"Harriet?"
Wesley lightly tapped her cheeks, but there was no response. He grabbed a towel, wrapped her up and carried her out. He put her in the car and drove to the hospital.
Harriet didn't know how long she passed out for, her head felt heavy and her whole body ached. She woke up feeling as if she was beaten up in her sleep and it put her in a really bad mood.
"Harriet!"
The moment she opened her eyes, she heard Molly sobbing tears of joy by her side. She only then realized that she was in a wide hospital gown, lying in a hospital room.
"How do you feel? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? I'll go get the doctor." sentences came tumbling from Molly, it seemed like she was worried for a while now.
Harriet pressed her finger against her temple and asked, "What happened to me?"
"The doctor said that you fainted from a hot bath and almost died from a lack of oxygen," Molly answered fearfully. "Nobody knows what could have happened if it wasn’t for Mr. Smith!"
After hearing what her little assistant said, Harriet vaguely remembered what happened before she passed out, but she didn’t feel grateful at all for Wesley’s help.
After all, it was his fault that she got so unlucky.
The doctor came around for a check-up and told Harriot that she wasn’t in a life-threatening situation. Though her blood pressure was a bit low, the doctor told her to rest well and to pay more attention to her health, then he proceeded to leave the room.
The worried look on Molly’s face finally subsided, "That’s great news, it’s good that nothing bad happened. Harriet, you yourself are to be blamed too. What were you thinking, taking a bath for such a long time? Luckily Mr. Smith was…"
She suddenly stopped in the middle of her sentence, as she realized to her dismay that something was weird about this situation. How did Mr. Smith rescue Harriet who was taking a bath? It couldn’t be that he casually passed by and witnessed the incident.
"Harriet, you... What’s your relationship with Mr. Smith?" Molly asked astonishedly.
She had been suspicious of their relationship since before, but she couldn’t tell what was weird about it. At first, she thought that maybe she was just thinking too much, but with this incident, something was definitely going on between the two!
Harriet was taken aback by Molly’s question and didn’t know how to answer her.
At this moment, Jack’s solemn voice echoed by the door, "Miss Clark is awake."
He stepped aside as he spoke and gave way to the man next to him to enter the door, he then placed a bunch of health tonics on the table and left without another word.
"Hello, Mr. Smith." Molly felt nervous seeing Wesley, "Now then… You rest well, Harriet. I’ll go get you some food and will be back again later."
As the ward’s door closed, the smile on Harriet’s face began to fade. She gazed coldly at the man who was looking down at her from a height.
"Mr. Smith, you are occupied with myriad affairs every day. I am so flattered that you took the time to come visit me. But I am very tired now, I wish that you would leave."
Wesley squinted his eyes and said, "Is this how you treat someone who saved your life?"
Harriet snickered, "Saved my life? If it wasn’t for you, Mr. Smith, I won’t even have the chance to stay in a hospital."
She thought about the few times she was admitted to a hospital due to injuries, and it was all Wesley’s fault. But did he ever feel remorseful? His attitude towards her never changed even after everything that happened.
"Wesley, I really want to ask you this. Would you torture me like this if I am Louisa?"
Torture… Yes, every moment they spent together was just torment.
The hint of pity in Wesley’s eyes disappeared as she said that sentence, "She is she and you are you. There is nothing to compare and you don't have the right to."
Harriet laughed charmingly, though her laughter seemed a bit brittle and sad, "Who says that I don’t have the right to compare? In any case, I was also your bed partner before, and you enjoyed every moment of it too. How could you forget about it already?"
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