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.”

shiver of fear! Every extra minute she spent with Aaron, the youngest

Aaron ever truly set his sights on Marilla, and if it ever came to competing for her affection, he would be a formidable rival to Mr. Fairhaven,

the frost

of the Fairhaven group’s men followed, crowding the expansive hallway. His presence seemed less like a

hospital, Jareth’s handsome face was an unapproachable slab of millennium–old ice.

had been on his private jet, en 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, and perhaps due to a sense of premonition, he frantically called Lily, who did not

involved or not, he ignored Barry’s protests, and ordered the jet to

agitated that he had to breathe oxygen frantically to avoid passing out.

“Mr. Fairhaven.”

intimidating approach, Lily immediately bowed deeply, a bead of cold sweat dripping to

me?” His few

time, it was urgent. I

didn’t you tell

down the corridor, prompting the Fairhaven Group’s men to

her head sinking lower, weighed down by a ton of

“Lily, you’re suspended.”

a mix of fury and heartache, deep disappointment in his hoarse voice, “From now on, you go home and reflect. I’ll increase security around my wife; she

her anymore. A tear mingled with a

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

calm gaze, “The situation was volatile, Marilla was being held by a criminal, and any slight disturbance could have escalated the danger. Lily wanted to

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

seen the live stream showing Aaron carrying a girl out of

hidden, he recognized from her build that Aaron was holding his woman! He had long suspected the guy

and soul.

smirk on his lips. Standing alone,

closer, “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

just naive? Even if you’ve never been in this kind

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