Chapter 284

At the same time, Xavier didn't want Lily to get too comfortable accepting the "charity from the Devereux family.

She stared at him for a few seconds. "Xavier, are you crazy?"

He suddenly appeared as a client-was he really asking her to design a house for him?

"The case is here." Xavier threw a property deed and a design contract onto the table

He had come fully prepared. The marital home that Sarah had burned was still left unresolved, and he didn't know how to handle it. Now, it seemed, Lily would design it again.

She recognized it as Glenview Villa, and for a moment, she was hit by a wave of painful memories. Her face turned pale uncontrollably.

"Ireject

"I'll file a complaint then." His face darkened, in st

in stark contrast to hers.

please them, but when i I came to him,

walked out, smiling ingratiatingly at Xavier. "Lily's been a bit busy lately. Let me rearrange her schedule, and I'll make sure your

in his mind. He hadn't even looked at the contract but gestured for Lily to sit

a man like Xavier had power and money-he didn't need

stop standing there. If you close this deal, the headquarters will treat you like the pillar

he urged, "Otherwise, the issue of your absence yesterday won't be

couldn't compete with the power

the contract, and was about to take a look when she felt a

grabbed her wrist, and his rough palm

came for a designer, not a complainer." He was dissatisfied with

laughed awkwardly, blinking rapidly,

Ashford, I'll handle it

wouldn't sign and worried about getting involved in

they were alone in the break area, she pulled her

fell away, and a strange feeling pulled at his

exuding a carefree, rogue-like air, but she could sense that beneath his rogue act, there was a deep desire for control over her. This need for control had only started showing up after she tiled for

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