Because You Are My Lady

Chapter 772

An eerie silence engulfed the ward when there were only three people left there and none of them spoke.

Sitting on the hospital bed, Elaine felt uneasy and jittery.

Howard's gaze made her on pins and needles.

Why did he look at her like this without blinking? She felt goosebumps all over her body.

"Ahem." Finally, she cleared her throat and looked at the man standing at the end of the bed. "Dr. Perkins, aren't you on a business trip? Why are you back?"

However, Vincent remained expressionlessly silent.

The awkward silence ensued.

Licking her dry lips nervously, Elaine was about to say something when Vincent finally shifted his gaze aside and asked, "Who are you?"

Paul knew that the last name of Elaine's employer was Perkins, so when he heard her calling him "Dr. Perkins", he immediately figured out his identity.

Smiling flatteringly, he started, "Hi, Dr. Perkins, I'm..."

"Get out!"

Vincent interrupted him with a cold voice before he could finish.

Stunned, Paul stammered, "W-What?"

Vincent frowned and snapped, "I don't like to repeat myself. Get out."

Upon hearing that, Paul went stiff and turned to Elaine. "Elaine..."

It was an awkward situation for her right now. Although she didn't know why Howard was angry, she could feel that he was not in a good mood right now.

"Paul, go back." After thinking for a while, Elaine said, "Come and visit me tomorrow morning. You can go back to have a rest tonight." Belonging to NôvelDrama.Org.

After all, he was a just young kid. Elaine figured that he was already feeling sorry for making her be admitted to the hospital. After being stared down by Howard, He must be eager to leave here as soon as possible out of fear.

Hearing her words, he immediately blurted, "Okay. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye."

Elaine nodded and urged, "Be careful on your way back."

After Paul left, she quickly got up from the bed, found a chair, and asked Howard to sit down. "Dr.

Perkins, why did you suddenly come back? Here, have a seat."

Vincent looked at her coldly and asked, "How did you get hurt?"

"I slipped..."

"Don't lie to me. Tell me the truth," he urged with a cold expression.

With a serious look, she looked up at him and started, "It is the truth. I slipped..."

"Ruben!"

Vincent shouted, and then he heard a loud bang outside the door when Ruben stumbled into the room. "Hey. Did you call for me?"

Giving him a cold glare, Vincent huffed, "Are you eavesdropping on us?"

Ruben rubbed his nose awkwardly and replied, "N-No..."

Elaine was surprised to see him though. "Mr. Lawson, why are you here?"

Putting up a pretentious surprise expression, Ruben said, "Oh, I have a stomachache, so I came to the hospital to have a check. I didn't expect to meet you here. What a coincidence."

Was it?

Skeptical appeared on Elaine's face.

Upon seeing it, Ruben quickly asked before she managed to suspect anything, "What's going on? Are you okay?"

"I slipped. The doctor said I can be discharged tomorrow."

Initially, Elaine wanted to ask both of them to sit, but the ward she was in was very small and it made the atmosphere particularly tense as two tall and sturdy men stood in a tiny space.

Without thinking much, Ruben blurted, "Good to hear that. We went to your house but no one answered the door, only to find that you weren't home. We're so worried..."

Before he could finish his words, Vincent shot his cold glare towards him.

Ruben broke out in a cold sweat for nearly made a slip of the tongue again.

The reply was out of Elaine's expectation though. "Y-You went to my house?"

Why didn't Howard just go in when he returned to his own home?

What did Ruben mean by that? Did he misspeak, or did she misunderstand his meaning?

Cursing himself in his mind, Ruben cleared his throat and explained with an awkward smile, "I mean, I went to your house to look for you, but realized that both of you were not home, so I was a little panicked, wondering what had happened to you."

Looking at Elaine's confused and skeptical expression, Ruben held his stomach and grimaced in pain, which successfully diverted Elaine's attention. "Are you alright?"

"I-I'm fine. My stomach hurts again."

"Do you need to see the doctor?"

"Oh, it's okay. Maybe it's food poisoning. I'll be fine soon."

"Okay."

Clearing his throat awkwardly, Ruben uttered, "Well, go on. I'll go to see the doctor now."

After that, he left.

The ward fell into silence again, and she didn't know what to say.

Eventually, Vincent broke the silence by saying, "I will not hold the person who hurt you accountable, but you have to tell me who did this to you."

The look in her eyes was uncertain. "I'm fine. You don't have to..."

"If you don't want to say it, I will find it out by myself, and when I do, the person who hurt you will not end well."

With a look of consternation, Elaine questioned, "W-Why did you do this?"

"You are mine. I don't like to see my woman being bullied."

Elaine pursed her lips, feeling jittery.

The look in the eyes of Vincent turned cold, and it was getting a little creepy. "Do you want to tell me or not?"

Before she spoke, a head suddenly popped out from the door followed by a familiar voice, "Listen to me. Every word he says is true and serious. When he promises you he won't hurt the person who harms you, he won't. But if you conceal the truth and he finds out himself, that person will not be so lucky."

The corner of Elaine's mouth twitched. "Mr. Lawson, aren't you going to see a doctor?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore all of a sudden, so I came back."

Elaine was unconvinced.

After saying this, Ruben shrunk and stood steadily.

Looking down at her toes, she hesitated for a moment before saying, "It was an accident. My brother didn't expect such an accident to happen. He just pushed me lightly, but I didn't stand firm. On the way to the hospital, he was scared..."

"It was that kid who hurt you?" Vincent interrupted her.

Elaine nodded. "But he didn't mean it. I'm really fine. It's just a small cut. It'll heal in a few days."

With his deep eyes staring at her for a moment, Vincent nodded and said, "Let's go."

At this moment, Elaine asked, "Go? Where to?"

"Home."

"But the doctor said that I have to stay the night for observation."

"We have a doctor at home."

This was the only sentence that Vincent had blurted before he left.

On second thought, Elaine agreed. He was a doctor himself, so he could check her out if anything happened to her at home.

Furthermore, she didn't want to stay in the hospital, so she discharged herself and went out with him.

Outside the door, Ruben was waiting for them and he immediately stood up when they came out. "What are you doing?"

"Go home," Vincent spat out the two words.

"So I can leave now?"

Glancing at him indifferently, Vincent blurted, "Go and drive the car."

Ruben looked askance at him.

"D*mn, he takes me as a driver again. I'm a graduate of Oakwood Academy, but instead, I've been driving for him over and over again!"

"This is so annoying!" Howard screamed inside his brain.