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

reached out and took the test results from her hand. His tone was gentle. "It will take at least a week for

and said in a deep voice, "Get

walked past Maeve and

was extinguished bit by bit until it

'As expected, he knows who poisoned me, but he

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he did not hring me here to let the doctor

me while he's

my

sake.

my imagination run wild, but he just walks away at any time. That's

and walked to the bed before she rolled herself into the blanket

a few hours, she finally

of the night, she felt the wound on her cheek itchy and hot. She

At t

s moment, a tall shadow stood by the bed and pressed

on a wall lamp and looked

and slightly purple, a sign that the poison had

had said.

was just as

strenuously, the poison that was not expelled from her body would slowly spread from the injured to all parts of her body. frowned and thought that he shouldn't have

that was held by him kept

The

Then, he unscrewed a box of ointment and slowly applied it to

refreshing fragrance smelled nice.

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

and chuckled.

ook like a a

up the next morning, she realized that it was just an illusion since

Maeve felt t

that there was a

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

her seat was on the farthest

healed yet. Why are you in a hurry to go back to work?" "As a designer, I

could rest for so many days because the designers in her company did not need to

making clothes, it had to be completed

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and apply medicine to your face twice a

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