Sherry was by Stella’s side until Clarence showed up at her ward, then she slipped away.
Stella sat on the side of the bed, looked at him with eyes devoid of any energy and said, “Get me out of
here.”
Clarence adjusted his necktie, sat on the sofa and said, “Aren’t you supposed to stay here for half a
month?”
Stella wanted to say something to object him, but she felt that it would fall on deaf ears. However, she
recalled her conversation with Sherry this afternoon. An idea formed in her head, as she licked her lips
naughtily and lied back on the bed, “Fine then. I’ll stay here for half a month. Horace’s coming back
here anyway, I can chat with him in the meantime.”
Clarence was confused, “Hmm?”
The news of Mr. Jason’s hospitalization did not reach his ears until this afternoon as the Jason family
had been very secretive regarding the news, it was not something the general public could know. It was
likely that they were waiting for Horace to return and sort things out at the Jason Group.
Clarence replied, “Who told you that?”
“I met Rebecca downstairs in the afternoon; she was the one who told me.”
“They’re in this hospital?”
“Yeah, fate brought us together, don’t you think?”
Clarence chuckled as he stood up to leave the ward.
Stella looked at him and said, “Where are you going?”
“Didn’t you say that you want to get out of here? I’ll go and do the procedures that will get you out of
here.”
He said as he walked out of the ward.
Stella looked at him as he left, smirked and thought to herself, “Heh, that conversation was useful after
all.”
On their way back, Stella asked, “Is my phone with you?”
Clarence said with a straight face, “Is it with me?”
Stella was taken aback by him.
This wretched man’s childishness knew no bounds.
Dissatisfied, she demanded, “Give me back my phone, I have things to do.”
“What things?”
“A whole bunch of things, I haven’t touched my phone since yesterday, who knows if someone looked
for me in the meantime?”
Clarence replied, “No one looked for you.”
Stella said in a slightly darker tone, “You looked through my phone?”
“Are there things that I’m not allowed to see?”
“...Not really, but based on the trust between us two, shouldn’t you at least tell me before you looked
through my phone?”
Still emotionless, Clarence replied, “Did you ever trust me?”
Stella pouted, this wretched man really liked to pick on little things, huh. He really was the best at this
field among all the people that she knew.
Before Stella could respond, Clarence added, “You want your phone back? Fine.”
Stella’s ears perked up, “Hmm?”
“I have but one condition. Don’t go to the workshop in the coming days, just stay at home and rest up.”
Then, Clarence followed up with, “Alternatively, you can come with me to my office.”
As soon as Stella heard Clarence’s follow up offer, she instinctively said, “I’ll stay at home!”
Hearing that, Clarence put on a wicked smile.
It was at this moment Stella knew, she fell right into his trap.
Clarence added, “If you’re afraid that you’ll feel lonely, I can work at home to accompany you.”
Stella was rendered speechless by him.
Not amused, she said, “I appreciate your kindness, but no thank you.”
“I’ll have Alisa come over these few days to cook for you. You can go anywhere you want, but someone
must be with you at all times. It’s either me or her, your choice.”
“I’m not a child, I don’t a guardian by my side at all times.”
Clarence reasoned, “What if you faint again? How am I going to look for you?”
Stella pursed her lips and said, “It was an accident, I…”
“Didn’t you listen to the doctor? You’re too stressed out lately, your emotions are all over the place, so
you have to rest properly. If you were met with another major stimulus, it’s possible for you to faint
again.”
“I don’t recall the doctor saying that final statement.”
“I’m merely stating something that might happen in the future. You gotta look further, you see.”
Stella looked outside the window, not playing along with his game.
She realized that everything he said was reasonable, much to her dismay.
Back at the condominium, Stella showered, and then rushed into the guest bedroom. Once inside, she
locked the door from the inside.
As she had expected, someone knocked on the door a while later.
Stella covered her head with the blanket and pretended to be asleep.
Soon after that, Clarence said in a slow tone, “Your phone, do you not want it?”
She peeked out from the blanket as if she was considering his offer.
Not even a minute later, Clarence’s voice came from the other side of the door again, “Your brother
messaged you.”
Stella sat on the bed, “What did he send?”
“I didn’t look at it.”
At a snail’s pace, Stella slowly put on the slippers, walked to the door, opened it and extended her hand
towards Clarence.
She watched as Clarence acted minimally, as he grasped her hand with his.
Stella was speechless.
She looked at him emotionless and said, “I want my phone.”
Clarence moved his eyebrows upwards and replied, “I guess I’m misunderstanding something, then.”
Before Stella got to say anything, Clarence pulled her out from the guest bedroom while his other hand
wrapped around her waist, “Why are you sleeping here?”
“Didn’t the doctor say that I’m stressed out, and my emotions are unstable?”
“Mhmm?”
“I feel like under these conditions, I am better off by myself, so that I won’t disturb you.”
“Who said that you’ll disturb me?”
Stella used his own words against him, “You gotta look further.”
Clarence’s eyebrows twitched at her response.
Stella hastily looked through her phone and saw that there were a lot of people who messaged her
yesterday. However, she did not see any messages from Chan.
Moreover, all of the messages are unread, there were even some news from yesterday.
It seemed like Clarence was lying when he said that he looked through her phone.
Stella asked, “Didn’t you say that Chan messaged me?”
Clarence replied, “Did he not? I guess I’m mistaken, then.”
Stella knew that he was going to say that.
That wretched man had excuses in numbers that rivalled the number of stars in the universe.
She escaped from his embrace, turned around and wanted to go back into the guest bedroom, “I want
to sleep…”
Before she could finish her sentence, Clarence pulled her back towards him again.
He yanked her by her waist and princess-carried her into the master bedroom. He set her down on the
bed and said, “Stop messing around and be a good girl, okay?”
Stella said in a serious tone, “I’m not messing around, I just want to be alone and think about some
stuff.”
“What are you thinking about?”
Stella looked away and replied, “Nothing, really.”
Clarence pinched her chin and moved her head back, facing him, “You’re always advising people, quite
ironic that you can’t really advise yourself.”
“It’s not because of Jeffrey, I’m just…”
Clarence lowered his voice, looked at her with dark eyes, “What is it?”
Stella did not say anything.
Clarence was not pressing her for it, he waited for it patiently.
A while later, Stella said, “I’m scared that he’ll hurt Chan.”
“Who?”
Stella’s closed her eyes, not saying anything again.
Clarence saw her state, touched his teeth with tongue, and said in a low voice, “You knew about it?”
She replied, “Mhmm, actually I should’ve guessed it, people don’t like or hate people for no reason.”
That time at the cemetery was not a mere coincidence that William was there to get her out of that
messy situation.
He should had already knew that from long ago.
Clarence rubbed her on the head and said, “What do you think now? Want to go and ask him?”
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