She Took The House The Car And My Heart novel Chapter 282

Chapter 282 Could You Be My Girlfriend

Freya couldn’t help but feel a twinge of guilt for Ellis’s friend.

Out of all the reckless things he could’ve done, he just had to go and pick a fight with Ellis. What on earth was he thinking?

Ellis didn’t bother dodging Freya. Right there in the study, he pulled up his contacts and dialed that paragliding instructor without a second thought.

The call connected, and Ethan’s unhinged laughter came blaring through the speaker, along with his smug, self -satisfied voice. “Yo! How about that little tune I left you? Catchy, huh?”

Ellis switched the call to speaker mode. “Feeling proud of yourself?”

“You tell me! Take me out for a fancy meal and say you’re sorry. Admit you messed up, and maybe I’ll have

someone fix your phone for you. Otherwise, that thing’s toast.”

Ellis didn’t say a word. He simply waited, letting Ethan finish strutting around like a peacock.

He knew some people only learnt when they were teetering on the edge of disaster.

“Oh, and FYI? Resetting or flashing the phone won’t do squat. Virus is here to stay.” He just kept bragging.

In that deluded head of his, Ellis had probably yanked out the SIM card and was calling using another phone.

It never even crossed Ethan’s mind that Ellis had someone on his side who could solve his problem.

Ellis asked, “Where are you right now?”

“North Avenue. Why, coming to beat me up?” Ethan sounded positively giddy. “Too bad for you–I’m heading

out soon. No way you’re catching me.”

“Mm.” Ellis ended the call.

He did a quick calculation, then told Freya, “Set it to trigger at six. And besides what he just said, add another

line: ‘Too bad. You can’t catch me. Hahaha.“”

“That’s the paragliding instructor from earlier, right?” Freya thought the voice rang a bell.

Ellis nodded. “Yeah.”

“You told me you’d only met him a few days before I did.” Freya shot him a look, calling him out without

hesitation.

Ellis answered smoothly, “Let’s just say I never wanted to meet him at all.”

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Freya was at a loss for words.

From their earlier exchange, it was pretty clear. They weren’t just old friends. They were childhood buddies, practically joined at the hip.

“So the message is, ‘Mom, come and give me a good punch. Too bad. You can’t catch me. Hahaha,‘ right?” Freya confirmed while prepping the update.

“Yeah.” Ellis added, “And make it sound just as irritating as he does.”

Freya’s fingers flitted over the keyboard like a pianist in concert.

In no time, she’d embedded the virus into Ethan’s phone, set to launch right at six.

Once done, Ellis messaged the group chat to confirm that he was free tomorrow night.

That evening at six sharp, Ethan was seated at the dinner table with his folks. Just as he lifted his fork, his phone began to buzz.

Thinking it was a regular call, he pulled it out–Only for an obnoxiously smug voice to screech from the speaker.

“Mom, come and give me a good punch. Too bad. You can’t catch me. Hahaha…”

The second the voice echoed through the room, the middle–aged couple across from him snapped their heads toward him, eyes glinting with ice.

Ethan’s blood ran cold. He knew he was in deep trouble. “Mom, I can explain…”

But before he could finish, the phone piped up again. “Mom, come and give me a good punch. Too bad. You can’t catch me. Hahaha…”

“I’ll show you whether I can catch you or not.” Ethan’s mother, seized a stick and came charging toward him.

Ethan fumbled to shut off the phone, but it wouldn’t respond.

“Mom! Let me explain!”

“Too bad. You can’t catch me. Hahaha!” the phone kept heckling him.

Panic set in. Damn it all!

“What’s there to explain? You’re not getting any younger, still no girlfriend, and all you do is loaf around the house!” His mother chased him in circles, clearly fed up. “And now you’ve got the nerve to rile me up?”

“I’m trying to rile you up, Mom!” Ethan dodged around the furniture like a man possessed.

“Hahaha!” The phone cackled in perfect imitation of his voice, driving him to the brink.

He knew, beyond a doubt, that Ellis had orchestrated this prank.

To stop things from getting worse, he hurled the phone to the floor, shattering it. Blessedly, th voice cut off.

Ethan exhaled in relief, grateful he hadn’t stored anything important on that phone.

“Mom, I—”

The stick came down hard.

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Ethan shot up like a puppet on strings, looking utterly ridiculous.

“Ouch!” His bangs flopped into his eyes as his face scrunched in agony. “Take it easy, pleaser

“You dare smash things in front of me? Who do you think taught you that?” His mother lashed him again.

Ethan knew better than to talk back. His mother’s temper was nothing to mess with. “I’m sorry, Mom”

“Can I catch you or not?”

“You can!”

“Try something like this again, and I’ll beat you till even your father won’t recognize you.”

“You’re absolutely right.”

With that quick surrender, the storm finally passed. Ethan wolfed down his dinner and bolted upstairs, clutching his SIM card.

Thank goodness for backup phones–at least now he could still curse Ellis out.

Meanwhile, Ellis and Freya were having dinner.

Freya honestly enjoyed Ellis’s cooking. She wasn’t picky, but she knew good food when she tasted it.

“Captain.”

“Yes?”

“What does your family do?” Freya couldn’t help but ask it directly.