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

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

to also feel her own growth,

front of him.

drank a lot of alcohol and then, after getting drunk, confessed

he got very angry, and the innocent little girl in his

more he thought like this, the more he realized that Marlene was very deep in her thoughts.

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before, he didn’t think much about it.

a mother to teach her since she was young, learned bad habits at a

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

for her.

having children, she naturally

if she had

a sense of 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

it weren’t for her constantly instilling in him that Marlene was intentionally trying

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

of them.

day after he woke up, Marlene deliberately sent him a

him.

to care about him,

reply to her personally, but Brittany had already replied for him, so he

have much else

the first thing he did after completing the formalities was to call Marlene to let her know he was safe. She must have been really

did he remember that she had

hospital and returned home,

a good

back. With nothing to do, he went

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

added every year.