When Rex arrives, Lily just finished the first intravenous drip, and a nurse is replacing it with another
one.
Lily is still asleep, with only Abby by her side waiting. It's very crowded in the emergency ward, so not a
single vacancy is available.
Rex’s eyes lay on Lily’s pale little face. He feels like his legs were filled with lead, and even though he
wants to walk to her, he can’t move his legs.
“Nurse, when will she wake up?” Abby is so concerned that she asks every now and then.
“When her fever is gone. Now her temperature is still too high and up to 42℃. She won’t be able to
think straight. It’s better that she is asleep.”
“OK, thank you.” Abby turns to the nurse and thanks her, during which she glances at the tall figure
standing behind her.
He is too conspicuous to not be noticed.
Abby is slightly stunned. Judging from his white sweater and slippers, she knows that he came straight
here from home and didn’t even have time to change his shoes.
But it doesn’t matter how much he cares about Lily. If he was the one to blame for Lily’s illness, she
would make sure he paid the price.
While thinking this, Abby walks towards Rex and questions him with a tough voice, “Were you with Lily
last night?”
Rex’s adam's apple bobs twice in his throat, and he answers heavily, “Yes.”
“Did you know she was drugged?”
“No, I didn’t.”
Hearing the answer, the fire in Abby’s heart gets weaker. It would be unforgivable if he did know.
“What happened last night? Did you notice she was drugged?”
Rex recalls what happened last night. He saw that scene right after he walked out of the private room
and was infuriated. He didn’t have time to think about the whole thing and just had a presumption
before dragging her out of the bar. She said nothing and made no explanation, only telling him that she
wanted to see Adair. He got angrier and couldn’t even think.
He won’t deny that there was a moment when he wanted nothing to do with her anymore, so he just left
her there alone. But finally, he couldn’t do it and asked Pehry to take her back safely.
He is a man with dignity too. It’s not about vanity. She doesn’t love him, so she would rather do that
with other people instead of asking him for help. This is what hurts him.
However, he ignored her physical condition. Now that he is thinking about what happened, he finds out
that she was indeed acting abnormally last night. It wasn’t only because she was shocked, it was also
the result of normal physiological reaction.
All of a sudden, Rex doesn’t know what to do. She was so sick but still was restraining herself from
asking him for help. So, how much does she distrust him?
But however angry he is, when he sees her lying on the bed with a pale face, all his grievance is gone.
Watching him keep silent, Abby is still scared when thinking about what happened this morning,
“Yesterday when Lily arrived home, she passed out. But then she woke up after a short while. She
didn’t want to go to the hospital, so I kept her company in the bedroom. This morning when she woke
up, her body temperature went as high as 42℃. She must be feeling sick before coming back last
night. How can someone as feeble as she bears so much pain?”
Rex listens to Abby and feels his heart breaking.
If he had paid more attention to her yesterday, she wouldn’t be like this now.
It is 42℃. He can’t even imagine how much she has suffered.
Seeing Rex in great repentance, Abby bites her tongue as she finds herself on the point of blaming
him. Watching his stiff body, she excuses to get some water to make room for him.
At this moment, the buzzing around him in the emergency ward all fades away. All he can see is the
slim body on the bed. He prepares himself for several minutes before gaining the courage to walk
towards the bed.
The facilities in public hospitals can’t match that in Karl's Hospital. Besides, it is in the emergency ward.
So, there is only a small stool next to the bed. The tall man sits on it, creating a funny and unfit scene.
Seeing her eyelashes trembling and her dry lips, Rex can imagine that she is feeling unsettled even in
her dream.
Li Mo has a reputation as a bastard. Though Lily was eager to meet him, she had her principles. If she
wasn’t drugged, how could Li Mo lay his hands on her?
Now Rex gets it all figured out. But he just left her there all by herself last night.
Rex raises his big hand and reaches to feel her smooth forehead. Her body temperature is still high
and almost gives him a shiver. Watching the light-yellow anti-inflammatory liquid medicine getting into
her vein through the injector, he feels like his heart is being stung by needles.
“You fool.” He lightly squeezed out two words out of his dry throat. He is not blaming her but showing
his affection for her, “Why didn’t you tell me that you were in so much pain?”
Lily is still asleep and of course can’t reply him.
But shouldn’t he ask himself the same question？
Why did she hold down her sickness though she was suffering so much? Why didn’t she tell him about
it instead of pretending to be fine in front of him?
If he was such a good man, why didn’t she confide in him？
She must feel wronged inherently when she held down her sickness like that.
He spends as much time as he can with Adair every day to keep him company. He provides him with
everything he needs and doesn’t need. But she knows nothing about it. So, it is normal that she feels
anxious and thinks him as so irresponsible.
He only intentionally uses Vivian to get on her nerve and never really lets her touch him. She is the only
woman he ever loves from the very beginning. But in her eyes, he must be a bad man who has two
faces.
At this moment, Rex finally understands why she is so desperate to leave J City and him. It is because
she doesn’t feel safe here and everything is uncertain for her.
Since she is not sure whether she can get what she wants. After getting hurt, she would rather leave
everything behind and move on.
Though she will toil through heartbreak and repentance, she doesn’t want to be caged again.
On the road of love, she stumbled again and again and was hurt so much that she flinches now. So,
she isn’t the one to blame.
Though she was almost destroyed, still, she bravely followed him back to this place.
At this moment, what was incomprehensible and blurred is all clear.
In a foreign country where she had no recourse, she gave birth to his child and sustained a life after
carrying him for ten months. In the latter four years, she never regretted or complained, or Adair
wouldn’t be raised so well.
She never stopped sacrificing. She is just afraid now.
Thinking about this, Rex’s eyes turn red. He looks down to repress the pity and repentance surging in
his heart. He is truly an idiot. He cornered her when she was most helpless, and then blamed her for
not trying to take a step forward.
“I am sorry.” Rex’s voice is husky as if it was sanded by stone and could rasp one’s eardrum,” It’s all my
fault. I didn’t take good care of you.”
Rex holds her another hand that wasn’t given an injection and puts it next to his mouth before kissing it,
“Please get well soon. I will say yes to everything.”
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