Relentless Pursuit After Divorce by The nightingale lives

Chapter 84: 084. My face hurts_1

After the nurse went in, Sophie Baker steeled herself to look at Adam Jones. Although his face didn’t show much, she could still detect an increasing sense of impatience emanating from him.

"I’m... I’m sorry, I was just too worried about Lily just now. I didn’t mean to be noisy outside..."

"Enough."

Adam interrupted Sophie impatiently, "Doctors will handle Lily’s condition; making a fuss here won’t help Lily."

Sophie’s face grew even paler. Biting her lower lip, her eyes reddened, she lowered her gaze, and said no more.

She was a woman who knew her place, especially in front of Adam. For so many years, she had always been a woman of grace and propriety, little did she know that Adam was fully aware of all her thoughts but simply disdainful to entangle with her over these matters.

Time ticked by, second by second, and when the lights in the operating room finally went out, it was half-past five in the afternoon. After a grueling nine-hour surgery, Elly Campbell emerged with slightly trembling legs.

She had just removed her mask and hadn’t had a chance to catch her breath when she saw Christopher Moore rushing over, "Sis..."

worry; the surgery went well,

dash toward Lily Jones, who was being wheeled out of the operating

Dr. Campbell: "..."

her ward, Elly couldn’t

for her

looking at Christopher, Adam was also watching her, his

which even a robust man like him might find hard to endure, let alone her need to concentrate on performing surgery... it must have

heart tightened abruptly, and he subconsciously took a couple of

someone blocked her view. The familiar scent of his shower gel, despite the years that had passed, was

her bones. Even if she intended to forget Adam, the scent couldn’t

up, she met Adam’s deep, dark eyes, and the complex, turbulent

when Elly was about to step away, Adam caught her wrist. Her brow twisted involuntarily,

"Christopher is so preoccupied with Lily right now that he’s not in the mood to listen to you. You can discuss with me any post-operative care that needs to be