chapter 1213

Francisco frowned and said nothing.

‘I agreed to show up to the meal arranged by that woman named Lucy only because she said that they wished to extend their gratitude through a meal. It’d be rather rude if I were to say no to such a warm invitation.

‘To this day, all of Lucy’s actions have been very deliberate. It’s obvious that she’s trying to make a couple out of Naomi and me. I’m not really sure if it’s Naomi’s intention or if she arrived at such a decision without Naomi’s authorization.’

After his incident with Maizie, Francisco had been very wary toward all women.

‘Nobody can guarantee that I won’t run into another Maizie.’

At the hospital...

Mrs. Hannigan was sitting beside the hospital bed and feeding Nathaniel congee. Because Nathaniel had just undergone a craniotomy and was still recovering, all he could do was basically lying on the bed, and he would need someone to raise the head of the bed if he wanted to get up.

Tanner came in through the door at this time.

Nathaniel took a glance at him, took back all the words that were about to escape his mouth, and chose not to look at him at all.

Mrs. Hannigan looked up at him. “ Your father has just regained consciousness, so

responded with a

even utter a word. He continued to eat the

first.” Mrs. Hannigan stood up after Nathaniel finished his meal, and she did not forget to adjust the height of the head of the bed and tuck the

the father

refused to say a word from beginning to

only sat on the

with his father for two hours, and his father had fallen asleep long ago. He was very annoyed and went to the stairway to smoke. He leaned against the wall and went through half a packet of cigarettes, one after

saying that she could be discharged from the hospital and would wait

it was something else. He put the phone back

phone call in the middle of

phone and answered the call.

party said, “Excuse me, are you Mr. Hannigan’s fiancee? Mr. Hannigan has gotten drunk, and he’s asked

eyes, sat up slowly, and brushed her long hair backward with the palm of her hand. “I’m not. You’ve

to have grabbed his phone back. His voice was almost unrecognizable, and he sounded very drunk. “Pearl,

Hannigan, you’ve drunk too much.” Pearl

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