You’ll Fall for Me, Today or Tomorrow novel Chapter 40

Matthew showed no reaction to what Ellie just said and just sat down.

“Your friend Clarissa?”

“Yes. What about it?”

“She’s not coming back to D City anymore?” He said after a moment of pondering.

“Uncle Matt, what are you trying to say here? Don’t change the subject. Clarissa is not involved in our problem. Let me just ask you, is Shermaine really going to be my aunt?”

Matthew gave Ellie a profound look. “What if she is?”

“Uncle Matt, you… “

Right then, Ellie thought about what Clarissa just said. I really can’t do anything about it.

Hence, she just snorted and gave up. “Clare was right. Being with Shermaine is your choice, I can’t interfere with that. Maybe she’s evil to me but you may have seen something in her. I can give you my blessing, but don’t ask me to like her. This is the limit of how much I can tolerate this.”

“Clarissa said that?”

“Huh? Yes?”

Ellie did not know what was going on. Why is he constantly shifting the conversation to Clare?

Immediately after, Matthew stood up and left. His eyes were dark and cold.

It all felt so ridiculous to Ellie, but she decided to take Clarissa’s advice and not be angry. Be like Clare. Have an open mind and stay calm.

One month had gone by.

Clarissa’s hometown was cooling as summer had come to an end. But, when she set foot in D city, she could feel heat waves plunging at her. The city felt like a big hot sauna and it was not very comfortable.

After leaving the airport, Clarissa immediately rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, she found Hilary, whose face was pale as snow under the light.

When Hilary saw Clarissa, her tears started streaking down her face, a sight that Clarissa was not used to seeing.

Hilary held Clarissa’s fingers tightly in her hand as she sought forgiveness from her.

“Clary, I know I made a mistake. Look at me, I’m not even living well. When I fell sick, it became clear to me that no one actually cares about me. The maids don’t give a damn, Zach is always busy, not to mention Yvonne. She never accepted me in the first place. I only have you now… “

Clarissa listened to everything Hilary said and came to a realization. She only thinks about me when she has no one else to take care of her. And now she wants me to take care of her for the rest of her life.

Clarissa doubted that falling ill would change Hilary so drastically. The illness was not even serious, to begin with.

However, Hilary was her birth mother. If no one took care of her, Clarissa would have to step in, regardless of how much she did not want to.

“I understand. I’ll take care of you until you’re discharged. Let me go book a room at a hotel nearby. I’ll come back when I’m done.”

“Alright. Clare, I’m really sorry for troubling you at a time like this.”

But no matter what Hilary says, Clarissa remained skeptical. More than ten years of abandonment was not something a few words could erase, or forgiven.

After Clarissa was done with the hotel, she headed straight back to the hospital and spoke with the attending doctor. She found out that Hilary had an ovarian cyst, so surgery was required. But, it was just a small issue that posed no danger, relieving Clarissa of her worries.

After that, Clarissa visited the hospital every day. Sometimes she would listen to Hilary nag at her, but most of the time, they did not talk. Clarissa would just sit there with her laptop and typed for an extended period of time.

In between, Jane called her to talk about the publishing of her new book and some issues with the adaptations.

Clarissa’s books were all hot commodities now and everyone was trying to get their hands on the copyright. Even her latest attempt at a new setting, albeit short, showed potential and caught the eyes of some people that wanted to get in while it was still hot.

This was something Clarissa would have never ever thought about.

At night, Clarissa took some time off from the hospital and went to a restaurant. Besides Jane, there were some other editors from the company present too. Even though they usually communicated via the internet, meeting them in person posed no problem. All of them quickly mingled with each other and had some fun, improving their team cohesiveness in the process.

After the meal, the gang split into two cars. Jane and another young editor called Tessa were in charge of driving. Because of how good Clarissa’s books were selling, Jane had proposed to buy them drinks at a club. Hence, everyone cheered as they headed out.

Their fun was about to be cut short, however, as something unexpected happened.

When they almost reached the club, Tessa slowed down her car, but a car suddenly appeared from the fork of the road at a dangerous speed. Tessa, being a new driver, panicked, even forgetting to step on the brake as she just screamed. In the end, the two cars crashed.

Clarissa was sitting at the back, so her body got thrown forward and slammed into the seat as the crash occurred. Nevertheless, Tessa had already slowed down prior to the crash, so no one suffered any serious injury.

Jane was stunned by what just happened, so she stopped her car behind them. Everyone else quickly got out of the car.

When they saw the car in front of them, they all had a small panic attack.

Tessa had it the worst as she looked at Jane. Jane gave her a comforting look as the people in the sports car came out.