My Sweet Wife

Outside the door of the emergency room, waiting for the hospital to come out of the ER, Larissa anxiously asked the doctor about Cleo’s condition.

“The patient is in bad shape. There was already a lack of oxygen and blood supply to his legs from being weighted down for six hours. It caused muscle necrosis. We tried the surgery on him, wanting to see what happens afterward.”

“But in the current situation, the patient would have had to have his leg amputated to save his life.”

The words ‘amputation’ stimulated Larissa’s brain, amputation means no leg from now on.

A person like Cleo is gentle like the March breeze, helping to melt the coldness in one’s heart and making one feel warmth. What’s more, he has saved so many patients by treating them. He shouldn’t become a disabled person without legs.

Larissa grabbed the doctor tightly, “Doctor, doctor, do you have any other way, he can’t amputate his leg. He’s only in his thirties and he’s a doctor. He can’t be without a leg.”

“If there was another way, we wouldn’t have chosen to amputate. It’s the way Katherine can stay alive right now. Please hurry and sign the surgical information form. Consent for us to operate on the patient.”

“By the way, I haven’t asked yet, what kind of person are you to the patient. This surgery has to be signed by a relative of the patient.” The doctor added.

By this time, Larissa’s head was buzzing a bit and she didn’t know what to do at all.

In a minute’s time, Larissa made one of the hardest decisions she’d ever made in her life, she had to save Cleo’s life, Larissa took the informed letter from the doctor and tremblingly signed it.

When Cleo was done with the surgery, she was wheeled out and taken to the hospital room.

Larissa has been sitting beside Cleo, accompanying him, waiting for him to wake up, “Cleo, do you feel okay? Have you felt any pain in your leg …?”

Cleo moved twice, he panicked and reached out to touch it, scared and panicked, “Where’s my leg! Where’s my leg! Where’s my leg …”

“Cleo, Cleo, don’t you move, don’t you move, you’ll rip the wound open if you move.” Larissa reached out and hugged Cleo tightly, her voice choked, “Cleo, I beg you, don’t move, your wound will rip open.”

Worried that his freshly bandaged leg would be ripped open and bleed, Larissa then hugged him to death.

Cleo couldn’t move by her hold, his body was trembling, “Where’s my leg? Where’s my leg …”

“Cleo, you’re like this because you saved me. I’ll be your crutch from now on, I’ll be your crutch for the rest of my life.” Larissa felt Cleo’s body trembling badly, she looked at his amputated right leg, her heart felt like it was hit by a heavy object that way.

A good man, his leg suddenly gone, Cleo’s fear, his terror, she thought, she just knew it, but couldn’t feel it, because in this world, there is no empathy. She was anxious to comfort him, but she didn’t know how to comfort him, after all, it was a leg that was gone.

Nathanael Lora, who rushed over to the door, saw the scene in the room, and then heard Larissa’s words in her ears, her figure froze.

Larissa, in the hospital room, hugged Cleo and calmed him down.

“Cleo, are you hungry?” Larissa looked towards Cleo, asking him softly.

But Cleo’s eyes were empty, he didn’t say anything and didn’t even move a bit. Compared to the excited look like just now, this look now, is considered an adaptation after stimulation.

Although he looks like this Larissa is not at ease, but this time, he woke up since, has not eaten, she still want to go to buy him some food.

Larissa walked out the door and saw Nathanael Lora standing in the doorway.

“Why are you standing here?” Larissa looked at him like he had been standing here for a long time.

Nathanael Lora looked at her and instead of answering asked, “Are you going out?”

“Uhm. I want to go get Cleo some food.”

“I’ll go.”

Larissa didn’t say no, “Uh, okay.” He’d go help with the food so she could remain by Cleo’s side and take care of Cleo.

Larissa eyed Nathanael Lora’s back as he turned to leave, half retracting her gaze, she turned into the hospital room to look at Cleo, who was lying on the hospital bed.

Cleo does not speak, so she is quiet and does not make a sound, so as not to disturb his rest.

Ten minutes later, Nathanael Lora came back with food, he walked into the hospital room and saw Cleo lying on the hospital bed, the Cleo he had seen before, all with a smile on his face all the time, also a top-notch doctor, now without a leg, the whole person was motionless, as if he was shrouded by death, his gaze was dark and lifeless.

“I got some extra, you must not have eaten dinner either.” Nathanael Lora set down her lunchbox on the table.

Larissa went to help Cleo sit up and Nathanael Lora hurried over to help.

“Let me do that, you go ahead and eat.” Nathanael Lora was a man after all and was much stronger than Larissa, he could easily help Cleo up.

Larissa knew that Nathanael Lora was usually served by others and had no experience in taking care of people at all, so she was not at ease.

She picked up the bowl on the side, “It’s better if I do it.”

Nathanael Lora watched as she had picked up the bowl, blew on the porridge, and put it to Cleo’s mouth. “Cleo, have some porridge.”

Cleo refused to open her mouth.

“Cleo, you must be hungry, eat some.” Larissa looked at Cleo, and didn’t know if he could hear her, the way he was now, it was as if his soul had been taken away, and he was left with a body.

Larissa put the porridge to Cleo’s mouth for a long time, but did not see Cleo open his mouth, finally had no choice but to give up.

Nathanael Lora helped lay Cleo down again, flat on his back, and covered Cleo with a blanket.

Knowing that Cleo couldn’t see his leg, Larissa made it a point to cover both of his legs, all of them, under the blanket so he wouldn’t see them again.Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Nathanael Lora picks up the meal from the table and hands it to Larissa.

“No food.” She had no appetite.

“Eat more or less.” Nathanael Lora watched her worry about Cleo, and also his heart smothered pain as if it were clenched.

But when he said that, Larissa looked like she didn’t hear him, naturally sitting next to Cleo’s hospital bed, taking care of Cleo, helping him with a cotton swab, dabbing water on his mouth.

Nathanael Lora felt nothing but heartache as he watched his wife, worried about another man, unable to eat or sleep.

Larissa sat next to Cleo’s hospital bed for a long time.

It was almost midnight when Larissa realized that Nathanael Lora was still in the hospital room and hadn’t left yet. She looked over at Nathanael Lora and said, “Aren’t you going back to rest?”

“I’ll stay here with you.” Nathanael Lora found a shirt and put it on her.

Here, there was a bit of a temperature difference between morning and evening. She was wearing less.

Larissa got up and walked out of the hospital room. She was concerned that Cleo had to rest, and she was worried that talking to Nathanael Lora inside the ward would disturb Cleo.

Nathanael Lora followed suit and walked out.

“You’d better go back, it’s getting late. There are still so many media outlets that … need you to handle today.” Larissa took the jacket off her body and handed it to Nathanael Lora, only he wouldn’t reach for it.

Knowing his temperament, she couldn’t talk him out of it, so she withdrew her hand again and put the jacket on.

“Is everything taken care of with the media?” It was the first time Larissa had opened her mouth to concern herself with the matter until now.

Nathanael Lora responded, “Uh-huh. It’s all taken care of, they are, for now, arranged to rest at the hotel and will leave tomorrow.”

The wedding didn’t happen, and the media made a trip for nothing. Larissa should have been worried about whether the media would make a big fuss about it, but her mind was now focused on Cleo, and she didn’t have the heart to care about the media’s business anymore.

Besides, she was sure Nathanael Lora could handle it well, “That’s good.”

Nathanael Lora did indeed handle everything satisfactorily, these media were all paid by him, the wedding could not cover the whole process, could not put out the video, but could put out a few photos, as for the photo articles, he also arranged for people to write them. Finding the media to do this kind of thing is not the first time.

“About the wedding, I also told grandpa, grandpa he wants to see you.” Nathanael Lora suddenly opened her mouth and said this.

After saying this and then realizing that it was a bit inappropriate to say this to Larissa right now.

Larissa looked at Nathanael Lora, frowning her pretty eyebrows, her voice was shallow and light like a feather that didn’t have a trace of weight, “Nathanael Lora, I don’t want to care about anything right now except Cleo’s condition.”

“You know, Cleo is the way he is because of me, if it wasn’t for him, I’m afraid I’d be dead right now.”

So, she even saved this life because of Cleo, and she wouldn’t leave him behind in his current condition.

She wanted to put it that way, making it very clear to Nathanael Lora.

Speaking here, Larissa didn’t dare to raise her head and look at Nathanael Lora, then added, “I plan to, in a few days, bring Cleo back to the country. I haven’t told his family about what happened to him. In the condition he’s in, I think having family that can comfort and encourage him will help.”

“Good.” It took a good half a second for Nathanael Lora to answer that.

Following that, Larissa heard Nathanael Lora speak again, “I’ll accompany you to take care of Cleo. I’ll help him contact doctors in China and arrange the hospital. You, a woman, are not that strong to bring him back to the country.”

Of course he knew what Larissa meant when she said those words just now, she wanted to take care of Cleo and didn’t want to talk about anything else with him.

But Cleo has now become like this and will need someone to take care of her for the rest of her life. How could he possibly leave her alone to take care of Cleo?

Larissa raised her eyes and looked at Nathanael Lora in surprise.

Meeting his gaze, she heard him say again, “Larissa, I can stay with you to take care of Cleo for the rest of your life, remember, you are my Nathanael Lora’s wife, and your affairs are my affairs.”

He actually wanted to tell her that she should not, because of her apologies and self-loathing for Cleo, not want him when the time comes and be good with Cleo.

But such words, at this time, he couldn’t open his mouth. He was worried that she really had such an intention.