The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1614

Meanwhile in the villa in the suburbs

Although Bernard had told Rachel not to wait for him, she knew he had gone out to kill somebody, so how could she fall asleep?

Rachel was sleepily sitting in the living room when she heard the sound of the door. She perked up and looked around as she became alert again. When she saw it was Bernard coming in, she sighed in relief.

Her expression soon changed when she saw that there were injuries all over Bernard's body. She couldn't help but cover her mouth in horror and was too shocked to say anything for several minutes after seeing him.

Bernard's body was covered in blood when he came in. It was lucky that Rachel didn't faint in fear.

"Bernard, how are you? Are you okay?" With tears streaming from her eyes, Rachel helped Bernard to sit down and then continued, "I'm going to call an ambulance for you, okay?"

Hearing this, Bernard waved his hand and refused her plan before answering, "No, Rachel, I can't. If I go to the hospital, my identity will be exposed. I can't let them know it was me."

After he spoke, Bernard slumped over and passed out.

No matter how much Rachel shouted or shook him, he didn't give any reaction.

With trembling hands, Rachel had to clean and treat Bernard's wounds. Seeing his body covered with blood and with gaping wounds of torn flesh, she wanted to throw up several times but controlled herself. After bandaging the wounds, she couldn't stand it anymore and went to throw up in the washroom.

Rachel walked shakily out of the washroom and felt like she had emptied her entire stomach. She had never before seen anybody injured as badly as Bernard was. Looking at the side of Bernard's face, she couldn't help but shed tears again.

Bernard was still unconscious after Rachel had cleaned up all of his injuries. She was afraid that there was something wrong with him, so she stayed by his side, hoping he would wake up soon.

At midnight, Bernard suddenly developed a fever. Rachel took care of him the best she could and lowered his temperature with medicine and a cold compress.

Bernard's fever spiked several times through the night, and she had to continue to try and break the fevers. It was almost dawn when he finally stopped running a fever. Rachel was so tired that she fell asleep at that point.

The next day

Bernard woke up. When he saw Rachel sleeping at his bedside, he was moved. Her face was tired and scrunched up from worry even while she slept.

He touched Rachel's cheek gently and smiled down at her gratefully. It appeared that he thought everything he had done was worthwhile if he could be close to her.

Seeing that Rachel was not going to wake up anytime soon, Bernard didn't dare to move, and just watched her sleep instead. He knew that she must be tired after taking care of him last night and hoped that she would be able to rest.

Back at the hospital

The head nurse was shouting angrily at the nurse filling in for Cassie's shift, "Where the hell is Cassie? Last night she was loafing around on the job. What is the matter with her recently?" The head nurse was irritable these days because she was going through a divorce. Cassie had been busy looking after Sheryl the night before, so the head nurse had accused her of loafing.

The head nurse hadn't seen Cassie for a whole night but wasn't at all worried that there could be something wrong with her.

Cora, who was covering Cassie's shift, felt surprised at the callous reaction. She looked at the head nurse and retorted, "Madam, don't you know what kind of person Cassie is? Cassie has worked here for so many years. When has she ever loafed on the job? You haven't seen her for a whole night! Shouldn't you rather be worried that she could be in danger?"

"This is a hospital, how could she be in danger from working here?" The head nurse was even less pleased when she heard Cora's retort.