Chapter 298

Serena Dawson was pretty much kicked out of the car without a second glance. She stood at the roadside, watching Matthew Quinn’s car zoom off into the night, dust trailing behind it. Turning to glance at the hospital a few hundred meters ahead, she let out a long sigh. So this was what people called “a journey to the ends of the Earth”? Because that brightly lit building now felt worlds away. “Sir, are we really just leaving Miss Maria like that? Her ankle looked pretty bad,” Lucas Cope asked, slowing the car deliberately, his voice cautious. Matthew didn’t even bat an eye, lips slightly pursed with lingering anger. “Isn’t she real tough? Got a sharp tongue too. A sprain’s no big deal.” For years now, gossip about Matthew and Lucas’s unusual relationship had been all over the place. Rumor had it Matthew turned cold-hearted after losing his wife, to the point where he’d completely lost interest in women. That’s why he’d kept his distance from them all these years. People could talk all