“The patient’s life was great, one centimeter short of stabbing the abdominal aorta, then he was really finished. Although the small intestine was injured, but nothing serious, just blood loss shock. Now it has been treated to save his life. The follow-up needs to be well rested.”
Listening to what the doctor said, Adriana breathed a long sigh of relief, it was good to be okay.
When I walked into the room, there was no one there because Harlee hadn’t notified any of her family.
He was unconscious and in a drip.
Adriana pulled the escort chair, sitting next to him, looking at his pale face, but inexplicably some mixed feelings.
All along, she thought Harlee was not a good person, even within her own blacklist.
I didn’t expect that situation he would actually swoop over and block the knife for her without fear of life or death.
Although that stab wound on him will affect the change of time, but Adriana can also feel his attitude towards himself.
“What’s on your mind?”
Harlee opened her eyes at some point and found Adriana sitting on the edge of the bed with her head bowed in deep thought.
“Hmm? You’re awake?”
Adriana drifted back to her senses, found Harlee looking at her with a smile, and asked, “How does it feel, does it hurt especially?”
“It’s okay.”
Pain or no pain, men do not easily show it.
“Harlee, why did you block the knife for me? Not afraid of dying? Do you know that the doctor said if the knife was a little off and stabbed your abdominal aorta, you would be dead!”
She had palpitations.
It’s hard to imagine if the Soto family would have killed Harlee if she had died trying to save her life.
“For you, not afraid to die!”
He said without thinking.
“Ah, what?”
Adriana glanced over her shoulder, still feeling very surprised despite hearing his words.
“I said, for you, I’m not afraid to die!”
Harlee repeated it, raising the decibel a few points, but it seemed his body was too weak and he kept frowning as he tugged at the wound when he spoke.
“This joke is not funny, those who don’t know think you like me and are confessing.”
Adriana snickered and smiled bitterly.
There is quite a bit that can’t be helped.
“Yes, like it. If there is anyone I like the most in this world, besides grandpa, it’s you.”
He confessed.
Adriana’s jaw dropped and she looked at him incredulously, murmuring, “Since when did I become a hot commodity?”
Hearing her words, Harlee laughed along.
A faint smile, lightly pulling the corners of the lips, but gives a feeling of closeness and softness.
That smile is intriguing.
Anyway, Adriana can’t read too well.
“Let’s talk to you about something.”
Adriana said, “I wanted to take the knife myself and then use it as evidence to sue the Henderson Family, but this time you were injured and I don’t know if you will be held responsible or if the Soto family will agree. After all, as far as I know, the Soto family and the Henderson Family have some business dealings.”
As she spoke, she let out a soft sigh, somewhat agitated and helpless.
“Don’t worry, no matter what business cooperation the Henderson Family has with the Soto family, I will cooperate with you. Not only me, but also grandpa, will definitely agree with you.”
Harlee took Adriana’s hand, “You are never alone, you have me behind you, you have the Soto family.”
The sudden burn on the back of her hand made Adriana a little uneasy.
Looking over at Harlee, his eyes slowly wandered to his hand holding hers, his good-looking eyebrows wrinkled slightly, he gave an awkward chortle and retracted his hand, “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand now. Come back to the Soto family with me tomorrow night and you’ll understand everything.”
“Tomorrow? The Soto family?”
Adriana blinked, her brain seemed to be a muddle, and for the first time she felt a bit baffled. “You’re still injured and lying in a hospital bed, and you’re still thinking about going home for New Year’s Eve?”
“It’s time for you to meet Thelma, she has one more thing of yours somewhere that you need to get back.”
Harlee said.
“Thelma?”
Adriana listened more and more confused, stunned look at him, pulled the corner of the lips, half a long time also did not say a so.
“Hurry up and go. Later on the Soto family and the Henderson Family will come over, it’s not convenient for you to be here, it’s better to leave first.”
“Available at …”
“Don’t worry, I will do what I promised you.”
He was referring to the lawsuit against the Henderson Family for intentional infliction of injury.
Adriana’s mind was a mess, and although there was a hint of something strange rising in her head, she immediately dismissed the jumbled thoughts in her head.
Hesitantly, he left the hospital.
Standing in the hospital compound for a while.
Finally, I took my phone and flipped through it to find Thelma’s number.
For the first time after four years, she reached out to Thelma with some … nervousness.
“Hello?”
When the call was answered, Adriana said only one word.
Suddenly, I don’t know what to call the other person.
Over there, after all, is the adoptive mother who raised her.
“Is it Adriana?”
The other party only said four words, Adriana body shuddered, the phone fell straight down, but she reacted quickly, a catch again.
“Ahem … that, how do you know who I am?”
Adriana coughed a few times to hide the embarrassment and weakness inside.
“Let’s talk about it in person. You come back, I have no one at home right now.”
Thelma said.
“Er …”
Adriana hesitated for a moment, “Okay, I’ll be right over.”
Hanging up the phone, Adriana took the phone and couldn’t help but turn around and look back at the inpatient building, as if she could see Harlee lying in the hospital room through the thick walls.
How does Thelma know who she is?
And why would Harlee tell Thelma?
After not seeing Thelma for a few years, Adriana naturally went to see her again, carrying some gifts.
The Hale family’s door, she has not been back for almost a decade.
Ten years ago when Jenkins became ill, she sold out and took a million dollars to Jenkins, then survived the pregnancy, had the baby and left Waverly.
The child is now nine years old.
The old place, Adriana can still be found in the neighborhood, just time has passed and the house is much dilapidated.
Adriana breezed up to the third floor of the old house and knocked on the door.
Knock Knock-
But three times, someone immediately pulled open the door.
Inside came out an old woman with gray temples and wearing a green and gray coat, looked up at the ‘young guy’ in front of her, a moment of confusion, and came to her senses, “Oh, it’s Adri, right?”
She stood by the door and took her things from her, “Just come, why are you bringing things?”
Three hundred and sixty degree reversal of attitude.
Ten years ago, she had no place in this family, and lived a miserable life as a cow and a horse every day.
Even hated Thelma for a while.
But the years are wasting away, more hate, but also in the passage of time gradually forgotten.
Seeing Thelma again, Adriana’s heart was filled with mixed feelings, indescribable sorrow and heaviness.
Thelma put her things aside in the foyer and looked at Adriana still standing in the doorway and couldn’t help but stare, “What are you doing standing there? Come in.”
“Hmm.”
Adriana answered and walked in.
Found that ten years of time at home has not changed much, the sofa changed, the TV changed, everything layout has not changed.