Her Heart Her Terms (Lily and Xavier)

Chapter 255

Chapter

255

"Let Lily advance? Gloria blurted out. Her tone was so shocked as it Xavier's words were utterly ridiculous.

"why?" Xavier asked Indifferently. "Is there a problem?"

"I thought you would be furious that there's something shady happening with Lily's competition and wanted to expose her," Sarah said while holding onto her evidence"

She had made the phone call because she assumed he would want to see it. In her mind, having Xavier expose Lily would be a greater blow to Lily than if she did it "Lily is my wife. I want her to submit to me, not to destroy her," Xavier said.

Although Xavier didn't understand design, he knew the rules of the Industry. It didn't matter if the insider scandal was true. Once it was exposed, Lily could never hope to have a chance to work in the industry ever again. It her identity as his wife were to become public in the future, it would drag the Fulton family into disgrace as well.

down, he hadn't given much thought about their upcoming cooling-off period. He always felt that

wait for my instructions," Xavier said. He realized he needed to see

she could still keep her resolve. His endless testing of Lily was nothing more than his self-esteem at play. He couldn't accept that his once-obedient wife had suddenly

with Sarah. She went downstairs and casually tossed the envelope Gloria had given her into her suitcase. She then grabbed her luggage to

intention of

her phone from the reception and when she tumed it

was from Maryanne, saying she and Terence were waiting for her in the basement parking

her tablet and laptop away,

broken away from the oppressive atmosphere in the hotel, the air felt refreshing here. Wrapped in a houndstooth scarf, Lily looked small and fragile as she huddled inside her black puffer jacket. Her

a shadowy silhouette. Terence's SUV approached, and as he watched the small, thin

are things not okay?" Maryanne asked, immediately

about the results. You just need to help her

as he finished speaking, Maryanne flashed an

with open arms and pulled Lily into a hug Maryanne was dressed in a rainbow sweater. She wrapped her arms