The Unfaithful Mr. Scott novel (Eugene and Melanie)

Chapter 144

It was late at night by the time when Melanie got back to the hotel.

She had not had dinner yet. Fortunately, the hotel allowed food deliveries, so she just called for something simple.

She had just finished eating when Xander called.

“It’s late,” she said. “Is something the matter?”

“Reny suddenly had appendicitis. She’s in the hospital now,” Xander said with a sigh. “Aren’t you in the hospital too? Have you eaten yet?”

Reny was that honest and straightforward girl. Melanie remembered her.

She frowned. “I’m already back at the hotel. Is Reny’s situation serious? Do you need my help?”

Xander paused. “You’re already back at the hotel?”

“Yes, I came back after my drip.”

“I do have something I need your help with,” Xander said hesitantly. “It happened so suddenly. Reny was supposed to be in charge of some information planning, but she was just rolled into the operating theater.”

understood what he was getting at. “If it’s just gathering information and

sure you’re

gone, so it

different from her previous projects. It was more official, with

why Xander took this project very seriously. If not for the heavy stakes, he would not have bothered Melanie when she

after the drips. She slept soundly until the

had arranged to meet Xander at the hotel lobby, and he was

flask. “Stephen said you liked

before taking it. It was warm peppermint tea

with Stephen and did not

you go out

realizing what she meant. He laughed. “I called him last night

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me how you were, and I said that you had a fever, so he asked me to

Melanie nodded and said, “I’ll thank him when I get

another

other members of the studio were already waiting for