While waiting for Gregory to be done, John served me a cup of warm milk. “Drink it. Look at you now, you’re as thin as a rake.”
“Better thin than being shot dead,” I teased him before drinking half the milk.
Despite being annoyed, John’s expression became serious. He suggested, “Now that you have the data, you shouldn’t return to his side. Given how unpredictable he is, he might harm you anytime.”
“Hmm?” I shook my head at once. “No, with me there, he won’t try to flee. This matter has tormented me for years. It’s time we end this.”
“Since you have made up your mind, you should just get it done. Don’t worry about Gregory, Emma and I will take care of him,” John finally relented.
Just as he finished, Gregory was also done. John jolted for a moment when he tried to reach out and stroke Gregory’s hair. After switching to his good hand, he completed what he set out to do.
Concerned by what I saw, I asked softly, “Have you been going to the physio recently?”
“How can I not?” John replied in a half-joking manner. “Emma would skin me alive if I don’t.”
I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. “In that case, you’d better obey her.”
John shrugged his shoulders without saying a word.
After a few days, I received a message from Benson: The operation has begun.
I deleted it and pretended that nothing had happened while I continue to stay by Nathaniel’s side.
Ever since we went overseas together, he lowered his guard against me and brought me along wherever he went.
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