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Jenifer began to move her fingers, her eyes that were closed a while ago now began to open. She saw clearly that there was a man’s silhouette that was getting clearer and clearer. It was a figure in an expensive suit and was talking to other men who were there.

"Sir, the woman is awake." the standing man told the figure of the man who had been sitting.

The sitting man changed his sitting position and looked at Jenifer with a look that was hard to decipher. Jenifer felt that her body was completely crushed, broke, sick, and almost dead. If Jenifer had chosen to die, why would God still give her life?

"Miss, are you okay?" the man asked.

Jenifer edged away. Of course, this made the man understand that Jenifer was afraid of him.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person. I accidentally found you in the middle of the road and almost ran into you. Looking at the condition of the injuries you have experienced, Are you a kidnapping victim ... rape victim?" the man asked again.

Jenifer answered nothing but silence. Her tears were streaming down just like that. And all the stories about all the violence and betrayal that Erdward had committed to her felt so very real of course, and the pain was still opened.

"Miss, can you answer me?"

"Can you take me home? I want to go home."

"Go home?" the man asked again

"Yes."

"But your injury is so severe, you still have to be in the hospital for treatment in about two or three days, miss.”

"I want to go home, sir. I will pay the administrative expenses after I get home."

The man smiled again, while Jenifer couldn't smile at all. She didn’t know what made the man feel that the atmosphere this time seemed funny.

"Come on, I helped you sincerely. I didn't ask for compensation. It is late at night now. I will take you home tomorrow, okay?"

Jenifer just nodded without having any intention at all to answer the man's words.

"By the way, my name is Aron. I think you can call my name like that to be more familiar."

After saying that and being ignored by Jenifer, Aron decided to leave. Jenifer was still silent, her gaze was now on the window of the hospital room that was still not covered by curtains, and once again Jenifer's tears just flowed down.

Was going home a good decision? She had left home just to be with Erdward, would her parents still be willing to take her back? Or will her parents get angry and throw her away?

Really, all these things made Jenifer's heart even more frantic. She didn't know what decision to make at all. On the one hand she no longer had a place to go, on the other hand if she went home to her parents then the fear of not being acccepted became even more real.

"Miss, can I know what your name is?"

Jenifer turned her head, a nurse carrying a notebook entered Jenifer's room. Her face looked so friendly.

"Jenifer Wedley.”

"Well, Miss Wedley, what exactly happened to you? Are you a kidnapping victim, or a victim of sexual assault? If there really is someone who hurt you deliberately, we can proceed to court, Miss. Seeing so many injuries that you have experienced, your head seems to have suffered a blow from a blunt heavy object, fortunately it does not make bleeding in your brain. More than that you have a fracture that is quite serious at some point. So I think if you want to go home, then hold it and wait for at least three days first, Miss.”

"But, I ... I ...."

"The man just now is Young Master Malik, the owner of this hospital. So you don't have to worry about cost issues and so on, everything will be covered by the hospital.”

"No. I'm not used to being indebted to others, let alone if I don't know that person."

"Miss ….”

"Well, I'll stay here for three days, but can I borrow your phone for a while? I want to contact my family to reimburse all the expenses the hospital has spent on me.”

The nurse who was initially reluctant because she had been told by Aron not to charge anything finally resigned, she gave her cell phone to Jenifer.

"Contact your family immediately, Miss. I wish you a speedy recovery, and I will check your conditions now, okay?”

“Okay.”

Jenifer pressed a few numbers, until then she pressed the green button. For a while the number she dialed did not answer, only the sound of ringing kept repeating itself. Until then, Jenifer cut off the call, and looked at the mobile phone belonging to the nurse that she borrowed.

Was what she was going to do right? Not even a single person at home picked up her phone. Was it true that her parents still expected her to come back?

Jenifer plucked up the courage to contact again, not long after a woman's voice came from the other side.

"Hello, the residence of the Wedley family. Is there anything we can help? What business do you have to contact us?”

Jenifer knew clearly that the voice was the voice of the servant of her family's house, Jenifer swallowed her saliva with difficulty.

"Who is calling, Amora?

"I don't know, madam. It's just that the landline rang several times, and when I picked up there was no answer at all."

"Never mind, don't think about it. Just ignore the call directly, it's not important.”

Jenifer cried again, she immediately cut off the call. She knew that it was her mother's voice just now. And from her mother's tone, it seemed that she didn't care about anyone.

The nurse who had been checking on Jenifer couldn't help but fall silent, especially when Jenifer cried while holding her phone.

"Can't you contact your family, Miss?" the nurse asked.

Jenifer rushed to delete the number she had called. She wiped her face violently and then she handed the phone to the nurse.

"No, thank you very much. You have helped me a lot.”

Jenifer tried to smile, then she pulled the hem of the blanket again. Her parents would never accept her back, that was the definitive answer to what she had been trying to expect.

Jenifer then turned her face away from the nurse, the nurse said goodbye and went out. When she came out, she ran into a sturdy figure who had been standing at the door of the room where Jenifer was being treated.

"Who is that woman?" asked the hoarse-voiced man. "Why is she in this room?"

"M ... Mr. Malik, she ... she is the woman found by Young Master Malik on the road. She was fainted with many injuries on her body, Sir, and—”

"I don't want to know, move that woman from my place. I don't want my place to be littered by any rotten woman."

"Alright, sir.”

The man immediately left with his wide-ranging steps that were so arrogant, while the nurse could only bow deeply. The eagle-eyed man's orders were the thing to do because otherwise she would be fired from her job.