“There are another two fragments that I have to remove, so please bear with me, miss.” The doctor
discarded the bloodstained shard into a stainless steel tray and moved on with the procedure while the
nurse standing next to the bed held her down.
Xyla’s face was pallid, her lips and teeth chattered, and her forehead was soaked with sweat.
After the last piece was taken out, the nurse cleaned her wounds and applied local anesthetic again
before attending to her stitches.
Xyla turned her face away. Although she could not feel the pain that she felt when the doctor was pulling
the fragments out when the nurse was stitching the wound up, the sting that she felt from time to time still
made her hiss.
Yorrick broke into the ward. He did not even have the time to put on his jacket, and his tie looked
crooked. His white shirt was soaked in sweat and was sticking to his athletic body, making his well-built
muscles subtly visible.
He covered his face with his palm and took a deep breath as if he was trying to suppress his inner
emotions. He then walked to the bedside after calming down.
The nurse was applying gauze to the wound. Xyla’s back was facing the door of the ward. Her blouse
was half undone, exposing her left shoulder and arm. She was so focused that she was only paying
attention to the nurse who was patching her up, and she did not notice Yorrick’s existence at all.
When the nurse was ready to leave, Xyla saw the person standing behind her through the reflection in
the windowpane. She was
astounded and looked back at Yorrick. “Why are you here?”
Yorrick walked up to her, pinched her chin, and turned her face to his right. There was a very shallow
scratch on her right cheek. He gently caressed it with the pulp of his finger. “Where else did you get
hurt?”
Xyla was stunned, but she immediately recovered from the trance and pushed his hand away. “Nowhere
else, I’m fine.”
She then tried to insert her arm back into the sleeve slowly, but her movement still affected the cut on her
shoulder, and she hissed out of pain.
Yorrick grasped her wrist. “There’s no need to put it back on now. You should just lie back.”
Xyla was dumbfounded again. But before she had the time to button her blouse, Yorrick had already held
her by the waist, made her lie down, and pulled up the blanket to cover her.
She looked confused as she stared at Yorrick. “The driver’s injuries are even worse than mine.”
He responded nonchalantly, “He won’t die.”
“But I won’t die either.” Xyla looked away.” I’m not handicapped. I can still take care of myself.”
Yorrick leaned over to approach her. Her expression stiffened subconsciously as she had no idea what
she should look at or do at that moment. His warm lips landed on her forehead in the next second,
making her gasp instantly.
Yorrick stroked her cheek with his palm.’ You should get some rest.”
Xyla stared at him for a few seconds, turned her head away slightly, and closed her eyes to get some
sleep. Probably because she was severely frightened by the accident, she fell asleep almost
immediately. Yorrick held her palm and glanced at the woman sleeping in the bed who had just
encountered a car accident, and pieces of memory fragments flashed across his mind. It was a rainy
night, and the incident took place in a tunnel.
The sirens of police cars were blaring, and silhouettes of all sorts of people swayed back and forth right
in front of Yorrick’s eyes.
He dashed out of the car and sprinted in the icy rain. “Sharon!”
“Mr. Hathaway!” A bodyguard hugged him while holding an umbrella over him.
Yorrick could not hear what the bodyguard said to him or any of the surrounding sounds. He only saw the
police retrieve a broken cell phone, insert it into a sealed bag, and hand it to him. The couple’s pendant
found hanging on the phone’s case was custom made by him.
Looking over the dark crowd, he saw the girl carried out of the car that had been destroyed beyond
recognition.
“Yorrick Hathaway, you’re not strong and capable enough. You can’t even protect the woman you love,
so don’t even try to escape my control.
Yorrick opened his eyes and suddenly woke up as if he had just had a nightmare. He covered his
forehead with his palm and
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rubbed his temples with his thumb and middle finger.
Seeing that there was no one on the bed, Yorrick sat up abruptly. The panic that he had on his face was
something that even he had never seen before, and his coat slipped to the floor when he was turning his
body around, looking for Xyla.
He picked up his coat, took a glance at it, and his tense expression loosened slightly as he placed his
coat on the bed and then walked out of the ward.
He heard Xyla’s voice when he came to the bodyguard’s ward. “Hey there, this is all thanks to your
excellent driving skills. Otherwise, I would’ve died in a foreign land. You’re truly my savior.”
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