Chapter 337 - More Than I Care To Admit (2/2)

”Glad it made you laugh.” On this comment, both Ru and Jie rolled their eyes at each other.

A moment of comfortable silence passed just like that before Jie broke the silence.

”I wish you could come sooner.”

”Huh? Really? Why?” Ru lifted her eyes from the doctor's notes that she was going through.

”You could have knocked some sense into my wife's brain.” Ru saw the way his fists were clenched tightly. ”I can't believe that the person for whom I've been fighting constantly actually was planning on leaving me. You can't imagine what I went through when the first words that registered in my mind were that she's gonna leave me. Imagine waking up to that.”

Ru didn't interrupt him, she knew him better to know that he wasn't done just yet. Sure enough, he spoke again, ”She promised me that she won't forget me. Now you tell me, how can she even think about leaving me? Isn't it akin to forgetting me? Forgetting us and whatever we have?”

”Why aren't you saying anything?” Jie turned to glare at Ru only to find her craning her neck out of the window. ”What are you doing there?”

Then he heard her voice but she wasn't talking to him. Instead, she was talking to someone outside the window. ”Adia! Just throw it up!” He shifted a bit to see her catching a bar of chocolate before shouting, ”Nice throw!” Did he find it odd that she just got something to eat through the window while they were on the third floor of the hospital? Abso-freaking-lutely not!

He just picked up a vase by his bed and threw right at her back. Ru spun her body and the vase went right out of the window. Seeing his not-so-happy look, she questioned, ”Are you done whining like a little girl?”

Jie had the urge to strangle her. As if hearing his thoughts, she moved closer to him and said, ”Eat something sweet first. You obviously need some strength to strangle me.”

She said it in a playful way but that was the moment Jie realized what she was doing. She had been scared... For him. She only found out about his accident when she came last night. He could imagine how much she must have blamed herself for not knowing.

Even right now, she was trying to make him laugh. She knew he'll lose his temper and it won't end well. Not for anyone at all.

”Why do you know me so well?” He breathed out tiredly.

”Oh, I don't know. Perhaps, because you and I are soul-brothers. Connected from right here.” She jabbed him on his chest making him flinch a bit.

Looking into her green eyes, Jie held her wrist and pulled her in for a hug. He felt her body stiffen up. Needless to say, she wasn't the hugging kind of a person. But in his arms, she relaxed visibly.

”Did I scare you?” He asked.

Ru bit her lip before answering, ”More than I care to admit.” That one sentence was enough for him to relax.

(*): ;”Jack Sparrow”: Character name of Jhonny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean