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.

Bayview Gardens, but Xavier had agreed so

Although it was getting late, she

done fussing over it,

back to her room, but the latter urged her to leave. "It's getting late. Don't keep Xavier waiting and

had worked up a 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. Seeing that

way to the closet in the dark and turned on

in the middle of the room. "W-Why

He didn't have to turn on the lights if he didn't want

chest, which was tanned to a bronze color. His abs were faintly visible, making him

but there was a slight quiver of emotion in

eyes and said, "I

out some black, silk

the fact that Lily was around, he

crouched down in front of the cupboard next to him and was rummaging in the drawers

something she shouldn't have, and she stopped breathing. The tips of her ears burned at

but

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