Rita pushed him without answer to his question but said, "Go out and leave me alone."
Aaron knew that she couldn't accept him for the moment. After all, what happened this time was a big blow to her. She put all the blame on herself and refused to forgive herself. She always felt that if she was enough vigilant, she wouldn't have been taken away by the man called Pitt, and later things wouldn't have happened.
But then Aaron told her that everything was arranged. Someone did it on purpose to make her blame herself and let her leave Aaron.
"Honey, don't be mad at me," he said softly.
Rita did not look at him, nor did she answer him.
She was blaming herself for not being able to keep their child and blaming herself for being trapped. How could she blame him? Could she blamed all these incidents on Aaron? No man could act as if nothing happened.
Rita didn't know how to make up with him for the moment even when he said so many words.
What she wanted now was to calm down first.
Bang! Bang! Bang——
There was a knock on the door. Rita looked up tiredly. A nurse came in and said, "It's time to take an injection."
Standing aside, the nurse stole a glance at Aaron. This man was so handsome, wasn't he? The nurse walked up to Rita with a blush and her heart beating fast. She asked Rita to stretch out one of her hands and said, "Remember, don't eat icy food these days. Don't even think about it. And no touching cold water and no eating fresh sea food."
Rita nodded and handed out one arm to let the nurse give an injection.
When cold liquid was injected into her body, she frowned. She was always afraid of injection, especially the pain and being stuck out by the needle.
Aaron walked up to her, held her head in his arms and covered her eyes with his hands. "Don't be afraid. It's okay."
Rita reached out one hand to push him, but her other hand was tightly gripped by the nurse. She couldn't do anything, and her palms were sweaty. Looking at Aaron, she felt a little bit tired and afraid at the same time.
The nurse couldn't bear to see the two showing off their affection, so she quickly finished the injection and left the ward.
"Please go out now." Rita began to drive her away as soon as the nurse left. "I'll be fine on my own."
"No way. I must be right next to you. I won't go anywhere."
Aaron tried to linger around and refused to leave. "If you still want to divorce me, I won't go anywhere."
"What's wrong with you?" Rita frowned irritably. "Why can't you just leave me alone to calm down for a moment?"
She turned her head away and chose not to look at him, but Aaron didn't give her a chance to stay alone. "I'm afraid that once I leave you alone here, you will think too much. You will abandon me."
"I..."
"Honey, if you don't forgive me, I will stay here all the time. I won't go anywhere, and I don't want the company either."
If he couldn't even keep his wife, he did not want anything including the company. There would be no meaning of owning everything except for his wife.
Aaron began to play rascal.
Rita knew that no one could defeat him when he tried to play rascal. She didn't know whether to cry or to laugh. "Are you threatening me with your company?"
"It's not a threat. I mean what I said."
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