Ex husband's Plea for Forgiveness

"Who let this woman in?" Nelson demanded furiously as he stepped into the room. "Nurse! Take this woman out of this room, and make sure she never enters again!"

His shouts woke Melinda, and she slowly roused to the picture of something that seemed to have come out of a melodrama.

"What do you have in your hands? How dare you touch Soaring Group’s documents so easily?! Do you think you’re a part of the company or something?!"

Nelson was still berating Emily, glaring back and forth between the woman and his grandson. He was clearly disappointed, and beyond furious.

He was still the head of the family, as well as the family business, damn it! This woman had some nerve to get her hands on such important files; no one outside of the company should have even laid eyes on those papers.

Jonas was looking on helplessly, but kept his silence. Emily, meanwhile, had a horrified expression, and the documents shook in the air as her hands trembled nervously. Melinda rose and walked over to the bed, then calmly took the papers from Emily and placed it on a nearby table. Then she went to Nelson and helped the old man towards one of the seats.

"Didn’t I tell you it was nothing to worry about?" she chided Nelson softly. "You shouldn’t have come all this way." The old man only grunted.

A nurse came close and took hold of Emily’s elbow, urging her to stand and walk out the door. The actress turned to Jonas with a pleading look. "Jonas."

But he was looking at his wife, and nobody was really paying attention to Emily. Well except for the nurse who was now pulling at her. And Nelson.

"What do you want?" he shouted at her. "Do you want me to call security to get you out of here? You’d better get out of my sight while I’m still being patient!"

Emily’s face flushed in mortification. She was a celebrity, after all. If they weren’t in the VIP section of the hospital, there would no doubt be a crowd taking photos or videos right now, immortalizing her moment of humiliation for the world to see.

Nelson’s reputation reached far and wide, and this hospital was caught among his vast network of connections. The nurse, along with its many employees, dared not displease him.

As the door closed behind their unwanted visitor, Nelson snorted to express his displeasure. Jonas noticed, but it was his wife he addressed. "You must be tired after everything that happened. Why don’t you return with Grandpa and take a good rest? I’ll be all right. The nurses will take care of me."

Melinda opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, Nelson interjected. Apparently the old man was full of energy at the moment.

"Indeed, you must be exhausted. That’s why I had Mary bring some of your necessities here. You’d be clean and comfortable as you take care of Jonas. It’s far too inconvenient for you to keep going back and forth, not to mention tiresome as well."

The wily patriarch would never pass up an opportunity to get these two alone so they could spent some time with each other without interruption, doing things that couples were supposed to do.

There was a knock on the door just as he had finished speaking, and Mary entered carrying a bag that contained Melinda’s clothes. She also had with her what looked to be a picnic basket, which was filled with food.

"You often forget the basics whenever you’re busy." Mary smiled as she handed them to Melinda. "Please take good care of yourself before you take care of Mr. Gu."

"Thank you, Mary." Melinda laughed softly, because the servant wasn’t wrong. Nelson left soon after that, and with Gavin and Mary with him, the young couple didn’t worry much about their grandfather.

In truth, Melinda was starving, and as soon as they were alone again she propped open one of the food packages Mary had prepared. There were many of her favorite dishes and snacks, and among them was a container of shrimps sautéed in butter, which was her favorite.

She plopped on the chair by the hospital bed, and started to merrily chow down her shrimp. Seeing her blissful face as she chewed, Jonas scoffed and turned his back on her.

"What is it?" Melinda mumbled over a mouthful of food. "Do you want to eat some, too?" Jonas turned to shoot his wife a look of mock disgust. "Too bad you can’t have any," Melinda taunted, and bit into another forkful of shrimp.

Jonas wanted to devour something, all right, but it wasn’t the shrimp he wanted to sink his teeth into. The memory of their episode in the cinema flashed briefly before his eyes, and whatever small fire burned in his chest quickly dissolved.

wearily, and resigned himself to watching Melinda eat without any consideration to his

in the hospital for three days. Even though he

period, because, as expected, she looked after

she saw her daughter-in-law’s gaunt features. She scolded Jonas as they stepped into the living room, telling him off for not taking proper care

even though he was bedridden, he had still taken care of many business matters, and Melinda had assisted

poring over company documents. Pretty soon they were spending

in this manner, but

wife had greatly mellowed out, and she was sure that spending more time alone with each other had played a big hand in

it came to time and location anyway, so

lonely, and she began to coax Melinda to go out shopping with

of those days, and they were in the living room this time, with

pester her so much. You’ll find it very difficult to make her

in a makeshift blanket burrito. All she really wanted to do during winter was sleep all day at home. "Oh, all right," Queena huffed. "But she’s better off here than in the office. And you need to come home more often, too, even if only for

at her son, and that last bit of instruction was her way of making sure Emily didn’t get any chances. She beamed then, quite proud of her quick thinking.

kept on with her mock lamentations. "Oh, goodness. Mellie has been taking good care of you for such a long time. She deserves a long, languid break. Like, say, a weekend at a hot spring resort in the mountains." She gave her son a pointed look as she let her words

all right," he said impatiently as he rolled his eyes. "Is there anything else you wanted, Mom? Because

should be using when you talk to your Mom? It’s really true

Melinda. She threw her hands around the younger woman, blanket and all, and squeezed. "Having a

returned the embrace. "I’ll be your darling child from now on. Forget about such an ungrateful son." Then she deliberately shot her

shook his head as he walked upstairs to

tie, and in a matter of moments, he was

over the weekend, Melinda woke up to a light shake from Jonas. Her busy days and exhausted nights had done their part in dampening her mood, and she

square in the face. He froze and stared at his wife with a stunned expression, and the room grew

a pillow, and rolled over. "So noisy," she

again, tapping her back lightly this time. "Aren’t you

answer was firm and immediate, even in her half-asleep state. Nothing was more important than sleep. Melinda tossed in the bed again, this time pulling the covers over

was fighting the urge to shake and squeeze

partially covered by the blankets, and carried her over to the bathroom.

awakened so rudely, but sullenly gave in

applied some toothpaste on it, and when it seemed like he was even going to brush her teeth, she grabbed it from his grip and ushered him out of the

They had the option to get to the establishment by car, but Jonas took his mother’s insistence and chose

at his arm and begged him to stop. She

were about to give up

was relaxed and didn’t even seem winded by their trek so far. He smirked at Melinda, and she took great pains to stand straight and

one knee, and then reached both arms behind him. "Come on." He was going to give her a piggy back ride all the

sulking at her own expense. He offered her convenience,

a while Melinda felt her nose prickle with an impulse to

past, when she had been hopeful and constantly yearning for Jonas's

was living it, however, much had happened between them, and she

thoughts. She looked around and saw that there were