He rubs her waist intensely and Allyce looks at him intently.
After a while, Severo decided he was ready and when he looked up, he saw Allyce looking at him.
He raised an eyebrow: “Are you still uncomfortable?
Allyce came to his senses and said hurriedly, “No, no.”
Then Severo stopped talking and turned his head to face the river, his whole body leaning back in his chair, his eyes narrowed and his expression of rare serenity.
The glare of the setting sun hit his body as if he were carrying a layer of golden light, and his whole body was enveloped in a hazy glow that made him seem without a hint of reality.
Allyce suddenly called him: “Severo”.
Severo turned his head slowly to look at her and, with one long arm, drew her into his arms.
Allyce was a little startled at first, but then she meekly bent down and snuggled into his arms.
It seems that, for a long time now, the two have not sat together in peace and harmony.
…
On Monday, Severo went to the office first thing in the morning.
It was Allyce who knotted his tie before he left, and the warm atmosphere between the two men, after returning from the river yesterday, has continued to this day.
After leaving Severo, Allyce was about to leave as well.
I was going to Victorino.
She and Victorino had been in contact so much that there was an inexplicable understanding between them that they would only talk privately about Severo’s situation and would not let him know.
Severo himself finds it hard to notice the change in his temperament, and although he himself feels it, Allyce can’t bear to say it.
“What were Severo’s test results?”
Allyce spoke to Victorino on the phone before going, and when she did, Victorino was already waiting for her.
“There is nothing wrong with the health situation. Victorino led her inside, explaining Severo’s condition in passing.
Severo is in good health, which is a great comfort.
Allyce asked again: “What about the rest?
“Apart from that, nothing can be examined, I can only infer a change of opinion from the gentleman’s usual behaviour”.
While the two men were talking, they had arrived at Victorino’s laboratory.
“Have a seat.” He pulled out Allyce’s chair and poured her water.
Allyce realised that she had a few more psychology books on her desk.
Victorino caught her gaze and moved to tidy up the books and put them aside before taking a seat opposite her.
“I have noticed a pattern: the more familiar the Lord is with people, the more he loses his temper.” Victorino paused before continuing: “Yesterday I met with some LK Group employees to find out what the Lord is like in the company on a regular basis, and although his temperament is bad, it is not too excessive”.
“You mean … only goes that far with me?” Allyce shook her head denying herself this statement, “No, I mean he just didn’t go completely unbridled in front of the people he was close to…”
“You could say yes. Victorino continued, “People are instinctively risk-averse, and the gentleman is no exception; he is a very cautious and introverted person by nature, and in his perception, he probably feels comforted by you, and that’s why he is reckless.”
For a moment, Allyce’s heart was comforted.
At least, in Severo’s mind, she was the only person who could reassure him of his recklessness.
But the fact that this recklessness is based on the premise of depriving her of her liberty is not so pleasant.
“She thinks the person I love is Gabrio, she even thinks I don’t want to have her baby because of Gabrio! Tears come to her eyes when she talks about it.
“No matter how I explain it to him, he doesn’t believe me”.
Victorino listened to her and sank into a brief moment of contemplation, then said, as if tentatively, “You won’t believe it”.
“Why? I find him suspicious now, easily irritable and grumpy, but …” Allyce, as if at a loss for good words, reached up and tousled his hair behind his ear before saying, “He can be kind and meticulous sometimes. ”
Rubbing her back and putting her to bed in the middle of the night are considered gentle and meticulous.
When she finished, she felt a bit embarrassed, she really didn’t want to show her love …
It was good to see that Victorino’s behaviour did not change much.
“Even the mentally ill can be calm after a sedative, and I think it was probably when he felt that you did something to please him and make him happy that he calmed down briefly and wasn’t so grumpy.”
Victorino finished and lowered his eyes, a glint of anxiety under them.
If it were a physical problem, I could test it with instruments and study drugs, but with this psychological and spiritual problem, the patient cannot cooperate and can only probe the situation from the measuring surface and is too unstable.
He was so preoccupied with his own thoughts that he didn’t notice Allyce’s face suddenly turn white, “What do you mean? How mentally ill, Severo is not mentally ill”.
As he uttered the last words, he stood up abruptly, an angry expression on his white face.
Victorino had not expected this reaction from Allyce, who had always said whatever came to his mind and was not very subtle.
He lowered his face coldly and said with a serious expression, “Disturbed mental activity, inability to think normally and loss of reason are signs of mental illness, but when he was examined, there was no substantial disease of the locus coeruleus in his nervous system, and his behaviour deviated from normal for a long time, which is a sign of mental disorder!”
Al lyce’s face tightened and his hands clenched at his side, “He just got a bit grumpy. People have their moods, they get a bit grumpy now and then, what’s the problem?”
“Madam, I hope you can be calm and rational, I am telling the truth, Sir your current situation is such, furthermore, I suspect that your mental disorder is not due to the side effects of the antidote ‘K1LU73’, the side effects of the drug damaged the nerve essence, it is detectable, I have not checked for lesions in your psycho-essential system from the beginning until now.”
Allyce pursed her lips and took a deep breath before asking: “What do you mean?
“Ruling out central nervous infections and trauma as causes, only external causes remain, the psychological strength of the Lord makes it difficult for external factors to influence him, and it is suspected that he suffers from a genetic psychotic episode”.
When Victorino finished, he stared at Allyce, his gaze sharp and cold.
Allyce took a few steps back, her face as white as paper. “I thought … was just a side effect of the ‘K1LU73’ antidote.”
Victorino rubbed his forehead and patiently explained: “At first I thought it was like this, but I examined the man several times and found no neurological lesions. “