Love at First Sight? Mr. Harrison Has Been Scheming All Along-Chapter 149: "Rory, I’m sorry.

Evelyn Irving was startled by the sudden voice.

She was silent for two seconds before speaking. "Sean, you’re on the line."

Rory Linden tried to hand the phone to the man, but Sean Harrison took it and put it on speakerphone.

"Yes, I just picked Rory up from work."

The man’s words were tinged with a casual air.

"You... you pick Rory up from work every day?"

Evelyn Irving had originally intended to discuss business.

But upon hearing what Sean Harrison said, she subconsciously asked the question that was really on her mind.

"Not every day," Sean Harrison said honestly. "But whenever I have time, I do."

"Sigh, Rory is indeed better off with you than with Miles. Miles was so inconsiderate of her feelings and made so many mistakes..."

Evelyn Irving was sighing with genuine emotion...

Over the past twenty years, she had seen all too clearly how Miles Harrison had treated Rory Linden.

In Miles Harrison’s eyes, Rory Linden was no different from the housekeepers in their home.

At most, she was just closer to him, someone who understood him better.

Evelyn Irving had told Miles Harrison before that he should be nicer to Rory Linden.

But Miles Harrison always acted completely unconcerned.

After Rory Linden broke up with him, even though he had already decided to get engaged to Lucy Shaw,

Evelyn Irving could still see her son’s dejection.

Just the other day, he came home drunk and spent half an hour hunched over the toilet, throwing up.

When he came out, he cried to her, "Mom, I really regret breaking up with Rory. If I could do it all over again... I would definitely, definitely treat Rory well. I definitely, definitely wouldn’t let anyone take her from me."

Evelyn Irving knew her son was truly filled with regret.

But in his current state, he was no match for Sean Harrison at all.

Sean Harrison, however, didn’t like hearing Evelyn Irving talk about this. "Let’s not dwell on the past. Whatever Miles does is his own choice."

As he spoke, he leaned down slightly and kissed the tip of the woman’s nose.

Evelyn Irving quickly returned to the business at hand. "Sean, can... can you try to talk some sense into Miles? He has no real skills. You helped him so much here in Celestria, and he still ended up like this. If he goes abroad, he might not even survive."

Evelyn Irving hadn’t looked into the specifics of Miles Harrison’s company before.

Now that she had a clearer picture, she realized the son she had raised was truly useless.

Rory Linden, at least, had gotten into Celestria’s top medical university on her own merits, earned a doctorate, and secured a good job.

Meanwhile, Miles Harrison had just coasted through college abroad and had barely managed his company since returning home.

Thinking back on how she had once looked down on Rory Linden, even just a little...

She felt embarrassed with herself.

Sean Harrison lowered his gaze to the phone screen. "If Miles is willing to come to my office and apologize, and if his attitude is sincere, I’ll consider letting things go back to how they were."

"But..."

Evelyn Irving knew that Miles Harrison had already gone to Sean Harrison’s office to apologize.

He had come back with a swollen face.

He never mentioned what had specifically happened.

Sean Harrison also knew that by bringing this up, he was ensuring Miles Harrison would never come back to apologize.

The relationship between them didn’t have to become so strained.

It was Miles Harrison who had acted out time and time again.

Leading them to where they were today.

"Alright, we haven’t eaten yet. We have to go."

With that, Sean Harrison hung up the phone.

The man placed the phone on the entryway cabinet and asked Rory Linden, "Miles mentioned having dinner with you. Did he give you a specific time?"

"Not yet."

Rory Linden shook her head.

The man’s hand gently closed around her wrist. His dark eyes were lowered, his expression unreadable. "You have to go, don’t you?"

Rory Linden had already been feeling a bit emotional.

Now, she finally couldn’t hold back her anger.

"Sean Harrison, is it really that hard to trust me?" Rory Linden looked at him. "If you can’t even do something as simple as trusting me, then I think... Mmph."

The man’s lips descended on hers.

Covering the rest of her words.

"Go. I never said you couldn’t."

Sean Harrison stated his position as he stood up.

He was afraid the unspoken second half of her sentence had something to do with breaking up.

-

The next day, Rory Linden had clinic duty.

She arrived at her office early to change.

She had planned to check on Charlotte Rhodes before heading to the clinic.

She had just cracked the door to the hospital room open when she heard the sound of conversation from inside.

Pushing the door open, she saw Charlotte Rhodes and Evan Hollis sitting on opposite sides of the room’s small dining table, eating breakfast together.

The tableware on the table was familiar; it must have been breakfast sent over by the Harrington family’s housekeeper.

The two of them were talking and laughing, completely unaware that Rory Linden had entered.

Rory Linden hesitated for a moment, then backed out of the room.

She walked to the nurses’ station and found a nurse on duty to ask, "Um... when did Dr. Hollis go to Room 11?"

"Dr. Hollis?" The nurse thought for a moment. "I think he got here a little after six. He went for a walk with the patient in Room 11, and they just got back. They’re only just having breakfast now."

Rory Linden was baffled. It wasn’t normal for them to be getting along so well.

Her own questions had yet to be answered when the young nurse leaned in and whispered, "Dr. Linden, Dr. Hollis was on the night shift yesterday and spent a few hours in Room 11. We were all talking about it last night... you don’t think Dr. Hollis is trying to take a shortcut, do you?"

"..."

Rory Linden frowned and didn’t say anything at first.

It wasn’t strange that the nurse would tell her these things.

Colleagues at the hospital loved to gossip.

Especially during the night shift, when they had nothing better to do than chat.

Rory Linden was tight-lipped, so everyone trusted her and told her everything.

"Of course, we don’t think Dr. Hollis is really that kind of person. Your boyfriend is two years older than him, after all."

The nurse quickly tried to smooth things over.

After all...

Charlotte Rhodes, the patient in Room 11, could be Rory Linden’s future mother-in-law.

"Dr. Hollis told me that when he was studying abroad, Auntie Rhodes sponsored him. He probably didn’t have a chance to thank her properly back then."

Rory Linden decided to speak up for Evan Hollis and Charlotte Rhodes.

Otherwise, given how absurdly fast gossip spread through the hospital,

in two days, their relationship would be labeled a May-December romance at the very least.

The nurse exclaimed, "Wow, so Dr. Hollis has a real inspirational backstory?"

Just as Rory Linden was about to reply, the phone in her pocket rang.

She answered the phone as she walked toward the elevators.

The caller was Miles Harrison.

"Rory! I’m calling to ask you to dinner. Two days from now, on the 13th, are you free?"

Miles Harrison’s tone was completely different from how he used to speak to her.

It was tentative and cautious.

As if afraid Rory Linden would refuse, he quickly added, "Or, you could check your schedule and see when you’re free this week or next."

"The 13th is fine. I’m free."

Rory Linden agreed.

"It’s a date, then. You get off work at sev—"

"I usually get off at six, but it’s hard to say if there’s an emergency surgery. If it’s a complicated case, I could be here until the middle of the night. If something comes up, I’ll call you ahead of time."

Rory Linden knew that Young Master Harrison certainly wouldn’t remember what time she got off work.

In the four years they were together, he had never once cared about the details of her life.

He didn’t even realize she had graduated with her doctorate until after she’d already taken her graduation photos; he still thought she was a student.

After she started working, for the longest time, he didn’t even know which department she was in.

"That’s okay. If something comes up, I can wait for you."

There was a brief silence on the phone.

Then, Miles Harrison spoke. "Rory, I’m sorry."