“….” Jenny bit her lips, and repeated, “Thank you.”
Harold was silent, he didn’t care about her appreciation.
He went to ask the nurse for some warm water, and kept it on the night stand to cool down.
“The best way to thank me is to recover as soon as possible, your friends are all really worried about you.”
When she heard him say that, she wanted to ask if James had called, but she controlled herself and didn’t. Jenny knew that Harold hated to hear James’ name, so she kept her mouth shut.
After a while she said, “Does Wendy know about what happened?”
Harold didn’t know who Wendy was, but he guessed it must be the girl who came that day to visit her, so he nodded, “Yeah.”
“I guess I made her worry again.” Jenny felt guilty.
Here in the States, Wendy was her closest friend, she didn’t want to burden her, but now with what happened, she knew that Wendy will be so worried.
Harold said softly, “The most important thing for you to do now is to recover.”
The doctor said that the infection of her wound has been better, and she will be able to be discharged in maybe a week.
Jenny shook her head and said, “I cannot stay here, I have so many classes that I need to keep up with. If I just drop them for a couple of days, I will be out.”
Harold looked at her, “Just rest. I will take care of your classes.”
He didn’t understand what she was thinking. Even in her current condition, all she thought about were her classes.
Jenny heard what Harold said and was suddenly very impatient, “No, I need to get back to class right now, this is really important for my graduation! If I fail this course, I am doomed!”
Ever since she started going back to school, she has never missed a single class. Now she hadn’t shown up in school for days, she was wondering what the professors were thinking about her.
Harold put down the things in his hands and said to her in a very serious tone, “I will find some private teachers for you.”
“That’s not possible!”
“How is it not?” Harold’s face showed no emotion, “I will offer ten times the money to ask them to come here.”
She heard him say that, and thought that this was not appropriate. She didn’t want him to go through all the trouble for her. “I think I should just go home tomorrow, I don’t want to burden anyone.”
Harold was stunned. What is that supposed to mean? She didn’t want to burden anyone, who did she mean by “anyone”?
He was trying to comfort himself by thinking that Jenny did not talk about him as being “anyone”. When he was feeling better, he said to her, “Just leave it to me, all you should care about is to be a good patient.”
“I…”
A cell started to ring, and disrupted Jenny in her sentence. She turned and noticed that it was Harold’s phone.
He picked up the cell, it was his secretary on the other side of the line, “Torah’s mother is making trouble again.”
When Harold said that, it felt like an explosion in his head. This woman was like a mad dog, coming to his house again and again, didn’t her husband even try to keep her calm?
“Ask the guards to shoo her off, I don’t have time for her.”
“But this time she brought a bunch of people around, she’s going life or death this time. I don’t know how to handle the situation.”
Harold’s expression went to ice, his voice as well, “I am coming back now.”
After just a few minutes, his car was waiting downstairs, he went to get on the car, and they left.
Because he was in a hurry, so Harold took over the keys and drove himself. Before he left, he had told the care nurse about what to do, and asked her to take good care of Jenny, he offered to pay her more money, and the nurse agreed happily.
In front of his house, his car was stopped by some people, so that it was impossible to drive any further. Harold’s face went dark as he was getting of the car. He saw the about 20 people in front of him and smirked.
Yasmine was in front of the crowd, when she saw that Harold got off the car, she looked at him as if she is going to play life or death with him today.
Harold’s face was all cold, this woman was madness itself.
He put both his hands in his pockets, when he passed Yasmine, he looked away. He didn’t want this mad woman to contaminate his eyes.
He went to the gate of his house as the crowd was watching him, he handed the car keys back to the driver and turned around slowly, his face showed only arrogance.
The 20 something people facing him suddenly felt fear rise in them, this kind of fear was not influenced by the outside, it was not the kind of fear that came from being hunted and killed, but the kind that came from within, the kind of fear you felt when you faced a leader.
It was as if people felt that when they were confronted with Harold, but at the same time it was mixed with respect.
Yasmine was actually planning to come here and get her daughter, she knew that even though the Quarrington family was rich, but there were barely 8 guards in the whole house, that is nothing compared to the 20 she had brought.
They were definitely in the majority.
But she didn’t expect that her people would back off when they saw Harold, full of fear.
A bunch of useless people.
But Yasmine didn’t plan to back off, her daughter was in his hands, no matter what she needed to do , she was gonna get her back, even if she had to trade her life for it.
When she thought of that, her angry voice said, “Harold Quarrington, when are you going to let Torah go? It has been days, we don’t even know if she’s alive or not, what have you done to her?”
Harold frowned, “I remember the last time you came here to ask for her you said the same, how come after so many days, it’s still the same speech as last time?”
“You!”
“I also don’t like it when people call me by my name, according to your status and mine, you should at least call me something like Master Quarrington.”
“Master Quarrington?” Yasmine laughed, “You treated my daughter like shit, and now you expect me to call you Master?”
Harold’s assistant took a step towards her to keep her from hurting Harold, “Mrs. Andrews, this is the Quarrington’s house, not a place for you to act up.”
“Act up?” Yasmine sighed, “You are the ones who are keeping my daughter capture, and I am the ones acting up?”
“Then we won’t play nice anymore.”
“Won’t play nice?” Yasmine thought that was funny, “I am here right now, that means that I am not afraid of you!”
She had brought so many people, why would she be scared of those few Harold had? Even if she counted in all of the Quarrington’s, they were barely more than ten. She was determined to get Torah back home today.
…
Meanwhile in the hospital, Jenny’s fever went back, but her wound was still hurting.
But it was just a shallow wound, it won’t be a big deal.
She looked around for the time and noticed that there was no clock in the room. She went to grab her phone, but that was turned off.
Jenny frowned, did it shut off cause the battery was used up?
She pressed the power button and after a few seconds the screen lit up. She had more than half of the battery left, and the phone started buzzing with missed calls and messages, it kept buzzing for so long that she felt her hand go numb.
Hm…
It must have been James who tried to reach her.
She waited till all the messages were done, then she opened each of them to check. It really was all from James.
Then she wrote a message.