Chapter 578:

“Fiona, what’s on your mind? Are you even listening?” Irving was engrossed in his phone, typing furiously, but his eyes flicked up to Fiona now and then, tinged with curiosity and suspicion.

“You’ve been acting strange since you got back from the hospital,” he finally said, his voice laced with curiosity. “Did something happen?”

Fiona, still lost in her thoughts, jolted at Irving’s words and instinctively recoiled, like a cat suddenly startled.

Irving, catching Fiona’s jumpy reaction, raised an eyebrow. “Why are you dodging? I won’t bite.”

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Fiona avoided his gaze, her voice shaky and unconvincing as she said, “I’m not dodging anything. You’re just imagining things.”

Just then, Gavin descended from the second floor, his violin in hand. Noticing Fiona on the couch, he casually asked, “Back from the hospital already? How did Elyse’s checkup go?”

Fiona, fiddling nervously with her hair, replied guiltily, “I… I don’t know. You should ask her yourself.”

Gavin, puzzled and now closer to the couch, pressed on, “Didn’t you take time off to accompany Elyse for her check-up? Didn’t you go with her?”

Fiona had indeed gone, but explaining what had transpired afterward was a different matter entirely.

Gavin, sensing her evasiveness, raised his eyebrows and pressed on, “You didn’t go? What were you doing then?”

her head, refusing

shake the feeling that something was off

her return from the hospital a few hours ago, her mind seemed a million miles away, and it

to the bottom of it, Irving pulled out his

watch. It was too early

to find

stared at Fiona. “What’s going on? Why can’t I reach either of them? Did something happen at the

clammed up, shutting her eyes and feigning sleep

and demanded, “Why are you acting like this?

me? If you want to know about Elyse, ask her directly! I’m not her

grabbing his coat

equally perplexed, grabbed his jacket and followed suit, driven

finally quiet, Fiona exhaled a long sigh of relief, but the weight of dread quickly settled back on her

and her pregnancy had abruptly ended. The baby meant the

hospital now; her presence felt like a

hadn’t lifted a finger to aid Elyse. Fiona braced herself

advantageous to Fiona in a perplexing way, she dreaded

she wrestled with her conflicted emotions. As she sat on the couch, she racked her

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