Chapter 153

"In terms of family background, ability, and feelings for you, how can she compare to me?" At the end of the questioning, Karen's voice became hoarse. It was filled with unwillingness and resentment. She was unwilling to accept that someone like Maeve could get the man she had admired for a long time. She even blamed Gilbert for objecting to her relationship with Byron in the first place.

She thought that since her father was indebted to Byron, she was the most qualified to marry Byron.

"I've warned you from

om the very beginning," Byron said slowly her.

His eyes were calm and emotionless. "Maeve is mine."

Even if Maeve were his pet, he wouldn't allow anyone to

Karen could not believe what she was hearing and completely lost her rationality. "Are you sure Maeve is yours? She's clearly having an affair with Alex, and you don't care?" Hearing this, Byron narrowed his eyes. "Did you get someone to take those photos?"

He now figured out why it was so coincidental that it was delivered to him when he returned to the country.

Karen yelled, "I just don't want you to be deceived by this flirtatious woman!"

"Mind your own business." As soon as Byron finished speaking, he hung up the phone and looked up at the French window.

When he saw Maeve pick up a piece of paper from under the sofa, his expression suddenly became nervous. He turned around and walked quickly to the couch.

Maeve had already finished reading the contents of the paper.

It was a test report.

The blood from her wound and the ointment prescribed by the hospital were tested.

The results showed that there was no problem with the ointment.

There was poison in her wound, which wasn't caused by a bacterial infection.

The

The

person

who caused the wound on her face was Karen.

Maeve looked up in a daze and met Byron's gaze.

a few seconds of silence, she asked, "I was clearly poisoned. Why did you lie to me that it was a bacterial infection?"

After a

her hand. His tone was gentle. "It will take at least a week for the doctor to help you treat this wound.

at her for a few seconds and said

that, he walked past Maeve and walked out of the

eyes was extinguished bit by bit until it disappeared into

expected, he knows who poisoned me, but he still

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turns out that he did not hring me

me while he's still

my

sake.

he just

laughed self-deprecatingly. She propped herself up on the couch and walked to the bed before she rolled herself into the blanket

turning for a few hours, she

on her cheek itchy and hot. She couldn't help but

At t

shadow stood by the

on a wall lamp and looked at Maeve's

red and slightly purple, a sign that the poison

had said.

just as Anthony

would slowly spread from the injured to all parts of her body. frowned

that was held by him kept moving around, trying to scratch

The

her wrists with one hand. Then, he unscrewed a box of ointment

refreshing fragrance smelled nice.

Maeve's tightly knitted brows gradually relaxed. She rubbed against the pillow and fell

and chuckled.

"You look ook

last night. When she woke up the next morning, she realized

Maeve felt t

there was a very

downstairs. After breakfast, she hitched a ride to the office with Byron. She did not say a

her seat was on the farthest side

paused slightly. He said calmly, "Your wound hasn't healed yet. Why are you in a hurry to go back to work?" "As a designer, I don't rely on my face to

many days because the designers in her company did not need to clock in on time. They

came to the process of making clothes, it had to be completed

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come and apply medicine to your

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