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“Ah!” The soup and the base covered
- me. My arms burned; the pain felt like a
thousand needles. I couldn’t even speak.
“Sarah!” Caleb rushed to me,
panicked for the first time.“Does it hurt? I‘
Il take you to the hospital!”
I looked at him, pain coursing
through me. I couldn’t say a word.
“Oh my god, Olivia, you’re hurt!”
Caleb’s attention shifted to Olivia. A few
drops of hot oil had splashed on her arm.
It looked really “serious“.
Olivia pulled her arm back, her eyes
red.“I’m fine. Sarah is hurt much worse.
Take her to the hospital first.”
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“What are you talking about? We all
know you’re sensitive to pain since you
were a kid! Caleb, what are you doing?
Take Olivia to the hospital!” Chloe
stamped her foot.“Are you people crazy? You hurt Olivia! My brother won’t let you
go!”
Olivia, suppressing her pain, insisted,”
It’s okay, Caleb. Go see Sarah. She looks
painful.”
Caleb, heartbroken, picked up Olivia
and left. Before leaving, he looked at me apologetically.“Olivia’s sensitive to pain. The hospital isn’t far. You may take a cab.”
After they left, a waiter came to help me. I took painkillers and the pain finally lessened. Then, I went to the hospital in
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borrowed clothes.
The doctor treated my burns. I closed
my eyes in pain. Two nurses passed by.
“Wow, Mr. Hayes really loves Ms. Olivia. Just a few drops of oil, and he
emptied the entire floor, getting all the dermatologists here.”
“You tell me. It was just a scratch! I wish I had a husband like him…”
“Haha, keep dreaming. He is one in a million.”
One in a million? I smiled. Leaving his badly injured wife for his lightly
injured girlfriend? It was true that not all
men would do such a thing.
After the treatment, I left. My phone
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buzzed. It was my acceptance letter from
the art school in London, reminding me
to prepare a work of myself.
After four years, I picked up my
paintbrush again. I didn’t go home but went to Moonlit Mountain. The scenery was breathtaking and it gave me
inspiration. For three days, I immersed myself in painting.
When I was going to mail my
painting, I turned on my phone and saw
dozens of missed calls and texts from
Caleb. This was unprecedented. He’d
never called me before.
At this time, Chloe called me.
“Where have you been? My Brother’s been looking for you like crazy! Are you
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playing hard to get?! Stop dreaming! Only Olivia can be the Mrs. Hayes!” She hung
- up.
Had I heard wrong? Caleb was
looking for me? Why?
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