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.

stared at her in the darkness and said in a deep voice,

sigh of relief. As long as he

said, “A moment, please. I’ll pour

water in the thermos cup in advance, which could keep the water warm for twelve hours. When she poured the water, the temperature was

“Let me know whatever you want to do. Don’t get off from the bed by

look for the water in case she hadn’t woken up just now. It was back for his

Ernest felt as if his

lifted a corner of the quilt that she just tucked him in and patted

“Get in.”

at him.

“I’m a bit cold.”

guessed if he implied that he

she said, “I’ll

have anything heavy on me, which would press my

turn on

dry, which is bad for

Florence was speechless.

that all his words made sense. Hence, her

looking at the limited space next to Ernest, Florence

she would think that he was taking advantage of her, and she could deal with it calmly. However, now she had known that she liked him if she would lie next to Ernest

a small motor in

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

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

he intended to pull the quilt

to. I

Florence hopped

without control. Her petite body

he opened his arms, it looked

familiar scent with a slight smell of the medicine, the mixture of which fully occupied her sensory organs. She

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

the bed, the man’s arm suddenly fell and

heard his deep voice above her head. “Don’t

didn’t dare to move immediately. Her heartbeat sped

her position, she almost could hear Ernest’s heartbeat, which was steady and powerful. However, it sounded a bit faster than

was too tense that her heart was hammering, so she also mistook that

if she were a cooked shrimp. She felt more nervous and panicked than any time before when Ernest