Chapter 82

Chapter 82

Xavier inclined his head. "Lily did lose a bit of weight but... it doesn't affect anything."

It didn't affect how he felt. He still felt something stir inside him when he saw her.

Lily heard what he was implying, and the tips of her ears turned pink.

"Eat some more, Edith." She put some food on Edith's plate to try and change the subject.

However, Edith refused to do so. "Losing this little bit of weight won't affect her health, but she can't keep being so thin. You're a man. You need to learn how to take care of your wife. Be nicer to her and learn from your father." Xavier said meaningfully, "You're right, Grandma. I should treat her well."

He put some food on Lily's plate. Lily didn't reject it, but she did not eat it either. By the time dinner ended, the food he'd put on her plate remained untouched.

"Why don't the two of you stay the night? Your parents aren't coming home, and I'm the only one left." Edith refused to let them leave after dinner.

"Alright, I'll stay with you," Xavier answered readily.

to return to Bayview Gardens,

eyes crinkled into a delighted smile. Although it was getting late, she dragged Lily to

they were done fussing over

urged her to leave. "It's getting late. Don't keep Xavier waiting and

sweat in the climate-controlled greenhouse, where she'd been pruning the flowers, watering them, and adding fertilizer. Her clothes were in their bedroom, so she had no choice but to go up. When she pushed the door open, she saw that it was pitch black inside.

her way to the closet in the dark and turned on the lights before she

bathrobe, standing in the middle of the room. "W-Why

stood there calmly. "This is my room." He didn't have to

chest, which was tanned to a bronze color. His

relaxed, but there

lowered her eyes and said, "I need to get

ahead." Xavier took out some black, silk casual loungewear from the

the fact that Lily was around, he took off

cupboard next to him and

something she shouldn't have, and she stopped

naked, but she was the one

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