Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 38

Back at the hospital.

Bianca stared at the shopping bags for a long time before she went to brush her teeth.

The father and son did not stay for long after that.

Once she was cleaned up, Bianca changed into her pajamas and lay on the pure-white single hospital bed. She squeezed the covers between her fingers for a long time, unable to sleep.

She tossed and turned, but she just could not go to sleep.

Her eyes were wide. Bianca was thinking that this was the first time in her twenty-four years of life that someone gave her a coat without hesitation when she was feeling cold.

She would be lying if she said that she was not touched in the slightest.

Luke led his son out of the hospital and prepared to drive back to the mansion.

The drive had barely started when they reached a red light.

Luke then opened the car window and lit up a cigarette. Holding it between his fingers, he took the occasional dreg, his deep eyes staring directly ahead of him and gradually narrowing.

“Dad, you once taught me that it’s very rude to listen to other people’s phone calls.” Lanie sat in a safety seat at the back, whining as he bit his little lip. “But you told me to answer Miss Bea’s call…”

Luke took a dreg from his cigarette and did not say a thing.

Lanie continued, “But neither of us got permission from Miss Bea…”

Luke flicked the cigarette into the ashtray in the car and said seriously, “I asked you to pick up so you could tell if it was a bad guy calling her.”

“Oh…” So that was it.

The boy scratched his head, feeling a tad confused.

…

Bianca spent the night at the hospital.

The next morning, the doctor came to check on her and told her to rest well for the next week. She was forbidden from staying up all night.

Bianca nodded. “Thank you, doctor.”

The doctor packed up her medical apparatus.

“Dr. Joyce, can I leave the hospital and rest at home?” She did not want to keep staying at the hospital. The fees for a high-end hospital room were just too high. Apparently, Jason had arranged this room for her.

The meal with Charlotte Shaw was part of her job as assigned by the company, so the company had been paying for her hospital fees.

Still, she did not like the atmosphere at the hospital.

“It’s okay if you want to leave. I’ll dispense a few days’ worth of medicine for you in a bit, you can take them home.” With those words, the doctor nodded at Bianca quite politely.

Bianca had been in the hospital several times in her life, but this was her first time getting such nice treatment from a doctor.

Without eating lunch, Bianca hurriedly handled the check-out procedures.

On the way back home via subway, Nina called her to express her concern. Bianca simply assured her that all was well.

“About my brother…” Nina tried to start another topic.

“Oh, I’ve reached my station. Talk to you later.”

Bianca came up with an excuse to interrupt Nina before she continued.

She had very clearly broken up with Jean. From that moment onward, they were no longer dating.

As for whether they could still stay friends in the future, she was leaving that up to fate.

Sitting in the train, Bianca felt an unbearable soreness in her waist.

The doctor said that this was one of the drug’s after-effects.

Once she got home, Bianca first cleaned up her room and put on new sheets.

After she took a shower, she was so tired that she lay in bed and refused to get up.

Before she knew it, she had dozed off.

Some time later, there was suddenly a loud clap of thunder.

“Kaboom!”

Bianca jolted awake.

When she opened her eyes, she saw that everything around her was pitch-black.

It had gone dark outside.

The rain poured.

Bianca took a moment to recover and even out her breathing before she got out of bed and went to turn on the lights.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

Bianca walked to the door, confused and cautious. “Who is it?”

“It’s me.” That was Luke’s voice, deep and low.

Why was he here?

Bianca looked out of the peephole and saw that the man was completely drenched. He held a sealed plastic bag in his hand, and there were several boxes of medicine inside. She knew that medicine well.

It was only then that Bianca remembered she had forgotten to claim her medicine from the doctor.

After she got home and cleaned up her room, she had been so exhausted that she fell right asleep. Of course she forgot.

She felt quite guilty as she opened the door.

Luke handed the well-sealed bag to her, looking at her.

Bianca accepted the bag.

His entire body was soaked, as was the outside of the bag, but the boxes of medicine inside were perfectly intact.

Bianca looked up and asked, “It’s pouring outside, so why didn’t you use an umbrella?”

“Can I go in?” Luke asked.

“Of course.”

Bianca was grateful to him for bringing her medicine, so she gave way and let him walk in.

Luke walked into the house and took off his shoes, putting on slippers instead. “I didn’t think too much of it on the way here, but it suddenly started pouring when I reached the neighborhood entrance.”

Bianca felt quite bad about it.

The rain had started at the same time as that terrible clap of thunder a few minutes ago.

Luke stayed calm and collected as ever despite being drenched. He was his usual regal self as he frowned slightly and tilted to the side to ask her, “If it’s alright with you, can I take a hot shower here?”

Bianca did not say anything.

Since she did not reply, Luke walked straight toward the bathroom.

Bianca asked timidly, “Shall I dry your wet clothes after you take them off?”

At least that way he could wear them back.

The man turned around to look at her, nodding. His gaze was deep and bottomless.

She hurriedly pulled her gaze back.