Chapter 1687

In her eyes, he was only reacting this way because he wanted to protect Tia Smith.

Dayton’s heavy expression grew sterner. “I’m not pretending.”

He had sent his men to investigate the cause of the fire in the hospital. However, the surveillance cameras were all ruined by the fire back then, so there was no way for him to find out who the culprit was.

“Right, regardless of everything, both of you are distant relatives. Even if you want to make things difficult for her, you’d need to gain your aunt’s approval to do so.”

“I’ll go back and look into it. If it really was her, I’ll properly compensate you,” Dayton said with a heavy expression on his face.

“Compensation?” Quincy smiled ambiguously. She could not help but find it amusing. “How do you intend to compensate me? Are you going to burn her to death as well?”

Dayton looked her in the eye and said in a serious tone, “If you want me to do that, I can do it.”

Quincy met his gaze without saying anything. The evaluati