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.

deliberately kept his distance

noticed his aloofness and instead became fonder of clinging

also feel her own growth, always unintentionally revealing her

front of him.

alcohol and then, after getting drunk, confessed her feelings to him.

very angry, and the innocent little girl in his heart unexpectedly

the more he realized that

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before, he didn’t think much about it.

have a mother to teach her since she was young, learned

he would supervise her more strictly. After she graduated, he would arrange

for

getting married and having children, she

days, she changed, as if she had turned back into the little girl she

guilt inexplicably rising in his heart. He realized that his previous reaction was too excessive. In fact, she was only twenty years old and had been raised by him since childhood. How could she have

Brittany was becoming sensitive, if it weren’t for her constantly instilling in him that Marlene was intentionally trying to provoke

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

of them.

woke up,

him.

to care about him, which

had originally intended to reply to her personally, but Brittany

have much else to say.

to call Marlene to let her know he was safe. She must have been really worried at home.

only then did he remember that she had made plans with her

from the hospital and returned home, waiting for Marlene

have a good talk.

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

she came at the age of seven, except

every year.