Chapter 1816

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If she had used the opportunity to ask him if she could stay at his place, it would

have been incredibly presumptuous.

Manipulative women were clearly not his type.

Claire sighed dramatically. “Ugh, I just wonder what kind of girl a man with a heart of stone will actually fall for.”

She was genuinely curious!

“I actually think this Fannie girl has a real shot.”

Mary loved gossiping about young people’s romances. Even at her age, she had zero generational divide with them.

At the hospital, she was always humorous and engaging with her patients, earning widespread adoration and glowing reviews.

“Why do you say that?” Claire’s possessiveness over Dane heavily outweighed her romantic awareness.

She admired Dane on so many levels, but she hadn’t quite grasped where the flutter of first love began.

What she didn’t realize was that her possessiveness was actually a form of love. “Didn’t you just say his heart was as hard as granite?”

“He’s already softened his stance toward her. Is falling for her really that far off?”

Furthermore, the fact that Fannie hadn’t clung to him or manipulated the situation would only elevate his respect for her.

Just wait and see. Norris was definitely going to start helping her proactively.

Whether it was because she was an old schoolmate or because she had loved him silently for years without ever being a burden.

She was a girl who deserved to be loved.

Fannie was brilliant in her own right, just dealt a terrible hand by getting stuck with a boss like Julian.

And since the Quincy family had real influence, if Julian truly locked his sights on her, she would have suffered immensely.

Now that Norris had stepped in, it guaranteed he would start paying closer attention to her moving forward.

Claire gave Mary a massive thumbs-up. “Wow. Experience really does breed wisdom!”

“Oh, you.” Mary poked Claire in the forehead.

“If Fannie became your sister-in-law, would you like that?”

Mary could easily tell how much Claire adored the Churchill brothers.

They absolutely adored her in return, and she cherished them deeply.

The real fear was that once they all got married, their wives might drive a wedge between them.

Because of that, who they chose to marry was a massive deal to Claire.

“It doesn’t matter if I like her. It only matters if he does.” Claire genuinely meant it.

However, if Norris chose someone

the rest of the family despised, it

would cleady highlight a maset

flaw in his judgment. .net>

After all, the Churchill family operated in perfect harmony.

couldn’t just bring some het

shatter the peace, right?

“It’s good you think that way,” Mary said.

She was incredibly proud of how well she had raised her granddaughter.

The next day, when Fannie arrived at the office, she heard Julian had called in sick.

A colleague whispered the juicy details-Julian had been hospitalized.

“Fannie, I heard something happened when you went out to dinner last night?”

Fannie immediately knew her colleague was fishing for gossip.

She didn’t try to hide it. “Yeah.”

Her colleague gasped in excitement. “That ameless bastard actually tried to lay his hands on your

“Thank God you ran into your old college friend!”

“So, did the professor pull off a dramatic hero-saving-the-beauty moment last night?”

She had already heard bits and pieces of the rumors from other departments.

But she desperately wanted to hear the juicy details directly from the leading lady.

A lot of people in the office despised Julian, but no one had the power to do anything about him.

Hearing he was stuck in a hospital bed felt like a massive victory for the entire floor.

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