As Lucas spoke, his heart ached.

He suddenly understood why Ashlyn didn’t tell him about her getting poisoned.

It felt awful to hide something from a loved one so that she wouldn’t worry about you.

Even when they knew the other person was lying, they just couldn’t bear to expose the lie.

Both of them were doing the best for each other but pretended not to care.

He closed his eyes and tightened his arms around her.

“You lost weight too.”

Of course she had lost weight.

When she started taking the antidote, she coughed up so much blood every day that her body grew weaker.

The sight of her suffering broke Lucas’ heart.

How he wished he could take her place and bear the pain for her.

In fact, he only came last night to give her a hug before leaving, but he couldn’t resist her advances and made love to her.

woman will be

it. I’ll do my best to hide it from her.

*

into the bathroom

Lucas was

you arrange for Blair and Tinsor to start their internship in Haddock Group?” Lucas buttoned up his cufflinks and asked her

as she nodded. “They have nothing else to do anyway. Their

fresh graduates who

in Haddock Group?” Lucas suddenly changed the topic,

“Because some of

going to do? But I’ve heard

he refusing to

devilish glint appeared in Lucas’ eyes. He was about to reply when Ashlyn cupped his chin and leaned closer to him. They were so close that they could hear each other’s

same time, she could also see the gleam

close distance, no flaws could

an imposing aura when

man was both

fixated her gaze on his sexy lips. “Lucas Nolan, please bear our relationship

in his

lips were merely inches away from him, his Adam’s

resist it when she took

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