The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1242

At the hospital

Cassie sat in her office taking a break. Suddenly she got a call from Gamora, who told her that she was coming over to see a doctor.

Suspecting that her collegue friend might set her up again like the day before, Cassie lied to her, telling her that she wasn't on duty and that she should go to a different hospital.

She hung up the phone hastily and soon forgot about the call. But what she didn't expect was that Gamora appeared at her office within half an hour.

Cassie was frightened at the sight of her; Gamora wore a pair of black sunglasses that covered half her face as well as a black mask. Cassie didn't recognize her until Gamora called out her name.

'Only poplular celebrities dress that way to avoid being followed by the fanatic fans. Gamora isn't a star. Why is she dressed like that?' she wondered.

Cassie was still lost in thought when Gamora pulled her to a corner where nobody could bother them. Making sure that they were alone, Gamora took off her sunglasses and her mask, revealing her face to Cassie.

'Oh my God!' Cassie almost screamed when she saw Gamora's face, but remembering that she was at the hospital, she quickly slapped her hand over her mouth.

"What...what happened to you?" Cassie asked, pointing at Gamora's face.

Her friend's face, once pretty and delicate, was swollen. Her big eyes were also swollen, looking like she had been beat up.

Suddenly, Cassie understood why her friend was dressed the way she was. 'If I were in her shoes, I would do the same as she did. People would stare at her if she hadn't disguised herself that way, ' she thought to herself.

She had been boiling with anger at Shawn's and Quill's insulting remarks and actions and at Gamora's setting her up, but now, when she saw her friend's face, some of her anger sizzled off. Now she was worried about her friend.

"Cassie, please help me!" Gamora pleaded, looking at Cassie with tearful eyes. She took a hold of Cassie's hand.

At her friend's request, Cassie thought of her job. 'I am a nurse and my job is to help the patient. She is a patient, and she is crying and asking me for help. If I refused to help her, I would not be a qualified nurse.'

Cassie sighed, rose from her seat and got the medical kit. As she went back to her injured friend, she started to take care of the bruises on her face.

Gamora hissed the moment Cassie touched her face with the alcohol swab. "It hurts. Be gentle, please!" Gamora demanded.

It took Cassie a while to handle all the wounds. When Cassie thought that her task was finished, Gamora rolled the sleeves up on her shirt, and there were black and blue marks all over her arms.

Cassie's eyes widened; she stared at the brusies with a rattled expression. 'Oh jeez. How did she get so many wounds? Who did this to her? Someone must have abused her, ' she screeched in her head.

"Did those guys hit you?" Cassie blurted out without much thought.

Gamora nodded and with sadness etched on her face, she said, "Yes, they did. They blamed me for what happened yesterday... After they left the police station, they beat me and..." And there she stopped. She lowered her head and burst into a fit of loud crying.

Cassie felt bad for what had happened to her even though it wasn't her fault for what those rascals had done to her. Gamora was her former classmate after all. Now that she had learnt about her being mistreated, she didn't know how to comfort her.

"Those people... are beasts..." After Gamora uttered those words, she cried even more.

"You can sue them. You can bring them to justice. Why didn't you call the police?" Cassie looked at her friend.