After adjusting my breathing in the bathroom for a while, I decided to clear things up with Lucas as soon as possible and returned to the private room.
Maybe because I had left in such a hurry earlier, the door wasn’t fully closed, and I could hear the voices from inside.
“Luke, even though Wendy’s my cousin, I have to be fair. If you want to get back together with her, you should be honest with Ivy. You’ve been together for so many years, and she even saved your life. If you have any conscience, don’t play her for a fool!”
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I stopped my hand that was about to push open the door.
So Lucas and Wendy knew each other from before? They had even been together?
“With Ivy’s personality, if I say we should break up, she’ll leave immediately. She has no family left – where would she go without me? Don’t get involved in this. Keep your mouth shut in front of Ivy, and I’ll talk to Wendy myself…”
From Lucas’s words, it seemed he wanted to discuss marriage with Wendy while keeping me in the dark?
Taking a deep breath, I withdrew my hand from the door and turned to leave.
Less than half an hour after I got home, Lucas returned too.
“Ivy, are you feeling unwell? Should we go to the hospital?”
His concern didn’t seem fake. But that’s exactly why I felt even more disgusted.
“I’ve already taken some medicine. Don’t you remember? I know medicine myself.”
After scrutinizing me for a while and seeing that I really didn’t seem to be ill, Lucas breathed a sigh of relief.
“That’s good. By the way, Adam said he’s throwing a welcome party for his cousin tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?”
Closing my eyes briefly, I replied flatly:
“I won’t go. I have an appointment for a house call tomorrow.”
Lucas’s attention was drawn to his phone again, and he just gave a distracted “Oh” after a while.
When I came back from using the bathroom in the middle of the night, I saw Lucas’s phone screen lit up on his pillow.
Out of trust, I had never touched his privacy all these years.
I was just going to turn off the screen and put it back.
But the content that met my eyes made me hold my breath.
[I didn’t expect Aunt to set us up on a blind date. Luke, I’ve missed you so much these past years.]
Looking at the time the message was sent, it must have been right before Lucas came back from the blind date and said Adam had invited us
out.
Lucas hadn’t replied to this message.
Next were messages from after Lucas and I arrived at the club.
