The Seventh Miserable Bride

Chapter 128

"Don't go..."

When Abigail Tanner saw that he was about to leave, she suddenly jumped off the bed and coughed violently. Sebastian Simons halted his steps and hurried back to hold her up. He picked up the glass of water which was on the bedside table and fed her. "Have some."

She did not stop coughing after drinking the water. Seeing that she had been coughing non- stop, Sebastian immediately called the doctor on duty.

After another round of examination, the doctor asked angrily, "Did you smoke in the ward?" Property © NôvelDrama.Org.

He nodded and admitted, "Yes."

"What nonsense. Don't you know that smoking is prohibited in the ward? This patient was already suffering from a respiratory infection, now that she has inhaled a large amount of cigarette smoke, her lungs are now infected too. It's very likely that it will develop into tuberculosis."

Sebastian felt very guilty and said, "Sorry, it's my mistake."

Abigail was pushed into the emergency room again. Sebastian ruffled his hair in frustration and he was even more annoyed now. However, at this moment, Yasmine called him again.

"I think I'm having a fever now. Can you come back?" Sebastian sighed heavily and said, "Yasmine, please don't mess around, okay? Do you have to be like this for no reason?"

Yasmine was stunned and asked blankly, "Do you think I'm being unreasonable?"

"Are you not? I'm just doing my duty as a friend to take care of an ill person, but you keep on calling me. You were fine when I left, and now you are saying that you are having a fever. Can't you find a better excuse?"

"Do you really think that it's an excuse? Do you think that I, Yasmine Taylor, am such a dishonest person?"

Yasmine's heart ached. She actually wasn't lying to him. She had been sitting at the balcony in the cold wind for several hours last night. In the beginning, she didn't feel anything wrong, but she started to feel unwell in the middle of the night. Originally, she'd wanted to wait until dawn, but if it wasn't for the fact that she couldn't bear the splitting headache any longer, she wouldn't have called Sebastian again.

"Abigail said that she had a fever, so I came here. Now you just want to compete with her to see who is the most important person in my heart, right?"

"Well, if you want to think that way then I can't stop you."

Yasmine didn't feel like saying anything anymore. She hung up the phone feebly and threw it on the ground.

She suffered from pain and anger, and finally, it was dawn. She struggled to get dressed and after thinking for a while, she called her sister-in-law. "Tiffany, are you up?"

"Not yet. Why did you call me so early, Yasmine?"

"I'm a little unwell, so I can't drive. I might need to trouble you to drive me to the hospital."

Upon hearing that she was not feeling well, Tiffany asked nervously, "How do you feel? Where is my brother?"

Yasmine would feel better if Tiffany didn't mention her brother. When she heard of his name, Yasmine was so angry that she felt a sudden pain in her chest.

"He had something to do, so he's not at home." "Okay, I'll go over now!"

"Okay, don't tell Mom though, I don't want her to worry for me."

"Got it."

After hanging up the phone, Tiffany rushed out of home in a hurry. In less than half an hour, she appeared before Yasmine.

"Yasmine, did you not sleep at all last night? Why are the dark circles around your eyes so obvious?"

Tiffany was distressed as she approached Yasmine to have a clear look at her face.

"Yes. I started having a slight fever in the middle of the night so I couldn't fall asleep."

Yasmine packed up her things into her bag and said, "Let's go. I still have classes that I have to attend in the afternoon." Tiffany drove the car to the hospital and accompanied Yasmine into the consultation room. Initially, Yasmine just wanted to get some prescriptions or a quick injection to ease her symptoms, but the doctor insisted on giving her an IV drip.

As she was lying on the bed in the infusion room, her throat was so painful that she couldn't even say a word at all, and her head was so dizzy that she couldn't tell left from right. The nurse asked while injecting the drip for her, "Have you eaten breakfast?"

"No."

She answered in a daze.

"Please go and get something for her to eat. It will be very uncomfortable for her if she receives the drip on an empty stomach."

Tiffany immediately said, "Okay, I'll go get some now."

She rushed out of the infusion room in a hurry. Not too long after, she saw a familiar figure. She rubbed her eyes in surprise. After confirming that it was not her illusion, she shouted, "Brother!"

Sebastian was holding onto the weak girl, Abigail, and was about to leave the hospital. However, when he unexpectedly saw his sister, he stopped his steps and asked in confusion, "Why are you here?"

"I should be asking you this question. Why are you here?"

She glanced at Abigail coldly, and suddenly there was an unknown anger rising in her heart. "Tiffany, long time no see."

Abigail smiled at her. This girl who had almost become her sister-in-law in the past, but now, she was like an enemy to her.

" Yes it really had been a long time. I'm just asking out of curiosity but didn't you run off with my cousin Ethan? How can you still have the audacity to come back here?"

Abigail's face immediately darkened upon hearing what Tiffany had said.

"Tiffany, mind your manners."

"What kind of manners do you need for a woman like her?"

Abigail's expression became even more unpleasant. "Shut up!"

Sebastian rebuked his sister angrily. Tiffany could no longer hold her anger. She lashed out at Sebastian, "You're still protecting her? Your wife is sick and already in the hospital, and you're still here protecting this woman who had betrayed you! Do you have any conscience?"

"What did you say?"

Sebastian's heart thumped, and his eyebrows were tightly knitted together.

"I said your wife is hospitalized. Do you need me to repeat it again?"

"Where is she?"

Sebastian let go of Abigail's arm and said in a low voice, "Take me there." "Just forget about it. I guess this woman needs you more now. You can accompany this woman and I'll take care of my sister-in-law myself."

"Take me there!"

Sebastian growled in a low voice, which startled Abigail and Tiffany.

"What about her?"

Tiffany pointed at Abigail grumpily.

"Which ward is your Yasmine in?"

"No. 13."

Sebastian looked at Abigail and said, "Let Tiffany send you back." He then rushed over to Yasmine's ward at the infusion section.

"Hey? Why are you asking me to send her home? I don't want to send her home!"

Tiffany shouted at her brother who was already far away from them. Glaring at the weak woman whose face was as pale as a ghost, she stamped her feet and said, "Why are you still standing here? Go!"

Abigail got into Tiffany's car. She asked rudely, "Tell me the address."

"No. 123 Violet Garden Road."

Abigail said weakly. At the thought of Sebastian's resolute decision to leave her behind, she felt a sharp pain in her heart.

In order to get Abigail out of her sight as soon as possible, Tiffany stepped hard against the accelerator. Originally it would take 30 minutes to get there, but she had arrived just in 14 minutes and 33 seconds. "We're here. Please get out."

Abigail's stomach was rolling because of the speed and she immediately vomited after pushing the door open.

Tiffany wanted to start the engine and leave immediately, but when she thought about it, she felt that there was something else that she hadn't said. She got out of the car and patted Abigail on the shoulder. "Hey, you haven't told me why you came back?"

Abigail straightened her body and answered with a side- glancing at her, "I came back for a reason. There's no need to report to you, right?"

"Do you think I'm curious about the reason? If it weren't for the sake of my sister-in-law, I wouldn't have even bothered to ask you why you have come back. I'm warning you, no matter what reason was, don't you ever think of destroying my brother's relationship with his wife. My brother will not abandon my sister- in- law for a woman like you. Yasmine is more than a hundred times better and stronger than you."

Abigail bit her lower lip and stared at Tiffany with her sharp eyes. "Tiffany, since when have you hated me so much? Didn't you like me a lot last time?"

"Exactly. It's already in the past. I used to like you because I didn't know about your true personality. Now that I know it clearly, how could I possibly like you? From the day when you betrayed my

brother, you have already become my enemy. So when you see me in the future, please don't approach me. Go as far as you can. Even if you don't want to, I will." Abigail smiled sadly. "It seems that you don't know what happened at all."

"What do I need to know? I only need to know that you are a bad woman and that you have betrayed my brother. I don't need to know anything else. Just remember what I have said. You better be careful if you dare to ruin half of my dream!"

Tiffany's car was already out of Abigail's sight, but Abigail still couldn't understand what Tiffany meant. What was the half of her dream? What did it have to do with her?

In the ward full of the smell of disinfectant, Yasmine pressed her lips tightly against each other and didn't say a word. She had always hated the hospital and on top of that, there was someone who she hated even more who was standing in this room.

"Yasmine, I'm sorry. I didn't know that you were really sick. I'm sorry."

Sebastian stood in front of her bed, feeling distressed and guilty. He kept apologizing to her. When she called him last night, he really didn't expect that it would be such a coincidence that she and Abigail would be ill at the same time.

"You must get well soon. When you get better, I'll let you do anything to me. I'll let you scold me or even beat me. I will do everything that you want me to do."

"Get out. I don't want to see you now."

Yasmine ordered him to leave with a cold voice. When she needed him last night, he didn't show up. Now when she didn't need him anymore, she wouldn't even care if he appeared or not.

"How can I be at ease when you're in this state?"

"Oh, you were at ease last night so why can't you be at ease now?"

"Didn't I tell you last night? I really thought that you were simply looking for an excuse to force me to go back. At that time, Abigail was sent to the emergency room again. How could I leave her alone?"

"You can't abandon her, so you abandoned me. What if I died last night?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Sebastian covered her mouth angrily and said, "Don't say such nonsense."

Yasmine angrily pushed his hand away and said, "Stop pretending to care about me. You don't even care if I'm alive or dead!"

"What on earth do you want me to do so that you will believe that I'm not pretending? Do you want me to take out my heart and show it to you?"

She looked at him indifferently and said after a while, "Maybe you are sincere, but I just can't feel it at all."

Sebastian closed his eyes in frustration. He pinched his glabella and said, "Okay, we don't need to talk about sincerity now. Have you had breakfast yet?"

"It's none of your business."

As soon as she finished speaking, the nurse came in with a fresh bottle of saline. "Hey, haven't you eaten anything yet? Your stomach won't be able to bear it."

Sebastian turned around and left the ward without saying a word. After a short while, he came back with some food in his hand. He put them on the table, and then reached out to help Yasmine sit down.

"Don't touch me."

Yasmine shook off his hand disgustedly. When she thought that his hands might have touched Abigail before, she immediately felt sick.

"Can't you stop making a scene? Can't you wait until we get back home? Now eat some food."

"I'm already full when I see you. Please get out of here."

Sebastian sighed, "No matter how much you hate me now, there's no need for you to go against your body. Even if you don't feel sorry for yourself, I do."

He forcefully picked her up while she struggled. "I'm already very disgusted by you. Don't disgust me again!"

"Well, since you don't want to see me so much, I can leave, but you have to eat this."

He took out a hot sandwich from the plastic bag.

In order to get him to leave as soon as possible, Yasmine took it over and said, "I'll eat it. You can go now."

"... Okay."

Sebastian sighed helplessly again and dragged his tired legs as he gradually moved towards the door. Yasmine did not look at him, but only listened to his footsteps which were getting further away for her. At that moment, the grievance in her heart turned into tears which immediately streamed down her cheeks like a river.

She bit on the sandwich while sobbing sorrowfully. He really went away because she asked him to but he never came when she asked him to...

In fact, Sebastian had not left at all. How could he leave Yasmine alone in the hospital? He was standing at the corridor, waiting for her to finish the sandwich and then go back in. He secretly stood by the door and peeped into the ward, only to find that Yasmine was wiping her tears again.

He felt a sharp pain in his heart and walked in again. He sat beside her bed and asked grumpily, "It tastes better when it's soaked in tears, isn't it?"