“Yes, I like you since you asked me to hold Clara’s hand on the ambulance.”
Just when Isaac asked Esther if she liked him, her confession sent his heart pounding.
Isaac had never been in a relationship before, and he always looked so flinty. Thank God that he didn’t scare off the girls, and then someone was actually attractd to him.
A smile appeared on his face as he thought of that.
“Isaac, why are you smiling?” asked Neo curiously. It was the first time Neo had ever seen him smile like that.
As Neo could remember it, it was rare to see the stone-faced Isaac give such a bright smile.
“No why. Please finish your lunch, and after that I will take you to school.”
How could he possibly tell Neo that? If he had done, he would have been misleading the little child indirectly.
Neo twitched his mouth and then continued with his lunch.
At the hospital, Horace and Clara were still lying on the bed.
“Clara, sorry for bringing you into all this trouble.” Horace knew his rescue was all credited to Clara.
If it hadn’t been for her, no one could have known for sure when he would be discharged.
“No, it’s nothing. You are my husband. How could I not come to your rescue?” Clara smiled and then turned her eyes on the ceiling, pondering.
“I am your what?” Horace stuck to one particular word and looked at her, trying to get her to repeat it.
“What?” Clara began to play fool, looking back at him with a puzzled face.
“That word,” Horace said to Clara with his eyes warning that she would be in trouble if she didn’t say it again.
Clara then said again with a sigh, “Husband.”
As soon as the word came out of her mouth, Horace got ecstatic and wouldn’t loosen his hug.
Ever since they had gotten back together, Clara seldom called him that. It was a precious moment for Horace to be called in that way by her again.
“Hey, there, stop messing around. Talk something real.” It suddenly occurred to Clara there remained a lot of things to be dealt with.
And though Horace had been released, the company problem remained unresolved, and nothing had been settled yet.
Horace was aware of that, so he pricked up his ears and listened to her.
“Now we have known that this is not your fault and Laura is the culprit. We can prove that. I got Isaac to look for her in the nursing home, but she wasn’t found. But I am sure that she is there.”
Clara said assertively, which was the first time Clara had ever been so certain about something even before it was confirmed.
“I see.” After thinking for a while, he believed that Clara had a point and beckoned her to continue.
“We can have the police to look for her. As for the company, we have to handle it on our own.” Clara described the situation to Horace, who had been very attentive.
In fact, Horace had already known all about that, but he had just come out of the prison, so he didn’t want to bother Clara with them.
“Sure.” Horace continued to respond to her.
“So I’ll leave the hospital tomorrow and deal with the company matter with you.”
As soon as he heard her, he dismissed her immediately, “No. You won’t.”
“Why.”
“You haven’t recovered yet.”
It was her head that had got injured after all. It would have got serious if it had caused some lingering health problems.
“I’m fine. I know my body.”
Clara insisted. Horace resigned himself to agreeing with her.
Because Horace had got back to work, there was a lot of business for Horace to handle.
Clara was leaving the hospital that day, and Horace had meant to pick her up but she rejected, so he didn’t come.
Being threatened by his wife not to come and needed by the company, Horace decided to listen to his wife and asked Isaac and some bodyguards to escort her home.
“Mrs. Kirkland, be careful.”
Isaac reached out his hand, intending to hold her arm, but then felt that it would have been inappropriate and withdrew it.
Clara found it funny as she saw what he had done, but she didn’t laugh.
“Hey, Isaac, you are leaving already?” A woman was heard speaking as Isaac and Clara walked out of the hospital.
Clara turned around and saw it the nurse that had helped changed her drip. She then glanced at Isaac and walked before him knowingly.
“I’ll be waiting on the car.” With that Clara gave Esther a polite nod, and the latter nodded back.
Although Isaac was their assistant, he was a human too, and every man has the right to pursue romance.
And Clara wouldn’t restrain him from doing that. Quite the contrary, she found it was a good thing for Isaac to settle down with someone after devoting himself to the Kirklands for so many years.
“What’s up?” Isaac said to Esther, who was wearing her own clothes.
The casual outfits brought out the liveliness and cheerfulness of her, while the nurse uniform turned her into a professional medical worker with a mild temper.
The two sides of her were contrasting, but not in a weird way.
“What do you think? How could you not tell me you are leaving today? What am I gonna do if you’re gone?”
She had just learned that Clara had completed the discharging formalities this morning when she went to find Isaac.
She soon rushed after them. Luckily, he hadn’t gone yet; otherwise, she wouldn’t have known where to find him.
“Mrs. Kirkland has recovered. So of course we have to leave,” Isaac said to the angry Esther, thinking that everything went well, but why she seemed to have a problem with it.
“Then… then how will I reach you?”
She stopped looking overbearing as she heard what Isaac had said to her, and looked aggrieved and sad instead. It pained Isaac to see her like that, so he reached out his hand, wanting to pat her on her back and comfort her.
But he then thought it would have been inappropriate, so he just watched her, hoping her to stop crying.
Esther, who had been pretending to cry and expecting him to comfort her, couldn’t help but think that he was such a nerd.
“Why don’t you say something to me?” She found him hopeless.
A man who had zero experience in relationship just couldn’t take any hint?
But then as she thought about it, he was still better than those playboys.
“Uh, I’m kind of busy. Mrs. Kirkland is waiting for me.” Isaac looked at the sweet girl in front of him, but at the thought of Clara in the car, he decided to choose the latter over the former.
“Hey.” She watched Isaac go right to the car and get on it without giving another look at her.
She felt very upset, but there was nothing she could say to him. He wasn’t her boyfriend after all, so it’s not like she had the right to stop him or what.