Chapter 55

After they came into the lounge, Isabella remembered something, and she

looked at Seth. “You can’t leave that place now, Mr. Shaffer.” If Mr. Gosling

wakes up, the first impression would work in our favor. We can’t let someone

else take that chance away.

Seth sat down and massaged his forehead. He quietly said, “He’s not an idiot.

You think waiting for him for hours would tip anything in their favor?”

Isabella couldn’t argue. Things were getting a little icy, but Nicolas came in

with the doctor in time, and Isabella heaved a sigh of relief.

The doctor looked at Isabella’s ankle, and he clicked his tongue. “Why’d you

drag it out for so long? This is serious.”

Chapter 55 Shut Up, Seth

Isabella smiled and lied, “I had something urgent.”

And then Seth gave her a look.

“Nothing’s more important than your health. Can’t do anything without good

health.” The doctor sighed and wrote down a prescription, then he told

Nicolas to get the meds.

Seth was still seated. Curtly, he asked, “Complications?”

The doctor looked at him and politely said, “Won’t leave any complications,

but if left untreated, she’ll be susceptible to more sprains. It’ll end up being a

big problem if she sprains her ankle too much.”

Seth pursed his lips, and then he looked at Isabella’s ankle.

Chapter 55 Shut Up, Seth

Isabella’s heart thumped furiously. She hoped the doctor would make an

ankle sprain sound terminal. That’d give her more leeway when she wanted

to ask for a favor from Seth.

Once the doctor was gone, Seth asked, “How’d you find Shawn?”

air, and she leaned backward in

was strenuous. “I went through a

any way to contact him. Keyword search led me to

Said she took care of him once, and I got

crossed his arms. He praised, “Not a total moron,

wanted to make the

“So why’s he willing

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then she snapped out of it. “Oh,

I went to

did you

gaze. “Um, we might’ve climbed over his

wall.”

at her swollen ankle and sighed. “So, you hurt your ankle

time because of

house is only a two-story unit, or it’d

been bad for me.”

and took back his praising tone. “You could’ve asked

to make the climb.”

Shut Up,

shirt was stuck to a branch, and he

make it back down.

Seth narrowed his eyes and kept looking at Isabella. “Shawn’s

How’d you convince

and sighed. “Doctors

things clear

eyes filled with scorn. “Someone held a knife against

still wouldn’t save the people he didn’t

You call him kind?”

mused over that statement. “So, you

obvious he wants to woo you,” Seth

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she turned around to look at Seth.

into it. We only

and I

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a conference two years ago. That was about the time he

looked

Now you have a good memory.

Just skip the formalities and say, ‘I

was

than you and

mad, and she sighed. She tried her best

intention, Mr. Shaffer. Whether he was

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