Chapter 685

Furious, Lily clenched her fists so tight they almost cracked!

“Mr. Fairhaven and Mr. Thaddeus Abernathy are best buds, and Mr. Thaddeus Abernathy’s with Evadne. So, tell me, do you really think stealing Mr. Fairhaven’s girl is cool? You wanna put Mr. Thaddeus Abernathy in a tight spot, tick off Ms. Ashbourne?”

“Did I ever say I was gonna steal her? It’s been you, Lily, with your crazy paranoia about Mr. Fairhaven.”

Aaron’s lashes fell, his gaze tenderly landing on Marilla’s lovely sleeping face, “But if you keep on thinking this way, eventually you’re gonna make me feel like I ought to step up my game, just out of respect for you.”

“Captain Ashbourne, remember who you are!” Lily’s eyes blazed as she abruptly sat up!

But she forgot she was still in the car, and with a thud, her head hit the roof, pain furrowing her brow as she slumped back down.

“Lily, my job is not an excuse for you to morally hijack me.”

Aaron’s lips quirked in a smile that didn’t reach his eyes, “And for the record, there’s nothing I dislike more than being threatened.”

fear! Every extra minute she spent with Aaron, the youngest son of the Ashbourne family, the more frightened

if it ever came to competing for her affection, he

into the treatment room, Jareth arrived with the frost of autumn on his brow and the whirlwind of his stride.

him, a throng of the Fairhaven group’s men followed, crowding the expansive hallway. His presence seemed less like a visit to a darling wife

Jareth’s handsome

route to a neighboring city with Barry for an important business meeting. Having seen the news about the incident at Elmsworth Academy of Fine Arts,

whether Marilla was involved or not, he ignored Barry’s protests, and ordered the

so agitated that he had to

“Mr. Fairhaven.”

Lily immediately bowed deeply, a bead of

you tell me?” His few words were clenched between his teeth.

it was urgent. I was afraid that you…

you

corridor, prompting the Fairhaven Group’s men to bow deeply in the presence of his

lower, weighed down by a

“Lily, you’re suspended.”

voice, “From now on, you go

anymore. A tear mingled with a

from Mrs. Fairhaven she served day and night was heart–wrenching. However, it was her oversight, her neglect, she

held by a criminal, and any slight disturbance could

the police’s advice, or is it your idea, Aaron?” Jareth’s knuckles cracked with tension, his voice

the live stream showing Aaron carrying

her build that Aaron was holding his woman! He had long

and soul.

coolly, a slight smirk on his lips. Standing alone, he faced off

“Marilla is my wife. In a moment of life and death, you kept me, her husband, in the dark, preventing me from coming to her rescue. What’s your angle? Do

if you’ve never been in this kind of situation, haven’t

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