“This is my business; I know how to do it!” He said calmly.
However, when she looked at the scar on his body, he was having gauze in his hand and his abdomen was also wrapped in gauze. She could only remember that when she opened the gauze that was wrapping his abdomen, his wound that turned over almost made her faint. How could he not take good care of himself?
She thought that she almost lost him. He was her only family. In this world, he was the only person who had been with her for ten years and they almost got along day and night. Even if they couldn’t be lovers of each other, he was still her family. She really didn’t dare to think about losing him anymore.
Her tears just slid out and slid down. “Hudson, you have to promise me that you won’t commit suicide again. Will you promise me?”
“Esther, I didn’t commit suicide!” Hudson smiled and wiped her tears with his hand that was dripping. “Silly girl, I am not going to die!”
“Never again, never again!” She looked at him with tears running down her eyes.
Hudson nodded. “Alright, stop crying, you are crying like a little fool!”
“Does it hurt?” she asked.
“No, it doesn’t!” He shook his head, at least not distressed.
Suddenly, there was a lot of noise outside. “Let me in, I want to go in and see Hudson!”
“I am sorry, Mr. Perry, Young Master is now taking rest. You can’t go in!” Lance was doing his duties and blocked Tim from going into the room at the door.
“I want to go in!” Tim was very stubborn.
“Let him come in?” Esther wiped off her tears and asked Hudson.
He nodded. “Let him in!”
He knew that Tim had something to say so he didn’t stay away from him.
Esther walked over and opened the door, but she didn’t address him. She just said, “Please come in. Lance, it’s okay! Let them in.”
“Yes!” Lance nodded and then let them in.
The people behind Tim were Winnie and Elijah. Tim took Winnie’s hand and they walked in.
Hudson had already sat up by himself, Esther went to help him to put a pillow and quilt on his back immediately. “Hudson, is this all right?”
“No problem!” Hudson expression was indifferent. “Please have your seat!”
“Hudson, are you alright?” Tim also regretted that he had messed up. Seeing such a stubborn grandson-in-law who would rather self-mutilate than have sex with his granddaughter, he was thinking on whether there was a necessity to persist their marriage.
“I’m fine!” Hudson tone was light. “You don’t have to worry about me!”
Elijah’s gaze fell on Esther’s face again which was next to Hudson. The idiot little woman was staying at Hudson side like his wife at the moment.
“Hudson, I am the one who put the medicine today, it has nothing to do with Winnie. Today I will make the decision. Since you don’t like my Winnie, we are not going to force you. When you get better, both of you can get a divorce!” Tim felt that it was not a good idea to force him anymore, so he had decided not going to do so again!
When his words came out, Esther and Winnie gasped.
“Grandpa, I don’t want a divorce!” How would she live in the future? She divorced within two months and yet she was still a virgin. How could she survive with that truth?
“Why not? Since you are still a virgin now, get free soon!” Tim said to Hudson again, “Hudson, don’t worry, I will call the shots today and you will get divorced! Take a good rest and recover soon.”
After saying that, he pulled Winnie to leave.
“No! I don’t!” Winnie shook her head. “I can’t go, I want to stay and take care of Hudson-”
“I don’t need your care!” Hudson interrupted Winnie indifferently.
Tim glanced at Esther and then at Elijah. His face was cold, and he looked at Esther with complicated eyesight as if he was waiting for her to say something.
Her gaze intersected with Elijah’s cold gaze and she looked at another side, she didn’t dare to look at him. She always felt a little guilty, but she also felt strange, ‘Why should she feel guilty? He forced her to marry him, and it wasn’t her who wanted to get married so why should she be loyal to him?’
“Esther, come out!” After Winnie was pulled away by Tim, Elijah stared at Esther’s small face and said indifferently.
“She’s not going!” Hudson rejected him.
“It’s not your turn to answer!” Elijah’s tone was even more indifferent, his gaze locked at Esther’s eyebrows like an eagle. He was waiting for her answer.
Esther glanced at him carefully. Then, she turned her face away with a little fear, “I, I am not afraid of going out with you. Hudson, I will go out for a while and come back soon!”
Hudson did not ignore Elijah’s influence on Esther. His gaze could frighten Esther. He was helpless and heartbroken and yet he nodded.
At the corridor.
Elijah looked down at her and said nothing for a long time.
“If you have nothing to say, I am going in!” She finally broke the silence and turned to leave.
Elijah curled the corners of his lips silently. He just sneered at himself in that way.
Esther took a step and there was a pair of arms stretched out suddenly, bringing her body back to a warm embrace. Then, he spoke solemnly in her ear, “I will let you take care of him until he gets better and then you have to come back to me obediently!”
With her eyes down, Esther took a deep breath and looked at the slender fingers that were clenching in front of her waist. Her fingers trembled and she got his hands away, “I don’t! I won’t be with you. No!”
In fact, she would not be with Hudson anymore. When Hudson got better, she would leave. She couldn’t be with Hudson anymore with her current appearance and identity.
It turned out that that was really the case. Once she missed it, she really couldn’t look back.
“I can pamper you just as how he did!” His hands were placed around her again, hooking her waist.
“I don’t need you to pamper me, no, not before and not in the future. Elijah, you are just wish thinking!” Her words were so indifferent, it was just like a sharp sword, deeply pierced into Elijah’s chest.
“Huh! Wish thinking? Do you think you worth it?” A colder word came from his mouth. Then, he released his hand and clenched his fist by his side.
“I’m not worth it!” Esther’s heart twitched. Her small face hurt, and she made a clear distance between them, “So, don’t pester me. I have never liked you, it’s you who have been pestering me!”
After saying that, she strode towards the ward with tears accumulating in her eyes. She remembered someone said ‘Look at the sky when you don’t want to cry’. She looked up and suddenly recalled that the person was Elijah.
She lowered her head again until she was sure that her inexplicable sadness could not affect herself anymore but there were two drops of tears falling on the floor. She took a deep breath and curled her lips up. Then, she pushed the door with her blooming smile. “Hudson, I’m back!”
Elijah listened to her brisk voice and looked at her who was leaving without looking back. Was she the woman who had sex with him merrily two hours ago?
He was leaning on the cold wall, looking sadly at the long corridor under the gloomy light. He had never felt her words so cold. The cold seemed to kill his life and extinguish all his feelings.
It turned out that everything was just his wish thinking!
Elijah got up and walked out of the corridor.
In the Veyron car.
The empty laughter echoed in the quiet Veyron car. Elijah looked at the hospital building with his broken heart. Today, he finally understood the true meaning of the word ‘ruthlessly’.
He had always been ruthless to others, but he had never experienced ruthlessness by others to himself!
He took out the cigarette and ignited it. Then, he started to smoke it.
He just found out that if he lost someone who had always be with him, he was so unaccustomed to it!
For now, he understood Hudson’s feeling better! He could understand why he couldn’t give up. How can he just give up the ten years of company?
It was two o’clock midnight, Elijah looked at the sky and there was a meteor across the sky.
People always said that a wish can be made when the meteor was passing by, so could he do that?
Elijah, who has never been silly squeezed out the cigarette butt like an idiot. He put his hands together and made a wish from the bottom of his heart to the brightest meteor. He just wished that he could be accompanied by Esther in the future and not be lonely!
Was his wish extravagant?
Maybe it was too extravagant for him!
Meteor shower, how could he look at such a romantic show alone which should be shared by lovers?
Elijah opened the door of his car of a sudden and stepped onto the elevator of the hospital again.
In the ward.
Esther saw the meteor shower out of the blue. “Ah! There are meteors!”
Hudson also turned his gaze out of the window and saw the meteors across the sky. There was a pampering sight in his eyes and there was also a trace of sadness which was not easy to be detected. “It’s beautiful!”
Esther ran to the window. She put her hands together and made a wish.
“What wish did you make?” Hudson asked dotingly, “I can’t say it! It won’t work if I say it!”
Hudson laughed, “Then I can guess, I am in your wish, right?”
“I won’t tell you!” Esther shook her head. “Hudson, you must recover soon!”
“Alright, look at you, you are tired! Come on, sleep for a while!” Hudson moved his body and spaced up the sick bed a bit.
“Okay!” Esther did not hesitate to get onto the bed as if she was nestling in Hudson’s arms when she was a child. “Hudson, let Lance come in. When I finish the drip, I am afraid that the blood will flow back!”
“Okay! You go to bed first!” Hudson hugged her like hugging a child, letting her lean against him. She was careful not to press his wound, but she was sad to see his wound.
Soon, Esther fell asleep as she was in the exhaustion of being tossed by Elijah before. Hudson looked down at Esther and his eyes were full of pampering.
Lance walked in and spoke softly, “Master, since you love Miss Price so much, don’t torture each other anymore!”
Hudson kept silent; his eyes were a little gloomy. He hoped to do so but he couldn’t. His contradictions, his struggles, he couldn’t do so even if he struggled a lot!
Elijah’s feet stepped to the door of the ward again involuntarily. When he saw the scene inside through the glass of the door, his eyes hurt.
Seeing Esther leaning on Hudson’s side and sleeping so soundly, at that moment, he could only feel that his heart was pulled tightly, it was hollow and just like a corner of his chest was missing. He was helpless and heartache entangled in his heart. She leaned against Hudson and it showed that she trusted him!
Finally, he turned around. A chill from the bottom of his heart was hitting his limbs. A coldness that was so deep that he could hardly remove gradually surged on his face. After a final glance at them in the room, he turned suddenly and walked to the end of the corridor.
He had no place to go. Then, he just came to Kattie ward involuntarily.
Esther did not forget that she had made Kattie vegetative. After Hudson fell asleep, she went to Kattie ward alone the next day.