Chapter 944

Richard signaled to the waiter to make tea. The waiter immediately prepared a pot of jasmine tea. "If Mary and Terence had gotten married early like you two, I wouldn't still have to worry about them now," said Richard. "Oh, you're just teasing," Xavier replied, without engaging further. Richard had expected that. He turned to Lily. "Lily, have you visited Mary or my wife?" Lily shook her head. "I haven't seen Mrs. Devereux." "How about Mary, then?" Richard asked in the tone of an elder, sounding both helpless and resigned. "I've spoiled her too much. She's willful, far too naïve, and tends to see things in black and white. She believes anything my wife says. I'm embarrassed you had to see the mess we've created." Lily honestly didn't know how to respond to that. She was furious—he was the one who raised her to be so naïve and willful, and yet he was now turning around and treating it like a flaw. "I know there are probably a lot of things about her that rub you the wrong way.