Chapter 652: Side Story 29: Ink-Dot Plum Fragrance (27)
Alia Smith didn’t have dinner and slept until the next day, after nine in the morning.
When she opened her eyes, she looked at her bright room, and her head was spinning. She didn’t know what year it was or what ti it was.
Who is she, and where is she?
It took a while for her consciousness to catch up, and then she felt the chill on her leg.
Alia suddenly sat up and saw William Lane sitting at the foot of the bed with his head down, then she fell back into the bed: “Ah.”
William heard her sigh and walked over to the head of the bed, putting the ointnt and cotton swabs on the bedside table and sat on the bed. He pulled Alia’s face out of the pillow, “What’s wrong?”
“My back hurts.” Alia said, looking pitiful.
William’s hand reached into the blanket to massage her waist: “It’s so thin. I didn’t dare apply much force yesterday.”
Alia couldn’t believe what she heard and stared at him in shock. After a mont of silence, she asked, trembling, “Say that again. Are you blaming ? Is it my fault? Did you use less force?”
William leaned down and kissed her, “My fault, all my fault. Don’t be mad.”
Alia felt wronged.
William whispered gently, “I’ll be more gentle next ti.”
“Really?”
William: “… I’ll try my best.”
Alia turned her head away and ignored him. After a while, she asked, “What were you doing just now?”
“Applying the dicine.”
“What dicine?”
William massaged her waist slowly, “dicine to reduce bruising. It will make the marks on your skin fade faster.”
“… Oh.”
“Are you hungry?” asked William.
“I don’t know.” Alia laid on the bed and sunk her head back into the pillow, mumbling, “I can’t feel anything.”
“Don’t sleep anymore, eat sothing, and then sleep.” William propped up her face.
“Did you ask for leave for ?” Alia asked.
“I asked for leave the day before yesterday,” William replied, “for three days.”
Alia opened her eyes and looked at him, thinking she was giving him a fierce look: “Hmph!”
William laughed and kissed her again, “I’ll go downstairs to get so food. Have a bite before going back to sleep.”
“I won’t.”
William squinted his eyes, “Rebellious phase?”
“Yeah. So what?” Alia slled the fragrance of the pillow.
“It’s nothing.” William rubbed her head, “Just a little brat. Easy to handle.”
“You’re the kid.” Alia muttered.
“At my age… I can’t be a kid anymore.” William rubbed her head again, “Be good, I’m going to get so food.”
“Oh.”
…
Alia rested at ho for another two days, not even getting out of bed on the first day. She ate so food in the morning and slept again, then watched Charlotte’s TV series for a half-day in bed in the afternoon.
It had been a long ti since she had been this unproductive.
The next day, William stayed with her and read books all day. When Alia didn’t understand sothing, William would explain it to her.
William had initially wanted her to stay at ho for another day.
However, Alia was too anxious about being unproductive and couldn’t stay at ho any longer.
So, William took her to the Dance Association.
In the evening, there was a class. After William got off work from the Research Institute, he dropped her off at the school and went to work overti at his family-owned company. After Alia’s class, he picked her up again.
“Are you tired?” William brought her so fruits and handed them to her.
“Not tired.” Alia took the fruit box, opened it and ate a piece of waterlon, “So sweet.”
William smiled and helped her fasten her seat belt before kissing her lips, “Hmm, quite sweet.”
Alia pursed her lips, then inserted a piece of waterlon for him.
William ate it and started the car, “This piece is not as sweet as yours.”
Alia chuckled, “Nonsense, it’s obviously the sa lon. You say that, but the lons must feel wronged.”
William laughed too, then said after a while, “Let’s go back to the old mansion. I have to go on a business trip tomorrow.”
“Huh?” Alia looked at him.
“It’s just dostic.” William said, “It will be quick, two days at most.”
After a pause, he said, “I’ll try to make it in two days. Why don’t you co with ?”
Alia shook her head, “You be careful and co back soon.”
William sighed reluctantly, “Okay.”
Since Alia lived in the old mansion, soone from the old mansion would pick her up and drop her off at the Dance Association and school with Sophie Ortiz.
So, William temporarily took Jas Lane away to deal with business matters in other places.
On the first night that Alia slept alone at ho, she could not fall asleep.
No matter how she tossed and turned, she couldn’t sleep.
It wasn’t until 2 AM that she fell asleep, but she woke up again, shortly before six o’clock. After washing and rinsing, Alia accompanied the already awake Old Master Lane for a walk in the courtyard.
Then, Alia had breakfast and went to the Dance Association with Sophie Ortiz.
There was a small performance, and Sophie wanted Alia to join her.
Alia hadn’t been on stage for a long ti due to various reasons and had mainly been practicing.
This ti, they were going to perform a repertoire they had rehearsed before.
Alia had rehearsed with them but hadn’t been on stage with them.
When Sophie asked her this ti, Alia readily agreed.
But, as soon as she agreed, within ten minutes, Alia received a phone call from her second sister.
The sisters stayed in touch regularly, but they rarely called each other.
So when Alia saw her number at this ti, she had a bad feeling.
Once she answered the call, Eleanor Smith cried, “Alia, our eldest sister is in the hospital. She… I… I went to the hospital, and her in-laws wouldn’t let see her. I can’t contact her either. I… I called the police, but they treated it as a family dispute and left shortly after.”
It took Alia a mont to recover from the shock, leaning against a wall, “Which… which hospital is she in?”
“In… in that private hospital in Wakefield County,” Eleanor said through her tears, “I don’t know what to do? I don’t know how she is right now. But she… she’s in the maternity departnt. But… but she never told us anything.”
“Don’t worry, don’t worry. I’ll be right there,” Alia said, while walking out of the house.
She hailed a taxi at the entrance, reported the destination, and left.
It wasn’t until ten to fifteen minutes after hanging up the phone that Alia ca to her senses, rembering to ask for leave from Sophie and telling her she had sothing going on, so she might need to ask for a few days off and wouldn’t be able to participate in the performance.
Sophie imdiately gave her leave and was concerned about her, asking what had happened.
Alia didn’t know the situation over there, so she just told Sophie that it had sothing to do with her family.
Sophie told Alia to inform her if anything happened.
Alia agreed. After hanging up the phone, she called the school to ask for leave as well.
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