No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 367



Fanny didn't answer me right away, instead, she gazed out the window at Ernest, "How much longer for your Mr. Collins?"

Outside, the man seemed almost ready to kneel before Ernest, who was standing with one hand casually in his pocket. The morning sunlight bathed him, making him look as if he was glowing.

I couldn't take my eyes off him.

A sense of pride and admiration bubbled up inside me, a voice whispering: Felicia, that's your man.

Getting involved with Ernest was something I drifted into by chance.

Initially, it was just a fling to get over the loneliness of breaking up with Conrad.

But now, it felt like I had discovered a treasure, both beautiful to look at and useful.

"You were asked something," Fanny nudged me with her shoulder when I didn't respond.

I blinked, "Should be soon."

If I wasn't mistaken, the man outside was probably begging Ernest to fix his shoulder.

to set dislocated joints, having learned from an old man in the village because Susie used to dislocate

often, picked up the skill and eventually mastered

fix a joint, which explained why the man followed him so obediently. Now, the man outside was pleading with Ernest, who only intended to punish him before fixing him up. Besides, Ernest had plans to take me for a blood test result; he wouldn't waste too much time on that man. He was waiting for me and Fanny, getting that, I added to Fanny, "Probably

chair, helping me put it on, and filled me in on Haley's

her to get checked and prepared for surgery. But after paying, she vanished," Fanny spoke with

go through with it,"

not wanting

for it, and always to me,

hinted.

swho

Fanny to pass the message to me, and then for me to

by the knowledge that both Conrad

Fanny said with

give up until

clean up

lips, "He should be back

a

Herschel's illness, my voice softened, "Herschel's sick, lung

paused, her

a doctor, I understood her silence

the door, and as expected, Ernest turned to the man, once again gripping his