At the end, Clinton took noisy Jessi back to the ward. He scolded her in a sullen face, ‘Shut Up!”
Her face was aching suddenly, and she covered her face with hands, unbelievably looking at him, ‘You slapped … me.”
Clinton saw she calmed down and said, ‘can you behave yourself?”
‘Behave? How can you ask me to behave? Sandra killed your child and you asked me to behave! Why didn’t you teach her a lesson? Why?” Jessi shouted till her voice cracked. But Clinton was gazing at her coldly.
Jessi almost cried her heart out, but Clinton said impatiently, ‘Can you stop?”
Few days passed. Jessi was hospitalized for the treatment, and didn’t look for trouble unreasonably. She recovered quickly to her normal state. On the discharge day, she stood in the sun for a quite long time, waiting, but Clinton didn’t show up. When she was about to get angry, a black Bentley stopped in front of her.
‘Ms. Sun.”
‘Who are you?” Jessi moved further and looked at the man cautiously.
The man was good-looking and easy-going. Even though he was not as handsome as Clinton, but not bad too after second look. Jessi eyed him up and down with scrutiny.
‘Ms. Sun, He’s Mr. Lin, the president of The Lin Group.” The driver in the front had to explain when he saw her unfriendly look.
‘Are you interested in collaborate with me?” Lin Yu turned to her, smiling gently, which her heart missed a beat. ‘Will you consider to have a new boyfriend? Probably, I can give you more.”
She thought of the slap from Clinton and then nodded at last. Since Clinton could slap her, he shouldn’t have blamed her for taking revenge.
Walking in her 10-centimeter-high heels, Jessi came straight to Clinton’s office and said ‘I am back to work.”
Clinton didn’t say anything, but nodded.
At the same time, Sandra was at checkup by the doctor. She had to frequent the clinic now and then. However, the result was the same every time.
One time, the doctor told Jimmy secretly, ‘Ask her if she has any wishes. Afterall, she is still so young…”
Jimmy walked back to the ward with mixed feeling, and sat at her sickbed. ‘I can take you to America, where there are more clinics with good doctors. You will survive when you are there.” It was like someone was stabbing to his heart whenever he heard her diagnosis.
She smiled and consoled him, ‘Jimmy, I won’t go abroad. The doctor said, there is not much time left and I should lead my life happily. I don’t want to go to a strange place. I know my days are counting, maybe tomorrow, or maybe in couple of days. I only want to stay here securely. Can I?”
Jimmy looked at her, in a pity. ‘Just listen to me once. We go to America for experts, and you certainly will survive.”
She shed away from his eyes. She was afraid to look at him. Sometimes, she thought that she was too selfish to survive. Let it be. But every time when she had such an idea, Clinton would come to her mind, to fill her heard up. She was painful but at the same time she felt happy too.
The complexity in his eyes made her scared. Jimmy turned away when he saw her shedding away from him. He said slowly, ‘even though you don’t want to go abroad, you should take the treatment here.”
He wouldn’t let her do whatever she liked for Clinton. He would manage to let her get the treatment to lead a good life no matter if she would hate him.
Sandra said nothing when the nurse came to do the medical transfusion on her. She was perplexed both for Clinton, and for Jimmy.