Chapter 513 - 510: Tonight
But then, remembering Miles Quinn was Seth Quinn’s brother, she reined in her reaction and said casually, "Yeah, I know him. We went to the same school."
"Have you known him for a long time?"
"Hmm, over three years now." After speaking, Sarah Shelby glanced at Seth Quinn, a smirk playing on her lips. "President Quinn, I have to say, your brother isn’t nearly as devoted as you are."
Seth Quinn frowned. "What do you mean?"
Seth Quinn believed that under his supervision, although Miles was a wildly popular star, his private life was still quite respectable and well-behaved.
"Heh. All that kissing and groping, taking full advantage of a girl, only to say nothing afterward, like it never happened. Treating dates as casually as hookups... that’s the textbook definition of a playboy."
Sarah Shelby pouted and muttered under her breath, but Seth Quinn heard every single word.
’Kissing, groping, taking full advantage... if she hadn’t gone through it herself, how could she describe it so clearly?’
’And saying nothing afterward... Of course Miles wouldn’t have said anything, because for Miles, it really *never happened*.’
And with that, Seth Quinn was certain: the woman he’d shared that fateful kiss with a year ago was none other than Sarah Shelby!
’Thank goodness, though. The lights were off in the room that night. Sarah Shelby doesn’t know that man was me.’
’So, as long as I keep my mouth shut, Clara will never know.’
’So, from this moment on, I have to wipe that incident from my memory completely, just like it never happened.’
The door to the hospital room was pushed open, pulling Seth Quinn from his thoughts. He turned his head and saw Clara Grant walk in, but she was alone.
He was just about to ask, but someone else was more anxious than he was.
Sarah Shelby stood up, took a few steps toward her, and glanced past her at the doorway, seeing no one else. "Clara, where is he?"
Clara Grant looked at Sarah Shelby, a mix of disappointment and embarrassment on her face. "Sarah, I’m so sorry. I couldn’t find Dr. Linden. They said he left the hospital a while ago, and no one knows where he went."
It would be a lie to say Sarah Shelby wasn’t disappointed. She urgently needed to find a man to act as a shield, and she had pinned her hopes on this Rowan Linden. But just as she arrived, he had so inconveniently left.
’Does this mean it won’t be so easy to escape the trouble I’m in this time?’
But then she scoffed to herself. ’If I can’t find someone reliable, and I really want to escape this forced marriage, it’s not like I can’t just go out and grab a random guy off the street!’
With that thought in mind, she patted Clara Grant’s arm and smiled. "Why are you apologizing? It’s not your fault. If he’s not here, he’s not here. We can worry about it later."
After speaking, she glanced at Seth Quinn and then said, "Well, I’ll be heading off then. Wouldn’t want to disturb your sweet little world for two."
...
After seeing Sarah Shelby off, Clara Grant started planning with Seth Quinn. The next time they saw Rowan Linden, they had to make him stay and call Sarah immediately, so she wouldn’t miss him again.
But in the days that followed, they did manage to catch Rowan Linden, yet every time Clara Grant called Sarah, she was always unavailable for some reason. The two never ended up meeting.
「A few days later.」
Seth Quinn was cleared to leave the hospital.
Chase Childs went to handle the discharge procedures, while Clara Grant packed things up in the hospital room. Even though he had only been in the hospital for about ten days, a considerable number of things had accumulated over time.
She was bent over, folding clothes and putting them in a suitcase, when Seth Quinn hugged her from behind. He buried his face in the crook of her neck, his warm breath tickling her skin, and said, "Clara, stop packing. We’ll have Chase do it later."
The sensation of his breath made Clara Grant’s neck tickle. She laughed as she dodged away from him, saying, "You make Chase do everything. He’s practically your personal butler."