Love Comes Secretly After Their Contract Marriage novel Chapter 77

"Mr. Lancaster is already awake. He woke up in the middle of the night yesterday," Joe replied.

Yvonne breathed in relief inwardly but she was restless again shortly.

Clutching the seatbelt, Yvonne asked weakly, "What's his reaction then? Does he blame me?"

A chuckle escaped Joe. "I wouldn't know that. Mr. Lancaster's been composed after he woke up. I don’t know what he feels."

"I see..." Yvonne pursed her lips.

Joe sneaked a peek at her out of the corner of his eyes. "Madam, are you afraid of Mr. Lancaster being angry at you?"

"Mm." Yvonne nodded and admitted it forthrightly. "I caused his injury after all, so I..."

"Don't worry, Mr. Lancaster won't take his anger out o n somebody else." Joe smiled with certainty.

Yvonne blinked, at a loss. "Why?"

"Mr. Lancaster isn't someone like that. Since he's saved you, I think he knows what the consequences would be. Just like the incident with Miss Conrad back then, Mr. Lancaster didn't blame her either!" "The incident?" Yvonne frowned in suspicion. "Which

incident?"

Joe was stunned, realizing that he had said something he should not, and quickly glossed it over." No incident. Madam, you must've heard wrong."

Yvonne squinted her eyes. "I didn't hear it wrong. You said something happened to Jacqueline back then and Henry didn't blame her."

"Is that so? Looks like I've remembered it wrong then." Joe nudged his glasses and focused on the road ahead of him, refusing to speak any more after that.

Unable to do anything to him, Yvonne gave him a big pout, feeling dismayed. She had once again heard people mentioning about Henry and Jacqueline's past.

Shane said so, Sue said so, and now Joe said so as well. Who knew if others would mention it too in the future.

All of them shared one similarity when they mentioned the subject. They were mysterious, as if hiding something, and they were always abrupt about i t, refusing to disclose any more information. It piqued Yvonne's curiosity like an itch on the back, i

Despite the silence, they arrived at the hospital.

Yvonne cleared her head and got off the car, moving toward Henry's ward following Joe. She suddenly stopped outside of the ward, afraid to go in and meet Henry's reproaching gaze and icy expression. 1 "Madam, why are you stopping?" Opening the door, Joe could not help turning around and asking when h e heard the lack of noise behind him only to see Yvonne standing still in her spot.

Yvonne bit her lips nervously. "I'm scared..."

"What are you scared of? Mr. Lancaster is your husband. I told you in the car clearly too, Mr.

Lancaster won't blame you. Come in with me." 1

Joe then entered through the door.

Seeing that he was not waiting for her, Yvonne panicked and wanted to call out for him but her words were stuck in her throat after she opened her mouth. I n the end, she heaved a long sigh and braced herself t o go in.

"Henry," Yvonne called out softly with her head hanging low, not daring to look at the man in the hospital bed.

The man shifted his gaze to her, however. "Anything the matter?" 1

"No, no, I’m just here to see you. Are you... okay?" Yvonne peeked at him.

Henry was seated on the bed with a newspaper in his hands. His expression was impassive as always — it was hard to gauge his mood.

"I'm fine." Henry put the newspaper aside.

Yvonne felt guiltier, repentance written all over her face. "I'm sorry..."

"For?” Henry frowned.

Yvonne's head hung possibly lower. "About what happened yesterday... If it weren't to save me, you wouldn’t have gotten injured. I'm deeply sorry for it."

"I don't blame you," Henry said faintly with his eyes cast down.

Yvonne was slightly surprised. "You really don't?"