“But how could this even happen?” Harold was really upset.
“Well, there is a relation to the ability of the patient’s body to heal itself, all we can do is to treat it in time.”
Harold was not even close to satisfied to an answer like this. He reached out a hand and grabbed the doctor by the collar, “I don’t want to hear your explanations, I just want to see her recover.”
“Yes… definitely.” The doctor was so scared that he almost dropped his glasses.
Only then Harold slowly let go of the doctor, allowing him to leave the room.
Jenny’s face was very pale, sweat drops rolling down on the side of her cheek, she must be in really bad pain right now.
Harold reached out to touch her forehead, and noticed that she was burning up. His heart dropped again, and thought that she must be having a fever.
Harold went to seek for the doctor in his office, who was just about to get ready to go home after his shift. The doctor was not surprised that Jenny had fever though, “It is normal, the infected would is causing the fever. Don’t touch her arm, that might make it worse for her.”
After the doctor told Harold what to pay attention to, he left the room, and only Harold was left with Jenny.
Jenny was feverish for a couple of hours, even though the infusion was helping to lower the temperature, but the process was too slow. During these hours, Harold was holding Jenny’s hand, and massaging her bit by bit.
He, the president of a huge company, was here doing this for a woman, nobody would even believe that if they heard. Even Harold himself could barely believe that he cared so much about her. The once so strong and powerful Harold had his weak point, and he could do nothing about it.
The care worker came back from getting the fluids for Jenny, she also brought Harold something to eat, but he had no intention of eating at all right now.
She winded up the bed a little bit, got the porridge she bought for Jenny, and started to try and feed her.
Jenny wasn’t fully unconscious, but because of her fever, she was also not conscious yet. When Jenny was fed with food in her mouth, she swallowed it subconsciously.
The phone on the side started to ring.
Harold frowned and picked it up. It was James.
His eyes went dark, his face expression changed.
The man who said that he loved her, but was not there for her when she was hurt! He didn’t even think about it and hung up the phone immediately.
When James heard the hung up tone in the line, he was wondering why Jenny didn’t pick up. He thought about it for a while and decided that she must be in class, and went back to work.
Maybe he will try it again around 8 in the evening, that is usually the time when she was done with her classes at the university for the day.
Maybe because Harold’s care for Jenny finally was paying off, just as he was getting a warm towel for her, she made a sound.
She was saying softly, “hot…”
Harold took the towel away, and got closer to her, he wanted to hear what she just said.
After she said something, the hand that was resting on the bed all this time, moved a little. It was just a little movement, but in Harold’s eyes it was a huge success, she was finally going to wake up!
The care nurse already done with the shift, and had left to go home.
Harold was getting excited, does that mean that Jenny was out of danger?
Jenny felt that her body was getting lighter and lighter, the pain was fading away. Her dreams have stopped, she didn’t see the people anymore that she was dreaming about. She slowly opened her eyes and the light was burning in her eyes.
It was the light of the ward room.
Harold saw this movement of hers, got up and went to turn the light off, then he turned on a dimmed light on the side, so they could still see in the room.
Her head was paining her, Jenny subconsciously lifted her arm to rub her head, but before she could do it, pain stared to shoot through her entire body, so painful that it made her scream out loud.
“Jenny!” Harold saw her sudden movements, and quickly helped her to cover with the blanked. Then he said softer, “Jenny?”
When she head someone say her own name, it was like noise to her, she was still not fully aware of what was happening, but her eyes have gotten used to the light now.
She looked around, the room was not big, but it had everything needed. There were walls, the curtains were similar to the ones in her classrooms.
She looked down on herself and saw that she was wearing a hospital gown.
Then she remembered the attack, and that she was hit with a knife several times. Was she dead?
She turned around, and a wonderfully handsome face was in front of her, the face was written with worries in the lines.
But it looked so familiar. She thought for a while, her memories were coming back slowly. When she recognized the face that she saw, her blood started to shoot in the veins.
Why was he here?
It was as if Harold knew what she was thinking about, and he said softly, “That day when you got hurt, I was there by coincidence.”
Jenny didn’t doubt his explanation, since he was here right now, he must have been the one who rescued her.
She tried to resist the pain in her body and said to him, “Thank you.”
Harold was watching her, maybe it was because she just woke up, and she hadn’t eating in two days, her voice was very weak, she didn’t even have any strength to speak, and seeing her like this made him feel even worse.
“Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?”
Jenny shook her head. It was more an subconscious answer, actually her entire body was hurting to the point that it was unbearable.
Harold turned around to grab the porridge, “Here, eat something, you will need the nutrition.”
Jenny tried to reach out to grab the bowl herself, but Harold said to her, “You have injuries on your body, let me feed you.”
“It’s okay, I can do this.”
She was always like that, didn’t want to burden other people, especially when it was Harold.
She tried to lift her arm again, but Harold’s face went cold and he said strictly, “Just stay put.”
He didn’t even wait for her to answer, spooned up a little porridge, and put it in Jenny’s mouth.
This movement was so intimate that Jenny felt it was weird. She paused for a second, but then she opened her mouth and ate the bite.
The feeling of warmth came from the bite of porridge she just ate, her heartbeat went faster, maybe it was because she suddenly realized that she was alive?
She didn’t want to think too much about it, she also didn’t look at Harold, she just kept eating like a robot.
The usually cold and stone like expression on Harold’s face was gone, he was feeding her bite by bite, and he was so focused on it.
He has never fed anyone in his life before, but doing it for the first time, he seemed to be really good at it.
After a few bites, Jenny stopped, and looked at him seriously.
“What’s wrong?”
Jenny thought for a while, “Have you been taking care of me all this time?”
Harold glanced at her, “Who else?”