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.

about their upcoming cooling-off period. He always

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

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 become so rebellious. Lily wasn't the type to engage in petty arguments, especially at a time like this when

downstairs and casually tossed the envelope Gloria had given her into her suitcase. She then

no intention

and when she tumed it on, a flood of messages and missed

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

she packed her tablet and laptop away, and she headed straight

into the basement level. Having 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 ponytail bung messily over

silhouette. Terence's SUV approached, and as he watched the small, thin woman standing

are things not okay?" Maryanne asked,

Don't ask about the results. You just need to help her relax," Terence said

stopped in front of Lily as he finished speaking, Maryanne

miss you so much! Come and hug me, quickly!" Maryanne stepped forward with open arms and pulled Lily into a hug Maryanne was dressed in a rainbow sweater. She wrapped her arms around Lily, who was bundled in heavy layers, with ease. "Was the food here terrible? Let's go, I'll take you for something