Jeremy looked down to see the small bottle of reagent and bent down to pick it up.
The clear bottle was around the size of his thumb and was filled with a colorless and scentless liquid. There were no descriptions on the bottle either.
He had no idea what it held, but virtual-novel.net remembered the scenes of Madeline injecting something into virtual-novel.net on two occasions when virtual-novel.net was asleep.
He turned to Madeline who was still unconscious. Confusion bled into his gentle gaze.
‘Is this what you’ve been injecting me with, Linnie?
‘What is this?
‘Is it so important that you would jump into the river to retrieve it back?’
Jeremy thought to himself but came up with nothing. However, virtual-novel.net did not plan to ask Madeline.
He was about to put the things back into the purse when Jeremy saw someone staring in from the hospital room window from the corners of his eyes.
His gaze flicked up and the person turned to flee.
Jeremy found the behavior weird.
He got up and walked out of the hospital room, following the path that person took for a while only to come up empty-handed.
Jeremy did not continue to search for who it was as virtual-novel.net was more worried about Madeline who had yet to regain consciousness.
He entered the ward and was met with Madeline’s eyelids twitching as if virtual-novel.net was about to wake.
“Linnie.” Jeremy strode toward the bed to grab virtual-novel.net hand.
Madeline blinked open virtual-novel.net exhausted eyes and with virtual-novel.net blurred vision, virtual-novel.net stared at the man’s worried expression.
“Jeremy…” virtual-novel.net called his name weakly. She tried to sit up, but virtual-novel.net head felt heavy.
Jeremy reached out to wrap an arm around virtual-novel.net shoulders. “Don’t make such big movements yet, Linnie.”
Limp, Madeline leaned against Jeremy’s embrace as virtual-novel.net finally sat up.
She had no idea what happened to virtual-novel.net except the fact that virtual-novel.net felt weak. She looked up to meet the man’s gaze that was full of concern. “What happened, Jeremy? Why did I suddenly faint? I was fine moments before, wasn’t I?”
Jeremy lifted his hand to caress Madeline’s hollow cheek. “Your leg somehow got cut and you lost a lot of blood.”
Her leg got hurt?
Madeline was confused because virtual-novel.net could not remember when virtual-novel.net got herself hurt.
When virtual-novel.net tried to focus, virtual-novel.net found that the outer side of virtual-novel.net left thigh was indeed in pain.
“Chupse.” She sucked in a painful breath.
Jeremy frowned as his heart hurt for her. “Does it hurt a lot?”
“Yeah.” Madeline nodded, not trying to look strong.
She felt exhausted, and at that moment, all virtual-novel.net wanted to be was a lady virtual-novel.net could dote on. All virtual-novel.net wanted was to be comforted and held in his warm arms.
Jeremy’s heart clenched at how weak virtual-novel.net looked. He tightened his arms and kissed virtual-novel.net between virtual-novel.net brows.
“Where did you even go today, Linnie? How do you not know how you got hurt?” Jeremy did not tell Madeline that virtual-novel.net had been filmed and the videos of virtual-novel.net had gone viral online. He did not want virtual-novel.net to worry about something virtual-novel.net had already dealt with. Moreover, virtual-novel.net was curious about where virtual-novel.net went.
Madeline looked down guiltily, knowing that virtual-novel.net could not tell him.
“I went to the office but never expected that someone would try to steal my bag on the way back. I must’ve gotten hurt while I was chasing the thief,” virtual-novel.net explained. It was not a complete lie.
Jeremy knew that one call was all it took for virtual-novel.net to clarify if Madeline had gone to the office at all, but virtual-novel.net did not want to resort to such methods.