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Celeste covered herself with a blanket, closed her eyes to take a nap.
When she opened her eyes again, the environment outside the car window
had turned unfamiliar. It was still dark, and the headlights cut through the
night, illuminating a narrow path forward.
Celeste rubbed her eyes..
“How much longer?” she inquired.
“Just one more hour.”
The sky, veiled in mist, had already started to reveal a faint dawn.
It wasn’t until they arrived at the hospital that Celeste’s anxiety began to subside. The Intensive Care Unit was located on the second floor. As Celeste
ascended the stairs, she saw Kendric standing outside the ward.
He was dressed in a black overcoat, a stark contrast against his pale face. He stood there, exuding an aura of profound sorrow.
Caleb held immense significance in Kendric’s life. In Kendric’s heart, Caleb wasn’t just his grandfather but also a role model. Caleb was his guiding light that illuminated his path.
Kendric was engulfed by endless helplessness. He couldn’t wrench his grandfather back from the grasp of the Grim Reaper. In this moment, he seemed
remarkably small and powerless.
“Kendric.”
Celeste softly called out to him, and he turned around. It was then that she could clearly see his face.
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It seemed he had lost a lot of weight, his eye sockets sunken, and his cheeks
pinched.
But Celeste’s arrival stirred up a ripple on the dead water in his eyes.
“Why are you here?”
Since they parted last time, they hadn’t seen each other for a full two
months and three days.
“How’s Grandpa? Why did his condition suddenly turn critical?”
“Grandpa has always been plagued by ailments. The doctor said that the
organ failure was the reason for the deterioration of his condition.”
Yes, Caleb had been suffering from a myriad of health issues. Back then, the
passing of Kendric’s father was a significant blow to him. Moreover, he had to spend great energy managing family business, which had left him more and
more exhausted.
“Originally, Grandpa wished to witness our wedding before he died. But we broke up.”
“He’d be so happy if he wake up and see you now,” Kendric mumbled.
The following day, the sky was clear. The sunlight filtered through the ward’s windows.
Caleb’s condition still remained critical.
Kendric paced anxiously outside the ward. He was now a caged animal trapped in despair.
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Celeste had been at the hospital for two days, and their conversations were few and far between. Kendric seemed unusually quiet. During the day, he would wait on the ward for Caleb to wake up. At night, he’d push himself to work late.
Celeste was worried that Kendric would stress himself to much, but she had
no way to persuade him into rests.
One noon, Cade brought them lunch.
While Celeste was setting up the meal, she heard a muffled thud behind
her. She turned around, only to see Kendric lie motionless on the ground.
“Doctor!” she shouted.
Tears poured down her cheeks and fell like raindrops on his coat.
Celeste felt her heart pound in her chest. Each beat sounded like a
thunderclap in her ears. She felt an overwhelming sense of fear and panic.
She cried out desperately, calling Kendric’s name, hoping to wake him up.
But there was no response. He just lay on the cold marble floor.
In this moment, all her suppressed love and feelings for this man washed away her sanity like floods.
“Ken, wake up, please!”
“Doctor, help! Doctor, save him!”
“The diagnosis is in, it’s acute gastric bleeding,” the doctor said.
His irregular eating habits, pent–up emotions, and the reckless work style, a combination of these factors had led to this physical issue.
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Celeste felt drained of all her strength, and her voice came out hoarse as
she asked, “is it… serious?”
“Surgery is necessary, and we need his family to sign the consent,” the
doctor replied.
Celeste’s hands trembled so much that she could hardly hold the pen.
“Is there any risks in this surgery? Will he… will he survive?”
The doctor reassured her, “any surgery has risks, but please don’t worry.
It’s just a minor surgery. He’ll wake up after the anesthesia wears off.”
Her tensed nerve eased a bit. She waited outside the operating room.
Looking at the surrounding white walls, she was like at a loss in a fog.
For a long time, she had believed that leaving Kendric and Melville would
allow her to escape the feeble, indecisive herself.
Her aspiration was to become strong and independent, to have a successful career. And she believed the precondition to achieve these was to get rid of Melvilles, so she forced herself to turn a bind eye to them.
However, in the process of burying her past, she had buried the part of her that once held hope for happiness in love.
She had grown cold, pitiless, and over–vigilant when facing Melvilles. She no longer believed in love.
When Cade mentioned that Kendric was in ill health recently, she paid little attention.
Over the past half year, she didn’t even give a call to Grandpa and asked for
his condition.
Even when Cade came to invite her to visit Caleb, her initial response was
that she needed to avoid seeing anyone related to Melvilles.
Subconsciously, she thought meeting Melvilles was a betrayal of herself, a
concession to Kendric.
She confined herself to the image of being independent and strong.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she buried her face deep into her palms. She
was grappling with intense feelings of confusion, fear, and insecurity.
Was this really the self she had wanted to become?
