“How much longer are you planning to take care of him?” Charlie frowned and asked unhappily.

“His injury hasn’t healed yet,” Patricia replied.

She did not wish to discuss something for which the outcome was uncertain, so she changed the subject at once. “What brought you here? Do you need anything?”

Even though Charlie was just passing by, Patricia knew he was not someone with too much free time to waste. If there was not something important, he would likely not even bother to turn up.

“I just came to check on you,” Charlie said after glancing at Patricia. “The investigation is ongoing, and there are no concrete results yet.”

“Since that’s the case, you should carry on with your work. I’ll be fine here.

Besides, I’m not the one injured, so I don’t need anyone to take care of me,”

Patricia reminded Charlie.

of her words, but it was true; he did not have a lot of time to spare. The only reason he came here was to tell Patricia

aware of Ellar’s feelings

now, more than ever, he was even more certain of it. However, he felt that Ellar and Patricia were people from two completely different worlds, and that things between them would not end well if they were to get together without thinking it

Charlie drew

she could not bring herself to do. Ellar had

aid kit up and walked into her temporary office. The documents that had not been handed over

work, she got to the

leaned back against the seat and sighed. “Turns out, not having Patricia around does affect

would take care of a large number of things on Nicole’s behalf without having to ask for her opinions or instructions. Now that Patricia had gone over to BayCorp, Nicole had no choice but to handle those little tasks on

gently hugged Nicole and looked her in the eye. “Tell Patricia to come back if you can’t take it

of taking care of himself.

and said, “Patricia probably feels guilty because Ellar got slashed trying to save her. So, we should let her take care of him

that would depend entirely on how they interact with one another. At the very least, there would not be a sense of Patricia feeling as if she was indebted to him once he had

hearing this, Jared did not

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