Chapter 36

Evelyn's pov

The suddenness of his question threw me off guard and I was quietly observing him in tense silence until I responded.

"Why the sudden interest in my marital life, Kelvin?"

I asked him and he drew back in a seat as if he had not expected me to whip back at him so sharply then he fiddled with his cutlery for a second before he responded he was looking at his food as if he was waiting for it to tell him what he was supposed to say.

"Well…I don't want to poke nose or anything…you look really satisfied so I don't know if what Alex told me is even true…"

I felt my muscles immediately tense up when he said that, despite all the time we had spent together, Kian had managed to keep me from his past. Naturally, I was curious but I was often too strapped down by the problems I had in my present to really keep pressing into it.

"Kelvin, if you want to say something you can go ahead and just spit it out…" I said taking a dry bite of my food

"... but I'm going to be honest with you, I'