Chapter 198
“Oh, please! If you said you were going to be a specialist at a big hospital, I might believe it, but him? Forget it…”
Romina waved her hand at her and suddenly stopped responding.
After seeing Elliana off, new patients arrived at the wellness clinic.
As soon as Romina sat down to see patients, they came one after another, keeping her busy until evening.
By the time she got home, it was already seven o’clock.
After taking care of the children, she went up to the attic to continue working tirelessly on restoring the quartz flower carving.
Today was her first day restoring the quartz flower carving, and it was even more difficult than she had imagined. By past ten in the evening, she had only managed to make a little
progress.
“Where’s Romina?”
Just as she was focused on restoring the quartz flower carving, she suddenly heard a familiar voice from downstairs.
Her hand holding the restoration tool paused slightly.
Joaquin had come?
Why would he come over so late?
“Romina is busy on the third floor! Hey… Mr. Bowman… don’t go upstairs…”
Elliana’s anxious voice came from downstairs.
Hearing the commotion, Romina quickly got up from her chair, hurriedly put away the quartz flower carving, hid it at the very bottom of the drawer, glanced around to make sure she hadn’t left any traces, and then took off her apron.
The footsteps grew closer and closer, and moments later, she saw the man standing at the
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attic door.
Romina looked up and met his gaze.
“What are you doing here?”
She suppressed her nervousness and pretended to be tidying up the attic.
The man’s face darkened as he closed the attic door and quickly walked toward her. “Why is your phone turned off?”
Romina’s hand holding the cloth paused slightly.
When she was restoring quartz, she didn’t like to be disturbed, so she often turned off her phone out of habit.
So that’s why he couldn’t reach her and came looking for her here?
“The battery’s dead.”
Her tone was indifferent as she continued wiping the table in silence.
In an instant, Joaquin grabbed her wrist, then lifted her up and placed her directly on the table, forcibly spreading her legs so she was straddling his waist.
The sudden intimate gesture made Romina’s heart race, her face flushing bright red.
She braced herself on the table, glaring at him angrily. “Joaquin, what are you doing?”
The man wrapped one arm around her back, the other hand gripping her chin. “Are you deliberately avoiding me?”
“Why would I avoid you? What’s there to avoid?”
She propped one hand against his chest, their posture growing increasingly intimate.
He caught her hand, his grip tightening, silently watching her without saying a word.
The look in her eyes was full of stubbornness, clearly still angry.
“It was my fault this morning. Don’t take it to heart.”
His voice suddenly softened, dropping to a much lower register.
Romina was momentarily stunned; this was the first time Joaquin had ever lowered himself
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to her.
It was hard to imagine that someone so high and mighty would ever humble himself like
this…
“My intention was for you to recognize your own feelings, not to humiliate you. I never meant to do something like that to you…”
Talking about this again, Romina felt a renewed sense of shame, her face flushing all over again.
She gritted her teeth. “Mr. Bowman, please don’t say any more.”
“So you’ve forgiven me?”
Joaquin released her waist, then braced his hands on either side of the table, lowering his gaze to quietly study her delicate features.
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