Chapter 13 I Like It

• “You’ll be in excruciating pain when the anesthetic passes, but just try to brave it out. If you really can’t take it, come and look for me. I’ll prescribe you some painkillers, but you must avoid taking them if possible since they’re bad for the body.”
• The doctor was very gentle and beautiful. She was 24 years old this year, and her name was Zoey Harper. Just having completed her internship, she stayed on as a doctor in this hospital. Besides, she also had a scar on the inner part of her left leg. The reason I knew so much about her was attributed to the fact that she was my high school classmate. Once, when we went camping during high school, she lost her footing and cut her leg on a broken branch, while I was the one who’d saved her back then by carrying her back to the camping site. Indeed, life was very astounding at times. I’d saved her back then, and today, it was her turn to help me. The only difference lay in the fact that I was no longer the young boy who had a crush on her but was now a gigolo. Meanwhile, she was no longer the school belle but was now an angel in a white coat.
• After Zoey had left, I lay on the hospital bed, inwardly giving thanks for her presence here. Otherwise, no one would’ve helped me with the hospitalization procedures.
• Just when I was feeling groggy and was about to doze off, the door of the hospital room was pushed open, and the rapid clicking of high heels hitting the floor rang out. Opening my eyes, I was greeted by Angelina’s enraged face. However, the rage didn’t seem to be directed at me but borne of her worry for me, and that had me feeling rather touched.
• “Sam, are you okay?” Angelina crouched beside my bed. Although her expression was calm, I could see the worry in her gaze.
• In a shaky voice, I replied, “I don’t know either. That part of me was slashed once, so I don’t know if it still works. How about you sit on it and try it out, Miss Holman?”
• All at once, Angelina grew so irate that she swung a hand at it, the pain so great that my body arched. “I’m afraid it won’t work anymore now.”
• “Serves you right! Who asked you to be such a rogue?” Despite her admonishment, Angelina’s behavior and movements were filled with concern. Gently placing me flat on the bed, she then pressed a light kiss to my cheek. “It won’t hurt anymore with my kiss.”
• “Miss Holman, you kissed the wrong place. The part you hit earlier hurts!”
• Angelina stretched out her hand to thump it again, but I quickly placed my hands over it. After playing around, she then tucked her long hair behind her delicate ear. “A lady in the shop saw you getting slashed and called me. I’ve already had someone investigate the matter, and James is the mastermind. Don’t worry, I won’t allow you to suffer these wounds without retribution.”
• I waved a hand. “You don’t need to go to the trouble, Miss Holman. I’ll handle my own affairs myself. While I still can’t do anything to James at present, I believe he won’t bother me anymore after I’d taken these 18 slashes. I’ll be putting it on his tab and settling the score with him in the future.”
• Angelina stared at me for a very long time. “You’re as stubborn as I am. I’ll give Alice a call and have her come back to look after you.” However, I declined her goodwill. After all, the slashes are on my chest and back, so my capabilities weren’t affected. Then, she chatted a bit more with me before she left.
• When it was approaching dinnertime, Elizabeth called me and asked me out for dinner, but how could I go out for dinner in my current condition? Now that the anesthetic had passed, I was even grimacing in pain! Thus, I declined her invitation although I could hear from her tone that she was upset. Ah, who cares if you’re upset? I was upset to be slashed, but I still suffered 18 slashes, didn’t I?
• However, about half an hour later, Elizabeth appeared in my hospital room, and she even brought takeaway from a local specialty restaurant. “I didn’t know that you were in the hospital. Why didn’t you tell me?”
• “I didn’t want to worry you. You’re already very busy with work during the day, so it isn’t worth distracting and worrying you over such a paltry matter. Plus, this isn’t a big deal. I’ll be fine in a couple of days.”
• Elizabeth was very touched. Grasping my hand, she kissed it gently before placing it against her cheek. “Are you an idiot? Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. Don’t always consider others.”
• Feeling the tender warmth of her cheek under my hand, a fire ignited within me. “Well, I’ve considered myself, but you refuse to do it either. I’ve been stifling my desires for over 20 years, but you won’t help to put out my fire, merely giving me silk stockings or a bra. You should be baiting the hook when you fish. No one baits the hook with the packaging itself before throwing the line into the river.”
• “18 slashes aren’t too much for you considering how filthy your mouth is!” Elizabeth declared ruthlessly, her nose wrinkled. However, her big, gorgeous eyes were brimming with tenderness.
• I wanted to eat by myself, but Elizabeth forbade me from doing so, insisting on feeding me instead. At this exact moment, the relationship between the two of us didn’t seem to be that of a prominent client and a gigolo at all. Rather, we resembled a couple. After eating, she then kept me company for a while longer before she took her leave.
• Before leaving, she told me that she’d settle the score with James on my behalf, but I turned her down as well. “My village never had a rule of letting a woman stand up for a man, so you just wait obediently. I’ll take care of him.”
• Elizabeth agreed, but she muttered, “There are so many rules in your village. I’m not a daughter-in-law in your village.”
• “Even if you want to be a daughter-in-law in my village, the villagers won’t want it. You’re too beautiful, so they’d be worried that all the men in the village would be disinterested in sowing their oats at night, affecting the continuity of the next generation.”
• “If you talk nonsense again, I’ll hit you!” Elizabeth threatened viciously before leaving, but there was a smile on her face when she left.
• After Elizabeth had left, I thought that I could now have a good rest. After all, I’d lost a lot of blood and was now feeling rather hazy. However, Hannah came at this time. Luckily, she didn’t come while Elizabeth was here, or else they’d surely be fighting like cat and dog.
• Contrary to my expectations, Hannah was very gentle. Her seductive image of clinging onto me when we’d first met was gone, as was her domineering temperament when she’d slapped me viciously upon being rejected. However, she was still as infuriated; she was infuriated at the b*stard who’d slashed me for no reason. Meanwhile, I merely told her that it was my bad luck to have been mistaken for someone else and slashed. She then poured me a glass of water and helped me sit up besides chatting with me for a long while, but she just didn’t leave. “Here, I’ll pour you another glass of water.”
• “Miss Jenkins, don’t pour me another glass. I’ve been holding my pee for a long time. If I drink more water, I might piss my pants…”
• “Why are you holding your pee? Are you still shy with me?” As Hannah said that, she helped me up. Then, assisting me by the arm, she walked toward the washroom in the single hospital room.
• After flipping the toilet lid, I stood there and waited for her to leave, but she didn’t leave.
• “Just pee. Did you think I’d take advantage of you? I’m just afraid that you’ll lose your balance and fall down. Hurry up and pee!”
• In this matter of urinating, ever since I’d had recollection, I’d never peed before a woman, let alone have a woman right across from me as though I was being monitored. However, in the next moment, Hannah made a move. Taking advantage of my weak condition, she forcefully unfastened my drawstring and even took out the item in question, holding it with her tiny hand. “Hurry up and pee.”
• Who would be able to pee when such a gentle and smooth hand was holding the item in question? Damn it, I just want to know who would be able to pee!
• At this time, Hannah even turned her head away seriously. “Hurry up and pee. Don’t worry, I won’t look at it!”
• I was quickly nearing the point of tears. Even if you don’t look, do you realize where your hand is? I can feel it!
• Obviously, Hannah had also sensed the involuntary reaction caused by that feeling. Unable to resist the temptation, she dipped her head and took a glance before giving it a hard stroke with her tiny hand. “Unexpectedly, it’s rather big. Take good care of it, for I like and adore it!”