Let me go, Mr. Hill [by Shallow South] Chapter 1483
Eliza laughed.
Chester did not think it was a happy laugh. “What are you laughing at?”
“Ah, you sound like those campy bossy presidents in dramas that I’ve acted in before. Like ‘Woman, I’m interested in you, ‘ or ‘Woman, I’ve fallen for you.”’ Eliza’s slightly pale lips lifted. “ But those bossy presidents are wooing their wives while you’re wooing a mistress. Also, you’re doing it so obviously. I don’t know whether to compliment you for being thick-skinned or shameless.”
Chester’s handsome face turned as dark as the bottom of a pan. “Eliza, I just helped you, yet you’re humiliating me now. How many times have you humiliated me, huh?”
No woman had humiliated him multiple times yet escape unscathed.
“I’m not humiliating you. What I said is true.” Eliza shrugged. “If you think my honest words are humiliating, I can’t do anything about it.”
“Eliza, you… Do you think that I don’ t dare to do anything to you?” Chester grabbed her wrist. Just as he yanked it, Eliza sucked in a breath from the pain.
When he saw that she was in pain yet she was merely frowning and tolerating it, Chester’s heart tightened. He released his grip instinctively.
Eliza took quite some time to recover from the pain and said, “How can someone like you be the doctor in charge? Can I request another doctor?”
“Do you know how many people in the whole world are begging me to treat their illnesses?” Chester let out a hmph. “No matter what, Eliza, you owe me a favor this time.”
Eliza twirled with a lock of her long hair. “Actually, I can refuse to owe you this favor. You were the one who became involved in this. Even without you, I could’ve still called 000. There’d still be doctors to save me in the hospital. Just because you got involved, Hailey now has to make arrangements with the police to cover the fact that you were in my home.”
Chester was truly furious. He had sent her to the hospital and saved her, yet she was saying that what he did was unnecessary.
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