“It’s okay, Linda.” Nicholas held back his laugh. “He did it for my sake. He said it’d replenish calcium…”

“Calcium? You don’t even have the general knowledge!” Linda raised her voice. “Marcus, I know you two had some beef inside, but it’s been so long. Nicholas hasn’t found fault with you other than the two previous times, right?

“How could you torture him like this while he’s injured!?”

Zephyr was rendered speechless.

“I changed my mind about you seeing how you dote on Cordelia!” Linda rolled her eyes. “I didn’t expect you to still be so petty and vicious!”

Nicholas forced back his laugh and continued acting pitifully in front of Linda, looking at Zephyr’s scowl.

When Linda turned back to look at him carefully, she saw that he had two blisters on his mouth.

“How did you get these?”

“Oh, these?” Nicholas said faintly, “It’s… He took care of me a few days ago and burned me.”

“Marcus Grist!” Linda looked like she was going to kill Zephyr.

“Linda, it’s okay! It doesn’t hurt… I’m not in pain, really! He’s taken good care of me. We should tolerate each other…”

“You got burned with blisters, and you’re taking his side?” Linda turned around and glared at Zephyr. “Mr. Grist, you don’t have to take care of him anymore. Thank you very much! For real, you’re unbelievable!”

latter smirked and raised his brows back at him—as if to say, “What do you think, Mr. Z? I have

that Nicholas pretended to be cold and aloof, hated that he did not explain a thing, and hated that he could love her in so many ways, yet he chose

had stayed too long under the strong sun and felt rather weak. He paled

went to check on him. Nicholas’ wound had probably opened up as blood seeped from

held his hand. “Nicholas… how are you feeling? Is… Is it

times. He was pained by what Linda said and her gaze when she looked at him. He was pained because he did not know

thinking he was in

and they wheeled Nicholas back to the hospital ward. He was

him during the process, keeping her eyes on him and gripping his hand

and Cordelia exchanged

Linda won’t be leaving today. I’ll buy her food and supplies before we

Zephyr nodded.

nurse asked Linda, “Are you the

surprise. Nicholas, who was lying in bed,

frowned. “It’s so hot outside. How could you wheel the patient out in the sun? It’s easy to sweat when the temperature is high, and it does nothing for

nodded

voice suddenly sounded incredibly weak. “It’s your best friend’s husband who wheeled me out

He clearly caught the smirk in Nicholas’ eyes in a split

You did it on purpose, right? Taking him out in this weather!”

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