The Enticing CEO’s Chosen Bride

Chapter 2085

Seth’s eyes twinkled with a hint of sardonic amusement, but hearing Damon’s words, he couldn’t help being a tad surprised. The always composed and suave CEO Damon, who was the very epitome of a gentleman, had his moments of wanting to curse someone out.

However, considering it was because of Chloe, it wasn’t that surprising after all.

With a smirk tugging at his lips, Seth’s gaze softened, concealing the emotions in his eyes. “I don’t remember the last time I saw your lady flustered like that.”

Damon didn’t bite, instead, he changed the subject. “Is everything set for tomorrow’s surgery?”

A crease formed between Seth’s brows as he looked up at Damon. “What, you’ve been running a background check on me?”

“I haven’t got that kind of hobby,” Damon replied coolly, his gaze drifting towards the direction Chloe had left. “Grandma mentioned it earlier today.”d2

Even though Seth wasn’t sure how much they knew, he didn’t plan on hiding anything from him.

“It’s taken care of.”

Damon’s expression darkened slightly at Seth’s confirmed suspicion. “So you’re just going to keep things like this?”

Seth chuckled, shaking his head. “One last time.”

Damon gave him a pointed look. “It better be. Handle your own messes without dragging others into them.”

Seth’s eyes flickered, holding Damon’s gaze for a few silent seconds, but Damon said no more and walked past Seth, chasing after Chloe.

Seth stood motionless, lost in thought.

Charlie, who had been eavesdropping, was thoroughly confused. Although he knew that Mr. Diaz and Mr. Harper had a good relationship, they never meddled in each other’s affairs. So the fact that Damon was clueless about Erik’s surgery was to be expected.

Damon’s sudden mention of the surgery, and his seemingly informed demeanor, had taken Charlie aback.

Their conversation had been terse and cryptic, but that last line about not always troubling others with personal issues was particularly puzzling.

“Mr. Diaz.” Charlie hesitated, looking at Seth, who hadn’t moved an inch.

Was it time to leave, or should they stay?

*

When Damon reached the emergency room, Chloe was pacing outside, her anxiety barely concealed. Seeing him, she glanced over his shoulder. “Did he leave?”

Damon wrapped his arm around her waist, guiding her to sit on a nearby bench.

“Seems like it.”

Chloe’s expression turned serious. “Lucky for us, Cicely’s call didn’t go through.”

She had been so nervous bumping into Seth; she couldn’t imagine how Cicely would have reacted. Moreover, if Cicely had shown up here, Hugo’s secret would’ve been impossible to keep.

“Let nature take its course. She can’t hide it from him forever.”

Damon gently rubbed the spot on her arm where Hugo’s shoe had hit, his tone flat.

Chloe had no counterargument, only taking a deep breath as she leaned into Damon’s embrace. “Seth seems smart enough, so why does he act just as foolhardy as Nathan in situations like this?”

Damon had no immediate answer, only managing to offer, “Different circumstances.”

Chloe looked up at him. “Also, you have too many bastards running around.”

Damon: “I tend to agree.”

A quiet laugh escaped Chloe, and Damon felt her relax against him, a smile playing on his lips.

*

Outside the hospital, a taxi came to a slow stop.

Cicely paid the fare and stepped out, looking up at the imposing hospital entrance. Her feet seemed rooted to the spot, and she didn’t move for the longest time.

Charlie, driving by, spotted her from a distance. Cicely was standing there, staring at the hospital, lost in thought.

“Mr. Diaz, it’s Ms. Cicely.”

slowly lifted his gaze towards Cicely. She was still there, her tall, slender figure like a statue. If not for her

ready to greet her, but Seth’s stern voice stopped

was taken aback, quickly rolling the

more, and although

before she seemed to muster the courage to walk towards

Seth’s car was parked not too far away. Through the window, his dark eyes watched Cicely’s retreating figure enter the hospital with a

*

in. The hospital had reported that his

high-end sterile room, with top-notch nursing

his room, Cicely peered through the observation window and saw her grandfather, an old man with gray hair, lying quietly in the center of the large sterile room, surrounded

from that distance, but the frail silhouette made her eyes well up with tears. Her hand on the doorknob

had loved her. But back then, overwhelmed by the loss of her father

disappointed in

assistant he had nurtured and trusted as a family for years, and finally had to

as if it was being squeezed by an

were you thinking, losing the people you loved most and hurting another just as dearly? Cicely, the person you should

streamed through her fingers as she covered her

wrong, so very wrong. All

me, may I

her. Cicely paused, wiping away her

nurse. The nurse paused when she saw the redness in her eyes

nodded, sensing that the nurse in front of her knew her grandfather, so she asked. “How is he

inexperience. “He’s stable for now, and if all goes well, tomorrow’s surgery should go smoothly. After all, it’s been three years,

Cicely froze. “Tomorrow’s surgery?”

every Thanksgiving, Mr.

surgery?” Cicely asked,

failing. Mr. Erik has a severe case of

High risk?

gaze faltered, her face paling as if drained of blood. She leaned weakly against the hospital room door, staring blankly. Her mind was

ask, “And where does the blood

and blood type match will undergo the

almost to

“Mr. Erik’s granddaughter.”

His granddaughter…

wasn’t her, it

*

hospital room, Cicely was stopped by four bodyguards. “No visitors allowed

“Isn’t that

remained stoic.

After a brief silence, Danielle suddenly stood up and

The assistant and two nurses hurried to stop her. “You can’t

at the door, her gaze icy. “Do you really think I could

here to see me. All I have to do

nurses and assistant knew little about her circumstances, but after her recent conversation with Mr. Diaz, as women, they felt

midst of their hesitation, Danielle had stepped forward and pulled the door to the

open. She turned and found herself face to

turned, sealing the

mockingly fixed

glanced at the three people behind Danielle, puzzled by the scene before her. But she sensed Danielle

returned to Danielle’s wrist, wrapped in a bandage, her brows furrowed, and a flash of coldness crossed Cicely’s eyes. “I came to

Seth be the one who knows

cold. Cicely remained silent, waiting for the visibly upset

fooled.” Mentioning Seth brought a wave of sorrow to Danielle’s voice. She clenched her fists, her perfectly manicured nails digging into her palms, painless against the torment in

sharply. “To make you hate him

at the sight of Danielle’s injured wrist. “So you’re

was clear. If Danielle truly wanted to save him, how could

swept over the nurses, the assistant, and the bodyguards. “What

“Danielle,

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