Chapter 71

“That’s a pity. I quite like Tori.” Evelyn sighed lightly. “Then, why don’t you check when you’ll settle things with Bella?”

Christian frowned and didn’t reply.

“If you don’t have someone you like and you’re dragging it out like this, losing a few hundred million and making your grandfather unhappy won’t be worth it,” Evelyn warned.

Christian took a bite of the food. “I know what I’m doing.”

Evelyn heaved a long sigh. “Usually when you say so, I’ll be able to relax. But, for some reason, when I hear you say it this time, I feel even more worried.”

Christian lifted his eyes to glance at her before he lowered his head again to resume his meal, changing the subject. “Victoria burned her leg and is now in Alden Hospital.”

“How did she get burned?” Evelyn put down her spoon, her face slightly surprised and worried. “Is the injury serious?”

Christian replied, “She scalded herself with hot tea and needs to be hospitalized for some time.”

“Hot tea?” Evelyn raised her eyebrows slightly. “I heard that the kid from the Coleman Family ruined one of your clubhouses and splashed Bella with hot tea. Was the burn on Tori’s leg caused by Bella ‘accidentally’ scalding her with hot tea?”

Christian hummed in reply.

Evelyn tittered and said meaningfully, “I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing that their family has such a sly daughter.”

She looked at Christian, who was eating with his head down, and lightly knocked on the table twice. “You don’t usually come home for dinner. What’s with the sudden change? Did you come back just to tell me about Tori’s leg injury today?”

“You’re thinking too much,” Christian said.

and looked at her son’s handsome face with a serious expression.

cutlery down and wiped the

sighed. “All right,

up and looking at the caller ID, he placed it back on the table. Though his phone rang incessantly for more than thirty seconds, it failed to arouse his

the caller ID before glancing up at Christian with a

going to invite me to dinner, are you? Did I guess right? I’m sorry, Nancy, but I just

did Christian cancel the lawsuit against the Coleman Family’s son? I have no idea, really. He didn’t

is still at the office and didn’t come back. Yeah, okay,

phone, she glanced at Christian sideways. “You’re already an adult. Next time, make sure you settle things

I get, I’ll still be a child in front

him with a laugh before she got up and picked up her bag. “It’s still early. Come with me to the hospital to visit

the situation. The second half of the phone call was answered by Glen, and the whole

uttering a word of

then, the doctor came in and hooked up an IV drip to her. Then, he changed her bandages and warned with a dark expression, “Your leg has already been injured before, and you burned it again this time. If you don’t cooperate with the treatment properly, the wound will become inflamed or

him as if she had something on her mind. Her attitude angered the doctor, and after telling her to call for him or a nurse once the IV drip was finished, he left with an unpleasant look on

the door open and walked in while asking Christian to put aside the boxes of supplements he was carrying and the thermos containing the soup they brought from

the bed, but when she saw the two of them enter, she propped herself up with the support of the bed, her back

Evelyn sighed helplessly and

neck, nearly hugging her as he helped her lie down. His breath enveloped Victoria, and as her left ear was pressed against his

If an uninformed person comes over, they will definitely think

long, fair fingers flitted between the red peel and the yellowish flesh, as

of sweat forming at the

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