Soon after, Carlos arrived.
However, Carlos didn’t enter the room right away. He paused to admire how beautiful and elegant Bella looked, sitting on the bed and staring at him.
Carlos still rembered that last night, he had only seen her asleep. When she briefly woke, he was too focused on inserting the IV in her hand to really see her. After he finished, Tristan didn’t allow him to stay in the room for too long.
"Carlos, you can co in!" Tristan urged him to move when he saw him standing near the door without taking a single step.
"Bella, let introduce you to my personal doctor. He is also my close friend. His na is Carlos Montana," Tristan said when he saw Carlos finally enter the room.
Bella was stunned as she looked at the tall, slender man with honey-brown hair who smiled broadly at her.
’He is Tristan’s best friend?’ she muttered inwardly while smiling back at him awkwardly. She felt happy because this was the first ti Tristan had introduced his best friend to her.
"Hello, Mr. Montana—" Bella’s words stopped when Carlos slowly raised his hand to stop her.
"Well, Goddess... I an, Sister-in-law, you can call by my na, Carlos..." He said happily, with a smile.
However, Carlos’s wide smile slowly faded when he stood beside Tristan and felt his threatening gaze.
"Carlos, would you mind starting to do your job?!" Tristan whispered.
Carlos silently gulped and hurriedly turned his gaze back to Bella. This ti, he had set aside his friendliness and started gazing at and talking to Bella with the calmness and professionalism of a doctor.
"Sister-In-Law, excuse . I will start to remove the IV needle from you. There will be a slight pinch, but it will be very brief," he said politely before starting to work.
"Oh, okay, doc," Bella said casually. Still, inwardly, she laughed, looking at her jealous husband’s gaze fixed on Carlos as if he wanted to slap Carlos through his stare.
After removing the IV needle from Bella’s hand and packing his dical stuff, Carlos checked her temperature one last ti before explaining her condition.
"Sister-in-law, your health has improved so much," he told her. "But I recomnd that you rest today. I suggest you get a lot of rest, preferably stay ho and not go to the office, and please avoid any strenuous activities for the ti being."
Carlos not only inford Bella about her condition but also explained why she had suddenly developed a fever: she was too exhausted, and her immune system had weakened.
"Thank you for your help, doc," Bella said gratefully, relieved that the needle was no longer in her hand.
Carlos ran his fingers through his hair, smiling awkwardly as he heard her gentle voice, but he didn’t like how she addressed him formally.
"Sister-in-law, you can call Carlos. There’s no need to speak formally to . Although this is our first eting, I’ve heard a lot about you from Tristan, so I feel like I’ve known you for a long ti. Well, I consider you my family. I hope you do the sa."
Bella was stunned to hear his words. Knowing Tristan had been telling his friends about her made her want to know more.
"Okay, I will call you Carlos," Bella said, then looked at Tristan with her curious smile. She continued, "And Carlos, I’d love to hear more about what my husband tells you about . Can you tell everything?" She wanted to know if Tristan told Carlos about their past.
Tristan smiled back at Bella, understanding the aning behind her words. Now he worried Carlos would tell her about the blood test they were doing now.
"Dear, you can talk with him later, not now. You need to have your breakfast. Carlos also needs to return to the hospital. He has an important surgery to take care of this morning," Tristan said casually.
Carlos was speechless. He didn’t know he had surgery scheduled for this morning. Silently, he vented his anger on Tristan in his mind, knowing he was trying to get rid of him. How heartless!
"Isn’t that right, Carlos?" Tristan looked at Carlos with a smile, but his smile looked like an order to follow his words.
"My friend Tristan," Carlos said, returning Tristan’s fake smile, "You are so kind… to remind ," he added while patting Tristan on his shoulder. After that, he turned back to Bella. "Sister-in-law, we can talk later. I should go back to the hospital now."
"Yes, sure. See you around, Carlos," Bella smiled at him.
Carlos leaned closer to Tristan. "Boss, you should triple my bonus this year! Or I will tell my sister-in-law about the blood test results!" he whispered.
Tristan glared at him, but he eventually nodded, "Deal!"
***
Not long after,
After Bella finished showering and changing into her casual ho clothes, she headed to Dax’s room to look after him, but Tristan stopped her.
"Dax has already started his martial arts practice with Geoffrey. They are now practicing outside."
Bella was surprised to learn that her son had imdiately been active in his activity.
"Why so fast? I an, he needs to relax a bit, right?"
Tristan shook his head. "That’s one of my conditions when he asked to follow you to the East City. Once we return, he must be active again with his martial arts training because I saw him slacking so much lately."
"Co on, he is only four!"
"He needs to train his foundation to master his martial arts movents. Did you see how terrible Liam is? He can’t even kick soone..." Tristan said, held her hand, and walked toward the stairs.
Bella couldn’t refute Tristan’s words. He was correct; their son needed to know how to fight because many bad people would target him if they knew his identity as the billionaire Tristan Sinclair’s son.
She silently took a deep breath and followed Tristan down the stairs to the dining room.
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