Ex husband's Plea for Forgiveness

"Who let this woman in?" Nelson demanded furiously as he stepped into the room. "Nurse! Take this woman out of this room, and make sure she never enters again!"

His shouts woke Melinda, and she slowly roused to the picture of something that seemed to have come out of a melodrama.

"What do you have in your hands? How dare you touch Soaring Group’s documents so easily?! Do you think you’re a part of the company or something?!"

Nelson was still berating Emily, glaring back and forth between the woman and his grandson. He was clearly disappointed, and beyond furious.

He was still the head of the family, as well as the family business, damn it! This woman had some nerve to get her hands on such important files; no one outside of the company should have even laid eyes on those papers.

Jonas was looking on helplessly, but kept his silence. Emily, meanwhile, had a horrified expression, and the documents shook in the air as her hands trembled nervously. Melinda rose and walked over to the bed, then calmly took the papers from Emily and placed it on a nearby table. Then she went to Nelson and helped the old man towards one of the seats.

"Didn’t I tell you it was nothing to worry about?" she chided Nelson softly. "You shouldn’t have come all this way." The old man only grunted.

A nurse came close and took hold of Emily’s elbow, urging her to stand and walk out the door. The actress turned to Jonas with a pleading look. "Jonas."

But he was looking at his wife, and nobody was really paying attention to Emily. Well except for the nurse who was now pulling at her. And Nelson.

"What do you want?" he shouted at her. "Do you want me to call security to get you out of here? You’d better get out of my sight while I’m still being patient!"

Emily’s face flushed in mortification. She was a celebrity, after all. If they weren’t in the VIP section of the hospital, there would no doubt be a crowd taking photos or videos right now, immortalizing her moment of humiliation for the world to see.

Nelson’s reputation reached far and wide, and this hospital was caught among his vast network of connections. The nurse, along with its many employees, dared not displease him.

As the door closed behind their unwanted visitor, Nelson snorted to express his displeasure. Jonas noticed, but it was his wife he addressed. "You must be tired after everything that happened. Why don’t you return with Grandpa and take a good rest? I’ll be all right. The nurses will take care of me."

Melinda opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, Nelson interjected. Apparently the old man was full of energy at the moment.

"Indeed, you must be exhausted. That’s why I had Mary bring some of your necessities here. You’d be clean and comfortable as you take care of Jonas. It’s far too inconvenient for you to keep going back and forth, not to mention tiresome as well."

The wily patriarch would never pass up an opportunity to get these two alone so they could spent some time with each other without interruption, doing things that couples were supposed to do.

There was a knock on the door just as he had finished speaking, and Mary entered carrying a bag that contained Melinda’s clothes. She also had with her what looked to be a picnic basket, which was filled with food.

"You often forget the basics whenever you’re busy." Mary smiled as she handed them to Melinda. "Please take good care of yourself before you take care of Mr. Gu."

"Thank you, Mary." Melinda laughed softly, because the servant wasn’t wrong. Nelson left soon after that, and with Gavin and Mary with him, the young couple didn’t worry much about their grandfather.

In truth, Melinda was starving, and as soon as they were alone again she propped open one of the food packages Mary had prepared. There were many of her favorite dishes and snacks, and among them was a container of shrimps sautéed in butter, which was her favorite.

She plopped on the chair by the hospital bed, and started to merrily chow down her shrimp. Seeing her blissful face as she chewed, Jonas scoffed and turned his back on her.

"What is it?" Melinda mumbled over a mouthful of food. "Do you want to eat some, too?" Jonas turned to shoot his wife a look of mock disgust. "Too bad you can’t have any," Melinda taunted, and bit into another forkful of shrimp.

Jonas wanted to devour something, all right, but it wasn’t the shrimp he wanted to sink his teeth into. The memory of their episode in the cinema flashed briefly before his eyes, and whatever small fire burned in his chest quickly dissolved.

his advances. He sighed wearily, and resigned himself to watching Melinda eat without any

days. Even though he was discharged, the doctor advised for

considerably thinned over this period, because, as expected, she looked after Jonas at the

daughter-in-law’s gaunt features. She scolded Jonas as they stepped into the living room,

even though he was bedridden,

and wife would often be cooped up in Jonas's office, poring over company

this manner, but her daughter-in-law was undeniably competent in

greatly mellowed out, and she was sure

Melinda’s work was flexible when it came to time and location anyway, so Queena let the

though, the older madam grew lonely, and she began to coax Melinda to go out shopping with her,

were in the living room this time, with Melinda

You’ll find it very

was swaddled in a makeshift blanket burrito. All she really wanted to do during winter was sleep all day at home. "Oh, all right," Queena huffed. "But she’s better off here than in the office. And you need to come home more often, too, even if only

bit of instruction was her way of making sure Emily didn’t get any chances. She beamed then, quite proud of her

for such a long time. She deserves a long, languid break. Like, say, a weekend at a hot spring resort in the mountains."

he rolled his eyes. "Is there anything else you wanted, Mom? Because if there isn’t, then I’d like

when you talk to your Mom? It’s really true

younger woman, blanket and all, and squeezed. "Having a daughter is

embrace. "I’ll be your darling child from now on. Forget

laughed heartily at their display, and shook his head as he walked upstairs to

tie, and in a matter of moments, he was firing

days and exhausted nights had done their part in dampening her mood, and she was irritated at having

He froze and stared at his wife with a stunned expression, and the room grew quiet. Then

away, picked up a pillow, and rolled over. "So

Jonas tried again, tapping her back lightly this time. "Aren’t you

state. Nothing was more important than sleep. Melinda tossed in the bed again, this time pulling the covers over her

the urge to shake and

over to the bathroom. He plopped her on the counter, wet a towel, and

huffed at being awakened so rudely,

seemed like he was even going to brush her teeth, she grabbed it from his

were heading to was owned by Soaring Group. They had the option to get to the establishment by car, but Jonas took his mother’s insistence and chose to hike

begged him

were about

husband, on the other hand, was relaxed and didn’t even seem winded by their trek so far. He smirked at Melinda, and she took great pains

turned his back to her, bent on one knee, and then reached both arms behind him. "Come on." He was going to

at her

as they continued on their way, and after a while Melinda felt her nose prickle with an

she had fantasized countless times in the past, when she had been hopeful and constantly yearning for Jonas's

had happened between them, and she was no longer that

She looked around and saw that there were other people making their way up. Some were on the trail, while