Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Underestimated Ex: Kabanata 221 - Kabanata 230

Fifteen guards stepped into the room at John’s command once he called them on the phone.“So, you’re scared now, huh?” John said in an amused, mocking tone as he laughed loudly.Looking at Adrian now, his hands were visibly shaking, as though the whole thing was getting the best of him. His sweat grew more and more intense, yet he kept trying to stay calm.Just be calm, he thought to himself.“John, please don’t do this,” Lyra quickly stood up and moved toward John.This time her face carried an emotional reaction, and John was startled for a moment.Does it mean she still cares about him that much? he thought.And that only enraged him more, in a way that he could kill Adrian right on the spot just to make Lyra totally forget about him—but then something else caught his concern.“Dad?” John muttered as the old man placed one hand on his chest and another on his mouth. A slight cough could now be heard continuously in the background—something they had ignored due to the intense tensio

Adrian didn’t care to argue at this point. Seeing how John was reacting, he quietly moved to the side without trying to convince him that this wasn’t just any ordinary kind of illness — one that a doctor who knew nothing about it could treat.He was being careful now, fully aware that if he allowed himself to get drawn into John’s game, he might lose control. He knew John only wanted a chance to provoke him into anger, so Adrian simply chose not to act as though he had any problem with John’s decision to stop him from treating Clark. After all, Clark was John’s father — and he had the right to decide who treated him or not.John, seeing how Adrian had stepped back swiftly, as if trying to avoid him, suddenly let a smirk curve across his lips. Watching Adrian closely, he thought, He must be afraid of me already by now. Maybe because I’ve got the guards in the room and he doesn’t know if he stands a chance to fight back. Looks like something’s up with him… and I’ll find out.If somethin

At this moment, Adrian isn’t sure what’s going on with Lyra. She seems to be acting differently right now, as if she’s never made any attempt to do something bad to him. For Adrian, since he found out about the text Lyra had sent to Vivienne—the one that caused her to leave the whole city and abandon her business—he felt like she did that to punish him somehow. But then, from her reaction, it seems absolutely different, as if she’s trying to defend him somehow. Adrian wasn’t sure if maybe she’s just trying to make up for what she’s done, or maybe she just feels bad for it and wants him to think of her differently instead of as a bad person. He thought this as he looked in her direction. He just had a feeling that she might not know he already found out about her con play with Vivienne that caused the whole situation to go wild. He had suspected that Lyra might have done something on the last day he saw Vivienne—when she directly accused him of still being interested in going back

Hearing the voice that just spoke right now, the first to react was John.“What the hell do you mean? How dare you make a sound when a real doctor — and even the best doctor in the world for that matter — is right in the room, and you’re still saying nonsense… or do you mean that Dr. Williams doesn’t know what he’s doing?” John angrily yelled at the top of his voice.Nola also couldn’t take this as she exploded.“You godforsaken fool! Do you think Dr. Williams here is some local unknown doctor like you, who only gets tips of a few dollars by month’s end? How dare you compare your experience in medicine to that of the billionaire best doctor in the world here?” Nola said in a dreadful tone.Her gaze was sharp as the words from her mouth sliced through the moment’s air, brushing it into sharper tension.If only you knew I don’t work in the Smiths hospital to get paid, Adrian thought.And he only gave a slight sigh inside him,

It’s almost as if the air surrounding the room had relaxed around the both of them, as Lyra and Adrian kept eye contact, as if to read each other’s minds. Although Lyra was the one with trembling hands that she hid under the table where she still sat, Adrian, who was standing, didn’t even look like he’s moved. Rather, his dark unreadable expression was still there, almost stiffly, as he stared at her. Even with the thoughts running through his head, he didn’t let it show any kind of emotion. “Lyra, what do you mean? Don’t tell me that you’re thinking of taking this loser back. He’s just proved it now that he’d forever be a loser,” Nola said. Although, in this kind of situation, she’d have yelled and tried to act tough while calling Lyra back to her senses. But she did know that shouting wasn’t what was going to help call Lyra back to her senses. Also, the fact that she respected Williams’ presence meant she