Xavier quickly took her to the hospital.
Arya heard Sunny crying in the ward when she was walking in the corridor.
Arya quickened her pace and pushed open the door. Two nurses couldn't control her, and Arya stepped forward to help.
"What are you doing?" Arya didn't understand why she was like that. When she left, Sunny was not so emotionally irritated.
It seemed that Sunny had found a straw to save her life and she held Arya tightly. "I'm so scared being here alone. Those images haunt me when I close my eyes."
Arya understood her breakdown and patted her on the back to comfort her. "You will be okay. Everything will be fine while time passes."
But she knew that the pain would never be alleviated. And the pain may even become sharper and made her suffer for the rest of her life.
Sunny held Arya and put her chin against her shoulder, trembling. "You won't understand. They tortured me... I would rather die. I'm miserable."
"If you die, no one will know what you have experienced. But those who had hurt you can still live a happy life. Your death will not affect anyone but only make your parents suffer."
When Sunny said she wanted to kill herself, Arya thought of herself in the past. She also wanted to die. It was the child who came to her by accident that saved her.
Arya felt pain when thinking of that child. She closed her eyes. "What I've experienced is even more terrible, but I'm still alive. You will not have the chance to punish those who hurt you if you kill yourself."
Xavier stood at the door and was shocked to see the sadness in Arya's eyes.
He knew that she had experienced a lot, but he was eager to get close to her and to hear her stories now.
'What exactly had she gone through so she could say that?'
Sunny was comforted by Arya and calmed down gradually. She didn't say that she wanted to die but she refused to let Arya go.
"I don't want to be alone." She couldn't sleep and she would think too much if she was alone here.
Arya patted her on the back. "I won't go. I'll stay with you."
"I want to go home." She felt that others looked at her with strange eyes.
She could not stand others' gossip.
Arya agreed to take her home.
However, she didn't dare to let her stay at home alone. 'What if she hurt herself again?'
She looked up at Xavier. "Can I not go back tonight?"
Only then did Sunny found that there was another person standing at the door. When she saw Xavier's face, she opened her mouth wide in disbelief. 'Why is he here?'
'What is the relationship between Arya and him?'
Xavier pursed his lips and did not answer.
Arya thought that as long as she was obedient to him, he would be kinder to her.
She lowered her head in disappointment, not even wanting to see him.
"How do you know you will be rejected before I say anything?"
Arya raised her head abruptly and asked in an uncertain tone, "You agree?"
Xavier didn't answered directly, "Pack your belongings up and I'll help you with discharge formalities."
Then he turned around and left.
Arya was still standing there, surprised.
She almost forgot how to react. His attitude and his actions were unexpected.
"I should have thought that your relationship is special. Otherwise, how could you be safe last time?"
Arya pursed her lips and put on the coat for her. Sunny grabbed her hand. "Do you know he has a fiancée and has announced that he's getting married soon? You..."
"Yes. And you misunderstand our relationship. I just...have a deal with him."
Arya knew that Sunny must have misunderstood her relationship with Xavier.
Sunny wanted to say something but she swallowed her words.
She could tell that Arya was not very willing to tell her.
Xavier finished the discharge formalities, and Arya had packed up Sunny's belongings and they left the hospital.
Arya and Sunny sat in the back seat. Xavier was driving. He glanced at Arya through the rearview mirror. "Where are you going?"
Arya told her the address of the house she rented.
Although she had been living in Xavier's villa, she didn't cancel the lease.
Because she knew that her relationship with Xavier would come to an end and she would come back.
Soon, the car stopped. Arya got off the car first then helped Sunny get out.
"Then we'll go in." Arya said to Xavier.
Xavier nodded.
He stared at Arya disappearing into the night. Instead of leaving, he lit a cigarette.
Others could not see through his expression was under the colorful streetlights.
Arya, who had already brought Sunny upstairs, was making up the bed. No one had been living here recently and she was changing clean bed sheets.
She asked Sunny to lie on the bed. She opened the window to get some fresh air and she found that Xavier's car hadn't left.
Her eyes became complicated. She could not see Xavier's expression clearly and could only see that he was smoking.
"Arya, what are you doing? Can you sleep with me?"
"Oh, okay."
Arya withdrew her eyes and turned into the bedroom.
"Do you have any wine?" Sunny asked.
"I can't fall asleep."
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