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

seemed to have noticed his aloofness and instead became fonder of clinging to him.

own growth, always unintentionally revealing her feminine side in

front of him.

18th birthday, she drank a lot of alcohol and then, after getting drunk, confessed her feelings to him.

he got very angry, and the innocent little girl in his heart unexpectedly learned the tricks of seducing men from other women.

realized that Marlene was

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he

a mother

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

partner for

and having children,

as if she had turned back into the little girl she used to be.

a sense of guilt inexplicably rising in his heart. He realized that his previous reaction was too excessive. In fact, she was only

her constantly instilling in him that Marlene was intentionally trying to provoke their relationship, he wouldn’t have become increasingly indifferent towards Marlene.

from the hospital, he must find an opportunity to talk to Brittany. Both of them are very important to

of them.

up, Marlene deliberately sent him a message

him.

to care

her personally, but

else to say.

was to call Marlene to let her

only then did he remember that she had made plans

discharged from the hospital and returned home, waiting for Marlene to come back so

could have a

back. With nothing to do, he went to

remained the same as it was when she came at the age

added every year.