My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins novel Chapter 609

Stanford’s fingers slightly pressed on Phoebe’s pulse on the wrist. Then he slowly moved away from his fingers.

He gazed at Phoebe seriously and asked in a sinking tone, “What kind of life did you lead in the past weeks?”

Phoebe was a bit surprised, wondering why suddenly he asked him so. Had she got a critical illness because of it?

She felt quite depressed.

Gritting her teeth, she answered, “What’s wrong with me? Just tell me directly. I can stand it.”

Phoebe had already experienced Florence’s death, Stanford’s hatred, and driving away by him. She believed that she was pretty strong now.

What else couldn’t she stand now?

Even if it were cancer...

Stanford looked at Phoebe’s calm face, looking more annoyed.

He snapped, “Phoebe, why don’t you care about your health at all? I know you can stand it. How about people around you?”

Phoebe was startled.

She wondered what he meant by people around her.

Phoebe looked at Stanford in a daze. After a moment, she curled up her lips into a bitter smile.

“If you kept it secret, people who care about me wouldn’t know it.”

Besides, she had been abroad alone in the past few weeks. People around her were all strangers.

She was almost all by herself.

Feeling annoyed and regretful, Stanford added, “If I kept it secret? Don’t you know that I also...”

Before finishing his words, Stanford choked up with the words that had reached the tip of his tongue.

He wondered what he wanted to tell her. He felt extremely surprised himself.

Did he also care about Phoebe?

He denied it immediately. As a matter of fact, he came here to pick her up just for being responsible and making it up to her. He wasn’t close to her and they were not intimate at all.

He kept reminding himself.

However, for some reason, he felt as if a big stone was pressing on her heart. It was so heavy that he found it hard to breathe.

Phoebe looked at Stanford in confusion. His expression was so complicated that she couldn’t tell what he was thinking. He also didn’t finish his words. She wondered what he meant.

What did he mean by “I also”?

Under Phoebe’s confused gaze, Stanford tightened his face uneasily.

He said in a cold and stubborn tone, “Flory is my younger sister. I’ll never hide anything from her or lie to her because of you.”

He implied that he wouldn’t keep it secret.

Blood drained from Phoebe’s face suddenly. Waves of bitterness and sadness surged in her heart.

She could tell from his words how distant she was and how intimate Flory was with him.

She realized that in his heart, she meant nothing at all, and he even didn’t take her seriously. All he cared about was only Florence.

Phoebe lowered her head, her eyes dimmed. She felt weakened all over her body. Suddenly, she felt that even if she had cancer, she wouldn’t feel more depressed and sadder than she was feeling now.

Seeing Phoebe like this, Stanford suddenly became angrier.

Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed Phoebe’s shoulder, forcing her to look up at him.

He gazed at her and said as if he was giving commands, “Phoebe, from now on, you must take care of yourself. You can’t skip any meal or drink. You must sleep and take a rest when necessary. You can’t remain sad just like Juliet who parted from Romeo.

“Otherwise, you are consuming your health. Once you get sick, you’ll make me... people around you worried and sad.”

Phoebe gaped at his enlarged handsome face in front of her, only to find that he was glinting at her.

Upon hearing his words, she was confused for a long moment. Then she returned to her senses.

She realized that she hadn’t got any critical illness or cancer. It was just that she wasn’t leading a life with routines in the past few weeks, and her physical power was over consumed, so she had become quite unhealthy.

Her eyes twinkled in disbelief. “Is that all? Didn’t I get sick?”