The Cold Surgeon's Contract Bride novel Chapter 420

I was stumped by Amber's barrage of questions.

My newly settled emotions were thrown into turmoil once again by her discoveries.

Why would Ferris and Zoey be fighting? Zoey had clearly believed my explanation earlier. Why would she start a fight with him over these questions now?

I shouldn't have been curious enough to ask that one extra question; it only brought me a ton of trouble.

"Of course it's true. Couples in love are always overly sensitive to each other. Zoey just cares too much and lost her composure. That's why she misunderstood his relationship with me." I tried my best to suppress the waves of emotion crashing inside me and fought to keep my expression looking natural. But I couldn't help asking one more question. "Dr. Sterling must have managed to comfort her, right?"

I guessed that Ferris would patiently console his precious girl and figure out a way to completely sever any perceived ties between us.

After all, he loved her so much.

"He did try to comfort her, but he didn't really clear anything up. He just told her she was overthinking. In the end, Zoey had to find her own way out of it. She said her emotions had been fluctuating too much lately, causing her to overthink, and asked him not to be mad." Amber nodded, sighing softly. "I always thought he took great care of her and protected her in every way. But looking at it now, Zoey seems quite submissive in this relationship. She doesn't even dare to get angry freely and has to turn around and pacify him instead."

Was Zoey submissive?

I didn't think so.

She was the darling Ferris held in the palm of his hand. She occupied an absolute high ground in their relationship and could be as willfully unruly as she pleased.

Look, the moment she cried, didn't Ferris coax her? He even told her not to overthink it, pacifying her with such patience.

Amber only thought Zoey was submissive because she had heard it through a wall and misunderstood the situation.

In fact, Leon didn't reply to my message until the retreat ended.

Naturally, he never came back to the retreat either.

Fortunately, there were still seats on the bus, so I rode back with everyone else.

What surprised me, however, was that while everyone else was there, Ferris was nowhere to be seen.

"Dr. Hayes, there's a seat here." Dr. Zephyr called out, offering the seat next to him.

He had taken Leon's Private SUV with me on the way here. Now that Leon was gone, he had to take the bus back with me as well.