“You won’t die. In two days, you’ll be much better,” Averie consoled him, “Even if I’m gone, the doctors and nurses will care for you.”
“Take me with you…” Adrian’s eyes were teary. He pleaded to her, holding her tightly.
“You need to be on drips right now. You can’t leave,” Averie said troublingly, “Adrian, once you’re better, I’ll take you away. You need to stay in the hospital right now. I have something going on tonight. I must leave. I’ll come to see you tomorrow morning.”
Averie did not forget about her date with Elyette. If Adrian was not in such a serious condition, she would have long gone for her date.
Adrian kept vomiting from time to time. Seeing him in such a miserable state, she found it hard to leave. However, she had dragged on for long enough. She had to look for Elyette now.
Upon her words, Adrian let her go, but he looked at her with tears falling down his face.
Averie saw him in that state and she did not dare to leave. She went over to grab her bag. She found her phone and wanted to make a call to Elyette.
She pressed the button, but her screen was black. She did not know when her phone battery ran out.
“Please lend me your phone,” Averie said to the bodyguard. The bodyguard immediately unlocked his phone and passed it to her. She keyed in Elyette’s phone number and dialed.
She was quickly thinking of ways to explain to him why she could not make it for the date. She was afraid it was not possible to lie to him anymore. She could only come clean.
The call was connected but no one picked up. After the system automatically disconnected the call, she returned the phone to the bodyguard.
“Can you help me get a charger from the nurses? My phone ran out of battery,” Averie said to the bodyguard.
“I’ll go ask and see.” The bodyguard left.
Once the bodyguard left, Averie looked at Adrian. “I’m not leaving yet. If you don’t feel that nauseated anymore, close your eyes and rest. Only with you getting better can I take you away.
Adrian closed his eyes upon Averie’s words.
A moment later, the bodyguard entered with a charger. Averie connected her phone to the charger and turned it on. When she saw missed calls from Elyette, she wanted to return the calls, but she was afraid that she would disturb Adrian’s rest.
She had to wait for Adrian to fall asleep before she could leave. She sent a message to Elyette, [ I’ll come to look zafor you in a while.]
Once Adrian was asleep, she would immediately go to look for him.
Outside, a heavy rain pitter-pattered on the window, making loud sounds. Averie did not hate the rain. Most the time, she liked listening to the rain. It calmed her down.
However, at that moment, listening to the rain, her mind was a mess. Elyette did not reply to her message or her call. He must be angry.
If she was in his shoes, she might not be as forgiving as him too because they had agreed on that date a long time ago. Thus, when she saw him later, no matter how bad his temper was, she was going to bear it.
About 40 minutes later, Adrian’s breathing became even. He was sleeping soundly. Averie said something to the bodyguard and left!
The rain outside had not stopped, but it was much lighter than an hour ago.
She came out of the hospital into the rain.
At nine at night, she rushed to the South Devotion Plaza. She was at F1. She saw Elyette on the balcony on the second floor.
She instantly understood why Elyette did not reply to her message or calls, because he was sitting in the rain, getting drenched.
“Miss Tate, you’re finally here. Mr. Foster has waited for you for the entire night. Since the rain started, he has been sitting there until now.” The server had hints of grumbling in his tone. “Mr. Foster has been waiting for you. He hasn’t had any food yet!”
Perhaps Elyette heard the server’s voice, he slowly turned around.
Seeing how wretched he looked in the rain, Averie was so overwhelmed she could not breathe. She walked over to him. Soon, she was in front of him. She could not control her emotions. She reached out and grabbed his arm.
“Elyette, I’m sorry I’m late. Please don’t stay in the rain, go in!” She tried hard to get him up, but Elyette pushed her away instead.
“Where’s my gift?” Elyette’s hoarse voice rang out.
His voice sounded soft, but it was penetrative. Those three words shocked Averie.
“Why did you lie to me?” Elyette looked at Averie’s stunned face coldly.
It was not as if he could not bear that she put him aside to go to the hospital to take care of Adrian, but it was more about the condition that she was honest with him.
“I’m sorry, Elyette,” Averie took a deep breath. She tried to reach her hand out once again and grabbed his arm. “Don’t stay under the rain. You’ll catch a cold.”
He pushed her hand away once more.
“Where’s that man?” Elyette’s tone was cold and frigid. Under the rain, his expressions seemed even more miserable. “Why don’t you continue staying in the hospital to take care of him?”
“He’s asleep.” Words seemed to get stuck in her throat. She explained, “He swallowed a whole bottle of antihypertensive drugs. He almost died. If he wasn’t rescued in time he would have died.”
“It’s best if he died!” Elyette’s tone was harsh. “Even if he didn’t die now, I’ll still kill him!”
“Elyette!” Averie yelled as if she was being strangled. “I know you’re angry! It’s my fault! I should have called you earlier so that you would not have to wait edfor me here! Let’s go in! I beg you!”
She grabbed his arm with both of her hands, trying to get him up from the chair, but his body was tense. He refused to get up.
Helplessness and fear spread around her. She was afraid that if he stayed any longer under the rain, he would become sick, but she also knew that he was extremely zafurious at that moment. He would never listen to her.
Under desperation, she cried out loud uncontrollably. He looked at her in misery, his heart constricted tightly.
90What were they preparing to do that night? It seemed like he was…going to propose?
He had fantasized many times that they would listen to the melodious sounds of music while having a delightful dinner, thinking about the future.
He had prepared the proposal ring to be served to her during the fifth course. When she opened the cover the dish, she would be surprised by the ring!
At that moment, all the surprises he prepared seemed excessive.
“Averie, tears won’t get you what you want.” Elyette got up from his chair and looked at her being drenched under the rain. His tone was cold and lonely. “Because I’ve tried it before. In the end, I got nothing.”
Then, he pushed her hand away and quickly vanished from her sight. After he left, Averie felt as if her entire world was falling apart.
She knew that he would get mad, but she did not expect him to get so mad. She was only a few hours late. It was not that she did not show up. Could it be because she was caring for Adrian at the hospital and he found it unacceptable?
Averie slumped onto the chair Elyette was on a moment ago, trying to guess what he was feeling.
A moment later, something lit up in front of her!
Beautiful lights sparkled, changing into assorted shapes and colors like it was dancing in the air.
Averie looked at the lights in front of her in a daze. She suspected that she was hallucinating .
A server came over with an umbrella next to her. “Miss Tate, this is a light show that Mr. Foster prepared for you. Mr. Foster has left, so please enjoy it alone!”
“A light show?” Averie asked glumly.
“Yes. Mr. Foster had also invited a famous pianist to perform. The pianist has been waiting for a long time. Do you want to listen to the performance now?” The server said.
She looked up at the server. “Why?”
It was only a meal. Why did he invite someone to perform?
The server replied, “Miss Tate, I don’t know why you were late, but Mr. Foster put in a lot of effort on tonight’s date. You shouldn’t have let him down.”
“I wasn’t late on purpose.” She retracted her gaze. Tears in her eyes blurred her sight of the dazzling lights. “I didn’t know that he prepared so much for tonight’s date. He didn’t tell me.”
“Mr. Foster wanted it to be a surprise for you,” The server said, “Have you had your meal? Why don’t you go in to have some food?”
“I don’t want to go in. I’ll stay here as long as Elyette waits for me here.” She choked.
The waiter looked at her thin body and worried that she would catch a cold, so he immediately arranged for someone to bring an open-air parasol.
Then the waiter came with a thick blanket and put it on her shoulders.
“Ms. Tate, I have notified the kitchen to serve the dishes. You can leave after dinner! Instead of staying here, it’s better to ask Mr. Foster’s forgiveness.”
After a while, delicious dishes were served on the table. Looking at the exquisite food on the table, she finally understood why Elyette was so angry.
Tonight’s date, she thought it was just an ordinary date, but obviously it wasn’t!
Elyette invited a piano master to play, and there was such a beautiful light show, and the dinner was sumptuous to the level of a state banquet. How could this be an ordinary date?
“Ms. Tate, please unveil this dish yourself.” The waiter pointed to the fifth dish and spoke to Averie.
Hearing this, Averie lifted the lid of the fifth dish.
This was a lotus cake. Next to the lotus-shaped dessert, there was a lifelike goldfish, and the goldfish had a diamond ring in its mouth.
This diamond ring attracted all Averie’s attention.
“This…” Averie said in surprise.
The waiter explained, “Ms. Tate, Mr. Foster was going to propose to you tonight. For tonight’s date, he had come to set up the scene from the day before yesterday. Everything you could see now is Mr. Foster’s expression of love for you.”
Her tears fell uncontrollably. She looked around. Against the backdrop of the beautiful light show, all kinds of flowers come into view. The more she found out, the deeper the apology in her heart. She couldn’t stay here for a second. She took the diamond ring from the goldfish’s mouth to the palm of her hand and strode out of the balcony.
She was going to find Elyette! Ask him to forgive. She had no idea that he would propose to her, after all, she had promised to marry him before.
If she knew that Elyette was going to propose to her tonight, she would definitely come to him first!
Even if I told him that I was going to the hospital, I would definitely come to see him first.
Foster family.
Elyette returned home, went straight upstairs, entered the bedroom, and locked the door.
Before Mrs. Scarlet could ask a word, she heard him lock the door.
——This was must a conflict with Averie.
Mrs. Scarlet knew that the two of them were going to be alone this holiday, but she didn’t expect that the two of them would make such a fuss on the first day of the holiday.
Mrs. Scarlet wanted to call Averie to ask what was going on, but thinking that Elyette was so wet, it must have been very noisy.
This level of quarrel, even if Averie is called on the phone, will not be relieved.
Just when Mrs. Scarlet was about to close the villa door, a stimulating light came from outside the courtyard door.
A car stopped outside the courtyard gate, and after a while, Averie got out of the car.
Soon, she came to the door of the villa.
Mrs. Scarlet brought her shoes.
“Averie, what’s the matter with you and your husband? When your husband comes back, you are all wet, and so are you. Are you two dating in the rain?”
Averie’s eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she spoke in a hoarse voice: “I made him angry.”
Mrs. Scarlet looked embarrassed, “Oh…he locked himself in the room. Although I have a spare key…”
“Give me the key.” Averie reached out to Mrs. Scarlet.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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