The Heir's Secret Bride

Chapter 47

Byron seemed completely oblivious to the situation. As he watched her with her eyes closed, her long lashes fluttered gently, like the wings of a butterfly. Her pale cheeks were tinged with a soft blush, and her small, delicate lips were pressed together in a shy expression.

His eyes darkened as he leaned closer to Maeve's ear and teased, Maeve, if you sweet-talk me a little, I might just let you take a peek." Maeve was taken aback.

"Who wants to look at you?" Maeve's face turned an even deeper shade of red as she snapped back, frustrated. "Do you feel out of sorts if you don't flirt with me for a day?"

Her skin was so delicate that whenever she heard things like this, the blush on her face would spread all the way to her neck and shoulders, turning a lovely shade of cherry blossom pink. Ishe was normally an eight, in these moments, she was a perfect ten. Byron's on's gaze lingered on her soft, slender neck for a moment before he casually looked away. After they left the bathroom, Maeve suddenly became curious about something.

"Mr. Mcdaniel, what are you going to do about the bathroom when I'm at work?" she asked.

Since he didn't like other people touching him, it seemed unlikely he'd let a nurse help him. She thought, 'So, what is he going to do? "Then I'll just have to manage on my own," he answered.

With that,

Byron picked up a magazine, his long fingers flipping at open leisurely as if the issue didn't concern him at all.

Annoyed, Maeve asked,

Then why did you need me to help you just now?"

Without even looking up, Byron replied, "Why should I struggle when I have someone to help?"

Maeve was speechless. He had her there.

Just then, her phone buzzed on the couch.

Maeve picked it up and saw a message from her landlord at Pinehurst Apartments.

The landlord said a package had arrived for her a couple of days ago, and if she didn't pick it up soon, it would be thrown.

oul.

oul.

Maeve was puzzled, thinking. I have already collected all my packages from that address and have updated my information, so how could something still be sent to my old place?

a photo, and sure enough, it was addressed to her. The sender's details were blurry, so she

wasn't far, Maeve decided to go pick

returned to the hospital with the package in hand, opening it as she walked down the hallway. "I don't even remember ordering anything like this. How did it end up being sent to my old apartment?" she said. Byron, who was reviewing some documents, heard her and something clicked in his mind. His

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cold. cold.

but she had already opened the

A pile

out, scattering across the

was her old apartment's living room... the photos. Maeve's mind went blank, her face draining of color as her hands trembled while trying to

undress in the living room, let alone appear as

She

in my dolls, wasn't impossible that he drugged me and took these photos without my knowledge. Maeve

them

fallen out of

mind was consumed by the shock of those photos,

as he half-knelt

blood streaming from her

eyes.

are

the photos, oblivious

until she heard Byron's words that the emptiness in her eyes started to

"Fake?"

Fake?

own body?" Byron's voice grew more assertive. "Look closely. The only thing real in these photos is your face; the rest is all

Maeve stared at his stern expression, then snapped out of her daze and quickly looked down at the photos in

panicked earlier, and with Jeff's history of secretly installing cameras in her home, she had immediately feared

editing, but she knew her own body well. Her waist was much slimmer, without any excess fat, and her shoulders were more delicate than those in the photos. Most importantly, the "she" in the photos had a mole on her lower back-something she didn't have. Noticing these inconsistencies, Maeve's frantic mind slowly

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looked up, about tersay something to Byron, only to realize he had gotten out of bed. Her expression changed

"Mr.

do your knee and right hand feel? Are you in pain? Should I call the doctor?" Getting out of bed had certainly caused him pain. And after seeing her cut hand, he had

in front of her, except for his

fine. Don't make