Chapter 437 Sudden Interruption
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Chapter 437 Sudden Interruption
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“Ah!” Quinn yelped as the phone slipped from her palm and ttered onto the hardwood.
She leaned to retrieve it, hindered by the ster cast that immobilized her right <b>calf</b>.
Before she could so much as bend her knees, another hand–swift, pale, impossibly <b>sure- </b>swept in and lifted the phone from the floor.
For a fleeting heartbeat, the glowing screen shed across a pair of sharp, fox–bright eyes, imprinting its forbidden images there.
Julius‘ voice drifted out, cool and unhurried. “Have I interrupted you?”
Quinn, cheeks bursting with color, snatched the device back from his fingers, mumbling an incoherent thanks as though the ss were scalding her skin.
s, in her panic, what should have been a single tap became a frantic dance of thumbs. Just like that, ten whole seconds crawled by before the scandalous video finally vanished.
By then, Quinn’s face zed crimson, every pore announcing her mortification. Julius, meanwhile, stood untouched by embarrassment, as though the clip had been no more intimate than a weather report.
With the same quiet detachment, he asked, “Is that the sort of thing that interests you?”
“Of course not!” she blurted, too fast. “Laura thinks I’m hopeless at that kind of thing, so she sent it as homework, nothing more.”
The minute the words left her mouth, Quinn wanted the ground to swallow her whole.
<i>Oh </i><i>gosh</i>. <i>Why </i><i>the </i><i>hell </i><i>am </i><i>I </i><i>even </i><i>exining </i><i>myself</i>? I’m <i>an </i><i>adult</i><i>, </i><i>for </i><i>crying </i><i>out </i><i>loud</i><i>. </i><i>So </i><i>what </i><i>if </i><i>I </i>want to <i>watch </i><i>videos </i>like <i>this</i>? <i>There’s </i><i>nothing </i><i>wrong </i>with <i>it</i>!
Julius said, still mild, “There’s nothing you need to learn. If anything felt ufortable, I’ll adjust next time–provided, of course, you want a next time.”
Quinn stared at him, speechless.
He sounded as though his sole purpose were to please her–when, by every logical measure, she was the one who should be coaxing and pleasuring him.
“Your father’s in Celosia as well?” Gavin asked while gently checking Julius‘ injuries.
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“News travels quickly, I see,” Julius murmured.
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“When I noticed you’d doubled your security detail, I put two and two together,” Gavin said, knowing only Joaquin could make Julius brace like a cornered animal.
“I’ve been itching to catch him,” Julius growled, eyes hard. “Since he dares to show his face, he’d better be ready for the consequences.”
“And after you catch him, what then? Are you going to imprison him on the Whitethorn family’s ind?”
“No. This time I’ll hand him over to the police. He’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars, with no chance to crawl out again.”
“He’s still your father, though,” Gavin said, frowning. “Putting him away for life will drag the Whitethorn family name through the mud.”
Even a whisper of scandal could send Whitethorn Group’s share price into free fall, and the final tally of losses was anyone’s guess.
“Prison is non–negotiable!” Julius answered, his tone a steel–edged de.
Only then did Gavin grasp the depth of his fury. Joaquin’stest strike had threatened Quinn’s life, and that was a line Julius would not allow anyone to cross.
“Your wounds are healing nicely,” Gavin reported after examining the stitched flesh. “The scabs have formed. You can dispense with the bandages from now on.”
Julius buttoned his shirt with meticulous care, each click of stic against thread sounding like the loading of a gun.
Gavin leaned closer, curiosity shining behind the sses perched on his nose. “By the way, how are things with Quinn? Have you made up your mind to get back together with her?”
Julius buttoned thest cuff of his shirt, movements unhurried, then nced at Gavin through the mirror. “Tell me, Gavin, if I really went back to her, only to break up once more, what do you think I’d do next?”
Gavin froze, lips parting but no sound emerging for a heartbeat. “What? No way. Quinn would never break up with you again.”
Julius let out a soft, self–mockingugh, sleeves still rolled neatly at his wrists. “In this world, nothing is impossible. I once thought that any secret I chose to hide could <i>stay </i>buried forever.
I believed I could calcte every variable, yet the more I cared about something, the sooner I lost it.”
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Gavin frowned, lines of worry carving across his brow. “So, because of that, you refuse to start over with Quinn?”
Julius‘ eyes darkened, storm clouds gathering behind calm pupils. “If we broke up again, I’m afraid it would end with one of us dead. My father is a madman, and perhaps I carry the same
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The future he pictured was drenched in blood and regret—exactly the kind of ending he would never ept.
Better, then, to strangle the possibility in its cradle before it had the chance to breathe.
Gavin folded his arms over his white coat. “And what if Quinn insists on being with you? Can you refuse her forever?”
After all, as Julius‘ attending physician, Gavin knew better than anyone how utterly and fiercely the man loved her.
“I’m not worried,” Julius said softly, a brittle calm oveying his words. “Because her feelings for me aren’t that deep yet.”
That was also why he told himself that after one month had gone by, she would surely let go. Yet each time the image flickered across his mind—Quinn’s smile offered to another man— jealousy red inside him like a match struck in petrol, wild, irrational, impossible to smother.