Chapter 2: Gunshot
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"You want to go outside?" Chleo asked Kirko without emotion on her face.
"Do I have to repeat it to you? Kirko answered irritably.
He still can't believe what Chleo did to him the other day. But the Atlhete billionaire has no choice. He has already asked the hospital to replace her. But there's no other nurse available at the moment.
"I want to go to the park. I need fresh air. It's suffocating here. Kirko sat up in bed. "Give me the wheelchair. I will go there alone."
"As if I would let you. Fine. I'll take you to the garden." Chleo gets the wheelchair and park it near Kirko's hospital bed.
She tried to assist Kirko help him sit in the wheelchair. But Kirko refused.
"I can manage,"
"Fine,"
Chloe watches Kirko have a hard time transferring from the bed to the wheelchair. Because of his injured leg.
"Are you just going to see me? Instead of helping me?" Kirko uttered it irritably.
"But you said you could manage, sir," Chloe responded sarcastically.
"Is that what you're seeing right now?" Kirko asked.
"Fine. I will help you, sir." Chleo got closer to helping Kirko.
But when Kirko reached for Chleo's hand for her to support him, he accidentally pulled Chleo with force, causing her to lose balance, and they both fell to the bed.
Kirko can't help but be mesmerized when he looks at Chleo's face, which is only an inch away from his face.
"Why did you pull me?" Chleo asked, still without emotion on her face.
"I didn't pull you. Is it just that you are so weak?" Kirko responded, still looking at Chleo's face.
They are still in that position when the door opens.
"Oh my!" Mikuru gasped at the scene she saw. "What are you two doing?" She asked, shocked.
"It's not what you think." Chleo gets up and helps Kirko sit up.
"What happens? Are you okay, sir?" Mikuru worriedly asked their patient.
"Don't worry, I'm Fine. I just want to get some fresh air in the garden. But your nurse here is weak. She couldn't help me transfer to the wheelchair," Kirko explains.
"You know that it wasn't true, Mikuru. It's just that I fell because he forcefully pulled me. That's why I fell," Chleo explained.
"Alright. Let me help you transfer, Mr. Kirko, to the wheelchair. So that you can bring him to the garden." Mikuru helps Chleo put Kirko in the wheelchair.
"Are you not busy, Nurse Mikuru?" Kirko turned to Mikuru and asked.
"Why?"
"It is okay if you take me to the garden instead of her." Kirko swiftly glanced at Chleo, then returned her glance to Mikuru.
"Oh! Sorry, sir. But I have lots of patients to attend to. Don't worry, Nurse Chleo will take care of you." Mikuru smiled at Kirko.
Kirko's face wrinkled. "I don't think so."
"Of course, I will take care of him. I'm his personal nurse, remember? We'll go to the garden now." Chleo pushed the wheelchair and gave Mikuru an emotionless gaze.
Mikuru shook her head. She can't do anything about her friend being weird.
As for Kirko, he can't do anything but be patient with his nurse. Instead of the other way around. It should be the nurse who has patience with her patient.
But it's different in Kirko's case because he has a weird nurse like Chleo.
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In the garden, Kirko was enjoying the fresh air. It's been a while since he was able to go out and breathe some fresh air. Because of the injuries he got from the assassin who tried to kill him in Japan.
"Can you help me sit on the bench?" Kirko asked Chleo, who was standing beside him.
"Okay," Chleo responded, then helped Kirko.
But Chleo suddenly stopped when she sensed something.
"What's the matter?" Kirko asked, looking at Chleo, frowning.
A gunshot interrupts Chleo as she is about to respond. It's a good thing she has a very fast reflex. She was able to cover Kirko, and they fell together on the ground.
Kirko's bodyguards chase the assassin right away, while some of them help Kirko and Chleo get up and go inside the hospital.
"Check the perimeter and make sure Mr. Hanasawa's safety is assured," the head bodyguard ordered the other bodyguards.
They are already back in Kirko's room while some of his bodyguards search for the assassin.
"Are you okay? Your arm is bleeding," Kirko worriedly asked Chleo when he saw the blood in her arms.
"I'm okay. I will just go clean and put a bandage on this. I'll leave you for a while." Chleo is holding the part of her arm that's bleeding, but there's still no emotion on her face.
"Okay. You can leave me while my bodyguards are here," Kirko said to Chleo.
"Alright. I will be back. It won't take long." Then Chleo left.
"She is really weird. Is she a robot? It seemed that she didn't feel any fear. She didn't even show that she was hurt." Kirko can't help but utter those words as Chleo leaves.
"I'm sorry, sir. We weren't expecting this to happen. We will do everything to catch the assailant," the head bodyguard apologized, bowing his head to Kirko.
"You should be. Or else all of you will be fired," Kirko warned. "We didn't hire all of you for nothing. Don't waste the money we are paying you. Do your job properly."
"Yes, sir. I'm sorry. We will do our best to make sure that this doesn't happen again." The head bodyguard bows his head at Kirko.
Meanwhile, Chleo leaves the hospital instead of treating her wound.
Kirko believes that his enemy was the one who attacked. But Chleo thinks it was her stepmother who was behind the assassination attempt. And she is the target, not Kirko.
Chleo goes to the house that she never even wishes to live in because she doesn't want to be with her evil stepmother and stepsister.
But because of the attempt on her life a while ago, she went there to confront them.
When she reached the house, Chleo let out a heavy sigh before going in. She has to force herself to face the people she doesn't want to see.
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