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Lily honestly didn’t think she’d be getting married anytime in the next ten years-maybe not even in the next twenty.
After divorcing James, all she wanted was to move to a quiet little town, surrounded by green mountains and clear water, and live a peaceful life.
But she’d already convinced him she had an old classmate she was in love with. She was worried that if she told the truth now, he’d think she was trying to cling to him again.
So she gave a small nod. “Yeah.. the wedding’s coming up.”
He’d already said so much; it felt wrong to keep refusing him.
“When you get married and have kids, I’ll send you a gift too,” she said.
Worst case scenario, she could just return the money, the house, the jewelry-give it all back as a wedding gift.
But the moment the words left her mouth, she realized they were a bit… cutting.
He looked so good. Surely after their divorce, he’d have no problem finding someone else.
But he didn’t have the ability to father children.
They were both incapable of bearing children; ‘why make things harder on each other?
Lily regretted it immediately. Embarrassed, she wished she could bite off her own tongue. She rushed to make up for it.
“Sorry. I didn’t mean to bring up something that hurts.”
“Your condition. maybe it can’t be cured yet, but medicine is always advancing, always progressing. I believe that one day, you’ll be completely healthy again, and your grandfather will get to hold his great- grandson.”
James furrowed his brows slightly.
There was nothing wrong with him. He didn’t need treatment. But his grandfather? Definitely couldn’t count on him.
James only ever wanted Leila.
Losing her meant he’d never marry-let alone give his grandfather a great-grandchild.
But there was no need to explain all that to Lily,
He simply gave her a cold, distant “Mm.” ley air seemed to wrap around him; his expression grew so cold, it was as if his very skin had frozen over.
It was obvious-he was still deeply haunted by the fact that he wasn’t a “normal” man, that he couldn’t have children.
After all, what proud man could accept something like that? Lily wanted to comfort him.
But this topic was too sensitive. Even words meant to comfort would only stab at the wound.
So she wisely chose to stay silent..
“Lily.”
She froze for a moment. Just as she was about to take his clothes over to the fire to dry them, she heard his voice again-cold, emotionless, without the slightest warmth.
“You saved my life tonight. I owe you. If you ever need anything in the future-no matter what-1 won’t refuse.”
Lily was stunned. How could I possibly trouble him again after the divorce?
She quickly said, “You really don’t need to think twice about what happened tonight. Your mom and grandma have always been so kind to me. The whole Luke family made me feel warm and welcome, and you’ve saved my life more than once. I’m truly grateful to all of you, I honestly think meeting you all was one of the luckiest, most beautiful things that’s ever happened to me. The only reason I saved you tonight was because I didn’t want your mom and grandma to suffer the heartbreak of losing you. Besides, if you hadn’t driven into the river and gotten out of the car yourself. I wouldn’t have even had the chance to save you. I just carried you to this cave-1 didn’t really do much. You don’t owe me anything”
She spoke lightly, clearly unwilling to take credit for anything, but James knew just how much fear she must have faced tonight.
The people behind Miye were lunatics who didn’t care about their lives. Coming to find him had meant she was risking her own.
With how brutal those men were, if they’d been caught, they wouldn’t even have died with intact bodies.
Even with her carrying him into this cave, there was still a chance those men could’ve found them.
She had helped him in a huge way tonight. Even if she refused to take credit, this debt-he would never forget it.
Watching her lips, still slightly swollen from his kiss, move as she spoke; seeing that soft, watery light flickering in her eyes-he found himself momentarily dazed.
He kept thinking how much her eyes and lips resembled Leila’s.
But Lily shouldn’t have been on that riverside road tonight.
Leila, however, would have passed that exact road while returning to the city from the resort.
The suspicion in his heart deepened. As unlikely as it sounded-no matter how impossible it was for a man to become a woman-he couldn’t stop himself from asking. “Lily, why were you on the riverside road tonight?”
Lily hadn’t expected him to suddenly ask that
Catching the suspicion in his eyes, she felt a little guilty.
She hadn’t even come up with a good excuse before his voice broke through again-this time tinged with a
Tremor.
“Who are you, really? Are you… Leila?”
Lily had never imagined he would actually suspect she was Leila. Her heart skipped a beat; guilt and panic surged through her in waves.
She had worked so hard to use Leila’s identity to draw a clear line between them. There was no way she could admit that Leila and Lily were the same person.
Taking a deep breath, she quickly replied, “Leila? That name sounds kind of like mine, but I don’t know who Leila is. I passed the riverside road tonight because I went to the cemetery this afternoon to sell my parents.”
I must really be losing it. James thought.
Once again, he had found himself wondering if Lily and Leila were the same person.
Lily and Leila… aside from the shape of their eyes, lips, and waist, they had nothing else in common. Hose could they possibly be the same?
Lily’s body was unbelievably soft..
But when he’d held Leila earlier-though they’d both been clothed-he’d clearly felt how firm her chest was
It had to be that she was slim but had well-developed chest muscles.
Lily could never have chest muscles. He really had gone mad from missing Leila.
Ashamed of confusing Leila and Lily again, James gave a cool grunt in response and closed his eyes to rest.
Before he drove into the river, he had already informed Ashton to bring people over.
If those lunatics from Miy? had all come out tonight-then this was the perfect chance to wipe them out in one go.
Seeing that James no longer suspected her, Lily let out a quiet breath of relief.
With his eyes closed like that, it was clear he didn’t want to talk to her.
Not wanting to overstay her welcome, Lily quickly looked away from the muscles on his chest, abdomen, and that defined V-line. She picked up the clothes from the ground and walked toward the fire to dry them.
James, with his eyes shut, found his hearing sharper than ever. Of course, he heard the rustling sound of her picking up clothes.
She was clearly planning to dry them for him.
After everything she’d been through to save him tonight, she was probably still shaken. garms and legs. There was no way he’d let a young woman stand
But he was a grown man-with working there drying his clothes.
He stood up, his long legs striding out quickly, and moved to take the clothes from her himself.
“Lily”
“Ah?”
Hearing his voice, Lily turned around on reflex.
Crisis
She hadn’t expected him to be so close. And she definitely hadn’t expected that as she turned, he was will stepping forward.
With the sudden turn and the short distance between them, she collided straight into his firm chest,
The impact startled her so badly she nearly jumped.
Worried she might fall and make a fool of herself, she instinctively reached our for something to steady herself.
But in her blind panic-rather than finding her balance-she ended up grabbing his chest Repeatedly Like some kind of female pervert.
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