Because I Was an and He Threw Away 113

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Chapter 113 The Lunch Invitation

After entering the emergency observation unit, Emily saw Aaron lying flat on the hospital bed. He appeared to be asleep.

But his sleep was light. At the slightest sound, he opened his

eyes.

When he saw that it was Emily, a flicker of panic crossed his eyes, as though he had been caught in an undignified state.

He tried to sit up, but Emily hurriedly pressed his hand down. “Don’t move.”

Aaron still forced himself upright, leaning against the bed rail. His lips were pale as he looked at Emily and gave a bitter smile. “I’ve made a spectacle of myself in front of you.”

Emily’s eyes reddened. She lowered her gaze and said, “Don’t say that. It’s because of me that you ended up like this…”

Aaron cut her off. “Ethan came to see you?”

Emily answered quietly, “Yes.”

Aaron’s hand was in a cast, and there were bruises on his face, though they had already faded quite a bit.

He had wanted to avoid Emily, yet this disheveled sid of him52

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Aaron gave a faint smile and asked softly, “It’s about Andrew Robinson’s mother, isn’t it?”

Emily looked at him in surprise. “How do you know? Did Andrew or the others come to see you?”

Aaron shook his head and explained calmly. “Ruth Robinson came to see me for an exam when I was seeing patients in the clinic. I told her then that she needed to be hospitalized, but she refused. She said I was too young to have real medical skills and accused me of talking nonsense. But I knew her condition would relapse sooner or later.”

Emily finally understood. “So that’s how it was.”

Aaron looked at her and asked, “Did Ethan threaten you?”

Not wanting to worry him, Emily shook her head. “No.”

But Aaron said with certainty, “If you’re asking me, then he did.”

Emily didn’t respond and instead fell silent.

Seeing that she didn’t speak, Aaron more or less understood.

After a brief pause, he asked softly, “Do you want me to do this surgery?”

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Emily shook her head. “I don’t know.”

Saving lives was a doctor’s duty, but what Andrew had done to Aaron was not something anyone could simply pretend had never happened.

Aaron smiled lightly. “You know that as long as you ask, I won’t refuse.”

Emily glanced at Aaron’s hand. “Even if you wanted to do it, you might not be able to right now. No matter what, focus on recovering first.”

Aaron responded with a quiet “Mm” and didn’t say anything

else.

Emily didn’t ask how he had been injured. She didn’t need to. It was obviously related to the news Andrew had spread.

Jealousy could kill, and rumors could swallow a person whole.

After staying with Aaron for a while, Emily stood up to leave.

Before she went, she said to him, “Whether you do this surgery or not should depend entirely on your own will. No one has the right to force you.”

That included her.

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Aaron smiled at her, his voice gentle. “Mm.”

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When Emily returned to Carter Manor from the hospital, Henry and Linda, as well as Molly, were already asleep.

Ryan, as always, had been waiting at home. Only after seeing Emily return did he finally feel at ease enough to rest.

After spending some time talking with Chloe, Emily noticed nothing unusual about her family. She understood that Ethan had not acted because he still had to consider whether Aaron would agree to perform the surgery.

The next day, the Carter family went about their routines as usual.

Everything carried on as if nothing had happened.

Emily thought that Ethan probably would not make a move against the Carter family after all.

At ten in the morning, Emily’s phone rang. It was Ethan calling.

After their marriage, the number of times he had called her could be counted on one hand.

If this had happened in the past, she would have been happy for days.

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After answering, she asked, “What is it?”

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Ethan got straight to the point. “Let’s have lunch together.”

Emily was about to refuse when Ethan added, “Bring Aaron with you.”

There was no question that this was about Ruth’s surgery.

When they didn’t need Aaron, they could suppress him at will, smear him, or even use fabricated accusations to destroy a

future he had worked so hard to build.

Now that they needed him, they still refused to lower their heads and instead wanted Emily to act as the intermediary.

It was almost laughable.

Was the pride of the wealthy really that important?

Was admitting fault really that difficult?

With that in mind, Emily said with a faint, amused tone, “I’m not a tool, and I don’t want to be summoned at will and dismissed just as easily. There’s no need for this lunch.”