A Contract Marriage With My Boss novel Chapter 70

Charles heard Emma screaming and came running from his room, shouting loudly, “Emma, Emma, what’s wrong?” He quickly held her and saw that she was about to fall on the floor, with several big blisters on her swollen and red feet. Crying hysterically, she said, “I tried to take the kettle from the fire quickly to get ready to leave, and accidentally dropped the kettle of boiling water over my feet. It hurts so much I can’t walk. Charles, I'm sorry… " Emma cried out.

When seeing her red and swollen feet, Charles felt sorry and started to blame himself, “It’s all my fault for asking you to hurry up. We can’t go back tonight. I will take you to the hospital right now.”

Emma resisted. “No,… not the hospital. We need to go back to Los Angeles, Sarah is waiting for us. I'm worried mom won't be too nice to her. Let’s go back there first, and from there I can go to the hospital.”

Charles yelled, “You're badly injured. If we leave without you being treated first, your burnt marks will get even worse. I'm taking you to the hospital now. Can you walk?”

Emma shook her head, slyly.

Sighting, Charles had no choice but to carry her downstairs and drive her to the hospital, unaware that the paparazzi Emma had requested were hiding, waiting for them to take pictures, making it look like Charles and Emma were intimately in love.

After arriving at the hospital, it took over an hour to examine and treat her feet, and she got admitted for the night. The doctors even recommended that she may need to postpone her travel plans.

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After the doctors were finished with Emma, she was lying on the bed, her feet wrapped in bandages. Noticing his worried and guilty face, she said timidly. “Charles, it's my fault. If I had been more careful, we could have arrived in Los Angeles by now to meet Sarah.”

“Don’t mention her. Why did she have to hide from me where she was going? I can’t help her now. She'll have to deal with my mother by herself now.” Charles was worried about Sarah but also irritated because she had kept it a secret from him that she was going back.

Using her chance to get closer to Charles, Emma said quietly. “It's my fault. I'm taking too much of your time!”

“Alas!” Charles scolded her, stroking her hair. “Emma, you are always so nice. I don’t know what to say. Anyway, I feel so sorry for you… alas!”

Emma grabbed his hands and moved her face close to his palms. Holding his waist, she then leaned her face against his belly. “Brother… I'm leaving tomorrow. Tonight… please just give me a hug…”

Charles was going to struggle free from her, but hearing her soft and pleading tone, he stopped and let her rest against him, thinking that because he had asked her to hurry up earlier, she had gotten poorly hurt trying to comply with him.

Emma leaned against him and continued. “Charles… It feels so good. Your arm is so warm, just like it used to be. I always used to lean against you like this.”