Chapter 2

I slowly looked up and met Julian’s gaze. “I just don’t want to eat now. Is that unacceptable?”

Julian thought that I was fooling with him again like before. He patiently said, “Okay, you can eat whenever you want.”

He turned away from me. “But Eira, you have to take the medicine.”

I knew that he had added hemostatics to the oatmeal. He used to give me all the medicine that way. Because of it, my body became very weak.

“Julian, I told you I didn’t want to eat now. Don’t you understand?” I impatiently said to him.

Julian became angry. He smashed the bowl and got up to leave.

I instantly felt better and less suffocated.

But he came again at night with a doctor. He covered my eyes while the doctor injected something into my wrist.

It did not even take thirty seconds from the doctor’s arrival to his departure.

I saw another side of Julian at that moment. I wanted to break out of his embrace, but he pinned me down hard. It was futile regardless of how I struggled. My fighting was nothing more than an itch for him.

“It’s fine, Eira. I’m here.”

He used more force to hold me. If it were in the past, I would have just assumed that he was worried about my body, but this time, I felt that he wanted to kill me and give up my position to Jane.

Before long, I fell asleep in his arms.

“Watch over her,” Julian instructed Wendy Little before he left.

I had countless nightmares because of the pain. I even had nightmares within nightmares. I felt like I had been sucked into a tornado. My head felt heavy while my steps were light.

All of the nightmares were full of Julian.

I felt like I could not breathe. The suffocating feeling and the scenes in my head kept torturing me.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a nurse kneeling beside me to perform CPR on me. It turned out that I had nearly died. Julian almost made his dream come true.

“Mrs. Gunter, you finally came to.” Wendy heaved a sigh.

“Mr. Gunter will come tomorrow because he has an international meeting at the company,” she explained.

It did not matter whether he came or not, because I did not want to see him.

I was sleeping when he returned. The nurse was in the adjacent ward to watch over me at all times.

I could not figure out what Julian wanted. If he did not want children, he should have married someone who could not get pregnant. Why did he provoke and torture me?

My face was itching. When I opened my eyes, I saw him pretending to feel sorry for me. The ward was full of a sweet fragrance. It was emanating from him. Wendy had given an excuse for him, but he returned smelling of perfume.

“What are you doing here?”

“Eira, I had an international meeting last night, so I couldn’t be here for you. I’m sorry.” When he looked down, I noticed a red mark on his neck, which shocked me. I never left such marks on him. He had clearly enjoyed himself with another woman last night.

“Eira, what’s wrong? Should I get a doctor?”

I snapped back to reality.

“I’m fine.”

I was still pale, so Julian ordered Wendy to get some oatmeal while he hailed my attending doctor.

He did not take his phone with him when he left.

The notification sound made me glance at it.