hapter 28
sure if it was just het inrination, but Matthias‘ tone clearly timed colder when he brought up Adrian
She said, “Those people have nothing to do with me”
She had been rangled up with Hailey when the reconnected with the Larsons. Renaming to the Larson residence and getting engaged to Adrian had been her way of completely shlong off Hailey’s hold over her. After she got engaged to Adrian, Hailey had never contacted her again.
Matthias raised an evebrow “Nothing to do with you?
She replied, “Heley threatened me, so I got engaged to Adrian to make her and Nigel lower their guard.”
Faced with Matthias cold and oppressive pressure, she laid everything out.
Now that Halley was in prison, she felt there was nothing more to hide.
As expected, his expression softened.
Meanwhile, at the hospital, Adrian watched helplessly as Yvette was tormented by pain, struggling between life and death.
Yesterday, she had been able to go to the office to find him, but now, she could only lie in a hospital bed.
Sylvia was heartblon “Adrian, you must get Dr. Harrison here as soon as possible. The expert consultation team here said that the most urgent issues for Yvette right now are her liver and uterus.”
on her heart. As for uterine cancer, hearing that Amelia could treat it, they hoped
Surgery on her liver was unavoidable, and they would also need surgery on Yvete could avoid the pin of another surgery.
Adrian’s brow furrowed with exhaustion.
It was poo am. Yvette had finally fallen asleep after enduring endless pain
Her body was suffering, and the people beside her were suffering psychologically, Sylvia was distressed, and Adrian felt even worse.
“Alright, I understand ”
Even without Sylvia’s words, he knew Amelia had to return as soon as possible.
He found an unfamiliar phone and called Juliana
At this moment, Juliana was still being sternly questioned by Matthias in Solvane Park
Just as Matthian was about to say something else, her phone rang.
Seeing that it was
number, she instinctively didn’t want to answer and declined the call. But the caller called again.
Merthies‘ tone was serious. “Why didn’t you answer?
“It’s not an important call,” she said without thinking
These past few days, she had been embroiled in a break–up drama with Adrian, so she had blocked his and the Larsons” numbers.
Things had escalated so much that they would try to contact her if they weren’t happy with something. So, anyone calling her from an unknown number at this moment was either Adrian or Sylvia
She didn’t want to answer, especially not in front of Matthias
Slar declined the call yet again
However, the caller persisted and called again
She was about to reject the call again when Matthias extended his hand toward bre
Her eyelids twitched “What… What are your doing?“.
“Should I answer it for you? Or will you do it yourself?”
Her lips twitched. “It’s not an important call.”
He raised an eyebrow. “It’s not important, but the caller has been calling repeatedly?”
She was at a loss for words. Under his forceful presence, she reluctantly answered the call.
the call connected, Adrian’s exhausted voice care through. “Tell me what you want
Weariness laced his tone, as if he were fully yielding-
Adrian wasn’t speaking loudly, but Jillana caught every word, and so did Marthlas.
She knew it was either Audrun or the Larson family.
want. I’ll give it to you.”
She instinetely looked up at Matthias and saw that there was no warmth left in his eyes. Her hand holding the phone trembled. “No, I mean, you.”
“Do you like money? I’ve gotten a card for you. You can buy whatever you want with it.”
The condition was for Amelia to come back
Before Adrian could finish his sentence, Matthias grabbed the phone from her hand and immediately hang up.
In that brief moment when their eyes mer, Juliana instinctively lowered her head, not daring to look up again.
Matthlas asked coldly, “Has he been good to you?”
She
e gave a dry laugh. “No.”
He pressed on, “He’ll give you whatever you want
She was at a loss for words.
Judging from what Adrian said on the phone, it roughly meant that.
“It’s all for a purpose, anyway. It’s not about deep feelings for me,
Somehow, every time the topic of relationships came up, she felt guilty in front of Matthias, who had always warned her not to date back when she was in school
