Cordy spoke at length, her tears gushing as she did.Dicky's heart ached for his mother as he watched, but his father just wasn't responding.He won't be able to take yet another departure from his daddy, let alone his mommy.Nonetheless, Dicky quietly hid his tears—his mommy was already badly hurting, and he didn’t want her to feel more hurt because of him."Mommy," he called out to her."Yes?" Cordy replied, subtly wiping away her tears."The doctor said visiting hours are over," he reminded her.Cordy nodded, and stared at John's pale face.He remained unresponsive, and so she left unhappily.She never noticed his fingers twitching as she did.-When Dicky wheeled Cordy out of the ICU, they found Sean waiting for them outside.His injury was relatively minor compared to Cordy's, and he wasn’t wheelchair bound. However, the doctor still advised him not to move around too much, given the long list of injuries he sustained."What are you doing here?" Cordy asked him."It
"That's good…"Patrick breathed a sigh of relief, but soon asked, "How did you get into another accident again? Why is it always car accidents?"Cordy frowned. She didn’t get into car accidents that frequently… Though granted, she was in the same car with Patrick in the last one.And the memory was still fresh in her mind… "Let's sit down and talk," Sean told Patrick.Patrick shot him a look in turn and snapped unhappily, venting all his frustrations on him right then. "You were in the same car! Why did Cordy get off worse than you? Were you even protecting her? And you call yourself her cousin?!""It happened in a matter of seconds. It was too fast for anyone to react," Cordy immediately defended Sean.Not to mention, she didn’t want anyone to protect her with their lives."I’d definitely have protected you properly if I was in the car," Patrick said assuredly."As if I didn't have an accident when I was with you before," Cordy exposed him right then. Her injuries at the tim
It was the timing that made Cordy certain the car accident had nothing to do with Nana."I agree with your opinion," Sean replied. "Though I'm just stating facts."Cordy blinked—so Sean was just telling her that John was going to marry Nana. Caught off guard, she suddenly felt a thumping pain over her chest.She wondered if she could actually face that day when it came…"But if we eliminate Nana, the only culprits possible would be our own family," Sean said solemnly, bringing the subject back to the right track.Patrick was left gaping beside them. That was one shocking revelation they just spoke of, and it seemed that they really were treating him like family.He actually felt proud for some reason, and suddenly felt that his 'cousin-in-law' wasn’t at all bad. "I also suspect it’s the same person trying to hurt our grandfather," Cordy told Sean."I think so too," Sean nodded."Does my presence affect the culprit?" Cordy theorized."I don't know. Maybe Grandfather mention
Sean was ready to go back to his room, and Patrick was self-conscious enough to stay and take care of Cordy."Patrick," Sean suddenly called out to him."What is it?" Patrick asked.“Where are you staying?”"Here, of course. I'll stay wherever Cordy is, and I can take care of her at night as well. You know she can't move around freely with the state of her legs," Patrick said, as if it was only natural."No, you're staying at a hotel," Sean rebuked him sternly."Look…""It's not up for negotiations.""You just don't want us in the same room, do you?" Patrick growled, a little irritated."Of course. There should be proper social distancing between men and women."Patrick gnashed his teeth in annoyance; although he had yet to earn his title, he wasn’t about to leave the hospital.Making up his mind, he said to Sean, "I'll sleep at your ward."Sean stared at him incredulously, and Patrick flashed an evil grin at the former. "What’s the matter? You're not going to turn me down
When it was just Nana and John in the ward, she reached out with the intention of taking John's hand into hers.However, he stayed three feet away from her and firmly out of grasp.He gulped, his body instinctively rejecting Nana and his hands unwittingly clenching into knuckles.Nana stared at him in surprise. "Lucas…?"Even if he never got close to her on his own before, he wouldn’t reject her touch either.Now, however, she found him to be a stranger more than ever before as he stood before her.Even now, he looked at her as if he didn’t recognize her."Lucas?" Nana's tears sprang out again, and the heart rate monitor attached to her beeped irregularly in warning as her emotions ran high.Nonetheless, John eventually walked up to her and took her hand. Nana's emotions calmed immediately, her heart rate turning stable in turn.She sobbed in joy, "You're alive, Lucas… I was so scared I won't ever see you again. I can't live without you."Her words were earnest, but John neve
John could’ve stayed indifferent to Nana—if she had never tried to save him with his life. However, if he could stay unmoved when she didn’t hesitate to protect him in the face of a mortal threat, he would be completely inhuman.And yet, saying yes to her also meant abandoning his previous life.Cordy's face appeared in his mind at that very moment; he suddenly felt as if he was stabbed in the chest, unable to breathe.He had regained his memories, suddenly remembering all his past in a split second.It turned out that he really was John Levine, the same man who earnestly loved Cordy to a fault.Alas, when he woke up to that fact, he was already someone else's fiance.-When John and Jessica got on that boat rigged with explosives, he fought back once he ensured that Cordy and Dicky were safe.It turned out that Jessica still had one iota of humanity, despite her terrible cruelty—she didn’t order her bodyguards to die with her, and it was just her and John who got on the boat
John ultimately left Nana's room, but she wasn’t letting go of his hand even in her sleep.He had to firmly pry her fingers off, not caring that he seemed to wake her when doing so.He turned and headed outside, his feet seemingly weighing tons.The last three years suddenly felt like a dream; yet even though he had woken up from it, he was unable to escape.He paused just outside a ward.He had no idea that Cordy was staying in that ward, and was simply taking a stroll on a whim.Yet he ended up here anyway, and he couldn’t leave once he arrived.He stood outside the door, watching as Cordy got out of bed and into the wheelchair beside it.Dicky was just typing the password on his laptop when he heard the commotion. He turned towards her and asked, "Mommy?""I'm fine on my own, don't worry," she told him softly, not noticing the man at the door.She just slept for a while, though that was a lie—too much was weighing on her heart and suffocating her, so she wanted to relax.
John refused. "No, I should go back to my room. The doctor did tell me not to move around too much. I just came to tell you I'm fine, and there's nothing to worry about."Even as he spoke, he started to turn and leave."Lucas," Cordy called out to him just then.John flinched slightly—he knew Cordy was actually aware of who he truly was, because he heard her saying that to him while he was still supposedly unconscious. He recovered quickly because of her voice too, but he was afraid to admit that he had already remembered everything at that instant."Let me see you off," Cordy said, not waiting for John to say no and wheeling herself out to follow.They silently and slowly strolled along the long walkways of the hospital, neither of them speaking.The silence between them was deafening, until they both stopped in front of John's room.John turned towards her, watching her pale cheeks, her body that was covered in bandages, and her scrawny form…He had to work very hard to sup