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He could only grip his phone tighter, his face deathly pale as he whispered over and over, “Lillse, I’m

I’m sorry

After Lily got herself cleaned up, she ended up riding in James’s car after all.

She realized her legs were still shaky,

Her back hurt terribly too. She was afraid she’d cause an accident if she drove, and James hadn’t given her a choice he had simply picked her up and carried her to the car. So now, she was obediently sitting in the

back seat.

“Lily

James glanced at her through the rearview mirror and noticed how stiff she looked.

He knew it was ridiculous for a man to claim he still saw a woman as a sister after taking her body. That wasn’t just irresponsible–it was insulting.

But Lily was abour to marry the man she loved, and their grandparents had told him again and again that he should treat her like a true sister, protect her, care for her. He didn’t want her to be so uncomfortable, so he said coolly, “You don’t have to be this tense around me. From now on, just treat me like your older brother. We’re… family.”

Lily knew that ever since she’d moved into the princess room, Henry and Grace had truly started treating her like their granddaughter.

She liked James, and after everything that happened between them, it was hard to look him in the eye and pretend he was just a brother.

But if she didn’t make an effort to treat him that way, he’d probably worry she was clinging to him, and that would stress him out. After a pause, she softly replied, “Okay.”

James’s large hand on the steering wheel clenched tighter and tighter.

cold in an instant,

really had gone

told Lily to treat him like a

actually was treating him that way, the pain

him mad

on those wild, absurd thoughts raging in his mind and answered

didn’t speak again for the rest of

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long, James pulled up

incredibly awkward around

called him

the car and waving goodbye, she hurried to get away from his line

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the entrance, a

“Lily, your water bottle.”

thermos behind in her rush to get

witness a young man from one of the top families in the capital, the Scott family’s

puppy.

a glint of

“You’re the ex–husband, right?”

Ex–husband?

James’s brow furrowed.

didn’t like that label

started pressing down harder, Jackson shot him a cocky smile and added, “Let me

“Cough, cough…”

call himself her “one and only,” Lily nearly choked on her

came out of

name was Jackson, she quickly

the “poor college student” the agency had found for

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