Chapter 444: Chapter 444: Don’t Leave
Stuart held her arms tight out of anger, he was shaking her body lightly, the veins on his arm popped out, but his hand was utterly gentle, they had no strength in them at all.
She is so tiny and skinny, what if I hurt her? He thought.
"I’m scared that... the answer I get will be that you don’t want me." Edie said while shivering, and she could no longer hold back her tears, she blinked her eyes sadly and avoided eye contact with Stuart. She didn’t know where to put her hands, so she kept fiddling with her clothes, squeezing it, then releasing, squeezing it, then releasing, it was her way of calming herself down.
A girl in a foreign country mostly intimate to Stuart.
If he didn’t want her anymore, what would she do?
Because she loved him deeply, so she was afraid.
She wanted to keep her last bit of dignity so that when she cries, no one would see.
Stuart heard her shaky voice, and his body shook, the most tender part in his heart collapsed.
He couldn’t do anything with her.
He actually already had everything planned out on the way here, if he caught her, he would punish her hard so that she would never do this to him again. But seeing her tears, Stuart could not possibly stick to his plan, without thinking, a gentle kiss had already fallen.
The kiss landed on her eyelashes, to kiss away her tears, then landed on her cheeks. Lastly, it landed on her pale lips, and the kiss was not demanding, it just landed on her lips without any further movement.
Even though he did nothing, she could still feel his gentleness, and the kiss landed on every place of her face. At that moment, she knew she lost, and she had lost to that man.
If she left him, she would suffer immense pain!
"Stuart... what do you want from me..."
She said while shivering, but the large body in her arms suddenly fell, Edie’s heart was at her throat. She caught her in a flurry, hearing her cry, Ian, who was outside rushed in immediately and took Stuart over. Stuart had already closed his eyes in pain, and his palm was already burning, Edie felt his forehead, it was even worse.
"What is going on, didn’t the doctor come over?"
"Ten minutes after you left, the president suddenly woke up and looked for you as if he was a maniac, why do you think he got here so quickly? The reason you were detained was also because of Mr. Bates, and he called the airport crew to stop you from making it to the plane on time. The president had enough time to find you, but he still insisted on leaving right away, ignoring his own health condition."
Edie could recognize the complaint in Ian’s words. He said while carrying Stuart on his back.
At that moment, Stuart suddenly winced and grabbed Edie’s hand tightly and yelled, "Don’t leave!"
Edie looked at the man in front of him; her hand was still holding his hand; she didn’t let go even if he went unconscious.
She froze.
Ian said, "The president asked me for a pen while driving here, the pen had no ink, so he pinched himself with the tip of the pen and used his own blood to sign the contract. Why did you leave a man who treats you like this?" freeweɓnøvel.com
"But..."
Ian didn’t know about the incident with Hicks, so she couldn’t explain, in the end, she just bit her lips and said nothing. Seeing Stuart in such great pain and still didn’t want to let go of Edie’s hand, Ian understood that if Edie didn’t come home, he wouldn’t be able to take Stuart home either.
He had to say, "Mrs. Yates, please come home with the president!"
Edie didn’t say no, because she couldn’t break away from his hand.
This time, the entire house was under surveillance, to prevent Edie from escaping again.
Edie stayed by Stuart’s bed, watching his pale and handsome face, she sighed.
"Stuart, I’m not very smart, there is no ambiguous answer in love, I can feel your affection for me, but if you don’t say it to me, face to face, I can still not understand... Since you signed the contract, did you mean that you chose me?" She murmured to herself, not knowing if he could hear her.
At last, she let out a long sigh, held his arm, and fell asleep slowly.
Time passed quickly when Stuart finally woke up; it was already 8 pm. The room was empty, and the familiar girl was not there. He winced hard, got up quickly, and was about to pull out the needle in his hand again.
At the same time, the bathroom door opened, Edie walked out, seeing his action she asked in astonishment, "What are you doing? Don’t you still want to recover?"
Stuart’s tense heart loosened at once when hearing her voice, he looked to the direction of her voice and saw Edie’s worried face.
Edie quickly came up to him, tucked him back in bed, and said in an unhappy tone, "Can you take care of yourself just a tad more? What if something happens to you?"
"You care about me?" Stuart said bluntly. freewebnovel.cσ๓
Edie winced and looked down and said in a small volume, "There are lots of people who care about you, I’m not that important."
"But, all I care about is your thoughts." He grabbed her wrist abruptly, then landed his blunt and passionate eyes on her.
She met his eyesight, and then her heart started beating viciously.
She couldn’t talk all of a sudden.
She took a step back to leave his control, then turned around and said, "I’ll go get you a towel to wipe away your sweat."
When seeing her running away from him, his eyes darkened.
Shortly after, she came back with a wet towel in her hand, and it was then that Stuart had realized the back of her hand was all red, she was burnt.
He winced hard and took her hand to check closely.
"What happened?"
"No...Nothing, I was burnt while wetting the towel." She hid her left hand behind her back and said as if nothing had happened.
"Do you know that when you’re hurt, it hurts me too?" She was deliberately keeping distance with him, noticing her stubbornness, Stuart was so angry, but in the end, he could still not hold back his heart, he held Edie into his arm tightly, and said dearly, "Edie, I had never thought of making a decision, the girl I love has always been you!"
"But... Hicks..."
"I’ll investigate her identity, but no matter who she is, the only feeling I have towards her is guilt, I only love you, don’t you understand?"