“Mr. Rex suddenly twitched and the meeting was interrupted. No one can enter his office now.”
Fraser’s voice echoes in Lily’s ears and knocks on her eardrums, causing her heart to beat extremely
fast. Before she could think any further, she rushes into the garage and starts a car. She steps on the
accelerator and drives to Rex’s company.
Along the way, she runs two red lights, but she doesn’t care. At the thought of Rex’s current condition,
she is incredibly anxious. She feels as if her heart is roasted on a wire rack.
Finally, the car reaches the garage of Rex’s company. Lily gets off the car, rushes into the lift and goes
up to Rex’s office. Outside the heavy wooden door, Fraser is anxiously pacing back and forth. Seeing
Lily, he hurriedly walks towards her, as if he sees a savior. “Miss Lily!”
Lily nods slightly to greet him. She walks straight to the door of Rex’s office. Looking at the tightly
closed door and the frightened gaze of the secretary aside, she knocks on the door. “Rex, open the
door.”
No one answers inside. The door is still tightly shut.
Lily’s heart suddenly sinks. She turns to look at the secretary and says, “Key.”
She doesn’t have time to wait or guess what Rex is doing. More minutes are passing, more anxious
she is.
The secretary is a little awkward. She doesn’t dare to talk to Lily. Instead, she looks at Fraser, who is
standing beside her, and says, “It ... it doesn’t conform to the company’s rules …”
“Rules?” Lily is extremely anxious. Her tone inevitably reveals her impatience. “If something
unexpected happens to Rex in the office, can you bear this responsibility?”
To others, Rex is a leader and a boss, but to Lily, he is her man, and the father of her child. She doesn’t
care about anything else.
Fraser has the same view. He scolds the secretary in an aggravated tone, “Is it time to talk about rules?
Hurry up and get the key!”
The secretary realizes the seriousness of the matter and opens the drawer for the key. She hands it to
Lily and says, “Here … here you are.”
Lily takes it and walks forward to insert the key into the keyhole to unlock the door. However, her hand
is trembling. She tries several times but fails. Fraser is also anxious. He takes the key and says, “Let
me do it.”
The thick door finally opens. Lily rushes in and turns to Fraser, asking him not to let anyone else get in
the office.
The huge office is quiet. Even the air is filled with an unusual stillness. Rex is curled up on the leather
sofa in the middle of the office. He doesn’t raise his head even when Lily comes.
Lily feels as if her heart is pinched fiercely. It is heartbreaking to see Rex in this state. She hurriedly
walks over and crouches to the side to call him, “Rex?”
Rex closes his eyes and doesn’t reply at all.
Lily places her palm on his forehead and wipes off his cold sweat. After feeling his body temperature,
she calls him in a higher voice, “Rex, wake up, okay?”
Rex seems to have noticed that someone is moving around. He slightly opens his eyes. His deep black
eyes are in an awkward state. When he looks at her, his gaze is not as focused as usual. “Lily?”
“It’s me. I’m here.”
After hearing the familiar voice, Rex seems to believe that Lily is with him. He stretches out to pull her
into his embrace. He is still in the state of addiction, so he’s rude and arrogant. He puts his hands on
her shoulders and almost crushes her bones.
Lily grits her teeth and tries not to make a sound. She comforts him softly, “It’s fine. It’s all over.”
Before leaving home, she took some withdrawal medicines from the cabinet and put them into her
pocket. Karl instructed her not to give it to Rex unless she has no other choice, because it could also
get Rex addicted.
However, Rex’s pain intensifies. He has also lost much weight. For the first time, Lily feels an endless
panic.
No one knows when this torture would end.
Whenever it happens, she wishes to kill Vivian. She knew that Orson would make this woman stay in
prison for the rest of her life, but she can’t vent her anger. Such a good man is nearly destroyed by that
woman. If it weren’t for her, how would Rex suffer so much?
As time passes, Rex, who is hugging her, falls asleep again. Lily takes the opportunity to take a cold
towel from the bathroom to wipe off Rex’s sweat.
After tidying him up, Lily turns around and takes a towel from the lounge to cover his body. She glances
at him and notices that he is frowning while sleeping. She pauses for a moment and walks out of the
office.
Lily enters Fraser’s office. Fraser has been Rex’s secretary for many years. He is also very worried
about Rex. When he sees Lily coming, he stands up and asks, “Miss Lily, how is Mr. Rex?”
“Not good.” Lily doesn’t intend to hide it from him. To be honest, she didn’t want to restrict Rex from the
work, but it’s obvious that he can’t come to the company now. “Fraser, Rex might not be able to come
to the company recently. You saw it. There’s something wrong with his body, but he wouldn’t admit it.
You know what kind of person he is. So, I’ll trouble you to take more responsibilities for the company’s
affairs.”
Fraser nods in understanding. He was shocked by Rex’s sudden onset of illness during the meeting
today. At the thought of it, he has lingering fear in his heart. “Miss Lily, what exactly happened to Mr.
Rex?”
Lily ponders for a moment and answers, “Complications, but they don’t threaten his life. It’s just
painful.”
She doesn’t explain it in much detail. She doesn’t mean to be on guard against anyone. However, if
one more person knows it, it’s more likely that Rex would know it.
Fraser knows Lily well. If it weren’t for a serious problem, she won’t have been so serious and silent.
“Alright, I know. I’ll try my best not to report to Mr. Rex about the follow-up matters of the company.
Then he could have time to recover. I would only report to him some essential issues and ask him to
check them,” Fraser says.
Lily trusts in Fraser and is grateful to him. “Thank you.”
“Miss Lily, you’re too polite. This is all my responsibility. I’m honored to be able to help Mr. Rex.”
Even so, Fraser doesn’t owe Rex anything. He is only Rex’s subordinate. There is no need for him to
worry about anything other than his work. He helps Rex just out of personal feelings.
After chatting with Fraser for a while, Lily returns to the Rex’s office. Rex might be awake.
The man on the sofa seems to be disturbed by the sound of the door. The tall figure moves slightly. Lily
walks to the sofa and squats down. She wants to check his condition, but Rex suddenly wakes up and
opens his eyes.
“Rex?” She calls him softly.
When Rex sees her, his expression changes, as if he is trying to recall what has happened. “Why are
you here?”
Lily is dumbfounded by his question. She wants to say that she arrived just now, but swallows her
words on the second thought. “I came to see you. Fraser called me.”
Rex is thinking of his appearance of when he fought the addiction. He turns his gaze to Lily’s gentle
and beautiful face and says thoughtfully, “I lost consciousness for a short while fighting the addiction.”
Therefore, he locked everyone out of the office and didn’t let them in, because he was afraid that he
would do something.
Hearing this, Lily is stunned. This is the first time that he lost consciousness since he was discharged
from the hospital. Karl said that such a severe situation would occur in the later stages. She has wished
that it wouldn’t come. Instead, it happened so early.
Despite the panic in her heart, she suppresses her uneasiness and patiently comforts Rex, “Let’s go to
Karl ahead of time and let him check your condition.”
When Rex hears her, he feels like a sharp thorn piercing into his flesh. He has been feeling that Lily is
a bit strange. Now he realizes something. He looks into her eyes and examines her emotions with his
sharp eyes. “The side effects are so great. Aren’t you surprised?”
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