My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

It was quiet in the room of darkness. With the sound of the steady breath, it seemed everyone was sleeping soundly.

At midnight.

Ernest slowly opened his eyes. Looking at the darkness, he hesitated for a moment.

He slightly sat up and saw the muddled woman on the sofa through the darkness.

She was sleeping soundly.

In the past two nights, he couldn’t sleep tight because of the injury. Sometimes, he was thirty, and he would ask the nursing worker to pour the water for him. However, it was Florence taking care of him tonight...

He paused for a bit, then lifted his quilt gently without any hesitation, ready to get off from the bed.

However, as soon as he moved, the woman muffled, “What’s up?”

As she spoke, Florence got up from the sofa immediately. In the dark, she walked to Ernest.

Seeing that Ernest had sat up, she immediately stood in his way.

“Are you going to use the bathroom?”

In the dark, they couldn’t see each other’s face clearly, but Ernest gazed at her outline.

He was quite surprised. “Haven’t you fallen asleep yet?”

“Yes, I have.” Florence shook her head, wondering if she should turn on the light.

Ernest asked again, “How come you woke up, then? I remember you always sleep like a log.”

“You are injured. I dare not to sleep too soundly,” Florence answered quite naturally as if that was what she ought to be.

However, her answer shook Ernest’s heart. He looked at the woman in front incredibly.

He wondered if it meant that she cared about him.

Noticing that Ernest kept a long silence, Florence panicked. “What happened? Are you feeling not well? I’ll call the doctor over right now.”

As she spoke, Florence was ready to trot out of the ward, but her wrist was grabbed by his big and thick hand.

She was taken aback.

at her in the darkness and said in

breathed a sigh of relief. As long as

said, “A moment, please. I’ll pour

mini-kitchen. She had put some water in the thermos cup in advance, which could keep the water warm for twelve

him and said, “Let me know whatever you want

he would stagger over to look for the water in case she hadn’t

Florence’s solemn face, Ernest felt as if his heart

quilt that she just tucked him in and patted the space next

“Get in.”

gaped at

“I’m a bit cold.”

implied that he needed someone’s

she said,

a deep voice. “I can’t have anything heavy on me,

I turn on the air

quite dry, which is bad for

Florence was speechless.

made sense. Hence,

the limited space next to Ernest,

a crush on him. When she was sharing the bed with him, she would think that he was taking advantage of her, and she could deal with it calmly. However, now she had

if there was a small motor in her heart, making her heart

Ernest couldn’t read Florence’s expression, but he could feel that she

eyes were dimmed in an instant. With a long face, he said, “Forget it

he intended to pull the quilt

to.

Florence hopped

bit fast without control. Her

pounced at him while he opened his arms, it

with a slight smell of the medicine, the mixture of which fully occupied her sensory organs. She tightened her body in

like a mosquito, “I... I’m sorry. Did I bump into you? I’ll move

edge of the bed, the man’s arm suddenly fell and

above her head.

didn’t dare to move

almost could hear Ernest’s heartbeat, which was steady and powerful. However, it sounded a bit

she herself was too tense that her heart was hammering, so she also mistook that his heartbeat sped

a cooked shrimp. She felt more nervous and panicked than any time before when