Her Heart Her Terms (Lily and Xavier)

Chapter 279

Chapter 279

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The phone rang again as Terence got into the car and answered it.

"Weren't we supposed to go on a blind date tonight? Why did you stand the woman up?" Richard's voice was stem, and his frustration was palpable even through the phone

Terence fastened his seatbelt, his voice calm and cool. "lludworkto handle. And I didn't stand her up. Tealled her in advance,"

Richard wasn't convinced. "You told her half an hour before the date that you weren't coming. How is that not standing her up?"

"I'm just not interested in blind dates," Terence said bluntly, "With the year-end approaching, work's hectic. Please stop arranging these things for me." "Are you not interested in blind dates, or do you have someone in your heart?" Richard's words hit the mark, as he had already noticed something. "Suddenly going abroad and then coming back-it's probably for a woman. What? Her family background isn't good, and she's not from our circle? "At least bring her home so your mother and can meet her. We're open-minded. We don't demand a perfect match."

more open-minded."

was silent for a moment before answering in a stiff tone, "Perhaps you need to

ordinary families, let alone a family as prominent as the Devereuxxfamily,

had to keep the years of feelings buried

for a few seconds, unable to fathom just how open-minded they had to be. Was Terence's crush a disabled person? Was she extremely ugly! Or was

should rest early." Terence ended

him and Richard was clearly caused by Richard's pressuring

to show just how andous

soon and kept rejecting their arrangements, they would stop forcing blind dates and start directly pushing for a marriage. Time was running

the top floor,

left Lily feeling unsettled. She thought about it for

was an unlikely possibility, and there was no need to worry about

hours at work and evenings spent with Maryanne. Life became so fulfilling that the only time she thought about Xavier was late at

overtime, as the

the door and instinctively stood up. Before she could see who it was, she was knocked back into

out some renovations? Which house