Love Comes Secretly After Their Contract Marriage novel Chapter 81

"It’s my younger brother. Recently, he’s been asking money from me frequently saying that he's starting a business. I don't quite believe it, so I was thinking that you could help me check what he's been up to and where he's spending all that money on," Yvonne asked with her hands clasped together.

Henry gave a slight nod. "Okay.”

Yvonne's eyes shone as she quickly stood up and bowed. "Thank you, Henry."

She thought that he would not have agreed.

"No problem." Henry gently flicked off invisible dust o n his patient gown.

Yvonne stood straight with a bashful beam. "I should thank you still. It's a trouble to you."

"Trouble or not, I'll ask Joe to show you the result later,” Henry said flatly.

"Okay,” Yvonne nodded.

In the minutes that followed, the air between them thickened as no one spoke.

Henry got up to go toward his bed while Yvonne quickly followed him and helped him down to a lying position.

"I heard from Joe that you carried me out of the racing ski track?" Henry suddenly asked after pulling the covers.

Yvonne paused from adjusting his pillow before answering with a small smile, "Not really. Mr. Woods got to us before I carried you out of it."

"But you've still carried me, didn't you?” Henry looked at her.

Yvonne gave a small hum.

Henry looked impassive on the outside, but emotions rushed within him. His deep eyes scanned Yvonne’s petite frame again and again. When he woke up from his surgery, Joe told him what happened after he lost consciousness. When he heard that it was Yvonne who had carried him out of the obstacle course, he was thoroughly shocked.

It was hard for him to imagine how a tiny person like her could carry him.

"Why?" Henry pressed his lips together.

Yvonne tilted her head with a confused look. "Why what?"

Henry did not answer her immediately. He spoke after a few seconds of silence, "I heard from Joe that the sun was setting and it was starting to snow. If they didn’t find us, we'd either be buried in the snow or frozen to death. Didn’t you think of abandoning me under those dangerous circumstances?" "Abandoning you?" Yvonne was shocked by his words.

It took her a while to recover and her face was still a little pale. "Why would I have such a preposterous idea?"

"No?"

"Of course not!" Yvonne calmed herself down and poured Henry a glass of water. "You’re my husband. How could I do something like that? Besides, you were the one who saved me. If you didn’t protect me, I'd have been injured. And..."

"And?” Henry accepted the water.

Yvonne shook her head. "Nothing. I’m not someone like that anyway. I can't do something so abominable either. Even if the person with me weren't you and was some stranger, I won't leave him alone either.

What’s more, you’re my husband."

"Is it..." Henry looked down, hiding the emotions in his eyes, but Yvonne could clearly feel his sadness.

Was he sad?

Yvonne withdrew her surprise and nudged Henry lightly. "What's wrong?"

Henry breathed in tiredly. "Nothing. Just thought of some past.”

"Past?"

"Mm.” Henry rubbed between his brows. Some past that he could not let go of even now! 2

Three years ago, he had saved Jacqueline but

Jacqueline had abandoned him, leaving him there all alone. If it were not for Old Lancaster's men who got there in time, he probably would've died on the spot.

Now that he experienced something similar, the outcome was entirely different. Yvonne did not abandon him. She had even carried him out of the racing track with her petite form...

Henry calmed his inexplicably thumping heart and said his thanks in a low voice, "Yvonne Frey, thank you." i