My Second Marriage with the Mafia Kingpin novel Chapter 346

Chapter 346: How Did You Know?

Days later...

"Wow... I’m amazing." Raka leaned closer to Lucian’s face, studying his complexion. "It’s only been a few days, but look at you. You look like you’re blushing around a crush."

Lucian stared at him, expression unchanged. "Do I?"

Raka immediately pulled back and gave him a deeply suspicious look.

"Why are you answering like that?" He shivered, face twisting. For a split second, he felt an inexplicable need to put some distance between them.

"Anyway," he cleared his throat and flipped through his charts. "Your results look good."

He nodded to himself, then pulled a bottle from a drawer and slid it across the desk. "I’m upping your dose since you’re responding well. Keep taking everything else — and that tea. Especially the tea."

"Thank you." Lucian gave an approving nod as he picked up the bottle.

He rose to his feet. "You don’t need to walk me out."

"Huh?" Raka, who hadn’t moved an inch from his chair, looked up at him. He hadn’t been planning to.

"Thank you for your help," Lucian said. "Let me know how I can repay you."

Raka scrunched up his nose. "Hey — I don’t do leeches, even if my life depended on it. But when I do charity, I do it wholeheartedly. So don’t insult me." He straightened with exaggerated dignity. "Also, don’t push it. I don’t think you could afford my rate anyway."

He clicked his tongue and stood, crossing to the coat rack to swap his white coat for his regular one.

Lucian watched him, a faint smile on his face. The delivery was Raka through and through, but the meaning behind it was far kinder than the words themselves.

"What are you still doing here?" Raka looked back at him. "Go."

"I’ll walk you out."

"Hah." Raka clicked his tongue, shook his head, and decided it wasn’t worth the argument.

After days of checkups and daily visits, Raka had quietly come to the conclusion that Lucian and Ashley weren’t the bad kind of people — not the kind who took and never gave back. This couple was determined to repay him, and the only way to make them stop was not to engage. So he let Lucian walk beside him without making it a thing.

If anything, it was just easier.

As they walked side by side, Raka cast Lucian a sideways glance.

"Hey," he said. "Didn’t you pitch a proposal to the Black Dragon Corporation? That day I bumped into you."

Lucian turned to him but said nothing.

"How did it go?" Raka asked again. "Still no call?"

"..." Lucian pressed his lips together.

As far as Raka was concerned, Lucian had pitched some business idea to the Black Dragon Corporation and been turned down.

"I didn’t —"

"Of course!" Raka laughed, shaking his head as he straightened his tie, confidence surging. "Did you know I was actually invited there?"

Lucian cleared his throat. One of the reasons he couldn’t correct the misunderstanding was that Raka simply wouldn’t give him the opening.

I hope she doesn’t give him a heart attack, he thought, then turned toward his own car.

He was about to leave when he noticed Raka climbing back out of his car and lifting the hood. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

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