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He ripped the cooling patch from his forehead and shoved the doctor away. His voice was hoarse and cracked with longing. “Baby… I miss you so much… I want my wife…”
Wayne could only sigh.
He knew exactly who John meant by “wife.”
Lily.
And he couldn’t understand it-if John loved Lily this much, why did he always favor Elsa when he was sober? Why hurt Lily again and again?
Wayne peeled open a new patch and tried to reapply it, but before he could even touch John’s forehead, John shoved his hand away violently.
“Don’t touch me! I’m going to find my wife… It’s my birthday-I don’t believe she’d just abandon me today…”
“John…”
Elsa’s face turned dark with fury
She knew exactly who he meant. The last time John had gotten drunk, he’d done nothing but call Lily his wife.
And yet, when he was sober, he only ever called her by her full name-at most, a few lukewarm “Lily”s.
Why was it that, only in his most vulnerable moments, he would cry out for her like this?
Right now, Elsa hated Lily more than anything.
But she wasn’t about to give up. She gently held John’s hand and coaxed him in a soft voice,
“John, I’m here.”
He froze at the sound.
Then, all of a sudden, he sat up and grabbed her tightly, pulling her into a crushing embrace.
In the next second, he flipped and pinned her beneath him-domineering, full of feverish possessiveness.
“No more fighting, baby.”
John was always cool and distant, untouchable in the eyes of others.
Even with Lily, he rarely bowed his head.
But now, his fever had turned his mind to mush. The longing in his chest drowned out all rationality, all pride.
He just wanted to kiss her senseless-to take what he had been aching for.
His voice turned hoarse, laced with something like a child’s stubborn pleading. “You don’t want to make up with me… but it hurts. Baby, I don’t want to break up. I want to be with you forever. I want… to kiss you.”
And then he dove down, crashing his lips against Elsa’s painted red mouth like a starving beast.
Elsa, proud and aloof as she was, couldn’t stand being a replacement.
Humiliation surged in her heart.
But she also truly wanted something to happen between her and John.
Seeing Wayne and the doctor tactfully turn away, she took the chance-looped her arms around his neck and kissed him back with all the fervor she could muster.
“You’re not my wife!”
The doctor and Wayne hadn’t even left the room when John suddenly shoved Elsa off the bed.
He looked like a feral dog abandoned in a storm, eyes wild and lost. “I want my wife! Where is she?! Where are you hiding her?! Give her back to me!”
He scrambled off the bed, ready to storm out and look for Lily himself.
“Boss, you can’t go!”
Wayne was nearly in a panic seeing John in this state. “You’ve got a serious fever. If we don’t bring it down. soon, you could end up in real danger! Please-just let Dr. Calvin treat you!”
“I want my wife…”
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John didn’t seem to hear him. He just kept mumbling, lost in a fevered daze. “I have to find her…”
John was too strong..
Not even Wayne and the doctor together could stop him.
Wayne had to call in several bodyguards just to restrain him.
Even pinned to the bed, he refused to let anyone near him. Refused treatment. Refused help.
Wayne knew-Lily’s decision to leave had been final.
He hated to disturb her….
But John’s condition was getting worse, and Wayne was terrified it might truly end in tragedy.
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In his heart, he knew-only Lily could calm John down now. Only she could get him to accept treatment.
Wayne hesitated for ? long moment, then finally gave in and made the call.
Lily had just reached to put her phone on silent when she saw Wayne’s name flash on the screen.
She didn’t mind Wayne. After a pause, she picked up.
The moment the line connected, his voice came through-rushed and urgent. “Ms. Lily, I’m so sorry to bother you this late, but John drank a lot. He has a fever and won’t let the doctor treat him. He keeps calling out for his wife-saying he has to find you. Could I trouble you to come and calm him down, get him to cooperate with treatment?”
Lily froze slightly.
She couldn’t help but recall the last time John had gotten this drunk-when Elsa had just returned to the country. That night, John had cried out, “Wife,” over and over again too.
Her heart had softened. She went back to him.
And what came after that?
He hurt her again and again-all for Elsa.
She had already made the decision to let go. She wouldn’t repeat the same mistake.
When she had been chatting with James earlier, she’d fallen into a bit of a trap.
He had said he didn’t want anyone knowing they were married, and she’d instinctively taken that to mean she couldn’t tell anyone she was married either.
But really, as long as she didn’t say her husband was James, there was nothing stopping her from telling people she was a married woman.
“Ms. Lily, please,” Wayne tried again, his voice practically begging, “I-“
“Wayne.” Lily’s tone turned cool and distant, cutting him off. “Today is the day I registered my marriage. I’m already married. It’s not appropriate for me to be interfering in my ex’s affairs anymore.”
“…Ms. Lily, what did you just say?”
Wayne was usually calm and composed. But what Lily had just said was so shocking, so unthinkable, that he couldn’t help but blurt out, “You… you said you got married? Did I hear that right?”
“You heard me,” she said calmly. “Tonight is my wedding night with my husband. So please dont call me again.”
To stop any further contact-and to drive the point home to John-she took a photo of her marriage certificate, carefully covered James’s face and personal details with mosaic blur, and sent it to Wayne.
Truth be told, when she’d first said she was married, Wayne had still held out a sliver of hope.
He’d thought maybe it was just out of anger-just words.
But when he saw the photo…
Even with the man’s identity hidden, there was no denying the document’s authenticity.
It was real.
Ms. Lily had broken up with John-and in the blink of an eye, had married someone else.
She was cutting off every possible path back. Severing all ties.
The phone in Wayne’s hand suddenly felt scalding hot.
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