The Bride’s Revenge

Chapter 78 No Matter What

Marion pursed her lips. She was too lazy to argue with him. “I’ve already packed everything. The things to take are in those two boxes.”

Lucas shifted his gaze to the boxes. “I’ll have the driver come up.”

He paused and looked at her right calf, which, despite being freed from the plaster, was still wrapped in bandages. “Can you go downstairs by yourself?” Marion raised an eyebrow. “Didn’t I just come upstairs by myself?”

Lucas abruptly stopped pressing the elevator button. He retrieved his phone from his pocket and walked to her.

Marion watched as he bent down in front of her. The oxygen around her seemed too thin and instead filled the air around her with his invigorating woody scent. It made her breath quicken.

“Wha- What’s happening?”

“You complained that I didn’t carry you up just now,

He put his hand on her waist as he spoke to her.

didn’t you?”

Before Marion could process the situation, she was lifted into his arms.

When did she complain?

Instinctively, she wrapped her arms around his neck. At the thought of her father waiting downstairs, her face turned crimson. “Put me down! I can go down by myself!”

Lucas looked at her and raised an eyebrow. “I don’t think you can,” he said calmly.

proceeded to carry

finished a call. He turned around and saw Marion being carried by Lucas.

“Isn’t your leg getting

“Yes, it’s getting better,

Lucas had insisted on carrying her,

leg is almost healed. It should not be a problem for her to walk such a

there was no need to

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those few stairs.

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placed Marion on the sofa. “Mar mentioned that her leg was a little

Marion’s waist. Then, he stood

her father that, Lucas walked away and left Marion and

Lucas’s retreating figure. “Mar, although it’s nice that Lucas dotes on you, we shouldn’t take it for granted, right?”

her head as she blushed. She had no idea how to explain the

know, Dad. I was wrong to

Lucas earlier, it would have

If she had met Lucas

close to him.

not say that to Richard.

at Marion. “I’ll go up and get your things.”

it was not right to let his son–in–law do all the work. “Lucas, just sit. I’ll have Howard go up and bring them down.”