His Heart Is Now Elsewhere

Chapter 5

Brennan’s physical condition has always been good, but this time the high fever came on quite

violently.

He hadn’t been to the hospital for a long time, but unexpectedly, this time he was forcibly taken to

the hospital by Brittany and ended up staying in the hospital for two days.

He didn’t want to come to the hospital originally. He wanted to take advantage of being sick to rest at home and spend two more days with Marlene.

He always felt that she had been acting a bit strange in the past few days, but he couldn’t pinpoint

exactly what was off. In any case, it was a feeling that made him very uneasy.

But this time he was really sick, even after taking fever–reducing medicine, his temperature still didn’t go down. Brittany video–called him and noticed that he was a bit delirious from the fever, so

she quickly took him to the hospital.

He fainted from the fever as soon as he arrived at the hospital, and when he woke up, it was already

the next day.

While he was in a deep sleep, he seemed to have dreamt about Marlene in a dazed state.

It was the summer of her seventeenth year when he took her for an outing.

She was wearing a white dress that day, with her hair tied up in a high ponytail, running and playing

with him in the grass.

In that instant when she turned back, the smile on her face amazed him greatly.

He only realized that the little girl he had raised by himself had grown into a young lady. He suddenly felt a flutter in his heart, but immediately he warned himself not to feel this way.

he deliberately kept his distance from

she seemed to have noticed his aloofness and instead became fonder of

her own growth, always

front of him.

her 18th birthday, she drank a lot of alcohol and then, after

the innocent little girl in his heart unexpectedly learned the tricks of seducing men from other

more he realized that Marlene was very

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Brittany reminded him before, he didn’t think much about

true. Marlene, because she didn’t have a mother to teach her since she was

to himself that he must live up to Marlene’s parents, and he would supervise her more strictly. After she graduated, he would arrange for her to join the

for her.

children, she naturally

she changed, as if she had turned back

He realized that his previous reaction was too excessive. In fact, she

if it weren’t for her constantly instilling in him that Marlene was intentionally trying to provoke their relationship, he wouldn’t have become

Brittany. Both of them are very important to him, and he doesn’t want there to be so

of them.

on the second day after he woke up, Marlene deliberately sent him

him.

herself but didn’t forget to care about

intended to reply to her personally, but Brittany had already replied

else to say.

after completing the formalities was to call

answered by her good friend, and only then did he remember that she had made plans with her friend to have a meal together after finishing delivering the things.

returned home,

could have a good

she didn’t come back. With

remained the same as it was when she came at the age of seven, except

added every