The Unfaithful Mr. Scott novel (Eugene and Melanie)

Chapter 804

Dreams haunted Melanie in her sleep, and she would wake up suddenly.

She leaned against the headrest of the bed with sweat on her forehead.

Reaching out, she turned on the bedside night light, brightening the ward.

Melanie had initially wanted to get up to read, but the thought of the book being inside the cabinet

made her abandon the idea.

She squinted slightly, glanced at her phone, and noticed it was just past midnight.

The hospital ward was particularly quiet at night, making the footsteps outside the door noticeable.

She thought it was just a nurse passing by and did not pay much attention.

Half an hour later, the footsteps still lingered at the door. Eugene was standing against the wall, tilting his head and resting it against the wall.

The corridor was quiet, with only the bright light from the nurses’ station in the distance.

dark, with his eyelashes drooped. He was lost in thought.

a faint sound and footsteps approached. His fingertips moved

toward the direction of the

sounded. The night shift nurse lowered her voice and asked him, “Are you still awake at this hour because

explained, “If you feel unwell, I can take you to the doctor. You can return to your ward and rest because wandering around like this might disturb other patients‘

Adam’s apple rolled, and he looked toward the direction of the ward door

lit just moments ago, was

his head. “Sorry.”

saying that, he turned and left.

lights were not bright, he could still see his

feeling a kind of indescribable melancholy.

lay on the bed. Her night blindness

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quiet, so quiet that she

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Melanie cooperated

last time the police came, they brought Stella

head had been removed, but the scars left behind still looked

a moment when she saw the wounds on