Let Me Stay The Night

Nathaniel sat by the bed, watching over Christina intently while his hand held onto hers.

According to the doctor, her injury wasn’t too serious, and she would wake up once the anesthesia wore off.

Still, Nathaniel couldn’t help but worry. Christina would surely be terrified if she were to wake up and not see him next to her.

Outside the window, the pitch-black sky began to glower in what felt like a blink of an eye.

As the morning rays seeped into the room at dawn, Nathaniel finally realized he had remained seated there the whole night.

The door to the ward was pushed open, and Sebastian walked in. Seeing Christina lying in bed made him inexplicably upset.

“We’ve got the culprit, Mr. Hadley, but we’re waiting for the police to interrogate them before we can move on to the next step,” he leaned into Nathaniel’s ear and reported.

The latter’s eyes narrowed, and his wrath instantly permeated the air in the entire room. “Follow the police closely. I want to know every single detail.”

There’s no way they’d attack her without reason. They wouldn’t do that just because they wanted to steal her work. Someone must be behind this whole incident.

“Yes, Mr. Hadley,” Sebastian answered and left right away.

A nurse came in to replace Christina’s bag a while later, and she couldn’t help but glance at the man sitting nearby. He was extraordinarily handsome but looked so icy that one might get frostbite just from being gazed at by him.

“Ah! It hurts…” A meek voice cried out softly.

After a long slumber, Christina finally opened her eyes only to shut them immediately due to the glaring sunlight. A wave of pain came from the back of her head, causing her to nearly pass out again

“I’ll get the doctor!” the nurse announced hastily upon seeing her wake up.

her eyes had adjusted to the light, Christina opened them once again to observe her surroundings. Then, it dawned

chest tightened momentarily before easing

and touched her forehead with

into his arms,

hurt anywhere?” Nathaniel asked, holding her by the

it

tried to remember what she saw before losing consciousness. She felt

people for real? They came all the way to the competition just to look for me? What did I ever do to make someone try to

her head as he gazed at her tenderly. “Don’t worry. We’ve caught the guy, and

“Those guys are crazy. We can’t

was supposed to celebrate her joyous victory with Nathaniel today,

few more words, the doctor entered and gave Christina

doctor suggested she remain hospitalized since her injury hadn’t healed. She didn’t need stitches, but there was a

at noon to change Christina’s dressing, and the latter yelped in

she wanted her assailant to be struck the exact same way so he could feel how

gaze darkened each time she cried out. “Be

loss, for she was already being as gentle as she could. It was just a simple task that she had practiced countless times, but for

wound. I can’t do this in a way that wouldn’t hurt at all.

anesthetized threw Christina off. While the drug would ease her pain, it

anesthesia,” she whimpered. “Keep going. I’ll bear

no matter how gentle she was, the pain

sigh, Christina realized how much sweat had gathered on her palm while gripping

a huge scowl on the man’s face, too, as though he was the