CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

Having said that, Natalie raised her leg, preparing to step over both of them.

Just as Natalie passed Shane, he grabbed hold of her arm and jerked her towards him. Glaring, he demanded, “I'm going to ask you again. What happened to your eyes?”

This woman is really trying to get away from me!

Jacqueline suddenly came to upon hearing Shane's words. Natalie had indeed just emerged from the Ophthalmology Department. Jacqueline hurriedly snuck a look at Natalie's eyes and saw that they were indeed rather red. The smile that had been hovering on Jacqueline's face instantly vanished.

Natalie could not feign ignorance in the face of such direct questioning. Dismayed, she fidgeted with the bag in her hand as she muttered, “Smoke got into them. It's slightly infected.”

“They are infected?” Jacqueline broke in before Shane could respond. She was quite agitated that she raised her voice.

Puzzled at what she felt was a rather extreme reaction from Jacqueline, Natalie answered, “Yep.”

She wrestled free from Shane's grip

face with both hands savagely. “Natalie, didn't I tell you to take care of your eyes properly? Why didn't you listen to me? How could you let your eyes get infected? Don't you know

know that,” Natalie stammered, bewildered by Jacqueline's sudden burst of anger. She could only barely manage a nod in the face

this side of Jacqueline. He was stunned for a moment, then

doing?” Shane asked in a harsh tone. He looked at Natalie's flushed cheeks and Jacqueline, who was panting slightly with distress.

in Shane's voice, Jacqueline snapped back

clutched Natalie's hands in hers and said apologetically, “I'm very sorry, Ms. Smith. I must have scared you! I didn't do it on purpose. I was thinking about my own eyes,

Jacqueline dropped Natalie's hands, covered her own face,

the

I the victim here? Isn't she the one who frightened and hurt me? Why is she the one crying instead? Natalie wondered. An ignorant observer might have presumed that Natalie was the

face and turned her gaze towards Shane, who was standing aside. “Mr. Shane, what did Ms. Graham mean? What

accident many years ago. It damaged her corneas,” Shane replied evenly,