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Arabella Shaw stood on one foot outside the hospital room, peering through the window.
She watched Noah Quarter conversing with Julia Land.
A wave of jealousy surged in her heart.
She knocked on the door.
The agent helped Arabella sit down in the wheelchair and opened the door to the room.
“Secretary Land, I really want to thank you for saving Noah today,” Arabella put the lunchbox on the bedside cabinet, “I brought some food for you both.”
Julia Land glanced at Arabella and said indifferently, “Thank you, I would have helped anyone today.”
So she didn’t do it for Noah.
Arabella didn’t believe Julia’s words.
She just felt that Julia loved Noah.
Thinking this, Arabella felt even more depressed.
Especially when she heard that Noah had arranged a private plane to send Julia back to Dunmore City for her recovery.
This made Arabella somewhat uneasy.
Sometimes, a woman’s intuition is more sensitive than the emotionally obtuse men.
She didn’t want to admit that Noah had Julia in his heart.
It was just that he hadn’t realized it.
Not realizing was better.
Arabella’s eyes turned icy, she would never give Julia that chance.
Her hand rested on her stomach.
The child, as long as she had the child.
Julia and Arabella had nothing good to talk about, and Julia wouldn’t eat the food she brought.
She was afraid of being poisoned.
Arabella, cunning as a fox, only Noah enjoyed that.
Didn’t Noah know Arabella’s tricks?
He wasn’t a fool; he knew but chose to indulge her.
Because from high school to college, and then a separation of four years due to his
grandmother’s objection.
Arabella was his underlying obsession.
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Noah, needing to deal with today’s Issues, couldn’t stay in the hospital room with Julia.
“Julia, call me if you need anything. I’ll send you back to Dunmore City tomorrow, there will be someone to take care of you at home.”
“I understand, I want to rest now.”
Julia’s words to send him away were very cold.
Noah didn’t say anything, he thoughtfully glanced at her and then pushed Arabella’s wheelchair
out of the room.
In the car, Arabella clung to Noah’s arm.
“Noah, what are you thinking about?”
“Thinking about the company!” Noah closed his eyes to rest, a flash of someone blocking a bowl with their hand crossing his mind.
He spoke in a deep voice, “Tomorrow Julia will return to Dunmore City, and you should take the plane back too. I’m very busy here and worried about not being able to take care of you.”
Arabella softly responded, “Okay.”
With a somewhat bitter smile, she said, “Noah, Julia seems to really like you.”
“I don’t like her.
“She saved me, and I will repay her, but not with affection.”
Arabella embraced him, “I don’t want to be separated from you again, we have already been apart.
for four years.
“Mmm.”
Noah dropped Arabella off at the hotel, then went to deal with today’s issues.
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James Thompson first reviewed Julia’s medical report on her injury, then called Trevor Sullivan to send meals to the hospital for Julia before he performed surgery on a patient.
In the evening, James left the operation room, finally having time to visit that heroically brave
woman!
Julia was sullenly scrolling through the chaotically reported news on her phone.
When she saw the expressionless James, she instinctively felt guilty.
Then she wondered why she felt guilty.
James examined her arm first, fortunately, it wasn’t ruined.
He took Julia’s phone from her hands, slid his fingers across the screen, and glanced at her.
“President and his delicate wife.
“Their affection seems strong, one handsome, the other beautiful.”
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Julia Land, “..
“Please stop repeating it.
James Thompson smiled, “Little Pear, I didn’t expect that.”
Julia Land, tiredly, “If it had been you, I would have reached out too.”
It was a subconscious act of saving someone, and if something had happened to Noah, she didn’t know what would become of her brother’s treatment.
She didn’t save him because she loved him.
But it seemed like no one believed her.
“These media just love to make things up.”
Perhaps because of Julia’s statement, “If it had been you, I would have reached out too,” much of James Thompson’s anger subsided.
The Prince of the Thompson Family had never thought that one day, he would become the secret boyfriend of a married woman, and oddly enough, felt a bit jealous.
Still holding onto half of his anger, he planned to confront her later.
“Noah arranged tomorrow’s flight to take me back to Dunmore City”
When James Thompson heard this, he smiled and pulled out his phone, directly dialing, “Arrange a flight for me to Dunmore City tonight.
After hanging up, his eyes deepened, “I’ll take you back to Dunmore City”
Julia Land, “.”
The surgery on James’s side was done, and the rest would be handled by two professorial doctors; he didn’t need to be here.
When Trevor Sullivan found out he was left behind, he was ready to explode, “Brother, you’re really not a decent person! I’ve been a delivery guy for two days, don’t I deserve some credit?”
James Thompson’s phone was on speaker, and Julia Land also heard the man on the other end.
She was puzzled for a moment, as his voice sounded like the delivery guy who had been bringing her meals these past days.
On the plane, James Thompson took a blanket and placed it on Julia’s legs before leisurely responding to Trevor Sullivan’s complaint, “Do you want to be a third wheel?”
Trevor Sullivan silently hung up, deciding to book his own flight back to Dunmore City.
“Mr. Thompson, thank you,”
James Thompson eyed her, “You can call me ‘Ah–Zhi“.
Julia Land blinked, “Don’t you think ‘Ah–Zhi‘ sounds a bit tacky?”
James Thompson looked at her, remaining silent.
Julia Land felt the pressure.
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She thought about it, “Ah–Zhi, you’re like a mole on my chest, sounds charming and significant.”
James Thompson, “…”
His meaningful gaze fell on her prominent chest, “Not bad, there really are moles there, two of
them.”
Julia Land, “.”
She wasn’t as thick–skinned as Mr. Thompson.
Her fingers clutched the blanket, pulling it up.
“It’s kind of cold.”
James Thompson smiled, without mocking her.”
He raised an eyebrow, “Do you want to tell Noah? That you don’t need him to take you back to Dunmore City tomorrow.”
Julia really had forgotten to mention this.
As James Thompson rolled up his sleeves, revealing his sleek arms, he kindly thought of an excuse for Julia, “I’ve already thought of the reason for you, just say, ‘My Ah–Zhi came to take me, back to Dunmore City tonight.”
Julia almost burst out laughing.
Her eyes curled with amusement.
James Thompson raised an eyebrow, and after she made the call, his lips suddenly nipped at her
ear.
Not biting hard.
“Be good.”
He threatened her in a low voice, his teeth gently grazing her.
On the other end of the phone, Noah’s voice came through, “Julia Land?”
Julia softly responded, her ears turning red, as she repeated the excuse James provided, “My Ah–Zhi came to get me tonight, I’m going back to Dunmore City.
Noah, puzzled, asked, “Who?”
Julia’s hand, temporarily disabled, couldn’t cover her bitten ear, and she quickly said, “My Ah–Zhi, I’m hanging up now.”
Noah had never heard of this ‘Ah–Zhi
Julia had been following him for four years, and she usually just followed him around or
occasionally went out with friends.
“That’s enough, stop biting my ear.
This sentence was both shy and embarrassed.
James Thompson laughed in a low and husky voice.
