Free Web NovelChapter 1125: Chapter 586: Extra Story: Love Ablaze 2
Morning.
"Miss, you stayed in the sea water too long yesterday. Drink more soup, this will drive out the cold..."
Aunt PA stood by, watching over and urging Alice Robinson.
Alice leaned against the headboard, holding the bowl of soup, frowning. "It kind of tastes a little bitter."
Aunt PA said, "I put in some Chinese medicine. It will be a bit bitter, but it’ll help your body recover quickly."
Alice muttered, "But there’s nothing wrong with me..."
"You still have to drink it even if you feel fine. The doctor said you must get rid of the cold from the seawater, or you can’t be discharged."
Alice pouted. "But it’s so bitter."
"It’s only a little bitter. Pinch your nose and you can finish it in one go." Aunt PA tried her best to persuade her.
Alice cast a pleading look at Chester Robinson beside her.
In front of a lover, he was clearly back to being the serious older brother again. He said mildly, "Don’t be childish."
Alice stuck out her lips. "Then you feed me."
Chester’s face darkened.
Alice didn’t care at all about the looks from Keith Antony and Aunt PA in the ward, and acted spoiled with him. "If you don’t feed me, I’m not drinking it."
"Alice!!"
"I don’t care." Alice put down the soup, looking all set on making a scene.
Aunt PA saw how things were and hurriedly waved at Keith Antony, tacitly withdrawing from the ward.
Chester frowned, showing his displeasure.
Alice turned her head to the side. "If you don’t feed me, I’m not drinking it."
Chester immediately turned around.
Catching sight of Chester turning to leave out of the corner of her eye, Alice instantly grew flustered. "Bro..."
With his back to Alice, Chester said, "Be good and finish your soup. I’ll go ask the doctor if you can be discharged today."
"I don’t want to..." Alice’s lips drooped, her voice filled with grievance. "You’re going to leave me all alone again..."
"I said I won’t leave you."
"Ugh..."
Alice suddenly started sobbing.
Chester turned around and saw Alice’s pouting, tearful face.
Chester shook his head and walked over to the bed.
He reached out and wiped away the tear that slid from the corner of Alice’s eye. "You’re not made of water, are you? Why do you cry at the drop of a hat?"
Taking the chance, Alice threw her arms around Chester. "Bro, I never want to be separated from you again..."
Chester gently patted her back. "Have you really thought this through?"
"Hm?"
He held her tight, kissed the strands of hair at her temple, his voice husky and low. "I might not be able to walk with you to the very end."
She suddenly covered his mouth with her hand and stared at him. "I won’t allow you to say that."
He let out a soft sigh. "Alice, as long as you’re willing, it’s still not too late to regret this now..."
Alice shook her head hard. "I won’t regret it. I want to be with you..."
He brushed aside a lock of hair on her forehead and looked at her deeply. "On the road of life, you should know how to make the right choices. If you only sink into what’s in front of you, you might regret it for the rest of your life."
"I will never regret it..." Alice forced down the choke in her throat. "I believe in faith... As long as we have a strong enough belief, we can overcome everything."
"I shouldn’t be fooling around with you like this..."
"This isn’t fooling around, it’s following our hearts." Alice nestled into Chester’s arms and said softly, "Please stop pushing me away. Let me stay by your side."
Chester wrapped his arms around Alice, his chin resting tenderly against her forehead. "There’s no way I can change your mind, is there?"
"Right."
In that moment, the image of Alice standing stubbornly in the freezing seawater last night flashed through his mind.
She was that stubborn...
Chester closed his eyes and let out a heavy sigh. After a long while, he spoke, helplessly. "There’s one thing you have to promise me."
"Okay."
"If my surgery doesn’t succeed, I won’t allow you to spend your whole life lonely and drowning in sadness."
Alice shook her head and looked up at him. "With me by your side, nothing will happen to you."
He gazed deep into her eyes, his magnetic voice rough and low. "I’m talking about if."
Alice buried herself into his broad chest. "There is no if. But if heaven really is that cruel to us, I’ll obediently listen to you, because I still have to take care of Rachel."
"That’s still not enough..."
"Hm?"
"You have to find someone who can take care of you and Rachel, to replace me and look after you both."
"Bro..." Alice’s nose stung; she choked up as she spoke. "Whatever you say, I’ll promise you... but I’m begging you, don’t be that cruel to me and Rachel. We can’t live without you..."
She looked at him pitifully, filled with grief and desolation.
He pressed her back into his arms and held her tightly.
She closed her eyes, savoring this long-dreamed-of moment.
Claud Laurence stood outside the ward door. Through the glass window, he saw Alice clinging tightly to Chester.
Aunt PA and Keith Antony stood behind Claud Laurence, a faint sense of guilt making them lower their heads.
Claud Laurence’s expression had darkened a lot, yet he remained calm.
"Since she’s more or less fine, I won’t go in to see her. Give these flowers to her for me."
Aunt PA took the white lilies Claud Laurence handed over and nodded lightly.
Claud immediately started walking away.
Aunt PA looked up at Claud’s departing back, unable to help herself from calling out, "General Laurence, are you really not going in to see Miss?"
Claud stopped in his tracks, his tall back looking lonely and desolate. "Tell her I wish her happiness."
At that moment, Aunt PA’s tears fell...
The bodyguards followed Claud away, and in the vast corridor, only Aunt PA and Keith Antony were left.
Aunt PA wiped away her tears in pain. "If the first person Miss had met was General Laurence, how wonderful that would’ve been..."
Keith Antony nodded. "It’s just a pity that in this life, everything is fated in the dark."
"Yeah..."
Aunt PA and Keith Antony then turned to look at the window of the ward. Chester Robinson was feeding Alice Robinson medicine with a spoon, and Alice was holding onto Chester’s arm, her smile sweet, so very sweet.
Because her body was not seriously hurt, Alice was discharged the next day.
Chester had blocked all news, so what had happened to her at the seaside would never be known by any lover.
Now, in the car on the way home, Rachel tilted her head and asked Alice, "Mommy, why didn’t Grandma PA bring me to the hospital to see you when you were sick?"
"Because Mommy wasn’t in serious danger and didn’t want my little baby to worry." Alice held Rachel on her lap and kissed her tenderly.
"But I missed Mommy so much..."
"Isn’t Mommy right by your side now?"
"Mm."
Rachel nodded happily and wrapped her chubby little arms tightly around Alice.
After getting out of the car, Alice held Rachel’s hand as the little girl hopped along, and they walked into the house.
Rachel suddenly asked, "Mommy, when is Uncle coming back?"
Alice was in a very good mood and answered, "Uncle said he has something to take care of. He’ll be back later."
"Oh... Mommy, at the hospital just now, Uncle also gave me a kiss."
"He did?" Alice picked Rachel up and asked softly, "Sweetheart, do you like being with Uncle?"
"I do."
"Then from now on, we’ll be with Uncle every day, okay?"
"Okay."
Alice hadn’t expected that by nightfall, Chester still wouldn’t have come home.
In the morning when she was discharged, he told her he had something to deal with and asked Keith Antony to bring her home. He said he’d come back later to be with her.
Of course she hadn’t wanted that at the time. She didn’t want to leave him for even a single second, but he ordered her to behave.
She knew that even if they were finally together, he couldn’t possibly stay by her side every second of every day. If she stuck to him like sticky candy, maybe it would even make him feel repulsed...
Since she knew he cared about her, she shouldn’t lose faith. She should believe that he definitely wouldn’t leave her.
Alice played with Rachel in the living room while waiting for Chester to come back, but even after Rachel played herself to exhaustion and fell asleep, Chester still hadn’t returned.
Alice had no choice but to carry Rachel back to the bedroom to sleep. When she returned to her own room, she realized it was already ten o’clock.
She sat on the edge of the bed, feeling empty and lost, staring blankly at the clock on the wall, and her heart suddenly grew more and more flustered.
In fact, she had already called him four or five times tonight. He had told her he would be late, but still, she didn’t feel safe at all...
She had forced him to tell her the "truth" in the most extreme way, but she knew very well that this "truth" had been forced out of him by her. In those circumstances, he had no choice, so the sense of security she’d gained from him was still far from enough...
She was anxious precisely because of that.
Just as Alice was lost in her own chaotic thoughts, the doorknob suddenly turned.
Alice snapped back to herself and happily ran toward the door.
As Chester turned the handle and opened the door, before he could react, Alice had already thrown herself into his arms, holding him tightly. "Brother..."
Chester wrapped his arms around her and asked gently, "What’s wrong?"
Alice was already choking up in his arms. "Why are you back so late?"
"I told you I’d be late."
Alice immediately broke into sobs in Chester’s embrace.
Chester closed the door, holding her as he coaxed softly, "Don’t cry. Tell me what’s wrong?"
Alice lifted her tear-filled eyes, her voice sour. "I’m so afraid you won’t want me..."
"Silly girl..."
Chester kissed Alice’s forehead and gently wiped away the tear tracks at the corners of her eyes. "I only came home a bit later than usual, that’s all."
Alice sniffled, breaking into a teary smile. "Brother..."
"Mm?"
"We won’t ever be separated again, right?"
Chester gazed at Alice’s bright eyes and smiled. "From the day before yesterday to today, you’ve already pestered me with that same question countless times..."
"I’m scared...",
"Then I’ll prove it to you."
With that, he picked her up and walked with her toward her bed.
When he tossed her onto the bed and his body quickly covered hers, she immediately understood what his way of proving it was.
Her face flushed a deep red, and he was already kissing her...
After the passion ebbed, Alice lay exhausted against Chester’s chest, her breathing still unsteady.
Chester held her, lovingly kissing her sweat-damp forehead. "Is that proof enough?"
Alice took a deep breath. Hearing his words, the blush that had just faded from her cheeks rose again. She swung her small pink fist and lightly thumped his solid chest. "You’re awful."
Chester’s lips curved with a faint smile as he pulled her up so she was lying on top of him, looking up at her intently.
The earlier wildness made Alice a little shy. She turned her gaze away, her voice bashful. "Why are you staring at me like that?"
His arms circled her slender waist. Because they were both completely bare, his large hands rested on her round, perky butt, stroking it with tender affection.
