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    Whether it was Sylvia or Kelsey, the person in his heart, that was all in the past. The reality, the present, was that he and Harriet

    were husband and wife.

    ***

    Back in her bedroom, after showering, Harriet told Kathie about

    what had just happened.

    On the other end of the phone, Kathie, hearing about Ellsworth’s maneuver, immediately raised her voice, pped the table, and said, “No wonder he’s Ells–he’s really something, really

    shameless. Hara, go head–to–head with him, don’t back down!”

    …

    Harriet.

    That afternoon at the Townsend’s mansion, who was it holding her in sadness, who was it pleading on Ellsworth’s behalf, asking if she could give him another chance?

    And now, with Ellsworth acting shameless, Kathie was telling

    her to fight to the end.

    After a moment of silence, Harriet said, “Your whole family

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    really is rebellious.”

    After that, she chatted with Kathie for a while longer before they

    finally hung up to rest.

    The next day, when she got to work, thewyer contacted her

    early in the morning, saying there were a few documents that

    needed her signature.

    If Ellsworth wanted to handle it, Harriet would just let him.

    After all, she wasn’t losing out on this.

    If she didn’t go along with Ellsworth, he would just keep

    pestering her.

    So she arranged a time with thewyer and let theme over.

    By Thursday, after finishing an early shift, she quietly moved out

    of Auburn Heights.

    She didn’t inform Ellsworth, nor did she say anything to

    Jacquelyn and the others.

    After all, during this period, she wasing and going early andte every day, never running into Ellsworth or Jacquelyn and

    the others.

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    Kathie didn’t say a word about it either. The two of them

    secretly settled the housing arrangements without alerting

    anyone.

    That night, when Ellsworth returned home after a social engagement and saw that Harriet hadn’te back, he just

    stood at her door.

    Staring at Harriet’s room for a long while, Ellsworth took out his

    phone and dialed her number.

    As the phone rang, he gently closed her door and unhurriedly

    walked back to his own room.

    On Harriet’s end, she had juste out of the bathroom after a

    shower when she heard her phone vibrating.

    With a towel wrapped around her hair, she hurried over to pick

    up her phone.

    However, when she saw it was a call from Ellsworth, her

    expression calmed, and she was no longer flustered.

    Even so, she still answered the call in the end, asking gently, “Is

    there something you need?”

    On the other end, hearing Harriet’s pleasant voice, Ellsworth

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    walked to the floor–to–ceiling window, picked up a cigarette box from the cab beside him, and shook out a cigarette, biting it between his lips.

    Then he put down the cigarette box, picked up a lighter, and lit

    the cigarette for himself.

    He took a deep drag, exhaled a faint ring of smoke, and said,

    “Still working overtime?”

    At that moment, Harriet’s calm and steady voice came through:

    “I’ve moved out.”

    The next second, Ellsworth’s hand froze mid–smoke, his fingers

    holding the cigarette, his right hand pausing just short of his

    mouth.

    He was stunned for a long while beforeing back to himself,

    then stubbed out the cigarette he’d just taken a drag from in

    the ashtray.

    He no longer felt like smoking.

    The nearly new cigarette was broken into several pieces in the ashtray. Ellsworth switched his phone to his right hand, stuffed his left hand back into his pocket, and looked out at the yard

    with a cold expression.

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    On the other end of the line, seeing that Ellsworth hadn’t

    responded for a long time, Harriet was about to say she’d hang up when Ellsworth, looking out at the yard, smiled nonchntly

    and said, “Congrattions on your new ce.”

    Then, still smiling, he added, “What’s the address? I’lle over

    and help you celebrate your housewarming.”

    Ellsworth, after all that silence, wasn’t throwing a tantrum but

    was even joking about helping her celebrate. Harriet was a little

    surprised.

    She had been prepared for him to make a fuss about it.

    Maybe he had never wanted to live with her in the first ce,

    and it was she who had been clinging to Auburn Heights all this

    time.

    Walking to the window with the phone, Harriet crossed her left

    arm over her chest and looked down at the night view outside.

    She said, “Thank you, but there’s no need to celebrate.”

    Harriet’s nonchnce made Ellsworth want to get angry, to say

    that they weren’t even divorced yet.

    But thinking about how much they’d argued over the divorce.tely, he adjusted his emotions.

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    Harriet was now single–mindedly focused on getting divorced.

    Maybe living apart for a while would be better.

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