In the garden of the hospital, Ryan sat on a bench casually. He put the cigarette in his mouth, opened the lighter, lighted it slowly and took a drag absent mindedly.
It was warm and sunny outside.
With only a cigarette in his mouth, Ryan was a little stiff. He stared blankly at the cigarette in the distance. There was a smoke curling up on the cigarette butt. He lit it up one after another, but he didn't smoke it, allowing the cigarette butt to fall.
"Would you like to give me a cigarette?"
A male voice came to Ryan's ears. Hearing this, he came to his senses and quickly reached out to take the cigarette out of his mouth. He looked up and saw Terence standing next to him with a smile. Ryan said nothing but stood up and handed him the cigarette and lighter.
"Thank you." Terence took it and lighted it up.
Ryan didn't say a word, waiting for Terence to speak. Because he knew that Terence wouldn't come to him for no reason.
"I didn't expect you to smoke. " After taking a drag on his cigarette, Terence continued casually.
Ryan pulled the corners of his mouth and forced a smile. "I was under too much pressure when I took over the company. I learned it at that time."
"Then why did you smoke today?" "Are you feeling stressed too?" asked Terence
"I'm just at a loss." Ryan narrowed his eyes. The smoke from the wind made his eyes red, and covered up the sadness in his eyes.
The atmosphere suddenly became cold, but they tacitly knew that one of them was waiting to listen while the other was ready to speak.
"Actually, Spencer likes Fiona very much," Terence suddenly cut in, snuffed out the cigarette and finally came to the point. "It's just that from the beginning, he deliberately repressed his feelings. Perhaps he didn't know what love was before. Sometimes, he would do something stupid, such as doing something that he thought was good for both sides but ended up hurting both sides... But his original intention was to make Fiona happy. Because of Fiona, Spencer learned what love was, "
Ryan listened to him without saying a word.
"But you're different. You got what you wanted from the very beginning. You promised yourself that you would give all your heart to her. It is undeniable that your feelings for Fiona are very important, but she is much more important to Spencer than any other person in his life. She has already an inseparable part of his life. Even though he has forgotten who she is in the past three years, he still held that deepest memory about Fiona in his mind. "
"Yes, it is. But isn't Fiona important to me?" Ryan laughed at himself, "I know you came here to tell me these words, and I just want to hear But after listening to it, I still can't persuade myself. I want to hear it from Fiona. "
Terence opened his mouth, thought for a while and then nodded. "You are right. Only when the direct party tells you all these things will you give up completely! That's it. I just don't want you to be too sad. You are a great young man. There is no need for you to compete with Spencer for Fiona. "
"Spencer is a rich and promising young man. Why would he fight for Fiona with me?" As soon as Ryan finished his words, he took a glance at Terence and turned his back to him slightly. "I'm leaving now. The exhibition works of Fiona are still at the company and I'll give this exhibition a perfect result." Then he walked away. After taking two steps, he paused and turned around. "That cigarette belongs to George. Please give it back to him for me! Thank you. "
Terence shrugged and nodded.
As time went by, the sun gradually went west from the high south. But at last, the day had not passed and the sad page had not turned over.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Sophia and George pushed the door of the ward open quietly. They saw that Fiona was asleep on the edge of the bed, her hand tightly resting on the back of Spencer's hand. Sarah slept on the bed, lying beside Spencer in a ball position, and her face was flushed.
"The tears are not dry yet!" With these words, Sophia walked up to Fiona and took a small blanket. She then gently put the blanket onto her body.
"Well..." The next second, Fiona sat up and grabbed Spencer's hand, but before she could focus her eyes on something, she said reflexively, "Spencer?! Have you woken up? "
"It's us, Fiona." said George, frowning and looking at her with concern
She suddenly turned around and saw Sophia and George. Feeling embarrassed, she stood up and said, "It's you! Were you scared just now? "
"Of course not." Sophia sighed and George also shook his head.
"Wow Mom... "
Sarah woke up and cried for looking her mother.
"Mommy is here." Fiona bent over and held Sarah up. "Sarah, are you awake? Don't cry when you wake up, okay? Sarah, tell mommy, are you wake up? "
Sarah sniffed and sobbed, "I'm woke up."
"That's good. You won't cry when you wake up." While wiping away the tears on her face, Fiona said, "Look, Auntie Sophia and Uncle George are all here!"
Sarah opened her eyes, smiled at them and greeted them in a sweet voice, "Hi, Auntie Sophia, Uncle George."
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