The Perfect Husband's Secret novel Chapter 22

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Early the next morning, the guest room door was suddenly flung open. I saw Vanessa, dressed up, pulling off my blanket: 

“Violet, why are you still lying in bed? I heard you got sick because didn’t take you with him, and you’ve been angry with him. I came here specifically to explain things to him, but you’re so rude, still sleeping like this? I even bought you some stuff!” 

I sat on the bed, staring at her without moving. 

She looked at Lucas with a grievance, as if she had been mistreated. 

Lucas couldn’t bear it and immediately comforted her: 

“Don’t think that way. Violet is just recovering from an injury. She’s still a patient. 

Otherwise, she’d never treat you poorly, right?” 

Vanessa pouted, as if she had just been coaxed, and said: 

“Alright, I just felt like I was already lowering myself enough. And we didn’t do it on purpose. My heart condition is really serious. It was an emergency at the time, so it was 

hard for you to make a decision.” 

As she spoke, she even seemed like she was about to cry. 

Lucas immediately felt sorry for her, consoling: 

“I know, it wasn’t your fault. The situation was too urgent. 

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I watched the two of them, oblivious to everything around them, without saying a word. 

I suddenly remembered that the landslide shouldn’t have happened. 

Lucas had said it was our four–year anniversary and that he wanted to celebrate with me, take me on a trip, just the two of us. He seemed genuinely excited, talking about how 

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beautiful the tulip flowers were at the destination. 

But just before we left, Vanessa found out. She said he’d never taken her to see the tulip 

flowers. 

Lucas was torn because he had already promised me a trip for just the two of us, but he still 

wanted to consult my opinion. But Vanessa dispelled his doubts with just one sentence: 

“E, I know this is really presumptuous of me, and I don’t have long to live. If it’s inconvenient for you, just forget it.” 

Right in front of me, Lucas said, “I’ll come to pick you up.” 

Our romantic getaway turned into a trip for three. 

The biggest difference between Vanessa and me was that whenever she was around, I would always be the tag–along. 

I took their pictures, followed them around, and didn’t even sit next to Vanessa during 

meals. 

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Lucas would peel fruit for her, something I had asked him to do before, but he said it was 

too much trouble and that he didn’t like it. 

Turns out it wasn’t that he didn’t like it, it was just that he didn’t like me. 

When we were supposed to return from our trip, Vanessa insisted on staying another day to 

visit a popular tourist spot. 

Actually, the day before, I had already noticed that the weather was becoming extreme and I kept reminding Lucas, but he scolded me because of Vanessa. 

“Vanessa is a heart patient. How can you be so vicious, always targeting her? We can have our romantic getaway anytime!” 

In the end, I gave in to Lucas’s hysteria, and then the landslide happened. 

Because Lucas protected Vanessa, she only suffered minor injuries. 

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But inertia meant that, as the one in the backseat, I took the full force of the impact, even facing death. 

But when rescue came, Lucas didn’t ask if I was okay; he just wanted to take Vanessa and 

leave immediately. 

One of my colleagues happened to be there, and after seeing my condition, they saved a *spot on the rescue helicopter for me, but Lucas insisted on taking Vanessa. 

He said that if they delayed any longer, he’d cancel his donation to the hospital. 

After he left, my colleague quickly found another rescue helicopter for me, which is what saved my leg. 

Thinking about this, I suddenly felt too tired to watch Lucas and Vanessa act anymore. 

I directly said: 

“You’re right, as a patient, she’s the most important. That’s why I didn’t argue with Lucas 

yesterday. I also agree that it was right to take her first. Didn’t Lucas convey these words to 

you? Why are you saying these ridiculous things again? Or are you insisting that I deViolet 

what you two did wasn’t something decent before you’re satisfied?” 

Vanessa froze on the spot, probably not expecting me, usually so submissive, to speak to her like that. Lucas also froze, and his face turned bad after he realized what I was saying. 

“You still say you’re not making a fuss? Vanessa came here out of kindness to see you, and this is how you talk? How could I possibly be with Vanessa?” He looked like I had wronged him, making me laugh. 

But Vanessa’s face turned even more unpleasant. 

Although Lucas favored her, he didn’t want to be with her, and that made her unwilling to give up. 

didn’t bother watching them anymore and directly made plans with my mentor to go out 

for a meal. 

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