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Nolan looked at Henry steadily. He remembered his fury in finding the calm young man in his sisters patient room after stumbling onto their wedding. He knew that knowing Ellie's temperament she probably did not want him to know about the wedding at all and he would have only found out about the circumstance after she died. She would have just had a lawyer hand him the settlement as her surprise way of caring for him from the grave. Nolan thought back to how when Henry had brought up financial assistance his nose has turned up. Nolan really considered Henry's retreat into isolation. It really was his own fault that Henry had not taken Ellie somewhere else other than the hospital. It had been very rude of him to bring her here, and it had been a bit of a low blow for him to spin it on his host who had no obligations to them at all. He looked uncomfortable as he looked at their joined hands to Henry's narrowed eyes. "You know it is true. I relent that I have been a bit of a hard person to deal with. I really should be asking you for forgiveness. My actions the whole while I have known you have been less than courteous. I wish I could have learned the lesson the easy way instead of this way."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting.

The harsh business person who would have taken everything that Nolan loved away from him would have responded with something nefarious. But instead Nolan's caricature of Henry was melted away. Henry sighed heavily. "You know I am at fault too. I am not normally someone who has much emotion. It's dried up with age, Michael likes to say, but that's no excuse. I will have more discretion in the future to make sure that I will not slip up again."

Ellie reached over and took Nolan's hand too so she formed a chain. The two men looked at her with nervous expressions as they exchanged uncomfortable glances. Ellie smiled warmly. Henry was first to pull his hand away. "You know you two are literally the strangest duo I have ever hosted in this house. Usually everyone adheres to the society rules that should be in place. But you are such a strong personality that I always wonder what you will be up to next. I'm always cursing to myself and emotionally drained. I am sure if my mother or father were here and I was quite a bit younger I would lose the privilege of having a dog sitter for a week. Let me admit to you that I do struggle with Madeline's living routine. I can't take here anywhere, she's too much of a nuisance. But seeing that we have all been thoroughly chased and now realize what we did, why don't we look to new horizons. I pretend I had a lap of memory and we are meeting for the first time." Henry turned his open hand to Nolan in the gesture of a handshake. "Hello guest to my home, how nice of a day is it today? It's so lovely that you could drop by. Would you like something to drink or eat?"