Chapter 31 Danger Follows

Maurice made a phone call.

“Send some guards upstairs now.”

Nestling in his arms, Eliana looked up and stared at his handsome profile. Her heart started pounding against her chest, and she couldn’t decide whether it was because of fear or something else entirely. The mix of Maurice’s breath and cologne overwhelmed her and stirred something that had long been shrouded in her memory. His smell… It was familiar.

Eliana surely had scented it before. Maurice looked at her with his deep eyes: His sharp gaze instantly stopped her wild thoughts, “Th… thank you, Mr. Moran.”

She coughed awkwardly, feeling embarrassed She stood up for the bad guy just now, but now she felt like she had been-slappēd hard in the face. Maurice let go of her and glanced at her up and down.

“Are you hurt?”

Hearing that, Eliana froze-and looked at him in disbelief. His words were full of concern, and the situation they were in right now was giving her a serious case of deja vu. Maurice’s eyes looked exactly like Preston’s.

Maurice frowned.

“Nothing.I’m fine.”

hurriedly averted-her gaze. The middle-aged man struggled to get up and

his expression stiffened. A well-made leather-shoe stamped firmly on the

tell me his specific symptoms, the doctor’s official diagnosis, and the side-effects of the chemotherapy,” Maurice’s questions were cold and hard, which rendered the middle aged man

child who is receiving chemotherapy at all. Only brainless people would believe such a lie.” Her face flushing red, Eliana lowered her head in embarrassment,

a few moments, the guards Maurice sent for came bursting through the door and quickly subdued the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man struggled desperately and roared, “Maurice! You devil! You will be punished! You will die

stuck in his throat as the guards gagged him and dragged him away like a rabid, muzzled dog. Maurice stared at the dazed Eliana who saw the

behaved like a little girl who had just been scolded by her parents. Amused, Maurice let a smile tug on his lips and handed the signed document to Eliana. She took it with both hands and looked up at him

that man try to

to kill me.” Maurice didn’t

become one of the dangers that would tail him? Flustered by Maurice’s

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