Chapter
Do You Have An Appointment with Ms. Jenning?
As expected, the call didn’t go through again.
The wasn’t picking up lewanoying!
I put my phone down, washed the Imeh, and sanied wiping down the Benjamba’s face and hands.
had been taking care of him when untentionally fell asleep at bis berchile.
When I woke up, it was already dark. A jacket was deaped over me, and with sleepy eyes, I saw Lila changing Benjamin’s wound dressing
“? When you doing here?”
Lila smiled and handed me an apple from her side while saying softly, was
anyway, so I came to take care of you and Benjamin.“
The the way, Benjamin has already woken up ontem. I checked with the docter, and his conditionis gradully stabilizing, so try not to worry too much.”
Holding the apple in my hand. I replied. “I can’t let you do that. Fran take care of way uncle myself. You just came back Your family must miss you a lot. You can’t stay here, to home
“What mensense are you talking about? You just told me this morning that we’re best friend. Yet now you’re pestering me togs home? ta that what best friends do Lila feigned Incitations
si glared at me.
I was
for word when Lila exclaimed in sumpche, “Owen, Benjamin’s armale”
stood in prise and rushed to him
“Unde Benjamin, how do you feel? Do it still hast
Uncle Benjamin took off his oxygen mark, his face pale and his lips colorless. He chook his head, patting my hand gently, gesturing that he was line
He then glanced at Lila, booked her up and down, and engaged in some set of silent interaction withher, which I couldn’t quite understand.
Lila seemed to pick up on it first. “The outside,” she said.
Confused, ed. “is something wrong
Lils leaned in and whispered, “I think Benjamin needs to use the instroom. It’s aboard for me to be here since I’m a woman. Just let me know when he’s done, and I come back in
Icleared that, waddenly realizing my mistake. I hadn’t considered the gender differences.
“Macke Benjamin, let me help you.” I rushed to help him up, thinking he might need a caregiver still had work tomorrow and wouldn’t be able to look after him properly.
Looking at his pale face, I felt both heartbroken and worried
When he noticed my convorm, he moved his chapped lips slightly and weakly said, “Don’t worry about me. This is just a minor illness; it’s nothing.”
The doctor haddy issued a critical condition notice, yet he still called it a minor illness
Lieb a lump in my throat Gently wiping his hands, I tried to higher the mood. “I finally know where I get my rubbers from,” Treased.
Uncle Benjamintapped my hand and gated at me with complex emotions in his eyes when his eyes flickered over to the hallway, a look of relief passed through them.
“That young lady. She seems like a good person. She truly cares about you.” Benjamin said.
I followedhusgate and saw Lita sitting at a distance, nervously looking at our every move, afraid that something would go wrong
“Yes, she is a good person,” answered.
Lila came over with a tray of food, which I immediately took from her, and our fingers brushed lightly
I jolted, quiddy pulling my hand back, as it had been shocked. Lila looked at me, a smile spreading across her face
chuckled. The seen everything There’s nothing to be burratard about.”
At that moment, I didn’t rule that Unde Benjamin had misunderstood something and at his smile, feeling dared
It was the first time I had seen Uncle Benjamin umile. His skin was fair, but his face was covered in stubble, giving him a serious and somewhat agedappearance. But when he smiled, his
sparked and he looked surprisingly handsome.
“Uncle Benjamin, 1 bed if you shaved your beard, you’d look even better. Everyone says nephew take over their uncles, and since I turned out so handsomely, there’s no way you’d be ugly.”
ding his beard, he ignored my comment and waved us over. “You two, come here.”
la and I walked over and our surprise, Uncle Benjamin pulled out two beses from the bedue ble drawer, almod like he was performing a magkad na saw he’d go
and the other to
Then, te hunded one is me and the
Before we could ask, he bowered his wake. “This is my present to boch al you”
Lila didn’t hesitate at all and smiled, saying, “Thank you, besjamis”
Curious, Lasked, “What is this? Somysterious”
Thai dea where Unelte Besjamis could go there, but before could open mine, he stopped me.
“Open it when you get back hom
mo, okay, I replied obediently, noticing that hasta with a look of approval
I raised its look at her. She noticedony gaze and similed back at me
Imanagedia per sotse tieng this night. Ha nem mondig. I i was gone. I thought she had finally decided to leave, so egan looking for a caregiver.
Dhad to finalize in preloading at Nancy’s company today, so definitely needed to find someone to help take care of Uncle Benjamin
But before Tould leave, Lilacina turk, carying apitcher of hot water
Lila answered casually, “Of course, you akce of you and Benjamin. You’re not sending me away hot here you air, will worrying and complaining.”
ing me away now, ale you? You really wack Benjamin gave me a gin, and he’s happy with me,
1 was sprečideia.
(was just afraid that she would be exhausted Although Lila ma
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Chapter 24 Do You Have An Appointment with Ms. Jenning
i would be fivid.
she
She came from a prestigious scholarly family, and after just returning to the country, she was doing a caregiver’s job. If her mother had found out,
Unfortunately, I still couldn’t argue with her stubbornness, so I let her continue. I had to leave the hospital and head to Nancy’s company to report for work
I still owed Lila tons of money, so I needed to get work quickly to pay her back
Before I left, I called Yvette once more, but, as expected, she hung up on me, I gripped my phone tightly, grinding my teeth in frustration. “They say that women are petry, but she’s the CEO of her own company–how could she be so ill–tempered? She wasn’t like that in our past
In our past life, Yvette didn’t care for me at all. She didn’t even bother to give me the cold shoulder or hold a grudge.
So what if I stood her up once? How many times had she done the same to me? And I had never held it against her.
I skipped out on her once, and now she was upset? What was that about?
Forget it. I would find her at the office. This marriage had to end as soon as possible!
I walked straight through the front door when I arrived at Yvette’s office building
1 had brought her lunch in our past life, so I knew exactly where her office was and planned to go straight in.
“Stop right there.” A man in a suit blocked my way, frowning as he sized me up.
“Who are you? What are you doing here?”
I glanced at him, his face looking strangely familiar. He was dressed like a secretary.
“I’m here to see Yvette.”
“Ms. Jenning He looked at me suspiciously. “Do you have an appointment with her?”
I looked ahead and calmly said, “No.”
Upon hearing that, he sneered, as if he had figured something out. With obvious disdain, he said,
”
“Ms. Jenning is very busy and doesn’t have time for shameless people like you. Go back to wherever you come from. I’m not escorting you out.”
