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.

ushered Alexis out of the motorhome,

back in the car and drove

Alexis stood outside the car, watching

and stepped up, saying, “Miss Fowler, I’m really

been

think he’s just

down at

The bleeding had stopped.

as she whispered, “There’s

This will do.

down a

baffled, unsure what was happening

Leonel, she expected a reprimand, but he just nodded quietly, without a

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