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.”

a statue. If not for her right hand, which was tightly clutching

ready to greet her, but Seth’s stern voice

rolling the window back up.

commanded once more, and although

seemed to muster the courage to walk towards the

the window, his dark eyes watched Cicely’s retreating figure enter the hospital with a

*

hospital and which room her grandfather was in. The hospital had reported that his condition was stable, which was why she had allowed herself

staying in a high-end sterile room,

through the observation window and saw her grandfather, an old man with gray hair, lying quietly in the center of

from that distance, but the frail silhouette made her eyes well up with tears. Her hand on the doorknob turned white with tension as guilt and remorse enveloped her. She struggled to breathe

the loss of her father and Issac, the desire to hurt Seth, and her own turmoil,

disappointed

and trusted as a family for years, and finally had to be heartlessly abandoned by his own granddaughter, whom he

heart felt as if it was being squeezed by an iron claw, gnawed on by countless worms of discomfort and

herself. “Compared to your grandfather’s suffering, what was your self-righteous pain worth? What were you thinking, losing the people you loved most and hurting another just as dearly?

fingers as she

very wrong. All her choices

I ask who

from beside her. Cicely

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

nodded, sensing that the nurse in front of her knew her grandfather,

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?”

Mr.

surgery?” Cicely asked,

a severe case of hematopoietic dysfunction. The annual Thanksgiving surgery involves removing the ‘bad’ blood and infusing new, fresh blood. It’s

High risk?

the hospital room door, staring blankly. Her mind was a tangled

managed to ask, “And where does

whose bone marrow and blood type match will undergo the procedure simultaneously,

to the point of distortion. “And

“Mr. Erik’s granddaughter.”

His granddaughter…

it wasn’t her, it must

*

hospital room, Cicely was stopped

“Isn’t that

stoic.

for a moment. After a brief silence,

Danielle!” The assistant and two nurses hurried to stop her. “You can’t go

icy. “Do you really think I

see me. All I have to do is open this door. Do you think those four

and assistant knew little about her circumstances, but after her recent conversation

moment, then looked at each other. In the midst of their hesitation, Danielle had stepped

unexpectedly swung open. She turned and found herself face

turned, sealing the

cold laugh, her eyes mockingly fixed on Cicely outside, who was visibly perplexed. “Isn’t

spoke up. Cicely glanced at the three people behind Danielle, puzzled by the scene before her. But

flash of coldness crossed Cicely’s eyes. “I came to ask about

Seth be the one who knows best? You’re here to

together, her gaze cold. Cicely remained silent, waiting

her fists, her perfectly manicured nails digging into her palms,

rose sharply. “To make you hate him less,

the sight of Danielle’s injured

the importance of Danielle’s blood was clear. If Danielle truly wanted to

room as her eyes swept over the nurses,

hunch. “Danielle, he’s your grandfather

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