After a while, Jessie did not see George shouting at her to get up, she bit her lower lip and finally gathered the courage to stand up straight on her own, "Mr. Joe?"
George's eyes flickered slightly, "Forget it, since you don't want to hear it, I won't say anything."
It was indeed a little early to say this.
He hadn't meant to tell her that now either, she just happened to hear it.
It was better to stick to the original plan and let her know again later, after he had done everything he wanted to do.
Hearing that George had stopped talking, Jessie let out a faintly invisible breath.
To be honest, she was really afraid that he would go on to say something that he had feelings for her.
Right now, she was a blank sheet of paper when it came to relationships and didn't know how to deal with them or how to accept them.
So, she was terrified that if he said more, it would affect her even more.
After all, she also knew that she had loved him in the past and was likely to fall in love with him all over again if she was too deeply affected by him.
The chances of this were very high.
So she really didn't want to listen to these words of his, whether they were true or not, and if she heard too much of them, she would be easily influenced not to mention easily trapped.
It didn't matter why exactly he was saying that to the person on the other end of the phone, as long as he didn't take it personally to her parents.
Just go with the flow.
Nothing mattered to her now.
"Thinking about something?" Looking at Jessie as she wandered off, George narrowed his eyes and asked.
Jessie shook her head, "No, I didn't think of anything, I'm going to boil water."
With that, she took the kettle and turned to retrace her steps towards the kitchen.
George watched her back and didn't call out to her again.
After almost ten minutes, Jessie came out of the kitchen with a kettle and poured him a glass before coming to his bedside, "Mr. Joe, have some water."
George took the glass of water.
After Jessie let go of the water glass, she suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way Mr. Joe, who cleaned the glass shards at the door?"
"The nurse." George sipped her water and whispered back.
Jessie nodded in a dazed manner, "So that's how it is."
And yes, who else but a nurse could clean in a hospital?
He hadn't hired a carer at all in order to put her in charge of care, so it had to be a nurse.
She should have thought of that.
With this in mind, Jessie was ready to walk away and go and get the medicine dispensed for him so that he could easily take it later.
The moment she had just turned around, however, her stomach lurched and a wave of nausea surged straight up.
Her face instantly changed and she covered her mouth in a rush and gave a dry heave.
Seeing this, George hurriedly put down his glass of water and looked at her, "What's wrong with you?"
Her face was very pale and her eyes were slightly moist, so it was clear that she was now in great distress.
Jessie shook her head at him, didn't answer him and ran straight to the bathroom.
Soon, George heard a gurgle of dry heaves coming from the bathroom.
The sound was as if it was going to vomit out its insides.
George didn't react at first to why she had suddenly vomited.
After all, she didn't have a cold or get sick either.
But it didn't take long for him to immediately remember that she would be like this because she was pregnant, and inside her, there was his child.
The baby was not yet in its third trimester, so naturally the pregnancy reaction was not yet over.
But these days, he hadn't seen her like this in front of him, so he'd gradually forgotten about it.
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