Chapter 5

Lily feigned embarrassment, "What are you saying? Don't make your wife misunderstand."

Her tone couldn't hide her smugness.

I calmly spoke up, "Are you two done talking?"

Lily continued in her coy voice, "Sis, Lucas and I are just friends. Please don't misunderstand."

Before she could finish, Lucas's lazy voice interrupted, "Why are you explaining? My wife isn't that petty."

"Honey, you sound fine. I won't come over tonight. Take care of yourself, and I'll visit you in the morning, okay?"

He made a kissing sound into the phone, "Love you!"

The line went dead.

I held the phone, frozen for a moment, before putting it down.

I couldn't help but laugh, but as I laughed, tears involuntarily streamed down my face.

Tonight was supposed to be the usual Gray family dinner.

During the meal, someone intentionally mentioned the recent trending photos of Lucas and Lily looking intimate.

Mr. Gray warned him to be careful and not mess around outside.

Lucas, seemingly deliberately defiant, raised an eyebrow and said nonchalantly, "Even if I wanted to divorce and marry her now, do you think you could stop me? You think I'm still the same Lucas you can push around?"

Indeed, the Gray family was now entirely under Lucas's control, and he had the power to protect whoever he wanted.

His provocative attitude angered Mr. Gray, who threw his teacup at him in a fit of rage.

As the cup was about to hit his face, I instinctively shielded him.

The scalding tea poured down my back. Seeing this, Mr. Gray stormed off angrily.

Lucas quickly pulled me towards him, trying to lift my clothes to examine the wound. I instinctively stepped back but tripped over a chair and fell to the ground. Intense pain suddenly overwhelmed me.

He urgently called for an ambulance. Seeing his anxious gaze, I thought the old him had returned.

I remembered when I accidentally cut my finger while cooking, and he anxiously dragged me to the hospital. The doctor had joked that if we'd arrived any later, the wound would have already healed.

I instinctively gripped his arm tightly, unable to hold back a painful groan, "It hurts so much..."

He kept comforting me, saying the ambulance would arrive soon, telling me not to be afraid.

But unexpectedly, just as the ambulance arrived, he received a call from Lily and left without hesitation.