Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 298

Henry paced anxiously outside Sheila's emergency room, looking every bit the little grown-up as he wore a path back and forth.

Meanwhile, Timothy was waiting outside the door of Jessica's emergency room.

Jessica had collapsed from a sudden high fever brought on by stress. It wasn't long before she gradually opened her eyes, still groggy. Her attending physician, noticing she was awake, hurried to her side.

"Ms. Greene, you can't keep neglecting your health like this! Your condition is already serious, and now you've let yourself get soaked and come down with a high fever. You have to be admitted for treatment-no more delays!"

Drifting in and out of consciousness, Jessica remembered fainting in Timothy's

arms.

Did he bring her to the hospital?

If he was just outside, it wouldn't take much for him to find out about her cancer.

way he'd let her keep

to find a way to get

have her phone, and she couldn't answer the doctor's questions aloud. Flustered, she

pen. Jessica, hands trembling with weakness, scribbled a message: "Doctor, I'm sorry, but I can't be admitted right now. My husband is outside. If he finds out I have cancer, he won't be able to handle

doctor's compassion, hoping he might

it from them. The outcome won't change by hiding it, but treatment

abroad soon, hoping doctors there could give her a better prognosis, maybe even increase

to know-she thought they wouldn't care, and she couldn't bear to be hurt by their indifference. But now, she was even more determined to keep it from

anyone else, she didn't want them to

again: "Thank you. A friend recommended a specialist overseas. I'm planning to go soon and

secret before, moyed

alone. But Jessica's repeated hospital visits, always for some minor complication, made it harder for him to look the

admitted, to keep her from getting worse. But seeing her so desperate, he couldn't bring himself to refuse. He nodded

pen, closed her eyes, and