Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria)

Chapter 475

The doctor soon arrived.

Victoria had been getting ready for bed then. When she heard that a doctor was here to

see her, she froze in shock before frowning.

“Why?” she asked.

Jessie shook her head. “I don’t know. I think it’s a health checkup.“.

Victoria was fine, though. Why did they need to check on her?

As she did not understand the need, she rejected the checkup.

When Jessie left to tell them of her decision, Bane personally came into the room to

convince her.

“It’s only going to be a health checkup, Vic. Only a few questions. It won’t take much

time. Please?”

Hostility lurked in Victoria’s eyes. “Just what do you want?”

“I don’t want anything. I’m just worried about you. After all, you were hospitalized. This

is just a simple follow–up check.”

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She fell silent upon hearing him mention her time at the hospital.

Well, if it was simply a follow–up after her hospitalization, then should she not return to

the hospital for it?

Why would the doctor come to her instead?

Seeing her doubt, he continued, “The weather’s turning cold. It was not easy for him to This is property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

come all the way here, and he has been waiting for you for so long. It’s only a normal

health checkup and a few questions. Why don’t we let him come in?”

The added information worked on her.

After a moment of silence, she finally nodded. “Okay.”

She had expected a Mauldinian doctor. To her surprise, it was an Anolian. Truth be told,

he introduced himself as a Corynthean.

The world always felt friendlier whenever one bumped into a fellow countryman in a

foreign nation.

It was just like when she found out that Jessie used to live in the same city as she did.

As it was a checkup, Bane waited at a distance.

The first thing the doctor did was to check her pulse. Surprised once more, she asked,

“Do you always check a patient’s pulse?”

The doctor smiled and nodded. “Of course. One of the key principles of traditional

medicine is observation.”

Victoria pursed her lips. She had never thought she would bump into a traditional

Corynthean medicine practitioner.

The look on his face was so solemn that everyone was too afraid to make a single

sound that might even disturb him.

She did not know how much time passed before he eventually asked, “How well have

you been sleeping?”

After a pause for thought, she said, “Not bad.”

“What do you mean by that? Are you sleeping more or less? Are you able to fall asleep

easily?”

“I do fall asleep, and I sleep quite a lot.”

Every single day, she would either be thinking about her situation or wandering around

in a drowsy, half–asleep state.

While she did not do anything that took a lot of effort, she was always able to fall asleep due to how

exhausted she felt.

However, her sleep was not that deep. She rarely dreamed and constantly felt like she

was stuck in a haze as though she had been sleeping for a very long time.

He glanced at her and asked, “Stick out your tongue for me.”

She blinked at him before sticking her tongue out.

Victoria’s tongue was bright pink and shined in the light. It did not look dull or bruised

between her bright white teeth.

When Bane saw that, a light flashed in his eyes, and he uneasily looked away.

However, within a few moments, he could not resist looking at her once more. He

silently watched with eyes full of longing.

The hands hanging down by his side clenched and loosened repeatedly.

At that moment, his desire for her intensified.

The strange checkup confused her. However, the doctor was so kind and patient that

she just went along with it.

He even asked a lot of boring questions that made her wonder if he was there to chat

with her instead of checking on her health.

During the checkup, she even glanced at Bane. In the back of her mind, she thought he

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would never have been able to accept this kind of attitude from the doctor.

To her surprise, he merely smiled gently at her. He had not once questioned the

doctor’s methods.

The checkup took around 30 minutes.

Everyone then headed out, leaving her alone in her room.

Outside her room, Bane promptly asked, “Well? What’s her condition?”

After a moment of silence, the doctor replied, “What’s the source of her psychological

distress?”

He specifically used a medical term, which stunned Bane. “Psychological distress?”

“Physically, she seems fine. The issue is entirely in her lifestyle. For example, the most

obvious issues are her eating and sleeping habits.”

Bane had no retort for that. He did not know much about her sleep schedule, but he

had seen the way she ate.

“I didn’t talk to her that much today, afraid that she might end up refusing my

questions,” the doctor said.

He then instructed Bane on what to do and what was happening. After prescribing a

few pills that would ensure a healthier appetite and better sleep, the doctor left.

Bane had the servants lead the doctor out while he remained standing there with the

pack of pills in his hands.

Psychological distress?

She had lost her memories, right?

Why would she be in psychological distress?

What would she be in distress about? Was it her lost memories or the man stuck in

bed?

Upon thinking about the man stuck in bed and unconscious, Bane’s eyes darkened. If

not for Victoria, he could have continued to be Alaric’s friend.

After all, they had been great friends.

Unfortunately, if they were friends, Bane would never be able to have Victoria. If he

wanted Victoria for himself, then his only option was to be Alaric’s enemy.

Not long after the doctor’s departure, Bane entered the room with some pills and a

glass of warm water. He then gestured for her to take them.

She frowned at the white pills in his palm. “Am I sick?” she asked.

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His lips parted in a faint smile. “You’re not sick. These are just a few pills to help you

sleep.”

That only made her frown and protest against taking those pills even more. “I do not

need these. I sleep well enough.”

She even thought she slept a little too much. How could they feed her sleeping pills?

Would she ever wake up again if she took them?

“That’s not it,” Bane explained. “The doctor merely prescribed you a few calming pills

that will increase your sleep quality since you haven’t been sleeping well.”

Improve her sleep quality? Victoria glanced down at the pills once more and asked,

“What about the other pill? Are both of them sleeping pills?”

“This is for your stomach.” He explained everything in clear terms and did not lie to her

for fear that she would continue to object to pills. “You haven’t been eating much. Have

you noticed? Since you might feel some discomfort in your digestive system, he

prescribed you a pill for that as well.”

She did not realize how little she ate. Most of the time, she did not pay attention to her

food. Her time was mostly spent sleeping and brooding about her memories or Alaric.

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