As if sensing she was about to refuse, he said flatly, "If you refuse again, I’ll drag you there myself. But my injuries haven’t healed yet, and they’ll definitely reopen. Then you’ll have to stay and take care of me even longer. Is that what you want?"

Chloe Reed fell silent. After giving him a conflicted look, she followed the nurse to get her checkup.

Walker Grant sent a message to Daniel Hayes, telling him to come in.

Daniel Hayes didn’t come all the way in. Instead, he stood at the doorway of the hospital room and asked impatiently, "What do you want?"

Walker Grant stared at him coldly. "Did you keep her safe?"

A wave of pressure washed over Daniel Hayes, making his shoulders tense. He knew he was in the wrong. Rubbing his nose, he walked into the room.

"There was an unexpected incident today."

He explained the whole sequence of events to Walker Grant.

Then, his brow furrowed in confusion. "I’ve met Preston Vance a few times. He doesn’t seem like that kind of person."

Walker Grant’s handsome face was impassive. "You can’t judge a book by its cover."

Daniel Hayes glanced at him and nodded. "You’re right." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Walker Grant shot him a cold glance and said, "Get out."

Daniel Hayes scoffed, then turned and left the room.

Walker Grant gazed out the window, mulling over the situation. ’Preston Vance really doesn’t seem like the type to pull something like this.’

’After all, it was too stupid.’

’And this incident is clearly unrelated to the previous ones. The attacker wasn’t a foreign mercenary, nor were their methods clean and efficient.’

’So, who framed Preston Vance?’

...

Chloe Reed soon returned from her checkup. The results came back normal, showing nothing was wrong with her.

Back in the hospital room, her expression was tinged with fatigue.

Walker Grant’s gaze fell on her face. "Did you take a cold shower?" he asked.

Chloe Reed looked at him, surprised. "How did you know?"

Walker Grant said calmly, "You didn’t come to me, so you must have taken a cold shower."

"Hah..." Chloe Reed scoffed. "You’re so confident. Just because I didn’t come to you, does that mean I couldn’t have found someone else?"

"You wouldn’t," Walker Grant said with absolute certainty. "You think other men are dirty."

Chloe Reed looked him up and down. "You’re dirty, too."

"I’m not dirty."

Walker Grant’s expression was unusually serious. "You’re the only woman I’ve ever been with."

But Chloe Reed’s face was a mask of disbelief. She waved a hand dismissively. "It doesn’t matter."

"How can it not matter?!" Walker Grant grew insistent. "I’ve never touched another woman. You, on the other hand, were the one who kept sending women to me."

His thin lips curled into a sneer. "And even then, I never touched any of them."

He looked up, his gaze dark and intense. "Chloe Reed, you can’t falsely accuse me of this."

"I’m not attached to your hip. You were always away on business, and you were so good to *her* back then. How was I supposed to know if you two slept together?" Chloe Reed said nonchalantly from the sofa.

Walker Grant’s lips pressed into a thin, hard line. An icy chill seemed to emanate from him, and his handsome eyes were unreadable as he stared at her.

A sudden silence fell over the room. Chloe Reed pulled out her phone and started playing a game.

Over the sound of the game’s background music, his voice broke the silence. "I’m sorry."

Chloe Reed’s fingers froze. She looked up at him. "So you really did sleep with her?"

Walker Grant frowned. "I’m apologizing for the things I did in the past that upset you. I never slept with her. I’m not some kind of animal who would have filthy thoughts about his own sister-in-law."