Chapter 214
To keep his sanity in check, Noah removed his clothes. However, he did not get into the sheets.
He was forcing himself to stay awake by allowing the cold to linger in his body.
Although Madeline, who was just in the cold water a while ago, was still unconscious, she was visibly shivering from the cold. Her brows were tightly knitted on her tiny face.
Noah felt sorry to see her in that state. He got up to turn up the thermostat in the room besides fetching another blanket to cover her.
By the time Noah was done with that, he heard Dylan’s anxious voice coming from downstairs.
“Noah, I’m here to save you!”
Noah let out a sigh helplessly as he turned around and stepped out of the bedroom.
He was afraid that if he was a step behind, Dylan would barge in to look for him and wake Madeline up in the process. She would definitely complain if that happened.
He was only on the second floor when he bumped into Dylan.
“Noah, why do you look so down? Hey, your wound is bleeding too!” Dylan was scared out of his wits as he carefully helped Noah along. He felt like he was holding a fragile doll right now.
Noah was not in the greatest mood at the moment. Since they were already on the second floor, he decided to let Dylan into Madeline’s room.
“Noah, why are you bringing me into Maddie’s room? We are in the dead of night now, isn’t this a little inappropriate?” Dylan reminded Noah embarrassedly.
“Quit it. She’s not here now, we can stay for a while.” Noah quickly dragged him into the room before turning around to shut the door.
“Maddie’s not here? Did she go out? Don’t you have anything to say about her going out at midnight? Wait a minute, if she has gone out, then how come you seem suspiciously exhausted as if you’ve gone at it the whole night?” Dylan’s curiosity was piqued.
“You better shut your trap right now. This is all your doing!” Noah was furious at this moment, seeing that Dylan was already playing around with the thought of him cheating on his wife. He almost could not suppress his urge to strangle Dylan.
“Noah, don’t get so worked up. Be careful of your wound.”
Dylan bent down to hold Noah’s legs in an all too familiar way. He was trying to make Noah calm down.
After making sure that Noah was no longer interested in chopping him up, Dylan then carefully pulled away part of his shirt to check on his wounds.
As expected, the wound was bleeding non-stop. At the same time, since Noah was in the water for some time, it was very likely that his wound was going to be inflamed.
If the ointment that Dylan had applied earlier did not pack such a punch, the worst thing to happen right now was seeing Noah’s wound worsen.
It was a relief that the wound did not.
It was just that Noah had consumed his signature Blood Pill, which caused his blood to circulate even more. It was probably the reason his wound was bleeding at the moment.
“Noah, this is all my fault. I mistakenly thought that you have some back problem, so my intention was for you to improve in that department. However, I never thought that even without Maddie, your wound would still open up…”
While treating Noah’s wound, Dylan was murmuring some apology.
“I have no back problem at all!” Noah didn’t want to blame anything on Dylan even though he was angry, but the moment Dylan mentioned his back, it was something Noah couldn’t just stay quiet and take it!
“Alright, your back is fine. I believe you.”
“Don’t ever let me hear you say that again.”
“Noah, they always said that one would only get all riled up if somehow his or her secret is revealed right in front of their eyes.”
“Dylan, do you still want to live to see tomorrow?”
“No, that’s not it. I am saying this for your own good. After all, in the absence of Maddie throughout the years, you have never laid your hands on any woman. I am just fearful that you will lose that ability!”
“Dylan!”
“Alright, alright, I’ll shut it now. Think about it, Angie has been by your side for many years, and she has been trying to get onto your bedtime and time again. You aren’t even seduced in the slightest, does Maddie know about this?”
“She doesn’t need to know about this.” Noah dismissed what Dylan had said.
“How do you know that she doesn’t need to know about this? Don’t you know that women tend to value loyalty over anything? Putting aside the fact that you and Angie were the talk of the town before this, any woman would have to think twice about your situation, not to mention that
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