Was it deliberate?
Natalie looked back and took a glimpse at where she had fallen. She thought for a while before finally deciding to just regard it as a mere accident and left the hospital with her scraped arm.
In the afternoon, dressed in her black-rimmed glasses and loose pajamas, Natalie was sitting cross-legged, drawing her designs on the sofa when the doorbell suddenly rang.
She put her sketchbook and pencil on her coffee table before getting up to open the door.
When the door was opened, Shane raised his eyebrows at her unusually sloppy look. “Is this what you wear when you are at home?”
“Oh?” Natalie could barely react before she looked down at herself. Instantly, her face turned red. “About that… please wait a while, I’ll go and get changed!”
With that, she closed the door with a bang and the door nearly hit Shane’s nose.
As Shane stepped back, he could not help but smile at the ornament that was still swaying on the door.
This was the first time he had seen Natalie looking this awkward.
After a few minutes, the door opened again.
Natalie was dressed in her usual smart stylish way. With a welcoming gesture, she said, “Please come in, Mr. Shane!”
Shane nodded and walked in.
Natalie poured him a glass of water. “Mr. Shane, may I help you?”
“Take off your clothes!” Shane said as he placed a few bags on her coffee table.
Natalie nearly choked on her water. With complete disbelief, she stared at him. “Mr. Shane, what did you just say?”
Take off my clothes?
It was only then that Shane realized how misleading he sounded. Covering his mouth as he coughed a little, he said, “I’m here to apply some medication on your wound. You were injured when you fell, weren’t you?”
After he sent Jacqueline back to her room, he went to the place where they fell and realized that there was some blood there.
Since Jacqueline was not hurt, it was clear whose blood it was.
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