Seeing that Skylar hadn’t taken off her coat, the germophobic Tobias couldn’t help but started, “I’ll help you take off your coat. It’s just too dirty coming back from the hospital in it. It must be full of bacteria by now.”

Skylar didn’t want to move at all. She lay in the bed like a dried and worn-out sponge with her hand tugging tightly at the quilt as she shook her head.

With much difficulty, Tobias suppressed his impulse to drag Skylar up to change her clothes. Then, he turned around to open the wardrobe instead but found it empty within.

He suddenly remembered that when Skylar moved out, she packed everything and left nothing behind.

She had so few clothes that she couldn’t bear to leave any of them here and once she left, she had no plan of returning.

“Don’t sleep just yet. I’ll go prepare the medicine. Take them before you sleep.” Tobias took the medication out and read the instructions carefully.

 

Skylar shook her head and answered, “I don’t want to take them. It’s awful, Meredith.”

As she was half-awake, she mistook the person who was taking care of her when she was sick as Meredith.

 

Tobias paused briefly in his tracks and then left to get some warm water for her to be taken together with the medicine.

quilt, with only her puny yet

a good girl and take the medicine.” He put the

let her lean in his

I need to

deep and soft voice coaxing her gently was exceedingly pleasing to the ears. Tobias, who

of sleep around Skylar. There were certain days when he even doubted if Skylar

and she shook her head. “It’s

here? Coaxing a child? He despised troublesome women. But here he was, putting up with

at Skylar’s sickly pale face, which was the result of her fever and yet, she was still

Skylar ignored him totally.

glass and take in a mouthful. Then, his other hand pinched on her jaw

eyes instantly as her mouth was filled with the taste of the medicine. She looked like she was going to throw up and before she knew it, Tobias

lips parted, Skylar

was definitely the most bitter kiss she had

commanded, “Swallow it. How can you

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