“You should take a break. It’s getting late.”
Evan raised his head and stared at Nicole silently.What’s wrong with him? He’s not behaving like his usual self.She felt uncomfortable due to his odd behavior. Suddenly, she started sneezing again.
Eventually, she got increasingly cold and decided to neglect Evan’s odd attitude for the time being because she needed to tuck herself in and get herself warm.
Once she had made up her mind, she brought herself back to their bedroom. As soon as she tucked herself in, Evan opened the door and made his way into the room.
He brought a set of pajamas into the bathroom and took a bath. After he walked out of the bathroom, he joined her in bed, sleeping by her side. Within a few minutes, he started sleeping soundly.
Listening to his steady breath, she turned around and took a peek at the man by her side. Engulfed by her emotions, she started weeping in the middle of the night.Evan! How could you do this to me? Perhaps we won’t get to sleep with one another anymore after a few days! Do you know how I’m feeling as of now?I’m cold, Evan! It’s freezing!
…
Nicole covered herself using the blanket and started weeping in silence.
She disliked others crying in front of her the most. Previously, she had always been irritated by Susan’s presence because she would always weep in front of them.
However, she couldn’t resist the urge to weep because she was heartbroken. She was concerned about her father’s wellbeing. Feeling aggrieved and exhausted, there wasn’t anything that the dejected woman could do about it.
By the time that she had arisen the next day, Evan was no longer by her side because it was almost noon.
She knew that something was wrong with her because she started having a fever before falling asleep last night. Nicole felt as though she had caught a high fever.
Since Nicole had yet to show up for breakfast when it was about time for lunch, one of the maids, Josephine, knocked on the door and asked, “Mrs. Seet, are you awake yet?”
“Come in!”
Nicole felt weak from head to toe. She decided to get Josephine to enter the room because she could barely carry on with the conversation.
Josephine grew anxious as soon as she entered the room because she noticed that Nicole’s face had turned pale and haggard. “Mrs. Seet, what’s wrong with you?”
“I think that I have caught a fever. Can you please call the doctor over on my behalf? I need him to check on my condition.”
“Alright, Mrs. Seet. Should I get in touch with Mr. Seet as well?”
Nicole recalled the fact that Evan had spent his entire night working again last night. Thus, things must have had been tough for Seet Group.
As she didn’t want to get in his way, she instructed, “No! Just get the doctor over!”
“Yes, Mrs. Seet.”
After the doctor arrived, he took her temperature and told her, “Mrs. Seet, you’re having a high fever. I believe that it’s best for you to carry out intravenous therapy.”
“Okay!”
After setting up the apparatus required to carry out the intravenous therapy, the doctor prescribed all sorts of medicine and instructed the maid to get Nicole to finish the medicine promptly prior to his departure.
Lying on the bed, the drowsy woman fell asleep once again. By the time she had woken up once more, it was already evening. The therapy had been exhausting for her.
Staring at the needle that had been pricked through her skin, she sighed because she didn’t want her children and Evan to be aware of her condition.
Hence, she instructed the maids to keep them, especially Evan, in the dark.
“Yes, Mrs. Seet.”
Once Evan returned home, Nicole sat on the couch and pretended as though she had a great time watching the show on the television. He didn’t bother to engage in a conversation with her and made his way to the study room immediately.
As always, he switched on his computer and started working again. Staring at his departing figure, Nicole felt aggrieved because she wanted to tell him that she needed him by her side.
If it weren’t for Seet Group’s crisis, she would have wanted to keep him by her side and behave like a needy child, asking for his attention.
However, she didn’t want to get in his way since he already had so many things on his plate.
As soon as their meal was ready, the maid informed Nicole that it was time for dinner. She looked in the direction of the study room upstairs and told the maid, “I’ll go and get Evan to join me.”
When she entered the study room, she noticed that he was in the middle of a conversation with someone. Thus, she decided not to interrupt him as she stood right in front of him.
Meanwhile, Evan had received a call from Susan. Since the production of her new drama would begin soon, she insisted on having him on the set on the first day.
Initially, Evan was about to turn Susan down due to their odd relationship and the crisis that had yet to be resolved. However, the moment he had caught a glimpse of Nicole, he recalled that she had been meeting Levant behind his back, keeping him in the dark. Thus, the wrath that he had been holding back caused him to go berserk in his mind.
