Chapter 72

With that thought in mind, Amelia blurted, "Are you going to buy it?" Jayden turned to look at her. "If the herbs in that box actually cure my grandmother's illness, I'll agree to buy this mountain and give it to you," he said. "Give it to me?" "Isn't that what you want?" he asked, staring at her. "But if you take the mountain, you can't ask for anything else. Like a marriage partner, for instance." Amelia said nothing. It hit her then that he clearly hadn't believed a word she said, and that it was just payment for her treatment, nothing more. But that had never been her reason for helping Tiana to begin with. The most important thing was to prove her skill and make Tiana trust her medical abilities. Of course, Amelia wanted these things, yet earning them on her own mattered more. Jayden handing them over, as if she were a beggar, wasn't an option, and accepting them as charity was unthinkable. "We'll talk about it later," she said, leaning against the car window and closin