Cutie, Please Marry Me Again (Jenna and Hansen)

Chapter 1730

It was a short distance from the preparatory room to the operating room. Maverly said a lot of things before heading straight into the operating room.

She was the first non-healthcare provider to enter the operating room.

Xanthos paused and stared at her. At this time, he had already put on his mask. "You may leave now."

After that, he entered the operating room. Maverly looked at him from behind, then ran over to him. She stopped him and said, "Thank you. I'll treat you to dinner after the operation."

Her eyes were filled with gratitude as she looked into Xanthos's eyes. Xanthos glanced at her and turned toward the operating room.

The operation was finally over after four hours. Maverly had begun to grow anxious as she paced back and forth outside for a long time, waiting for Xanthos to come out.

She was worried that the operation would fail.

When Xanthos came out of the operating room, she immediately ran over and asked him, "Well, how is it?"

Xanthus glanced at her anxious face and replied, "The surgery is a success."

After that, he turned around to change his clothes. Meanwhile, the other doctors pushed the boy out of the operating room. Maverly breathed a sigh of relief and followed Xanthus to the ward.

Maverly waited for Xanthus at the door when he got off work in the evening. "Dr. Osteen, I'd like to invite you to dinner."

Xanthus glanced at her and looked at her car. "Are you driving?"

"Uh... Sure."

She was only twenty years old and her thoughts were innocent. She invited him to dinner because he helped her.

Xanthus was exhausted and he fell asleep in the passenger seat as soon as he got in the car.

Maverly drove them to a gourmet restaurant and parked her car in front of the entrance.

Xanthus woke up in a daze, then got out of the car after a while. He took a look at the restaurant and followed Maverly into the restaurant.

Maverly was in charge of ordering the food because Xanthus had been tired after the operation. He also had an emergency operation in the afternoon and it was a difficult case. The other doctors didn't dare to accept the case, so he couldn't leave the patient to die.

Xanthus ran the hospital together with Jeremy, Maverly's father, and he considered Jeremy as his college senior even though there was a huge age gap between the two of them.

They met on a panel discussion and became friends instantly. Just like that, they set up a hospital together.

Maverly grew up with her mother because her parents divorced when she was still a child. However, Jeremy was a loyal man. He never remarried and Maverly was his only child. Naturally, all the businesses Jeremy owned would eventually belong to Maverly.

Although Jeremy was not the wealthiest man in town, he still owned a huge amount of fortune. So, Maverly was considered well-off.

However, she did not boast about her wealth at all.

Her parents fell in love with each other at a young age and they had her when they were about nineteen years old. She did not know how they managed to pull it through for all those years. But eventually, their relationship became more and more awkward, then finally, they separated.

Her parents didn't remarry after their divorce. They claimed that it was for her sake. Sometimes, they would still have meals together with her, talking about her and sharing their experiences.

She was unclear whether they truly did that because of her or not.

In the beginning, she called Xanthus her 'Uncle'. Later, when she came to work in the hospital, she began addressing him as Dr. Osteen.

"Thank you for today." Maverly poured Xanthus a glass of red wine, then downed a glass herself.

Xanthus did not stop her. He already knew that she had been drinking, as he saw her drinking at a banquet before. Jeremy also mentioned that she enjoyed drinking and had a good alcohol tolerance, so she seldom got drunk.

He believed Jeremy because Jeremy had a good alcohol tolerance too. It was just that he rarely drank after he became a doctor, just like Xanthus. However, they would still drink a few glasses of alcohol occasionally.

"Cheers."

Maverly handed the glass to Xanthus and he clinked glasses with her.

He believed that drinking could relieve his fatigue and eliminate his sorrows, so he drank a little wine almost every night as he had not been sleeping well recently.

Otherwise, he would have been the one driving instead of Maverly.

After taking a sip of wine, he looked outside and suddenly thought of something. "You are drinking too. How should we go back?" This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

He frowned displeasedly. He blamed himself for remembering this only after downing the wine. The reason he had to call a cab earlier that day was that he had a few drinks. But now, both of them had drunk.

"It's alright. I can still drive us back even though I had a few drinks. Besides, I know how to avoid the policemen." Maverly patted her chest as if she was an expert.

Xanthus's face fell. "Does your father know about this?"

"He doesn't. What's wrong?" Maverly replied.

"If your father knew, he would confiscate your car."

"He won't. My mom bought the car for me so he has no right to do so."

Xanthus knew Maverly's family very well. Her parents rarely intervened in her personal business after she turned eighteen, unlike Jepherson's family.

But he thought such an upbringing had its own pros and cons.

Flicking his gaze at Maverly, he quietly planned to go back early after dinner. He stopped drinking and set the glass of wine aside, then dug into his food.

When Maverly noticed that Xanthus stopped drinking, she said, "I asked my mother for this bottle of wine. It's expensive."

Xanthus raised an eyebrow at her and thought to himself, 'Why didn't I taste that earlier?' Then, he picked up his glass and took another sip.

Jeremy once mentioned that his ex-wife ran a red wine business and she owned a vineyard specifically for making red wine.

Her business was even better than their hospital's.

After tasting the wine carefully, Xanthus realized that it was truly a good wine.

He glanced at the bottle and when he noticed the year, he narrowed his eyes at Maverly. "Why did you waste such good wine?"

"I heard from Dad that you like red wine. So I prepared it specially for you."

"Don't do this next time. You helped me last time by saving Raeleigh. I can't imagine the consequences without your help."

"Yeah, right. It was only a piece of cake, but today's different. Thank you."

Maverly took a sip from her glass and sucked in a deep breath.

At that moment, Xanthus finally understood what 'a chip off the old block' truly meant. Maverly looked just like Jeremy when she drank the wine.

He lowered his head, then proceeded to at while drinking the wine. Before long, he began feeling a little dizzy.

"Stop drinking. Let's go back."

He took out his wallet and was about to pay, but Maverly pushed it back.

"I don't need this. I have money."

She stood up and paid for their food. At the same time, Xanthus lost his balance and dropped his wallet.

Maverly picked the wallet up and put it back into his pocket, then helped him to get up.

When they got out of the door, she helped him into the car. After that, she asked, "Where do you live, Dr. Osteen?"

However, he had already fallen asleep. She tried searching for his address on his phone but found nothing.

In the end, she had no choice but to take him to her private villa, drunk driving and speeding.

She was driving at a speed of over 125 miles per hour!