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When Tom returned he saw the doctor changing Laurain's wound dressing. He hurriedly came towards her bed, food bag still in his hand.
"What happened? Is there any problem." Tom asked the doctor,
"No there is no problem, the wound opened" the middle age doctor replied calmly.
"Opened how" tom asked with his eyebrows furrowed he didn't understand how a stitched wound opened when laurain didn't move from the bed.
Surely, a simple mans thoughts can never go in a certain direction.
"Actually sh.." the doctor immediately shut his mouth when laurain glared at him.
Ofcourse, how can he go against the owner of the hospital.
Yīyuàn hospital was also one of the few things Laurain owned. Its not a single hospital in country C, but its a group of hospitals in many countries and cities famous around the world for its best highly trained staff and services, it also has many high level equipment which other hospital don't.Laurain named the hospital in chinese language. Yīyuàn means hospital in chinese.
Thats so like her, simple elegant and cold.
The doctor was in an awkward situation, tom was looking at him to tell him about her wound, while his boss was looking at him murderously
He looked, to and fro between them, not understanding what he should say now.
"I stood up" laurain said.
"Are you in your senses?" Tom asked rudely.
When the doctor heard tom he thought that the next person, going out the ward unconscious with broken bones will be him, but to his shock nothing like that happened.
Laurain stayed silent not giving him any response, she looked at the doctor who was standing behind tom, who was lost in his headspace, telling him to go.
She knew that the old man was waiting for some drama and action.
The doctor smiled embarrassed when laurain glared at him with a knowing look on her face.
"She is fine, just have to rest a few days, you don't need to worry"
Just as he said this he suddenly felt cold.
He looked at Laurain who was already glaring at him, he didn't understand what wrong did he do to her now.
He immediately took his leave from the room before he angers her more and had to take a leave directly from the hospital.
"You can't do any strenuous activity, you're injured you know na. Just tell me if you need anything next time. Ok"
He talked to her very kindly and gently. Laurain didn't knew how to repay kindness, nor she took his gentleness in any other sense. She just knew he wasn't angry anymore with her. She took his actions as repaying her for saving him.
She was not unaware of feelings. She just didn't took these things seriously. For her these were a waste of time but at the same time she never wanted to hurt a single innocent soul, she loved children very much, those small little things. She was complicated. Sometimes she didn't understands her own self.
Laurain was discharged the next day, tom was confused he didn't understand how can they let a seriously injured person go home the very next day.
Ofcourse, the doctors didn't take this decision. She herself wanted to go. How can anyone stop her from going home, everything in the hospital was her's. Even their salaries were her's. They didn't dare to go against this Devil.
Tom supported laurain's left hand. She didn't needed the support but tom didn't listen to her. Her right ankle was badly sprained, just as she stood up from the hospital bed extreme pain shot out from her ankle, she stumbled and was about to lose her footing when tom supported her from the hospital room to his home and her bedroom he didn't left her side once.
He gently made her sit on the bed, as he put pillows behind her back for support.
Laurain who had been alone for most of her life, felt really happy when he took care of her.
She felt warm just like the first time when 'he' took care of her.
A genuine smile came on her face, seeing tom bringing a blanket from the cupboard.
Her eyes were turning red as she smiled.
"Why are you smiling?"
Tom seeing her smile, felt light, as if a big burden was lifted from his shoulders. He was happy seeing her smile, she was fine and healthy.
Laurain looked at him and immediately closed her eyes not because she was shy or something but because she knew her eyes will be turning red. She didn't want to scare him off. She wanted to remember this moment when he took care of her. It was not that she loved him or something, she remembered everytime and everyone who has been kind to her and took care of her. As they could be counted by a single hand.
Tom only allowed her to eat light things.
At night Laurain was applying ointment on her forehead wound,without looking in the mirror, by feeling the wound.
Tom was coming in her room to put the jug of water. When he saw her applying ointment carelessly. He sighed.
"You're careless"
He came towards her taking the ointment tube from her hand.
Laurain was about to say that she could handle it. But tom saw through her.
"I'll apply it" he said not giving her a chance to disagree. He applied the tube lightly and carefully, lightly blowing on her wound at the same time.
With the time he spent with her one thing he came to know was she was self dependent women, not asking for help even when she's troubled as one day she tried making asian food something called Roti that was made with flour, the flour need to be kneaded first, she couldn't do it perfectly as sometimes she add more water than necessary or sometimes she added more salt, she tried making it almost ten times but not once did she called him, same was the case when it came to making roti. She tried many times but failing.
He also noticed that she will never stop midway while doing something no matter the time or anything. She spent the whole day in kitchen but at dinner she still made that roti which was really tasty with some kebabs(asian dish).
He bandaged her forehead and was going to apply ointment on her arm.
"I can..d.."
"I'm doing it, it will be difficult for you to apply it with your left hand" tom raised his eyes at her waiting for her to agree. Even if she didn't he will still apply the ointment himself.
Laurain nodded.
"Have you bandaged your stomach." Tom asked.
"Hmm" she nodded.
Tom had taken days off to take care of laurain.
He will always assist her whenever she came out of her room and be with her most of the time.
It had already been a week and Laurain was recovering fast. Her forehead and arm wound were mostly healed, the wound on her stomach was also healing.
Today Tom took out the photo album of their wedding and his family planning to see them with her not knowing this was his worst mistake.
Laurain was sitting on her bed looking at the map Ace send her on her phone, planning how to attack.
Tom entered the room with a knock and seeing her playing with her phone he went to sit next to her on the bed crossed leg.
Laurain immediately closed her phone, and looked at him waiting for him to explain why he came in her room.
"Lets look at the photo album" he said and opened the wedding photo album first.
He knew if he didn't talk with her, Laurain would not talk. She was a silent girl. And she didn't even feel bothered with this excruciating silence. He didn't knew how she accepted this silence.
When he lived alone he would switch on the TV just as he entered home so he won't feel more lonely.
Tom and Laurain looked at the photos and tom told her about his family properly this time. By the end of it both of them were almost lying down with their backs attached to the backrest of the bed.
Laurain opened the second album, not knowing she'll see something which she had yearned for years.
A single glimpse meant the whole world to her.
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