Chapter 433 Confession in the Fever

Chapter 433 Confession in the Fever

Lily remembered she had just seen James the day before.

At the time, he had still been every inch the tall, handsome, impossibly refined man–how could he have. wasted away overnight?

Ashton, the sly little fox, was clearly exaggerating. He could see perfectly well that Mr. James had already fallen hopelessly for Ms. Lily, so of course he was going to make him sound as pitiful as possible to tug at her heart.

He even dabbed dramatically at the corner of his eye. “Just before I came out, Mr. James was still calling your name, Ms. Lily. His voice is completely hoarse…”

“A man nearly six foot three, skin and bones now, and he just keeps crying… it’s pitiful.”

Lily: “…”

Skin and bones–she doubted that.

James crying? She doubted that even more.

Still, knowing he was burning with fever and refusing treatment left her deeply uneasy.

As soon as Ashton’s car rolled to a stop in front of the main house, she didn’t waste a second and rushed for the master bedroom.

“Lily…”

The moment she pushed open the slightly ajar door, she heard James’s low, pain–laced murmur: “Lily…” “Mr. James, if you don’t want an injection, at least take the medicine. Your fever won’t break without it-” Several doctors stood at his bedside, speaking in urgent, worried tones.

finish, he cut them off with stubborn resistance. “I

“Mr. James-”

were beside themselves, trying

Lily, pointed subtly at the bottle of medicine on the

shut the

“Lily…”

flushed from the fever, his

She touched his forehead.

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433 Confession in

Scalding.

fever’s really high. Will

“Lily?”

voice, he

had muddled his mind, and even awake, he didn’t seem to know if this was a dream or

he loved to the marrow yet that tore at his heart, he spoke like he had in countless dreams, a raw note of accusation in his voice. “You are Lily—so

“What?”

him to have already figured out she was Leila. The shock left

her wits, he went on. “I know you’re Leila. That night I sent Lily messages, your phone kept going off. Lily, why did you lie to me, say you were a man? Why, when we met, did you tell me you’d marry

“I…”

dawned on her–he must have heard her phone that night she’d left it in his

must have sent all those messages to confirm whether

her now, eyes reddened, and ask why

your forehead is burning. Please, just drink

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