A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 298 The Last One

She buried her head deeply into her arms. Her voice was muffled but firm, whimpering slightly. He was able to imagine just how much pain she was in.

He then saw the bright red bloodstain on her hand but remained still. He then looked at the broken goblet and immediately realized what had happened.

“I know you are sad and I understand what you feel. But if you don’t tell me then how can I help you? I want to help you but you never give me the chance to. I’m getting tired of it! Vincent, you have a son now so you can’t be letting so many people down. You can’t be causing harm upon your son just for revenge.”

He said nothing! But after a while, he knelt and tried to hold her up.

Leila raised her eyes a little fearful but when her tear-stained face looked directly at his eyes. She could see a trace of worry in his eyes.

Leila felt some relief at the moment. She then turned her face away but as she began to calm, she felt that she was still crying.

Vincent’s anger suddenly vanished and his heart began to melt. His originally cold voice also sounded gentler without him even realizing, “If you are tired then go to sleep! You need to stop crying.”

Once he had put her onto the bed, he took off his suit, threw it onto the sofa, then took off his tie and made a phone call. Not too long after he brought over some supplies to stop the bleeding, he then took her hand and used some alcohol solution to help her disinfect the wound. Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

Leila was shocked. Laying there motionless, she felt some stinging pain from the alcohol solution on her wound.

“Stay strong, it will hurt a bit, but if we don’t do this then it will get infected!” He said and then helped her press a cotton ball over the wound. However, she felt a stinging pain on her wound and wanted to take her hand away but he held on tighter. She wanted to cry.

“There’s no need to clean this wound!”

“If you don’t disinfect the wound then it will get infected!”

“It hurts too much!” Leila was afraid of the pain and felt that disinfecting the wound hurt more than the actual wound.

“This isn’t even meant to hurt that much!” He said, “You really can’t handle this little amount of pain?”

Leila was in a daze. His words struck her slightly. Was she really unable to bear such a small amount of pain?

He washed the bloodstains off with the alcohol and then touched the mark on her wrist and was startled slightly, “What is this?”

Leila was shocked. As she thought about the kidnapping, she decided not to say anything.

“What happened? Please answer my question!”

“I hurt myself by accident!” Leila was afraid to say what had happened as if she told Vincent that someone was forcing her to divorce him then it would be even harder to get divorced.

She still didn’t know what that person wanted but for a time she felt very miserable. Vincent would use her to give vent to his anger, same with what happened to her sister, and even strangers bullied her. It really seemed that this was her fate, and now all she could do was to just accept this.

“You did this to yourself?” Vincent raised his eyebrows suspiciously. This was clearly the mark of a rope so he knew she was lying.

“Yes.” Feeling guilty, she lowered her head and didn’t dare to speak anymore for fear that she would end up revealing everything.

Vincent’s gaze suddenly sharpened and as he looked at her clear eyes and pale lips under her straight nose. He could tell that she was hiding something.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, he stared intently at her and then moved closer to her.

“Vincent…” Leila whispered, not used to him being like this.

Vincent carried on looking at her but said nothing. He got onto the bed, stretched out his arms around her, and then said in a low voice, “You’d better not be hiding anything from me. If I want to know something then I will always be able to find out the answer, do you understand?”

Leila sighed and nodded.

“And if anyone tries to bully you then you know I will take care of it!” His tone was a little rough however softened as he said, “No one is allowed to bully you except for me!”

“Thank you, no one is bullying me!” As long as he doesn’t bully her then no one can bully her because everyone else is just a stranger to her. However, Vincent, how can you understand what she was thinking inside?

As she laid down on the large bed, she curled herself up in a ball and rested in his arms. Then as she breathed in his alluring smell, she started to feel as if she was in a dream.

Vincent closed his eyes and hid the doubt that he was feeling about the situation. Did the mark on her wrist have something to do with Macey?

After a while, Vincent had fallen asleep but Leila had not, so she gently got out of the bed. However, since the door couldn’t be opened, she could only go into the bathroom.

She then closed the door and started to cry as she felt her whole world was spinning and falling apart.

Was this world still filled with these kinds of people? Just now she had asked him something however he didn’t deny it, so could it be that this was the case? Was Vincent’s dad killed at the hands of her father?

As she sat on the deluxe toilet seat, her tears continued to fall.

While crying, she suddenly choked slightly which made her cover her mouth in fear that Vincent would hear her crying. She hadn’t eaten much during her lunch, and after not eating dinner and then being kidnapped by that stranger, her stomach didn’t feel so comfortable. She couldn’t help but frown slightly as she stretched out her hand and started rubbing her stomach slowly.

She felt real pain!

Perhaps it was because she hadn’t eaten anything and it was just her stomach empty, however, she continued to cry.

She then started to moan uncomfortably.

The door then opened and Vincent appeared.

She suddenly raised her head and looked at him. Her stomach then contracted again which made her unable to help but keep crying.

As she saw him, her stomach began to hurt even more. She can either pretend to be strong or actually be strong, but sometimes whenever she looked at him, she couldn’t help but feel weak.

“Why are you crying? Your wound wasn’t that serious? So, what are you doing hiding in the bathroom crying?” His tone was sarcastic. However, he used his hand to wipe the tears away from her eyes, while more and more tears kept coming.

“If you keep crying then you will cry yourself to death! Haven’t you cried enough yet? Hey, are you listening to me?”

She had heard him but she couldn’t stop the tears from falling.

What was he doing talking to her in such a gentle and caring tone?

Her stomach was starting to hurt even more. It was so painful that she had to bite her lips as she started panting.

“What’s wrong Leila?” Vincent sensed that there really was something wrong with her, and saw beads of sweat start to fall from her forehead. “Leila? What hurts? Why are you crying? That was the last video and you’ve already destroyed the file so I won’t threaten you over this anymore!”

Leila was in a daze. Her stomach was in extreme pain! However, she suddenly started to feel some strength after hearing this, “What did you say?”

“That was the last one!” He said solemnly. “I won’t threaten you with Macey ever again! It’s finished!”

She was stunned and her face turned pale as her stomach was very painful. There were still tears in her eyes, but she felt very happy hearing his words.

Leila was still staring at Vincent with her misty eyes, but after a few seconds with still no reaction she finally could only say, “Really?”

“Come out, what are you doing sitting on the toilet?” He said again, his tone back to its usual coldness.

Leila then said gently, “My stomach hurts.”

“What?”

“My stomach is hurting…” She lowered her head again. Her voice was soft like a child’s when they had done something wrong.

Once he heard this, his anger seemed to extinguish. Then after a short moment of silence, he said quietly, “Why is your stomach hurting?”

“I’ve always had a bad stomach!” Leila tried to stand up, but as she stood up her numb feet made her tremble slightly and she almost fell to the ground. However due to his sharp eyes and swift hands he reacted quickly and used his strong arms to support her waist and pull her into his arms.

The faint smell of tobacco filled her nose. However, his chest was warm.

“Your feet have gone numb?” His low voice was full of concern which surprised Leila slightly, however, she then nodded unconsciously.

But …

Her stomach suddenly tightened again and began to ache once more.

“Uh... my stomach was in pain… very pain…” The pain was so strong that she couldn’t help but bend over and curl up into a ball.

“Damn it! Why didn’t you say that your stomach was hurting earlier? Silly girl.” Gently reproaching her, Vincent then picked her up and put her down onto the bed.

He then picked up his phone and dialled a number, “Hey! Manager Billy, could you get Dr. Cian to come over!”

“There’s no need for a doctor…” Leila immediately took his arm, “I just need to lie down! I haven’t eaten anything so could you get someone to bring up some food for me!”

Vincent frowned, “Are you sure you don’t need a doctor?”

“Yes! There’s no need!” Her stomach problem was a chronic illness. In the past, her mother, due to her work wasn’t able to look after her. Therefore, whenever she was hungry like this after not eating for so long, her stomach got like this. It was just some stomach inflammation, and once she had eaten something, she would usually be fine by the evening.

“Get someone to bring over some food, some nutritious porridge, something soft and suitable for someone with stomach discomfort. Yes, get the restaurant to prepare it immediately and send it to my suite! Also, could you get someone to come and clean my room?”

As he put down the phone, he then looked at her with concern, “When did it start hurting?’

“Just now… but now it’s already a lot better!” She climbed into the bed and really did feel a little better.

“You didn’t eat anything for dinner this evening?”

“No!”

Her face dimmed slightly.

“Why didn’t you eat anything?”

“I didn’t feel like it!” She whispered.

“Why is that?” He seemed a little surprised.

“I wasn’t in the mood to eat. And seeing you… ushering your son, I just wasn’t in the mood.” She was just stating the facts, however as she spoke her stomach began to growl a few times.

Vincent pursed his lips together but was smiling slightly.

Knock…Knock…

There was then the sound of a knock on the door. Vincent went over to open the door and she saw the waiters come in with the plates. There were six waiters in total. Each of them was carrying two or three plates and bowls each.

“Sir, here we have some noodles and some porridge, we weren’t sure which flavour you wanted, so we prepared some extra to choose from.”

“Just put them down and then leave! Have one person dispose of the garbage on the floor and remember to clean up the broken glass!” Vincent said solemnly.

“Of course!”

As the last waiter who had cleaned up the broken glass shards finally left, Vincent then picked up a bowl of hot seafood porridge and brought it over to her. “Have some of this first.”

The food really did smell very nice, and since she was hungry, she was eager to eat something. But because he was holding the porridge in front of her, she didn’t get up immediately and instead just tried to sit up.”

However, Vincent stopped her and said, “Just stay lying down and don’t move. I’ll feed you.”

Her eyes widened in astonishment and her stomach cramped again, “It’s ok, I’ll do it myself.”

“Just lie down!” His tone was rather domineering which made her unable to refuse. He then sat down on the bed next to her, took a spoonful of porridge, blew on it a few times, and then fed it into her mouth.