Chapter 412

Lily wondered if Xavier truly intended to stay. She shot that line of thought down quickly. Perhaps Xavier was just distrustful of her, not believing that she would keep up her end of the bargain. She was forced to listen to him, but she didn't trust him. Xavier was different; not only did he not listen to her, but he also didn't trust her. Lily wasn't lying when she said that she had hired a caretaker. When she went for her check-up earlier, she had stopped by the nurse station and voiced her request to the head nurse. Lily never intended for Maryanne to stay. The latter was quite pampered, and she hated the smell of alcohol. Lily recalled a time when Marika had undergone a minor surgery—Maryanne had only stayed overnight at the hospital on the day of the surgery itself. The rest of the ten days when Marika had been in the hospital, she had been cared for by the Devereux family's staff. Marika loved Maryanne very much and had been unwilling to allow her to be uncomfortable in the