Shrouded Affections Winning Back My CEO Wife

Chapter 119

Chapter 119

Chapter 119:

Ruby was her lifeline, the person she would do anything to protect.

Bryan quietly held her hand as he listened. When she finished, he took a deep breath and said, “You’re lucky to have had a kind-hearted stepmother. My experience wasn’t quite like yours.”

His tone was casual, almost as if he was discussing something minor, yet his words effectively shifted Eileen’s focus. She looked up, her eyes slightly tear-filled, and gazed at him in surprise.

She knew little about Bryan’s family, but his words made her wonder… Did he also have a stepmother?

Her train of thought was cut short as the ICU door burst open, prompting her to rise quickly, her nerves rattled.

However, the nurse called for someone else, unrelated to Ruby.

This brief interruption not only severed Bryan and Eileen’s ongoing conversation but also helped Eileen regain her senses.

Pulling her hand away, she reverted to her typically reserved expression and said, “I’m sorry; I shouldn’t have shared all this with you. It’s getting late. You should head home.”

She then moved to the ward’s exterior and looked through the window at Ruby.

The diminishing sound of footsteps made her assume Bryan had departed, causing her heart to tighten.

Yet, when she turned around after standing tiredly for some time, she spotted a lone figure at the corridor’s end, a silhouette defined by the glow of a cigarette.

you

It was unmistakably Bryan.

first light in the corridor, Bailee and Huey showed up,

Bailee firmly persuaded her to leave

of Springvale Lane. Worn out in every

exhaustion of an all-night vigil, sleep remained elusive. Eileen tossed and

lighting of a sleep-inducing aromatherapy candle helped her finally

tension. Early in the morning, in a fit of

the documents onto his desk and loosened his tie. He then turned to Benjamin and demanded, “How is the

in a coma, under observation for seventy-two hours. Her waking up is now a matter of

chair,

said, “Where is

Benjamin’s chest, and he paused before responding, afraid that it wouldn’t be easy. “Bailee has a strong dislike for you, and the moment she

cold stare, swept the documents from his desk to the floor. “No matter what, find a

at her side every day, making it difficult to find

my request? I need to see Bailee as soon

Kian was visibly angered.

moment,

his way back to his office where he sat pondering deeply, glancing repeatedly at his

he recalled seeing a marriage certificate in Eileen’s bag on

he dialed a number. “Keep a close watch

the seventy-two-hour critical period behind her, Ruby had been moved to a standard ward. Her already thin hair, due to chemotherapy, had been shaved off, and

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