Love Left Her For Dead (Natalie Carter) novel Chapter 17

At the hospital, just outside the patient ward, a serious-faced doctor stood before Natalie, explaining Jayden's condition.

Jayden had a mild concussion and a fractured left leg, and he needed at least a month of rest. However, Natalie wasn't really listening.

"Ms. Carter. Ms. Carter?" The doctor called out to her a few times before she snapped back to reality and offered him a polite smile.

After the doctor left, she shifted her gaze to the glass window, staring at the man lying unconscious on the hospital bed.

"What a shame," she thought. He didn't die. Then again, perhaps a quick death would've been too easy for him.

Natalie quietly summoned the dormant system from the back of her mind. "System, just to be clear… do I have to kill the people who've hurt me for it to count as sending them to hell?"

The system responded promptly, telling her that as long as they received the punishment they deserved, the mission would be considered complete.

A slow smile crept onto Natalie's face as she suddenly had the most fitting plan in mind.

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Jayden came to in the evening and the first thing he saw was Natalie, who was asleep with her head resting on the edge of his bed. For a second, his eyes flickered, as if he were seeing the Natalie from a long time ago.

He'd been hospitalized as a kid too because he was ill. Natalie had been young at the time and couldn't handle the strain, so their parents had taken her home in the evening, promising her that she could come back to visit Jayden the next day.

However, Natalie didn't want to leave Jayden; she'd secretly asked Charles to sneak her back into the hospital. So, when Jayden woke up, he'd found her sound asleep by his bedside. At that moment, his heart had been filled with the same warmth it held now.

Jayden forced himself up and slipped out from under the covers. Careful not to wake her, he lifted Natalie in his arms and placed her on the bed beside him.