Chapter 534

"Aren't you going to stay here?" Rowan asked. "I'm not the doctor; you are. So what good would it do for me to stay here?" Xavier replied impatiently, then stepped around him and strode away. By the time he left the hospital, the sky had already brightened. The roads in the town had been cleared, and Jillian had returned to work, urging him to go back and deal with the pile of tasks that had accumulated. Xavier spent the entire day buried in work. It wasn't until late at night, when everything had quieted down, that he finally had a moment to himself. On the corner of his desk were two takeouts—his lunch and dinner—that Jillian had gotten for him, but they had gone completely cold. His stomach growled, and he felt a gnawing emptiness. He had no choice but to get up and go out to find something to eat. He wasn't familiar with Longinium, but the one place that stood out in his memory was a small diner downstairs from Lily's apartment. It looked like a decent place, and it was open r