Unexpected Blessing After Divorce

Chapter 378

Chapter 378 Spit It Out

Christopher lifted the lid and raised his eyebrows. “It seems to have melted.”

Perhaps it was overcooked or it had been kept for too long, the pasta dough was too soft and blended with the sauce, which made the food appear unappetizing.

He looked at Yuliana and asked, “Do you want anything else? I’ll order for you.”

Yuliana replied, “There’s no need to order. I don’t want to eat.”

Yuliana felt that anything she ate would be bland and tasteless. Hence, she didn’t want to eat anything.

As she looked around and didn’t see her phone, she thought Hailey didn’t take it to the hospital.

She looked at Christopher and asked, “What time is it now?”

She thought, “It was dark and quiet outside. It must be quite late now.”

However, Yuliana couldn’t figure out the exact time.

“It’s after 2 o’clock in the middle of the night.” After answering the question, Christopher asked, “Are you sure you don’t want to eat?”

Yuliana met his eyes and nodded nonchalantly.

Christopher didn’t ask again. He sat on the bed and ate the food slowly with a plastic spoon on the overbed

table.

The way he ate was still as polite and graceful as when he was a wealthy young man.

It was as if the food he was eating was not soft ravioli, but delicacies.

Seeing Christopher relish the food, along with the smell of ravioli slowly spreading in the ward, Yuliana felt a little annoyed. “Can’t you go and eat somewhere else?”

She grumbled quietly, “Does he need to eat on my bed?”

Christopher looked up and stopped eating the ravioli momentarily. Then, he quickly took the ravioli to another empty bed, set up the overbed table of the bed, and sat there to eat.

The ward was a two-person room, but the bed beside was empty.

Yuliana was a little stunned when she saw his action.

If it happened to Christopher before, he would only have shamelessly refused to budge and would arrogantly retort her.

Yuliana ignored him.

She lay down and turned her back to him.

Perhaps she slept for too long, Yuliana was not sleepy at that moment.

She was facing the window, but because she was lying on the bed, nothing could be seen except the pitch-black and starless sky.

It was too quiet in the ward, causing the sound of Christopher eating and any faint voices could be heard clearly.

After a while, Yuliana suddenly remembered something. She sat up from the bed and looked at Christopher who was eating ravioli. She asked, “How is Terrence?”

Christopher paused, then continued to chew the food in his mouth and swallowed it.

He replied calmly, “Don’t worry. Terrence is fine. He’s safe now.”

Hearing that, Yuliana felt relieved.

She thought, “I’m glad that Terrence is okay. If Terrence gets into trouble because of me, I will never be at ease for the rest of my life.”

Yuliana lay back in bed again, thinking about trying to contact Terrence after discharge. She pondered, “Given Terrence’s current situation, he can’t continue to stay in Juxshire.”

Behind her came the sound of the plastic container closing, followed by another sound of cloth rubbing.

“Are you asleep?” Christopher asked in a low voice.

Yuliana closed her eyes and ignored him.

After a while, the lights in the ward were dimmed.

When Yuliana opened her eyes again, the state of the room had returned to the way when she woke up. Only the light outside the window shone into her room.

Christopher lay flat on the other hospital bed. After taking his phone out and playing on it for a while, he mindlessly put it on the cabinet next to the bed. He closed his eyes and got ready to sleep. However, as soon as he closed his eyes, some bloody images immediately appeared. © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

His eyes snapped open. He then turned sideways to Yuliana, who was lying with her back facing him.

Yuliana hadn’t slept in the same room with another person for a long time.

She wasn’t used to it even when both of them were in different beds.

Moreover, that person was her ex-husband.

He was the person who had done the most intimate thing with her.

And yet, when she thought of the moments now, they seemed to have happened a long time ago.

Yuliana changed her posture and lay flat on the bed. When she heard the sound of gentle breathing sound, she glanced over.

The light outside the window illuminated most of his face. The sharp facial feature was more exquisite and three-dimensional under the light. Even though he was nearly 30 years old, there were no marks or wrinkles appeared on his face.

He became more composed and calm. His temperament was more peaceful and reserved.

Yuliana withdrew her gaze and stared at the ceiling for a while until her eyes were sore. She closed her eyes again after that.

It was very bright outside when she woke up.

Christopher was not in the ward.

The nurse took her temperature and blood pressure for her routine inspection.

Yuliana asked, “When can I be discharged?”

The nurse answered, “You just came in and you are already thinking to leave the hospital? You have acute pneumonia. You have to stay for at least a week.”

Yuliana exclaimed internally, “Acute pneumonia?”

Yuliana examined herself carefully and sensed that she indeed had a hard time breathing and felt suffocated. However, things were normal if she didn’t deliberately look into it. She wasn’t coughing too. Thus, she didn’t think it was necessary to stay for such a long period of time.

She asked, “I feel just fine. I don’t think I need to stay here for so long, do I?”

Yuliana naturally knew that pneumonia should be treated in the hospital. And yet, she thought that one week of treatment was too long.

The nurse took the thermometer and measured Yuliana. When the nurse saw the result, she scolded, “You have a fever of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, but you are still thinking of getting discharged from the hospital. Don’t you know how to take care of your body? Do you plan to hold it until you can’t take it anymore, and you have to be dragged to the hospital by an ambulance?”

Seeing the temperature displayed on the thermometer, Yuliana didn’t say anything more.

The nurse left after finishing the morning routine examination.

Yuliana got up from bed and freshen up. When she came out, she saw Christopher sitting in a chair and looking at his phone.

He had changed his clothes and looked refreshed.

Yuliana didn’t know when he left the hospital.

Christopher heard the sound and looked up at her. He offhandedly said, “Hailey made seafood pasta in the morning and put it in the thermos. Other than that, she asked me to bring you your phone.”

Yuliana glanced at the cabinet by the bedside, on which there was not only a thermos but also her phone.

“Thank you.” Yuliana expressed her gratitude politely. She picked up her phone and looked at it. There were a lot of messages and several missed calls.

Most of them were from Craig and James.

Yuliana didn’t reply or called back immediately.

She hadn’t eaten anything for 30 to 40 hours. She was really hungry.

She opened the thermos and poured the food into a small bowl. She then picked up a spoonful and put it into her mouth.

The moment the food reach her mouth, she wailed inwardly, “It’s burning!”

Yuliana put down the spoon. She could neither swallow nor spit it.

“Are you stupid?” Christopher uttered.

Christopher’s face darkened when he heard her gasp. He threw down his phone and immediately came over. Reaching out his hand to her mouth, he instructed, “Spit it out.”

Yuliana looked at him with tears in her eyes and refused to do as he said.

Christopher’s face darkened. He went on coldly, “Do you want me to pry your mouth open?”

Yuliana was shocked by his expression. After a slight pause, she spat the seafood pasta in her mouth into his palm.

He threw the food into the trash can and wiped his hand with a tissue. He then pinched her chin with his hand. “Open your mouth and let me see.”

Yuliana frowned and tried to pull his hand away. She resisted and answered, “No.”

She thought, “It was in my mouth for just a moment. There won’t be injuries.”

Christopher stared at her for two seconds. He didn’t force her. He withdrew his hand and pressed it against the wall of the bowl. He said, “Wait for ten minutes before you eat.”

After saying that, he sat back in his chair.

Yuliana sat at the side of the bed while looking down at the slippers on her feet.

There was still a feeling of heat and pressure on her jaw. She could even smell a faint scent of tobacco.

She quickly calmed down and picked up her phone to call Craig and James.