Chapter 152

Seeing that Eira still treated him like just a regular friend, Matthew gave a bitter smile and sighed. "I thought I made it pretty obvious how I feel about you. Didn't expect my first words after waking up to be some speech from you to piss me off. Since you say you owe me, how exactly do you plan to 'repay' that favor?" John's eyes went wide the second he heard that. ‘Wait, was his brother finally gonna confess?' Without saying a word, he shot Silas and the others a quick look, then quietly slipped out of the hospital room with them, leaving the space to Eira and Matthew. Eira wasn't clueless. After all that Matthew had done to help her, she'd already picked up on his feelings. But those two years of marriage with Alexander had drained her. Her heart had long since gone numb-she simply didn't have the energy to start something new. Now, facing Matthew's eyes filled with that unmistakable affection beneath the gentleness, she found herself speechless. Their gazes locked in silence for