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.

be the death of

it. I’ll do my best to hide it from her. She’ll never find

*

morning, Ashlyn sneaked into the bathroom and took

walked out, Lucas was putting on

Haddock Group?” Lucas buttoned

her ears burning as she nodded. “They have nothing else to do anyway. Their summer break is approaching, so I decided

were several other fresh graduates who started

Haddock Group?” Lucas suddenly changed the topic,

browed arched up. “Because some

going to do? But I’ve

Is 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

could also

a close distance, no flaws could be found

exuded an imposing aura when his

both tempting and

Nolan, please bear our relationship in mind. When you were on your business trip, I’ve come to a

is it?” Lucas spoke in his deep and husky

were merely inches away from him, his Adam’s apple bobbed up and

it when she took

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