Just as Leonel was about to say something more, Alexis asked, “Leonel, did it hurt?”

She wanted to know if he felt pain when he was left alone on the operating table; when she walked out on him and he was stuck in the hospital because he couldn’t move;

If it hurt when he saw her from his wheelchair.

Her voice quivered.

She wanted to touch his injured leg, to feel the scar, to know how much he had suffered.

Leonel tensed up.

He seemed to catch something in her words and shot her a cold Look.

After a moment, he shouted, “Noreen, make sure she gets to the ER!”

Noreen was taken aback by Leonel’s abrupt change of tone.

say anything, he had already ushered

signaled to the driver to get back in

car, watching

pang of sympathy and stepped

has been

think he’s just

at

The bleeding had stopped.

eyes as she whispered, “There’s no need

This will do.

flagged down a taxi

baffled, unsure what was happening

back to Leonel, she expected a reprimand, but he just nodded quietly, without a word of

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