Serena Jennings couldn’t miss that subtle hint of expectation in Caleb Lockwood’s tone.
She smiled and answered lightly:
"Because I have a conscience, I wouldn’t stoop to the level of a wounded person."
She said this while taking the porridge out of the food bag.
"Just conscience?"
Serena’s hand paused.
"Serena, is it difficult for you to admit that you still have feelings for ?"
Caleb suddenly held Serena’s hand.
This ti, Caleb’s palm was warm.
Caleb thought Serena would imdiately shake him off.
But Serena didn’t.
"Caleb..."
Serena glanced sideways at Caleb, her gaze as calm as still water.
Caleb’s heart suddenly beca restless.
"We were together once, after all. You should know ... Imagine, three years ago, would I have bought hospital food for you as dinner?"
As Serena said this, Caleb’s grip on her hand suddenly turned cold.
Caleb’s brows furrowed bit by bit, and his expression beca very displeased.
Serena was right.
If it were the Serena from three years ago, she would have cooked porridge herself. No matter how late, she would have bought the freshest ingredients and cooked the most nutritious porridge for him.
They were married for three years. Every ti Caleb got sick, he could drink the porridge Serena personally cooked.
Seeing Caleb release his hand, Serena continued pouring the bought porridge into a disposable plastic bowl and handed it to Caleb.
"I don’t want to drink this."
Serena took the bowl back.
"Then order takeout yourself?"
Caleb reached out to Serena with a cold face.
Serena handed the porridge back to him again.
Caleb tasted a spoonful of the porridge from the small restaurant, which was far worse than the porridge Serena used to cook for him.
He suddenly missed Serena’s cooking.
During the days he could enjoy her cooking, he never thought there would be a day he couldn’t taste that flavor anymore.
Caleb only ate a bite before putting the porridge down.
He didn’t order takeout either.
The result was that he was hungry all night.
Serena didn’t care about him either.
Serena stayed to take care of Caleb, but only regarded herself as a nurse.
She was no longer his dedicated wife and naturally wouldn’t comply with his every wish.
Caleb noticed Serena’s business-like attitude, but he still patiently searched for any trace of affection she might still have for him.
Today, Serena brought an unusually large three-tier food container to the hospital.
Caleb’s eyes imdiately lit up.
After a week of hospitalization, all he had eaten was food from outside restaurants, which, despite varying in style, never suited his taste.
But today was different.
From the mont he saw that large food container, Caleb was looking forward to tasting Serena’s cooking, feeling hungry before noon.
However, until two in the afternoon, Serena hadn’t returned.
Serena was at the tech industry park at that ti.
Ethan White worked there.
"Ethan, you’re really enviable, having a girlfriend bring you food!"
"The legendary loving-wife lunch box?"
Ethan’s boss and colleagues said enviously.
"She’s not my girlfriend yet!"
Although Ethan said this, his face showed a happy smile.
"Your tone implies... you’re still pursuing her, right?"
"I think it’s almost certain since she’s bringing you food."
"Ethan, you should make a move!"
Ethan was amused by his colleagues’ gossip.
When Serena returned with the clean food boxes, she noticed everyone in the office looked at her with a hint of ambiguity.
It was Lana Xavier who had told her that Ethan’s project developnt wasn’t going well lately. Ethan often worked overti, hurt his stomach from staying up late, and ate irregularly.
Serena felt she had angered Ethan before, so this ti, she deliberately made so nourishing als to bring to Ethan.
When Serena returned to the hospital, it was almost three in the afternoon.
"Didn’t you order takeout yourself?"
Serena noticed there was no food in Caleb’s hospital room.
Caleb’s sharp gaze fell on the three-tier food container in Serena’s hand.
"Didn’t you cook sothing for ?"
His voice was faint and cold.
Serena was taken aback and awkwardly looked at the container in her hand.
"Oh, this... wasn’t ant for you."
"Then who was it ant for?"
Caleb’s tone carried a clear hint of interrogation.
Serena frowned.
"Whoever it’s for has nothing to do with you!"
"What do you an it has nothing to do with ?"
Caleb tried to get up, but the pain from his wound left him immobile.
Fearing Caleb’s wound would split open, Serena quickly called a doctor, who advised Caleb to rest well and not to lose his temper.
Caleb lay back on the bed, his face showing a look of utter despair.
Serena couldn’t believe that a al she cooked had angered Caleb so much.
In the past, Caleb used to eat the als she cooked every day, but it never seed to please him that much.
"...You can go now!"
Suddenly, Caleb said this.
Serena was stunned.
"Don’t co back tomorrow either."
Serena blinked, feeling like Caleb had just fired her.
She left Caleb’s hospital room without saying a word.
Before leaving the hospital, she inquired about Caleb’s condition from the chief physician.
Upon hearing that Caleb had hired a new nurse, Patrick Rhodes felt curious and visited Caleb.
The expression on Caleb’s face looked as if Patrick owed him billions.
Patrick also couldn’t understand why Caleb was upset.
Those past days, Serena had been attending to him at the hospital.
In his impression, Serena was the kind of person who took good care of others, so shouldn’t Caleb feel pleased?
"Brother Lockwood, your wife is here."
Seeing Claire Shaw, Patrick imdiately beca excited.
He was the one who inford Claire to co.
Because the atmosphere in the room was too dull, he secretly contacted Claire, thinking Caleb’s mood would improve with her visit.
Unexpectedly, Caleb glanced at Claire, his eyes devoid of waves.
Patrick wisely left, not remaining in the room to be a third wheel, and gave Caleb and Claire so ti alone.
After leaving the hospital, he called Serena.
"Serena, what did you do to make Brother Lockwood so mad?"
Serena was in her office at that ti.
During those days of nursing at the hospital, she fell behind on her work, now relying on overti to catch up.
"What’s wrong with Caleb?"
Serena still rembered asking the chief surgeon, also Caleb’s attending physician at the hospital when she left. Caleb’s recovery was good, and he would be discharged in a few days.
"His injury is fine, it’s just that he seems about to explode with anger, his face looking puffed up every day."
Imagining Patrick’s description of Caleb, Serena couldn’t help but laugh quietly.
"So you’re the one taking care of Caleb at the hospital now?"
"No way... I’m a big guy, how could I take care of soone! Brother Lockwood’s wife is there!"
Serena blinked unintentionally.
From the beginning, Caleb shouldn’t have asked her to stay; he should have had Claire Shaw accompany him.
But Serena could guess what Caleb was thinking.
He couldn’t bear to let Claire do the dirty and hard work of caregiving.
While she had been treated as a nanny and servant by Caleb from the start.
Serena smiled coldly without a word.
"By the way, Serena, in the middle of next month, take so ti to accompany !"
Patrick’s words piqued Serena’s interest.
"Accompany you for what?"
"To watch a racing competition in Country C."
"Country C?"
Serena’s long eyelashes lifted.
"Yes... I heard there’s a new racer in Country C who’s incredible, and it’s a girl... Oh, also she has the sa last na as your alias, both Lin."
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