Chapter 177

One of the doctors did a check–up on Theodore, treated the wound on his forehead, and diagnosed him as suffering from a slight

concussion.

Rosalie sat by Theodore’s bedside. Grabbing his

asked with concern, “Theo, does it still hurt?”

hand tightly, she

“I’m fine, it doesn’t hurt. You silly girl. Why did you act as a shield for

someone else? What if you got hurt?”

Theodore’s brows were furrowed as deep concern–remorse, even- filled his eyes.

“She’s not just someone else. She’s my friend,” Rosalie explained.

“But you’re my wife. I care only for you.”

Rosalie felt tears welling up in her eyes again as they fell down her cheeks. She didn’t expect Theodore to be the one to

when she was feeling

the attack with his own

more worried about her.

felt really conflicted about this man before her, struggling between feelings of love and hate for him. She really had no ideal what to do with

Theodore sat up on the bed, tenderly cupping her face in his hands and wiping the tears

speak too harshly and frighten

perhaps due to her pregnancy, Rosalie felt very emotional. She hurriedly wiped the tears on her face away, and said, “I was just…. scared that something might

man had been holding a knife, or an even more aggressive weapon instead of a vase? What

things had blown over, Rosalie still felt remnant fear pulsing

right, don’t cry now,” Theodore said. He held her face against his chest, comforting her as he would a child. He rubbed her back gently,

voice sounded in her ear; it felt like warm sunshine on a winter day, bringing inexplicable

as though they were still a loving couple, and all those terrible. things that happened recently never happened before. He doted on her, protected her well, and was

the tears away from her face, and stood up from his arms. “Theodore,

about it, the

can’t just stand idly by and see you get hurt.” He caressed her head in a doting fashion. “No matter what happens,

as she stared at the man

that happened between them replayed

like this, making

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