Chapter 18. Proposing or Joking?

Drake added the grocery items to the cart absent-mindedly. Alexis’s words had hurt him a lot. She still considered him an outsider while he loved her with all his heart. He suppressed his feelings within his heart, not having the courage to say them out aloud. The last four years had brought about a massive change in his Alexis. Was Alexis really his? He grimaced. She had never been his. Well! Only maybe in his dreams. 

“Why are you taking so much strawberry ice cream, Drake?” asked Alexis incredulously, seeing him add ten tubs to the trolley. 

“Isn’t it still your favorite food?” he asked, looking a little puzzled. Alexis blushed. He remembered! 

“Yeah, it is, but ten?” she asked, her eyes widening with horror. 

“I want you to think of me the rest of the week every time you eat them,” he said with a naughty smile playing on his lips. Alexis rolled her eyes at him. She couldn’t tell him he didn’t need to bribe her with ice cream to make h