One year, one love by Aurora Miller

Chapter 74

Chapter 74

Lewis went downstairs and had just sat in his car when he received a call from Doris. “I’m staying here with Mom tonight, so Sis can go home and rest. You don’t need to come to the hospital. Just go home and catch up on sleep.”

“Alright,” Lewis replied. “If you need anything, let me know, and I’ll bring it over.”

“No need. Sis will bring it for me tomorrow.” Doris paused for a moment. “Did my dad give you a hard time?”

“He wants me to divorce you,” Lewis said bluntly.

Doris felt her heart clench. Her palms began to sweat. “And what did you say?”

“Take a guess.” Lewis was in the mood for a little teasing.

Doris couldn’t figure it out. After all, their marriage was only in name. “I can’t figure it out,” she said.

“You think I’d just divorce you because he told me to? I’m not that obedient.”

“Then my dad must have said a lot of awful things.” Doris knew her father never gave up until he got what he wanted.

Lewis said lightly, “His talent in that regard doesn’t even measure up to a tenth of mine.”

Doris understood that the more casually Lewis spoke, the more difficult the situation must have been. Jimmy never spared anyone’s dignity when trying to get his way.

Guilt welled up in her heart. “If you had known from the start that my parents and brother were like this, that my family was like this, would you still have agreed to marry me?”

Lewis reaffirmed. “I don’t answer hypothetical questions. But since we’re already married, we’ll face what comes together. Doris, don’t be afraid. You still have me, don’t you?

“Besides, is there any family without some petty drama? This is normal. I think you’re a decent person, different from them. I can put up with it.”

Doris didn’t know how to respond. She thought, ‘Is this his way of comforting me? If he didn’t know what to say, couldn’t he just say less?‘

“Go home already,” Doris said, knowing that Lewis had been running around all day.

after

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home, Lewis slept for another four hours

asked his secretary to

a bag on Lewis’s desk, and then sat in

Lewis took

smirked, “Up till midnight? You mean what I think you mean? Lewis, have you finally come around? Having a wife really is different, huh? Must’ve been intense in bed.”

overthinking it.” Lewis shot him a

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and toyed with it. “Can’t I just come

nonsense.”

for a month now, right? She’s not just decent–looking–she’s actually pretty. You really don’t feel anything for her?” Ivan doubted if there was something wrong with

name. You

just words. You two are real people. Even if something happens, it’s

eyebrow, his gaze turning cold. “Put that back

returned the ornament to its place, but he wasn’t done stirring the pot.

He really wanted to throw

grinning, “It’s too improper for you to be

shot him a sharp

“Chris is

before heading out

Danis Hartman, who worked

the hospital operated independently, its director was Lewis’s second uncle, Armstrong Hartman, the

night, he

must get this matter settled; otherwise, Peyton would continue to suffer in the

made you think of calling me?”

rooms available? Get me one,”

are left.” Danis was curious about who could make his usually indifferent

I’ll cover the cost.” Lewis knew that a VIP room was quite expensive per day.

tell me which patient it’s for, so I

named Peyton on the 5th floor,” Lewis reminded him. “And don’t reveal my real identity to the

in Danis’s eyes as if he