Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria) novel Chapter 504

Chapter 504 He Won’t Take You Away Again

Alaric was thinking of letting Terrance deal with the wound, but the moment he came back with the medical kit, Victoria took it from him. Terrance looked at her for a brief moment before turning his attention to Alaric. He only moved to the back seat when he got a nod from Alaric.

“Still not letting me go?” Victoria looked at the hand that was holding her wrist.

Alaric looked at her wrist as well. It was so slender that it looked almost like a twig. A beautiful one, though. Still, he frowned. It had only been a while, but she had gotten sickly thin. He looked at her and blamed himself for what happened. If he knew this would happen, he wouldn’t have relented. He gnashed his teeth and slowly let go of her wrist.

Victoria opened the medical kit without saying anything and whipped out the meds needed to treat his wounds. While she was doing that, the man kept his eyes on her.

He didn’t notice it at first since they were in a hurry, but now that he had time, he realized that her face had gotten smaller, and the bones were almost jutting out. She was bloodless down to her lips. Something squeezed his heart tighter and tighter, filling it with regret.

Victoria found the meds she needed a while later. There weren’t a lot of items in the kit, so she could only clean his wounds in the simplest way possible. She huddled closer to him and tried to take the handkerchief away, but Alaric stopped her out of instinct.

She looked at him, and he said with resignation, “Why don’t you let him do it?” By him, he meant

Terrance.

“Why? Can’t I do this?” she asked.

“I don’t want to scare you.”

“If you keep this up, you’ll faint. In the end, I’ll still be the one dealing with you,” said Victoria.

A moment of silence later, Alaric finally moved his hand away and unbuttoned his shirt. It was a fresh wound located in a different place, and it almost killed him, too. Due to this wound, the doctor forbade him to leave the hospital, but he was unstoppable. Still, right after he left, the injury wouldn’t stop bleeding, so he had to try his best to staunch the bleeding on his way here.

At this moment, Alaric didn’t look too good himself, too. Victoria tended to his wound in silence. A long while later, she looked up. “Done. However, this is just a crude handling of it; you still need a professional to treat your wound. Where are we going, by the way? And when will we get there? You should get a doctor to help you with this.”

“We’re going to the airport,” said Alaric.

The woman looked at him in surprise. “The airport?”

“Yeah. We’re taking you home.” After he busted her out last time, they were held back by something, and then one thing led to another. This time, he would not make the same mistake again. This time, he would take her back home.

As for Bane… Well, since he broke his word and almost killed me, I guess we’re even now. The next time we meet, we’ll be strangers. No, worse than that… The look in his eyes darkened, and he pulled

Victoria closer. “No one’s going to take you away from me this time.”

Is he seriously planning to go to the airport? Victoria was against his idea. He is badly injured, What if no one at the airport can deal with his wound? And I bet flying back is going to take a lot of time. What if his injury gets worse? Her frown deepened. “Are you sure you don’t want to get that checked before you leave?”

“I am sure.”

“But-”