Chapter 502 - Palpitating Heart (1/2)

Rui waited as he watched Cali's changing expressions closely. When he noticed she was delving deeper into it he instructed, ”Don't think too much and just relax. Breathe in and breathe out.”

Cali followed his instructions as she relaxed herself and stopped her mind from thinking too much about things. She did not want to experience another bout of headache, so she did not ponder on how or where or from whom she heard that word before.

Once she calmed down, she realized what Rui called her a few minutes back. Cali put her both hands on her waist and turned to Rui asking, ”Why are you calling me sweetheart, anyway?” It was the second time he called her so, and the word was an endearment usually used by couples when they were in a relationship, so why call her like that.

”Because.. you have a very sweet heart?” Rui mumbled hesitantly.

”Are you trying to be funny right now, Doc?”

”I said call me Rui or you can also call me sweetheart since I also have a very sweet heart…” he said with a teasing grin.

Cali rolled her eyes as she walked past him mumbling, ”Unbelievable!”

She never met a doctor as shameless as him. Her first impression about doctors was that they looked and talked very seriously, and Rui was the total opposite of that.

”Sweetheart, wait for me,” Rui called with a teasing tone. He walked beside her and explained, ”Well when I first saw you I thought you look like a sweetheart… you know, like an absolute sweetheart… Young, lovable and a pleasing person.”

”It's also like a psychological tactic to improve your temper towards me, since you're often grumpy towards me…” Rui added so Cali would not feel creepy about it. But he knew in his heart why he called her that was because he missed calling her sweetheart.

”So I have decided to call you sweetheart often…”

”Whatever…” Cali sniveled.

Rui had a bright smile plastered on his face hearing her reply because for him it was still a positive response from Cali by not asking him to stop calling her like that.

Meanwhile, as Cali walked forward, she felt a little weird by her own response. She was not happy with her own answer to Rui.

She should have told him to stop calling her with such close sounding sweet words as people might misinterpret that she was in a relationship with him when she was actually not. But for some weird reason, she did not detest him calling her sweetheart but found it rather comfortable and even felt her heart at peace when he said this.

'Weird…' she mused as she sneaked glances at Rui, who was now walking beside her. Rui suddenly turned and winked at her before asking, ”Do you want some ice cream?”

Cali nodded so Rui stopped at one of the benches and said, ”I'll buy some, you sit here and wait for me.”

Cali sat down and Rui put on her big teddy bear beside her.

”You… guard our sweetheart well while I buy some ice cream…” Rui instructed as if the teddy bear was human.

Cali chuckled because she found it cute, but she quickly pursed her lips and just watched Rui walk to the ice cream booth.

”He's so weird right. So straightforward and shameless…” she murmured while watching him buying some ice creams.