdownstairs. She wanted to figure out if the hair she had found in her mother’s pocket actually belongedto her father.

When she got downstairs, she saw Ethan, who was still sitting on the couch. Instead of greeting him,she sneakily edged over before she swung her hand over his head and quickly plucked a few strandsof hair off of him.

“What are you trying to do?” Ethan noticed Caroline’s presence a while ago, and he had decided to justcompromise and allow Caroline to have her fun for a while. He hadn’t expected her to start pulling hishair. “Is this how you treat your mother too? Do you pull her hair?” Ethan’s expression turned stern—hisscalp was rather painful after all that tugging.

“I… I don’t…” Caroline was shocked, and she put her tiny hands behind her back to conceal the hairsthat she had just pulled out.

“Why are you being so fierce? You’re scaring Caroline,” Rosy came downstairs to take something, andshe happened to overhear Ethan. She felt annoyed, especially when she saw the stern look on theman’s face. “You shouldn’t fool around like that with Mommy, okay? You’ll hurt her if you do that.” Ethanthen realized how stern he sounded and how he might have scared the young girl. Caroline was anobedient and mature child, so he was sure that she would obey him even if he spoke to her morepatiently.

“Okay, I got it. I’ll take care of Mommy, and I won’t hurt her.” Caroline nodded a few times. “I’m sorry,Daddy. I didn’t mean to do it. I just—”

“It’s fine. I don’t blame you for it. You should head upstairs,” Ethan uttered. She’s such a mature andsophisticated child. There’s no need for such a formal apology over such a tiny matter, right?

Meanwhile, Rosy’s expression changed as she watched the scene from where she stood at the bottomof the stairs. It seems like Ethan is starting to get rather protective of Alice.

After Caroline got upstairs, she pulled out the transparent bag that she had found in Alice’s pocket andtook out the strand of hair from inside it. Then, she compared that strand of hair with the ones she hadplucked off Ethan’s head earlier. The hair that I just plucked out seems a little longer, but they’re bothblack and rough. So… Does this belong to Daddy?

Caroline was thoroughly focused on examining the hairs when she heard the sound of the bathroomdoor opening. Is Mommy done with her shower? Caroline panicked for a moment before she hastilykept the hairs in the plastic bag. She was too flustered, so she ended up mixing all the strands of hair.A few strands of hair fell to the ground, too—Caroline only managed to stuff the hairs between herfingers into the bag. She hurriedly placed the bag back into Alice’s pocket.

However, at that point, Caroline no longer knew if the hairs in the plastic bag were hairs that wereoriginally there or if they were hairs that she had plucked off Ethan’s head earlier.

After putting the bag back into Alice’s pocket, Caroline started questioning herself. Why am I being sonervous? Why did I panic? Mommy said that I shouldn’t touch other people’s things without permission,but I wasn’t doing it intentionally. I just wanted to help Mommy wash her clothes, and I only lookedthrough her pockets because of that. Well, now that I’ve returned the item to its original spot, I won’thave to tell Mommy about it, right? she thought as she tried to reason with herself.

From that point onward, Caroline decided that she would be the most obedient child ever so that hermother would love her too much to ever leave her. Let’s just forget about whatever happened—I’ll begood from now! “Are you done showering, Mommy?” After comforting herself and telling herself thatshe hadn’t made a mistake, Caroline no longer felt as flustered and nervous as before.

“Yeah. I came over to be with you after I changed out of the clothes I was wearing earlier.” Alice didn’tseem to notice anything out of the norm. She walked over to the balcony to retrieve the clothes she hadbeen wearing earlier. Based on her memory, she recalled how she had opened the room door rightafter Keith handed her the tiny plastic bag with his hair in it. She recalled stuffing it into her pocket asshe didn’t have the time to keep it in her handbag.

Apollo’s hair, on the other hand, was kept in her bag. Alice took the tiny plastic bag with Keith’s hair outof her pocket. She didn’t know about what happened just moments ago, and she simply placed theplastic bag into her handbag alongside Apollo’s sample. I’ll bring these over to get a DNA testtomorrow, she thought.

“What are you going to do with that hair?” Caroline watched as Alice carefully kept the hair samples inher bag. The young child was rather puzzled. “I need them for something,” Alice replied withoutexplaining too much.

“What do you need them for?” Caroline clasped her hands together. Does Mommy need them? Whatare they for? Did I mess up the strands of hair earlier? Will it affect whatever Mommy wants to do withit? Should I tell Mommy the truth? But… It’s just hair, isn’t it? What could she possibly use it for? Isn’teveryone’s hair all the same? She can probably use anyone’s hair—it wouldn’t matter, right? Since itwon’t affect anything… I don’t have to tell Mommy the truth, right?

Alice had already returned to the balcony to wash her clothes at that point. The words of truth were atthe tip of Caroline’s tongue, but the young girl decided to keep her mouth shut in the end. After Alicewas done washing her clothes, she began to tell Caroline a bedtime story. Alice only stopped when shesaw that Caroline had fallen asleep. Right then, Alice happened to receive a text.

The text was from Ethan. Alice could sense his domineering aura even through his simple message.‘Come out. We need to talk.’ Alice frowned at his message. Talk? What’s there to talk about? Alice

didn’t reply to his message immediately. In fact, she wanted to just ignore it.

‘Do you want to come out, or should I go in?’ Ethan texted her again.

Alice took a glance at Caroline, who had just fallen asleep. He’ll wake Caroline up if he comes in now.After letting out a huge sigh, Alice eventually got to her feet. She opened her room door only to replace theman standing in front of her. Alice blinked puzzledly. Has he been standing here this whole time? So…He heard me telling Caroline a bedtime story, and he figured that Caroline had fallen asleep when Istopped my story. That explains why his text came so aptly. What does he want to talk about? Is itsomething important? Did something bad happen? Before Alice had the chance to say anything,Ethan’s deep voice filled the air. “Did Keith propose to you?”

Alice froze. She was too dumbfounded to respond for a moment. What’s going on? How did Mr. Knightknow about Keith’s proposal? Keith and I might have bumped into him while we were leaving the room,but he wasn’t around when we first went in, Alice thought. The waiter had walked in and out of theroom a few times, so Alice knew that someone would’ve noticed Ethan’s presence if Ethan had beenstanding outside.

So, Alice figured that Ethan had probably just arrived minutes before she walked out of the room. Ifthat’s the case, then how does he know about Keith’s proposal?