Chapter 768 He Likes You
Ivan stared at Maggie for a while longer before his eyes shifted, and he said, "No, when I went to San Diego, I didn't see Fiorello."
He wasn't lying. Whether Maggie believed him or not was her business.
"Then why are you following me?" Maggie couldn't understand. "What exactly do you and Kyle want?"
Ivan felt a bit awkward. He had nowhere to go, and in this world, besides Maggie, no one truly cared about him or treated him like a human being.
Kyle was just using him.
Ivan opened his mouth and said, "It was just a coincidence. Don't worry, I have no ill intentions. If I wanted to do something to you, you wouldn't have made it back from San Diego."
That was the truth, which made Maggie even more puzzled about Ivan's intentions.
But she wasn't naive enough to believe it was just a coincidence.
She was in the private room; how did he know what was happening inside?
Ivan stood up and said, "Get some rest. If there's nothing else, I'll leave now. Whether Fiorello is alive or dead, I don't know. When Kyle sent me to San Diego, it was just to confirm if Fiorello was in trouble. I didn't see Fiorello."
He had explained once, but to avoid any misunderstanding, he wanted to explain again.
After saying this, Ivan left.
Maggie frowned slightly. She felt Ivan was telling the truth, but she still had doubts.
Lucy had been eavesdropping at the door, and Ivan brushed past her as he left.
After he was gone, Lucy entered the hospital room. "Maggie, this Ivan is really strange. I asked him earlier, and he wouldn't explain why he brought you to the hospital, but he was willing to explain it to you twice. I think he definitely likes you."
Hearing this, Maggie felt a bit flustered and widened her eyes in surprise.
Ivan liked her?
What a joke.
"I've only met him two or three times, and he initially wanted to kill me."
"But he also saved you," Lucy said. "In my experience, Ivan definitely likes you. Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to let me get in the car and come to the hospital with you. Given your condition earlier, you can imagine what would have happened with any other man."
Maggie knew very well; she would likely have been violated.
As a woman, that was her greatest vulnerability.
To men, women were often seen as easy targets.
Lucy continued, "He let me come along, probably for your reputation's sake. If he had taken you out of the club and someone with ill intentions saw and took pictures, you know what the consequences would be. But with me there, it's different. I can be a witness to prove that nothing happened between you two. A man who cares so much about a woman's reputation must like her. I don't believe otherwise."
Lucy's words left Maggie astonished.
Lucy's analysis wasn't wrong.
But believing that Ivan liked her was still far-fetched.
Maggie suddenly remembered what Saskia had said before, about Ivan stepping in to block the knife Jenny had thrust.
Could it be that Ivan really mistook Saskia for her and stepped in to protect her?
After Jenny was captured, Francis personally interrogated her. Jenny had planned to attack Maggie at the Main Street coffee shop and had not collaborated with Ivan. Jenny didn't know Ivan was there beforehand.
From what Maggie knew about Jenny, Jenny hadn't plotted against Ivan and even helped explain things for him, which was unexpected.
Jenny didn't frame Ivan because, after everything she had been through, Ivan was the only one who hadn't mistreated her. That last bit of kindness in her heart made her spare Ivan in the end.
Maggie sat alone on the hospital bed, feeling a bit tired. In her current state, it wasn't suitable to return to the Flores Manor; it would only worry them.
Maggie stopped dwelling on Ivan's intentions and took a rest before taking a cab back to the office.
The office was her third home.
The rest area in her office had everything she needed. When she was tired, she would rest there. It also had things Fiorello had left behind, and he had once rested on that bed.
Maggie took a shower, crawled into bed, and thought about Fiorello.
She wished he could come back. She wanted to tell him that Adalia was his biological daughter.
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