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 her.

his aloofness and instead

feel her own growth, always unintentionally revealing her feminine side

front of him.

and then, after getting

angry, and the innocent little girl in his heart unexpectedly learned the tricks of

more he thought like this, the more he realized that Marlene was very deep

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him before, he didn’t think much about

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

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

for her.

married and having children, she

if she had turned

previous reaction was too excessive. In fact, she was only twenty years old and had been raised by

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

must find an opportunity to talk to Brittany. Both of them are very important to him, and he doesn’t want there to be so much hostility

of them.

he woke up, Marlene deliberately sent him

him.

still sulking with herself but didn’t forget to care about

personally, but Brittany had

much else to

discharged, the first thing he did after completing the formalities was to call

she had made plans with

returned home, waiting for Marlene to come back so

could have a

afternoon but she didn’t come back. With nothing to do, he went

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

every year.