Her Heart Her Terms (Lily and Xavier)

Chapter 248

Chapter 248

"Hayden has just finished his food. Let him rest and digest for a bit. Rowan didn't give up. "Ms. Joyner, I'm just making casual conversation, that's all." His casual conversation felt like a laute stabbing into Lily's heart.

He said somente who truly loved her wouldn't mind covering her brother's medical expenses. Didn't he just remind her that Xavier didn't love her?

Lily sat on the chair by the hospital bed. "Dr. Blackwood, I don't have the energy to talk about relationships right now. All I care about is my brother's recovery."

"Let's say if someone helped you tremendously during your brother's recovery, would you be so moved that you'd marry that person?" Rowan pressed on and expected her to say yes so he could shout out Xavier's name. Lily was speechless. She stared at him ter a few seconds before replying. "No."

"Yes, Xa-" Rowan's phone suddenly rang before he could finish his words.

His phone rang relentlessly like an urgent summons. He had no choice but to answer. He glanced at the incoming call and instinctively looked at Lily before walling out of the ward to take the call.

Rowan was a chatty person. He was able to strike up conversations w

Lily during their past encounters. She didn't take his words

five or six

get started with the treatment. He had been ready to play a matchmaker, but Xavier's phone call had completely

people hiding their bad deeds, but never had he encountered someone who concealed

head around Xavier's insistence on keeping the

and 40 seconds trying to persuade Xavier in the five minute

destroy his lab

ten seconds or so were Rowan begrudgingly agreeing to him

you an ophthalmologist when you regret your decision and cry your

a sour expression that even Lily could tell that he was in a foul

talk to her like he

at her several times as if he wanted to say something but held

ended, "Dr.

He lightly smacked himself on his lips twice once he was outside. "Hold it

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