Love Coming from the Least Expected

A feeling of guilt and self-blame arose in my heart. I felt horrible thinking about how anxious Christopher must have been these past few days. If it were not for my impulsive actions, he would never have had to go through all that.

I could not imagine how he endured the past eight days. Perhaps he was standing by the bedside and blaming himself for not having protected me. Or maybe he had been smoking in the corridor and watching me through the glass. All the while, he was probably praying for me to wake up soon.

When the nurse came to give me my medicine, she saw me looking out the window. She quickly hurried over to shut it. “Don’t expose yourself to too much wind. If you get infected, your husband will cause a huge scene in the hospital again. Last time he brought a gun here. Dr. Jennings almost passed out from the fear.”

I was taken aback by

no idea how saddened he was when your heartbeat stopped in the emergency room that day. He was close to ending his own life on the spot. All the medical staff were

the floor. It smashed into pieces on the ground. Christopher almost

knew. The two of us just hugged

over to me and told me to open it myself. I did not recall having any friends overseas though. The only person I could think of was Remington in Anglandur. However, I did

the parcel, I was frozen in surprise. It was a painting. Not just any painting, but the one I painted myself eight years ago. It was the Autumnal

me. Unexpectedly, it had now returned to my possession. Did Isabelle send

carefully ran my fingers over the painting. For a moment, I was lost in my emotions. The top right corner where Crystal’s name used to be had been professionally removed. Now, it revealed my own name that I wrote all those years ago. It

with my name on it.” I looked toward Christopher and said lowly, “Chris, I rejected the invitation to join the National Youth Art Exhibition and Contest. I even rejected it when they wanted

kept the painting back in its box. “Even if you didn’t, I would have rejected them for

care of everything in detail. Even the food I ate was full