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.

could say anything, he had already ushered Alexis out of the

get back in

outside the car, watching as the motorhome

pang of sympathy and stepped up,

has been

think he’s

down at her

The bleeding had stopped.

whispered, “There’s no need to get to the

This will do.

a taxi

baffled, unsure what was happening with Leonel

a reprimand, but he just nodded quietly, without a word

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