The moment he passed by her, Elijah’s indifferent face showed a joyful smile as he could see a hint of depression and panic in Esther’s bright eyes.
“Pervert!” Esther snorted again the moment she passed him in a voice which only she could hear.
“And you’ve just become the woman of this pervert!” A cold voice rang out and only then, Esther immediately stiffened at the kitchen doorway while looking up at him.
His deep eyes blinked.
She took a deep breath as she was not in anger but in pain. Her heart was ached painfully, and she hated this man who had taken away her first time which she had reserved for Mr. Ball.
“Go away, don’t spoil my appetite!” She glared at him fiercely, not thinking that it was cool to show a cold face as she wasn’t intimidated!
“I think you would cry at least!”
A cold voice rang out suddenly behind her. With her slim body lurched, Esther turned back and glared at him. “I’m not that as fragile as you think! Isn’t it just a membrane? I don’t care!”
Elijah pursed his lips and didn’t speak anything, but his taut body revealed his mood at the moment and his eyes were even more dangerously fell on Esther’s face.
What a damn woman who dared to talk to him like that!
Esther walked nearer to him and glared at him fiercely, “Elijah Perry, since Miss Cole is the most important person to you, I don’t understand why you can still play with another woman when she becomes vegetative. Don’t you think that you are too perverted?”
Elijah frowned slightly with his thin lips so tightly pursed that no one was able to see his emotions.
Esther’s sense of justice surged out again when she felt sorry for Kattie at the moment with her fist clenching tightly at her side.
Elijah looked at Esther for a long time until she felt a little diffident. What was his expression? It was gloomy and frightening.
Then, Elijah turned around to go upstairs without answering her words.
“Elijah Perry!” Esther was furious.
By the time Elijah turned around, he was attacked with Esther’s slap struck on his handsome face.
Elijah didn’t expect her to slap him, he didn’t mean he couldn’t avoid it but just that he didn’t expect it and suffer her slap in silence. He looked up and saw Esther with a murderous look which was going to slap him for the second time.
“Damn it!” Elijah cursed in a low voice. His hand abruptly held her wrist and a soaring anger instantly rose in his eyes.
Esther stared at him with a deadly glare and said in a loud voice, “This slap is for Miss Cole who is dying and for you are still in the mood to make love with another women!”
Elijah’s eyes flashed quickly but flickered away in an instant.
“Let me go!” Esther looked at Elijah who was fiercely holding her wrist with a strong force that was going to crush her bones while squeezing them bit by bit that she could even hear the sound of bones rubbing against each other with severe pain.
With her pale face, Esther suddenly raised her eyebrows while glancing at the hand being pinched by Elijah in defiance before she stomped down quickly. As a result, her thin body swayed a few times before she regained her footing and raised her head, and she coldly responded to Elijah who had a gloomy and serious face.
“I have to step on it for myself even if I can’t slap on you. Although I don’t care about that membrane, I still feel ashamed to be spoiled by a heartless and unrighteous man like you!” Esther glanced at him with great disdain then turned towards the table.
Suddenly, her waist was clasped by a pair of large hands, and immediately afterwards, she fell into a wide embrace behind her with the man’s cold voice rang in her ears, “She is not my girlfriend!”
“Ugh?” Esther froze. “Not your girlfriend?”
Elijah coldly locked her shocked eyebrows.
Esther got nervous and said, “Even if she was not your girlfriend, you shouldn’t have betrayed her at this time! Don’t you have to fast for three years after such a big incident? You are being so unkind even if you are only her friend!”
“She’ll be fine!” Elijah uttered another sentence.
“What?” Esther was stunned.
“I said she’ll be fine!”
“Really?” Esther froze and then turned surprised. If Kattie got well, her sins would be lessened, and she could live her life without guilt.
But, didn’t the doctor say she was vegetative?
“Can vegetative patients get well too?” She asked urgently without realizing that she was being held in his arms and his big hands were clasping her waist in a very ambiguous position.
Elijah curled his lips, “How should you repay for slapping me?”
Esther was stunned, “What the hell! Tell me what is going on, will Miss Cole really get well? If she gets well, I can let you slap me even ten times, tell me quickly!”
“False vegetative state!” Elijah uttered the words out that instantly raised hope in Esther’s heart.
By the time she was stunned and dumbfounded, he sealed her lips with his lips and released her after he dominantly claimed a kiss. “This is the compensation for you slapping me!”
“You, damn it!” Esther wiped away the traces that he left on the corner of her lips immediately.
In the hospital.
“Miss Cole, you must get well, I know it’s all my fault, I shouldn’t have bumped into you and caused you to suffer! I will take good care of you and let you get well soon!” Esther looked at the woman lying on the sick bed and folded her hands in repentance at the bedside. “Can you hear what I’m saying? Can you hear my apology? Please get well soon!”
Elijah saw Esther talking to Kattie when he came in. Kattie had her eyes closed on the bed and was not responding in the slightest, if not for her faint breathing, one might have thought she was dead.
As soon as she saw Elijah, Esther immediately got herself up and said, “Elijah, talk to Miss Cole quickly, if she hears your words, she can awaken her consciousness!”
She had already asked the doctor, who said talking to her often may make her get well soon.
Elijah was so adamant that Kattie would get well which indirectly gave Esther strength and support, so she insisted on taking care of Kattie in the hospital, hoping that she would get well soon after her careful care.
“Get out!” Elijah highlighted the words in a deep voice.
“What?” Esther was stunned and froze at the spot, yet her thoughts were somewhat confused.
Elijah took a gentle glance at the woman lying on the sick bed and his cold face couldn’t show even a single emotion. “Get out!”
Esther instantly understood. “Hmm? Do you want to talk alone?”
She immediately turned around and walked out. Since she wasn’t his girlfriend, was there anything he couldn’t say in front of her? Ugh! Forget about it, she didn’t want to hear either.
Sitting on the lounge chair, Esther’s small face was tangled together. She had no place to live now and she was jobless as well, even though there was quite a lot of money in her card and she could get through a few years without working, but how about her future?
She couldn’t live at Elijah’s place as she had already repaid the promise of the bet and as soon as Kattie got well, she didn’t owe anyone else.
Picking up her phone, Esther pressed a number, “Hello, is this the housekeeping company? I need a flat with one bedroom… Is there anything cheaper?”
“Hum, yes, I just want to rent it!” She hadn’t thought about buying it yet.
The door of the ward opened suddenly and Elijah frowned at her.
As soon as she put down the phone, Esther immediately froze. “Have you finished? So fast?”
“Do you want to rent a house?” Elijah looked at her and asked in a deep voice.
“That is my business!”
“Who gave you permission to rent a house?” His tone was impetuous.
She was puzzled and frowned, “Mr. Perry, aren’t you being too funny? I’ve paid back what I owe you, and now that I don’t owe you, do you want to control my life?”
“Why not?” He raised his eyebrows with his deep eyes shining.
Esther snorted, “I don’t care about you, I’ll go and take care of Miss Cole!”
She entered the ward and began to massage Kattie, begging her to get well quickly so she could be free.
“How do I know if you’ll run? I have to monitor your every move until when Kattie is well, you can leave anytime but before that you need to sign an agreement with me!”
Esther instantly got angry upon hearing this and felt insulted. “Do you think that everyone is as nasty as you?”
“Then let’s sign the agreement!” Elijah glanced down at the woman who used to rely on him, and her little angry face looked like a little lion.
Esther was speechless in an instant and gave him a look, “Who are you? Who am I to sign with you?”
“Then don’t even think about going out!” He said in a deep voice.
Esther went speechless.
“Can I go out to live after signing up the contract?” She asked.
Elijah froze and went silent.
“What exactly do you mean, Elijah Perry?” Esther gritted her teeth and continued massaging Kattie.
“Sign a contract to prevent you from escaping!” His gaze fell on Esther’s back as he said.
“How can you stop me if I want to leave?” Esther snorted. “Stop thinking of signing any more bullshit contracts with me!”
After signing a bet once, she had lost her first time, so she was not going to sign another contract.
Elijah didn’t say anything but only narrowed his eyes sharply as he walked over to the bed and sat down on one side where he could see Esther’s face.
She was massaging Kattie and was startled when she suddenly saw him sitting down, then she saw the playful smile at the corner of his lip and the haze that remained under his eyes, yet his domineering aura seemed to oppress her. In addition, the moment the expression in his eyes turned serious inadvertently giving her a feeling of trembling that almost made her suffocate.
Esther swallowed her saliva, “What do you want?”
Elijah wrapped his arms around his chest, “Do you think you can get away?”
“Ugh!” Esther flattened her lips, “Do you want to try?”
“What are the conditions?”
“If I succeed, I want to live by myself!” She said seriously.
She couldn’t live with him as she was told by her master that men were dangerous and should stay away from!
Elijah nodded, “Alright! If you succeed in escaping this ward tonight and successfully walk out of the hospital gate without being discovered by my men, you will be considered successful, and I can promise you what you want!”
“Really?” She was in some disbelief.
“Really!”
“It’s a deal!”
Then, Elijah made a call in front of her and assembled a few bodyguards to guard the door of the ward. A few people were also sent under the window outside the ward just in case, while Elijah himself went back to the company to handle some things.