Collin had been putting on intravenous drips in the hospital for two days. Neither Jaquan nor Emma went to see him. Emma didn’t come because she didn’t know it. As for Jaquan, he didn’t come because he was angry that Collin didn’t tell him about Stony.
But Collin didn’t care, he just felt a little bored. What was worse, the nurse would stay beside him when she was not busy. So Collin didn’t have the chance to escape.
Although Collin was bored, he didn’t want to be on his phone. Instead, he observed the people around.
A high school boy sat across from Collin. He was about seventeen and was surrounded by several young boys and girls. Probably he was popular among his classmates, thus a lot of people came to visit him. As they kept chatting loudly, the nurse came and asked them to keep quiet. Soon, except for a girl, everyone left.
The boy probably had a crush on that girl. Only when other classmates left did he get closer to her and gently stroke her hand.
Collin looked away immediately. How could these young people show affection in public!
As Collin sat at the corner, there was no one on his right. And to his left, there was an old man in his seventies or eighties. Sitting next to the man was a middle-aged woman. Looking around, Collin could see nothing but a crowd of people. He was bored and was about to look away. All of a sudden, he saw that woman again.
She was holding an infusion bottle with a bag on her back. There was a computer in her backpack. “It probably is too heavy for her.” Collin looked at her back and wondered.
She was looking for a seat. Since there were too many influenza patients during this period, the hospital was crowded. She walked around and at last left.
Collin slept for a while. When he woke up, the infusion had ended. The nurse thoughtfully put a blanket over him.
“Thank you.” After that, Collin slowly moved his stiff and swollen palms. Then he wore a new mask and walked out. He saw the woman again in the lobby.
She wore a pair of black-framed glasses and a black mask. The mask only covered her mouth, leaving her nose in the air. She probably did so to avoid her glasses from fogging.
As she didn’t find a seat, she stood in front of the drinking machine, on top of which placed her computer. She looked down at the computer and typed on it.
Collin wondered if her blood would flow into the needle.
Before Collin entering the elevator, he came up to her and knocked on the wall, saying, “There is a seat over there.”
She didn’t respond.
Collin knocked again.
She still looked at the computer.
Collin waved in front of her and pointed to the seat after she looked up, saying, “There’s a seat over there.”
The woman pushed her glasses up the nose and replied with a husky voice, “Thank you.”
When Collin entered the elevator, he saw the woman typing a few more lines, then rushing towards the empty seat with the computer in her arms. Collin thought to himself if he hadn’t told her that, she probably would have stood in front of the drinking machine and typed until she finished dripping.
When Collin arrived at his floor, he was still moving his swollen palms. Several nurses greeted him as they passing by.
“Doctor Mueller, are you on duty?”
“No, I got an infusion.” He showed the medical tape on the back of his hand.
“How’s your cold?”
“Much better.”
He replied politely. Many nurses had a crush on him, but few of them dared to confess. Because last year Collin rejected a senior nurse, the most beautiful girl among them. Since then, they knew Collin wouldn’t like them.
“Doctor Mueller, are you here to visit your friend?”
When Collin arrived at the ward, a nurse wearing a mask came out and smiled at him.
“Yes. How’s it going?”
There were so many nurses in the hospital that Collin could barely distinguish them. He could only distinguish them through their nameplates. Although Collin had met this nurse at least four times in these two days, he failed to recognize her.
Collin was confused. Compared with the nurse, he only met the woman downstairs once before. How could he recognize her immediately? Besides, both the nurse and the woman wore masks.
After thinking about it for a while, he attributed it to the clothes they were wearing. All the nurses were dressed in uniforms. So the woman wearing different clothes was more recognizable.
“Although the patient is in his recovery, there’re still some problems with his legs…” the nurse answered and then smiled again, “You can go in to have a look.”
“Alright. Thank you.” Collin nodded.
Luckily, the nurse wore a mask. Otherwise, Collin would see her blushing. She was too shy to look at Collin. She nodded and ran away quickly.
Collin knocked on the ward door, opened it, and went in.
In the ward, Lynn was reading a book about orthopedics. Hearing Collin come in, she looked up. Collin waved to her as a greeting and then looked at Eliot on the bed.
It was Jaquan who asked Collin to treat Eliot. Collin didn’t meet him before, but Collin knew him quite well and admired him as both of them came from City Y. Collin was confident that they would be friends if they knew each other.
However, Collin didn’t expect that they would meet each other in this way.
Eliot woke up the day before yesterday and was not upset with what had happened to him. Neither Lynn nor Sydnee dared to tell him about Maury. Emily also didn’t say anything, although she had visited him a few times. They all wanted to keep it secret from him. Even though they didn’t ask Collin to do so, Collin knew it was better not to distress Eliot.
As Eliot was asleep, Collin was about to leave. When he saw the book in Lynn’s hand, he stopped and whispered to her, “Why don’t you open the curtains?”
Lynn shook her head and pointed at Eliot.
Collin realized that Emily was here to take care of Eliot. However, she just recovered and needed to have a good rest.
Of course, it was better to read with the curtains opened. But she didn’t want to wake Eliot up. She also didn’t want to leave the ward.
Collin had been here a few times and had once met Sydnee and Emily. Although he was curious about the relationship between Sydnee and Eliot, he was more interested in Emily.
Especially when he heard that Kamron, the only son of the Heytons, had been beaten by Emily and taken into the ICU. Collin seldom attended any banquets, so he didn’t know much about Emily. And Jaquan did not tell him about Emily and Vincent. Thus, Collin could only remember that Emily was an unlawful daughter of the Britts and was of low intelligence due to high fever.
It was said that Emily was beautiful.
But Collin paid little attention to other people. After a dozen years, however, he was surprised when he saw Emily for the first time yesterday.
She was indeed pretty. However, why a girl at her age would be so indifferent?
She resembled Emma. But Emma was indifferent since she was a kid. As for Emily, it seemed that she had experienced a lot and then changed a lot to protect herself.
With her father suddenly passed away and her brother was unconscious, Emily nearly lost everything including the company. At her father’s funeral, she was arrested for kidnapping Kamron….
