To the Love of My Life-Chapter 798 - : The Most Romantic Proposal (28)
Chapter 798: Chapter 798: The Most Romantic Proposal (28)
So Madeleine glanced at Howard Coleman standing by the car, pursed her lips, and whispered, “I’ll go up first.”
Without waiting for Howard to speak, she hurried toward the elevator and left.
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Howard watched Madeleine’s retreating figure, reached into his pocket to feel his car keys, and unlocked the car through his pocket. When he was about to get into the car, his movement involuntarily stiffened. He swallowed hard and gripped the car door tightly. After a moment, he finally got in, started the car, and drove out of the underground parking garage.
In the dead of night, the streets were deserted. Howard drove very fast to the entrance of The Sapphire Bistro. Before the car came to a stop, the doorman greeted him. As soon as Howard rolled down the window, the doorman respectfully and familiarly said, “Mr. Coleman, you’re here? Would you like to have your usual private room?”
Howard nodded, was about to turn off the engine, but then hesitated. In the end, he shook his head at the doorman standing outside and drove off without saying a word, stepping on the gas and heading back onto the street.
Howard made a U-turn under the flyover and drove back to the underground parking garage beneath his apartment building. He turned off the engine, sat in the car for a moment, then opened the door and walked towards the elevator.
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Madeleine stood in the elevator, not daring to look at Howard outside the elevator. She hurriedly pressed the elevator door close button and then finally allowed her sorrowful expression to show on her face.
For more than half a year, hadn’t she been taking the elevator home alone every day?
It was only because he had been injured for her that she had earned the right to take care of him in the hospital. Now that he was back with her in their cold, empty apartment, everything was back to normal, right?
She shouldn’t have hoped for more…
As Madeleine kept reminding herself, she entered the apartment after unlocking it. However, facing the empty room, she couldn’t help but have tears well up in her eyes.
Madeleine turned on the living room light, changed her shoes in the foyer area, and then walked to the kitchen.
In the entire room, she was all alone, with the silence only interrupted by the echoing of her footsteps.
Madeleine knew that Howard would be discharged from the hospital today, so she had called the housekeeper in the morning to have fresh vegetables and late-night snacks prepared.
Howard hadn’t come home, and the midnight snack she had prepared, just like before, would end up in the trash can.
Madeleine opened the insulated food container, looked at the cute and beautiful pastries inside, pursed her lips, took them out and was about to throw them into the trash when she suddenly heard the sound of the living room door being pushed open.
Madeleine walked out of the kitchen with the pastries, and ended up in a direct line of sight with Howard, who had just entered through the door.
Howard and Madeleine locked eyes for barely ten seconds before he shifted his gaze away first, bent down to change his shoes, put the car keys on the shoe cabinet in the foyer area, and as he passed the living room, he glanced at the pastries Madeleine was holding. He thought for a moment and asked, “Midnight snack?”
Madeleine blinked and came to her senses, realizing that all of this was not a dream. She slowly nodded, then quickly asked, “You didn’t eat anything at the banquet tonight, are you hungry now? Would you like to eat some?”
Having said that, Madeleine felt as if she had overstepped her boundaries.
