Riley had not left yet when Euan went downstairs.
“Wait a minute.”
Euan was being so gentle to Riley that he was nothing like who he used to be, a cold and serious man.
He put the gold card in his pocket and stayed five meters away from her. Because he didn’t want her to be stressful. He could not bear to see her like that.
Riley stood still. She was in a hurry for work, but she must be late even if she set off right now.
“I’m in a hurry. Could you…” she said in a softer tone.
“Just for a while. I won’t take your much time. Or I can give you a ride to the hospital.” Euan was a man of words. He took his key right away.
“No need for this. And you need to go for work, too. Just tell me here.”
There was no quarrel. However, the politeness and courtesy pushed them farther away from each other.
Euan frowned, “Did mom look you up?”
Riley was stunned. She thought that Anika would not tell him about this.
“Is it true?”
Riley was hesitating and Euan asked her once again.
No matter what happed, she couldn’t let Euan know what Anika had done. It was too embarrassed if it were leaned by others. “Yes, but it’s not a big deal.”
Euan frowned with hidden anger. It was true indeed!
Riley said it was not a big deal, but he knew Anika must have threatened her in a cruel way. He knew his mother well. “She gave you a hard time, did she?”
Riley smiled and shook her head, “She is my mother-in-law after all. How could she be bad to me? If you just come to me for this, then there’s nothing left to say. I’m going to work.”
Euan ran after her quickly and took her hand in desperation, “No matter what mom had said, maybe … Don’t change your mind for anyone or anything. I’ll deal with all the troubles. From now on, try to take me as your real husband.”
Riley was shocked and moved. He had been incredibly gentle and tolerant from last night. He was never like this before. The old Euan could not do such a thing.
Riley suffered more from her mixed feeling.
“Have you signed the divorce agreement?” Riley decided to break the atmosphere now. She couldn’t fit in.
Euan shook his head without hesitation, “No. I tore it up. I’ll tear it up no matter how many times you send a new one to me. I said I won’t sign.”
“How could you do that?”
Riley was so angry that she wanted to laugh.
Euan was acting like a naughty child. What on earth did he want to do?
“No way. You can’t change my mind in your way. Whatever you do, I won’t divorce you.” He got it straight. Riley found it hard to retort.
If he didn’t want to sign, then it was fine. Riley would find a way in the following days.
Riley shook his hand off, “I’m going to work.”
Euan suddenly thought of something, “Wait a minute.”
What was wrong with Euan to ask her stay again?
Euan took out a gold card from his Hermes wallet. It was his secondly card, that was to say, it could be swiped at will and would not be overdrawn.
“Take it. You can swipe this card to buy whatever you want.” Euan was afraid that Riley would not accept it, so he prised her fingers directly and put it in her hand. “Don’t you want a divorce? Don’t you want to make good use of me once more before the divorce? I have nothing but money. So don’t hesitate to use it.”
If they were not in an embarrassed relationship, Riley would have laugh out. Because Euan was being too warm and lovely at this moment.
“You agree to divorce?” she got to the point.
“That depends on your performance,” he punned.
Alright. Riley felt her life was going to change because there were always some people who wanted to give her money lately.
Riley put the card into her bag and was about to went out.
But Euan help her back again, which made Riley speechless.
“Take it. It’s the car I just brought. You are the owner, and it belongs to you from now on. Now that you want to divorce, you should treat yourself well. What you have decides what kind of man you will meet.”
Didn’t Euan feel wrong with his words?
Riley took a look at the logo on the key. It was Maybach!
She must be judged if she as a doctor drove such a luxury car of several million.
“No. My car is good enough.” Riley couldn’t take it.
Euan frowned, “Good enough? Go and take a look of it. I hit your car accidentally when I reversed the car just now. It was fault. Your car has broken down.”
Riley was speechless.
Fine! Then she would take the key as long as he agreed to get a divorce.
Riley suddenly became rich after she took the card and the key.
Watching Riley leave, Euan put his hands in his pocket and felt relieved. He gave her enough money so that she wouldn’t be tempted by money.
He gave her a good car so that the normal hoody did not dare to bother her.
He dignified her so that she would not be chased by other men easily.
Riley would never know about his thoughts.
Euan took out his phone and wanted to ask Anika directly. But if he did so, Anika must think that Riley complained about her in front of him. So, after a second thought, he slid down and found Hendrix’s number…
Maybach was much better than normal cars. Riley only took a few minutes to get used to this automatic car. She felt much better when driving.
Although it was a good car, she was late for tens of minutes.
Riley went back to her office after the ward rounds. She heard the urgent sound of high heels. It was an intern doctor who ran over.
She handed a testing report to Riley, “Dr. Watson, this is the patient’s testing report sent over early this morning. Please have a look.”
A patient early this morning?
Riley did not think she had arranged such a test. “What’s the result?”
Obviously, the intern was not familiar with clinical test. She fumbled for words, “Well … I found a lot of red blood cells in the urine and I could only see three white blood cells under a microscope.”
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