“Why is it so dark? Why aren’t the lights on?”Anna stared up at the ceiling with hollow eyes, her hands frantically feeling around.Everyone stared at Anna’s tantalizing eyes then exchanged glances with each other. They were all staggered.Some of them gazed at the brightly lit room and felt their hearts sink.“Why is everyone so silent? Nina, hurry up and turn on the lights.”Nina covered her mouth in shock. Her voice trembled as she spoke. “Anna, the lights are on! Don’t scare me!”Anna was dumbfounded. She smiled and replied, “Stop playing around, Nina. This joke isn’t funny at all.”Nina turned to Dr. Moore with helpless eyes. However, her gaze was met with his equally dumbstruck expression.“Logically speaking, that’s impossible!” Dr. Moore turned to the specialists behind him.They quickly stepped forward to examine Anna’s eyes, but could only shake their heads in confusion.The doctors quickly urged Anna to the examination room.“Hold on!” Anna yelled, “First, tell m
“Ms. Hamilton, I will now shine a medical torchlight into your eyes. Nod if you can sense the light.”Micheal took out his torchlight and shined it into Anna’s eyes. “Can you sense that?”Anna endured the blinding light and shook her head.Micheal kept his torchlight and examined the corner of her eyes again. He examined her eyes for an exceedingly long time…The whole time, Anna felt as if her heart was hanging from a cliff. It thumped violently. Creases formed at the loose cuffs of her gown due to her forceful grip.Liam was also starting to break out into cold sweat. His deep and puzzling eyes were fixed on Micheal.Micheal did not even glance at Liam. He continued to examine Anna with his instruments and pressed a bunch of buttons on a keyboard.Finally, Micheal was done. He stared at the test results in his hands and adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose. “From my observation, there’s nothing wrong with Ms. Hamilton’s eyes.”There was dead silence in the room…An
“How did that happen? Didn’t the doctor say she was healing well? And that she had regained her vision and could be discharged today?”Daniel’s face was chalk-white. He was at a complete loss.This news came too unexpectedly. Daniel had already made arrangements with Grandmother Dawson to have dinner with the Dawson family after Anna’s discharge. They were supposed to discuss the marriage between Bryan and her.“Exactly! Chloe, what happened? I’ve prepared all of Anna’s favorite dishes. Daddy and I had been waiting to welcome her home the entire day!”Nicole’s expression was filled with shock and distress. She kept shooting glances at Chloe, hoping that she would tell the truth.Chloe sniffled. “Daddy, Mommy, the doctor said that there’s nothing wrong with Anna’s eyes but… she had developed some psychological problems due to the trauma… They don’t know when will she regain her vision.“In other words, she’s blind…“Daddy, Anna has lost her vision. What will we do about Madam Daw
When Daniel reached the hospital, the sun was already rising.He pushed open the door to Anna’s room. Anna was sleeping on the hospital bed.He quietly approached her and sat down beside the bed, gazing at his daughter sound asleep. He was suddenly reminded of her mother.“Anna, you look just like your mother.”Daniel reached out to caress her beautiful cheeks. Unexpectedly, Anna felt his touch and was instantly awoken.“Who is it!”Anna yelled. Her eyes shot open.From the corner of her eyes, she saw Daniel sitting beside her bed. She hastily shifted her gaze away and started feeling her surroundings with her hands.“Who’s here!”“Anna. Anna, it’s Dad…” Daniel’s heart ached as he grabbed Anna’s hand.“Dad?” Anna felt a dull pain in her chest.She had been staying at the hospital for days, yet that was the first time her father had visited her. She suddenly felt as if the word ‘Dad’ had become so unfamiliar to her.“How are you feeling, Anna? Any better?”Anna lowered her
“Anna, I know that you’ve always been biased against your sister. That’s why you think she had something to do with this! But it’s not like you don’t know your sister’s personality. She’s a timid girl. Moreover, she respects you very much, so how can she do anything to hurt you?”Anna felt a sharp pain in her heart. She clutched tightly onto her blanket.She tried her best to put on a faint smile. “Chloe is indeed an obedient and adorable girl! Of course, she won’t do anything to hurt me!”Anna did not expect Daniel to stand by Chloe’s side even to this day.She was starting to wonder which one of them was his real daughter!“Anna, I’ve investigated things at home and it turns out that the maid had accidentally left the disinfectant alcohol, that’s used to clean windows, on your dressing table. You must have mistake the alcohol for your eyedrops while you were busy talking on the phone with Nina.”Anna stared at Daniel. For a while there, Daniel felt as if Anna’s gaze had turned
Liam removed the towel around his waist and put on a pair of loose-fitting loungewear. He lay comfortably on the bed, his lips curling up into a subtle grin. “That little woman sure is cunning. Not only is she an expert actor, but she’s got some brains too. As expected of a woman I have eyes for.”He picked up his phone and noticed that Anna did not reply to his message. He was a little irritated. “How dare she ignore my message! Is she too absorbed in her ‘blind girl’ role?”He stood up and peeped through the hole in the wall. He was instantly staggered.“...”The hole had been blocked!‘Did she notice it?‘Great!’Liam grinned. He grabbed a pen and gently poked it through the hole.Nothing happened…Liam chuckled wryly. He put more force into it…The roll of paper was pushed out and the tunnel saw light again.Liam grinned merrily. He peeped through the hole, chuckling. A faint glow could be seen in his ink-black eyes.He saw Anna angrily wrapping herself up into a burrit
Anna kept staring at the hole in the wall, constantly afraid of Liam peeping at her.Anna clenched her teeth in anger. “Aren’t you afraid I’ll report you!”She walked circles around her room for a long time, yet did not hear a squeak from Liam’s side. ‘What is he doing? Is he even in his room?’If he was not in his room, Anna would not need to spend her day in fear.Anna leaned against the wall and positioned one eye at the opening of the hole. Carefully, she gazed into the room behind the wall.Liam’s room did not look like a hospital room at all. Instead, it looked like a modern office equipped with everything one would need for work—it even had a photocopy machine.She scanned the entire room and realized that Liam was not there.She let out a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to shift her gaze away, a handsome face magnified before her eye until all she could see was an ink-black eye.“Ah!”Anna yelped out of shock. She stumbled backward and fell butt-first on the floo
Chloe glared at Anna with eyes filled with resentment. She yearned to shove Anna away from Bryan’s side.Anna could clearly see the malice in Chloe’s eyes. It seemed like Chloe had truly believed in her blind act, so she did not bother to hide the animosity in her eyes.Anna lifted her chin slightly and gazed at Chloe with empty eyes. Chloe’s heart skipped a beat. Although Anna’s gaze at her was unfocused, she still felt as if she was being stared at.Chloe quickly hid away the resentment in her eyes and turned to face in another direction. She did not dare to meet Anna’s gaze.Anna smiled. She reached out her hands and felt around. “Bryan, I’m tired. I want to sit down.”Bryan hurriedly helped her to the sofa.Daniel rushed home from work. The moment he walked through the door, he saw that Anna was already at home. A smile instantly blossomed on his face. “Anna, I came rushing home the minute I heard about your discharge. How are you doing? Are you feeling any better?”Nicole