Chapter 72 The New Wife.

Chapter 72 The New Wife

Wayne hesitated for à long moment, then finally gave in and made the call.

Lily had just reached to put her phone on silent when she saw Wayne’s name flash on the screen.

She didn’t mind Wayne. After a pause, she picked up.

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The moment the line connected, his voice came through–rushed and urgent. “Ms. Lily, I’m so sorry to bother you this late, but John drank a lot. He has a fever and won’t let the doctor treat him. He keeps calling out for his wife–saying he has to find you. Could I trouble you to come and calm him down, get him to cooperate with treatment?”

Lily froze slightly.

She couldn’t help but recall the last time John had gotten this drunk–when Elsa had just returned to the country. That night, John had cried out, “Wife,” over and over again too.

Her heart had softened. She went back to him.

And what came after that?

He hurt her again and again–all for Elsa.

She had already made the decision to let go. She wouldn’t repeat the same mistake.

When she had been chatting with James earlier, she’d fallen into a bit of a trap.

He had said he didn’t want anyone knowing they were married, and she’d instinctively taken that to mean she couldn’t tell anyone she was married either.

But really, as long as she didn’t say her husband was James, there was nothing stopping her from telling people she was a married woman.

Lily, please,” Wayne tried again,

cool and distant, cutting him off. “Today is the day I registered my marriage. I’m already married.

did you just

Lily had just said was so shocking, so unthinkable, that he couldn’t help but blurt out, “You… you said you got married? Did I hear

heard me,” she said calmly. “Tonight is my wedding night with

John–she took a photo of her

married,

thought maybe it was just

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he saw the

the man’s identity hidden, there was no

It was real.

in the blink of an eye, had

off every possible path back. Severing

Wayne’s hand suddenly

learned Lily

The storm was coming.

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Wayne hung up, John still refused to be

exhaustion. The doctor

wanted to stay at his

pride wouldn’t

of the doctor, Wayne, and the others. She

in her mind, all of it–the shame, the public embarrassment–it was

her mother. “Mom, tonight John pushed me down…

Lily’s around, John will never be

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