It was nighttime when I arrived at the hospital. The vast night sky was dotted with stars. In the hospital, there were no more people coming and going as in the past, only sporadic doctors and nurses remained.
Zac White said he was going downstairs to get dinner, so Jerry Xiao went upstairs alone.
In her hospital room, at this moment, Owen Baker and Sea Gu, surprisingly, are absent.
Jerry Xiao stood only at the door for a long time, peeking in through the tiny window in the door. She was lying peacefully on the bed like that, with salt water hanging from her hand. The pale light reflected her quiet little face.
A hardness welled up in Jerry Xiao’s chest.
Obviously just a few days gone, in a trance, but like half a century. See each other again, actually has long ceased to be the same mood as in the past. Screw open the door, sink step inside. Step by step, step by step toward her.
Leaning so close now, in the air, her even breathing could be heard. She, sleeping so deeply …
To the edge of the bed, deep eyes locked tightly on that small white face, he wanted to wake her up, and she said many, many words, but, but can not bear, can only be so deeply staring at her. Fingers, can not help but stroke her cheeks, the force is incredibly light, for fear of waking her.
She, again, has lost a lot of weight … a lot …
But, even though he was so careful, she was awakened. Thinking she was in a dream, she smelled his scent and thought only that it was a nightmare. It was only when she opened her eyes that she realized with a jolt that this nightmare extended into reality.
Her eyes widened in fear, and when she saw it was him, she brushed his hand away almost immediately, “Don’t touch me!”
She sat up alert, alarmed.
“Zoey!” He whimpered, his voice dark and hoarse.
“You go away! Please get out, I don’t want to see you! Don’t ever see you again!” She screamed, her eyes moistening all at once, feeling nothing but horror at him from the bottom of her heart. What was he trying to do by approaching himself again? What was he trying to lie to himself about again?
She has nothing left now but her children …
Could it be that he was going to cheat her out of her baby? It must be so! Must be!
Jerry Xiao was completely hurt by her appearance, both hands clasped her thin shoulders and spoke, “Zoey , you calm down! I won’t hurt you again …”
“Liar! You let go of me! Let go!” She struggled so desperately that the needles on her arm fell off, and she didn’t care, as long as she broke away from his shackles. It was as if, right now, he was a wild beast that was opening its bloody mouth to swallow her in one gulp and eat her without even a bone left.
Jerry Xiao obviously did not expect her reaction to be so strong, and once he saw that she had touched off the needle, he was horrified and almost immediately wanted to let go. However, he was worried that if he let go, she would no longer belong to him, so he subconsciously tightened his arms and painfully held her firmly in his arms. Because of too much strength, the taut arm had veins jumping, he trembled his lips, constantly murmuring, “Believe me, I didn’t want to hurt you. I just came to apologize to you … Trust me …”
“Why should I believe you? Even if you did come to apologize, I don’t need it! Can your apology get back my dead child and my qualifications to be a mother in the future?!” Like a severely injured cat, she practically jumped up and questioned in a stern voice. At the mention of the poor child, she suddenly burst into mournful sobs, all that came out from the bottom of her eyes was the hurt that broke her, “It can’t be replaced! We all know it can’t be replaced! Even if your life is used to offset the child’s life, he will not come back to my stomach …”
Jerry Xiao pursed his lips in death. Such a sharp Zoey , made him uneasy. That one word after another was like a rigid cone, poking his heart violently.
All over his body, a twinge of pain. He grasped her hand firmly, never that hard, as if to take her into his soul, “Would it make you feel better if … I died?”
She froze, only to feel something knocking her painfully between the palms of his firmly held hands. It was cold, like a stone, but there was a ring off to the side. A ring?
She realized what it was, and suddenly struggled desperately, pushing frantically against his chest.
“You crazy bastard! You asshole! You go away!” Zoey desperately tried to pull away from his tightly clasped hand, but he exerted extreme force and refused to let go. It was as if he was insisting on handing over that ring to her.
She cried more and more. The appearance of this ring was just a mockery of the fact that she had been that stupid to get caught up in the marriage scam that he had brought upon himself! She even thought that in the future, they would be a happy family. She had never thought that he was just sending her the deadliest blow!
“Jerry Xiao, I won’t be fooled by you anymore! I won’t act like a fool again and give you my child as well because of a few words and a ring!” She yelled, both telling him and warning herself. Don’t fall for it again! Not to be fooled again! This man’s mind was deeper than she could see through!
Jerry Xiao was very sick, he didn’t have much strength, by Zoey’s crazy push and shove, the whole person was almost shaking. But he refused to let go, did not dare to let go. He only insisted on grasping her hand, and the ring was clasped in each other’s palms. He lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes covered his weakness, but could not cover the brooding in the bottom of his eyes, “Never, I just genuinely want to propose to you …”
“You shut up!” Now, he had absolutely no qualifications whatsoever to say such things! Moreover, she had no obligation to listen to him make up these lies!
His face was stony, and he only felt some swirling blackness before his eyes. He was about to fall into a dark abyss, he guessed.
“Take, take, him!” He said it word for word, as if it took all his strength. The hand that clasped her tightly, constantly trembled and flushed with a patch of bruises. He, suddenly, felt a little cold …
“I don’t want it. Jerry Xiao, even if you brand it on my hand, I’d rather break my finger than it!” She became sharp and cruel like never before.
He laughed feebly and bitterly, his expression never looked as mournful as it did today, and with a heavy gasp, he looked at her fixedly before he struggled to complete his sentence, “Don’t worry, I’m not trying to propose to you.”
How could he propose to her when he was about to die? She had plenty of time to spend, to live a vibrant, happy and healthy life, who would want to trap her in a marriage with no future?
Zoey also froze for a moment, shoving him, pausing slightly. Tearful eyes, cautiously looking at him. Just feel the palm of the hand is empty, he let go of her hand, she spread out in the heart of the hand all of a sudden only left that bright diamond ring.
“Take it, it belongs to you!” He was as stubborn as ever.
Zoey just looked at him like that, frozen, wooden. Suddenly, just like holding a hot potato, she threw the ring violently to the ground. The ring made a crisp ring, rolled around on the ground, and landed in the corner … Jerry Xiao chest pain, only to feel a black eye, “Bang–” sound Heavily planted on the ground.
The door to the hospital room was violently pushed open at that very moment.
Sea Gu and Zac White come in one after the other.
“Wipe!” Zac White took one look at Jerry Xiao, who had fainted on the floor, dropped what he was holding and turned around to yell, “Doctor! Doctor! Help!”
After shouting, a hand will be on the ground, he shouldered up, his face is very green, not even a glance at Zoey , then stride out.
Sea Gu was also stunned by the image for a long time. Zoey obviously hadn’t shaken from the hurtful cut just now, so she sat stagnantly on the hospital bed and watched woodenly as Zac White carried Jerry Xiao away. Until, that familiar figure disappeared from her eyes, she only felt that her heart had been cut open, and it hurt so much that she gasped sharply and gripped the bed sheet underneath her.
Sea Gu took one step up and held the shaking her in place, “Zoey , are you okay? I … I’ll call a doctor for you …”
Like an unconscious puppet, she just kept sobbing and sobbing and sobbing …
Sea Gu was shocked by her appearance and kept ringing the bell while tenderly wiping her tears, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I should be damned, I shouldn’t have gone to buy you anything to eat at this time. Don’t you cry …”
He was chagrined as hell. In bits and pieces, but he didn’t know how to persuade her.
By the time the doctor came in, she was tired of crying and let him sedate her before she finally slumped down in the hospital bed.
Without realizing what kind of pain Jerry Xiao, outside, is going through.
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Inside the promenade, there was chaos. Coming and going, there were strange footsteps. Jerry Xiao couldn’t hear a word the doctors and nurses were saying. In her head, Zoey’s shrill voice echoed: “Asshole! I hate you! I hate you!”
There was a twinge in his chest and he fainted again.
“Pressure 100 up, 80 down.”
“Pressure 80 up, 60 down.”
“60 on the top and 40 on the bottom!”
“Quickly! Prepare the emergency room immediately!” The doctor yelled, turning to Zac White, “Notify the patient’s family immediately, the patient could become critically ill at any moment!”
“Can’t! Not allowed! No!” Zac White grimaced, and if the doctor hadn’t been so important, he really would have punched someone at this point, “Doctor, do you hear me! Don’t you dare mention the word ‘critical’ to me!”
“We’ll do our best!” The doctor winced at his appearance, not daring to do anything else, and immediately pushed Jerry Xiao into the emergency room.
Zac White, not to be outdone, pulled out his cell phone with shaking hands to contact a doctor in England.
In the hospital room, it was quiet. Only the sound of breathing, either light or heavy, resounded.
Zoey lay in bed for a while before waking up again. Looking at the pale white ceiling, just feel a blank mind, as if they have forgotten a few hours ago here and his a heart-breaking entanglement. Also very hard to force themselves not to remember, just like this disappeared poor child …
Sea Gu was still guarding the place, and looking at the figure asleep on the edge of the bed, she pursed her lips and tried to raise a smile.
The hand, slowly moved to his cheek, trying to wake him up and get him back to rest. But, before he could touch him, his hand was gripped sharply.
“You’re awake?” He was awake, his jaw dropping as he stared at her.
“Well, don’t worry about me, I’m fine.” Zoey forced a smile and rushed him, “It’s late, you should go back to bed.”
Sea Gu stroked his face haphazardly and looked at his watch before saying, “It’s getting late, you haven’t eaten dinner today, you’re hungry, aren’t you? You eat your food first, and I’ll be heading back.”
Zoey smiled and nodded her head. He then got up and moved the dining table, setting up the clear porridge and tonic soup that had been warmed up there earlier before saying, “Your brother will be here in a while, I heard that Nabi Yan’s family went to your house, and he’s busy dealing with them.”