My Darling, My Dearest

Chapter 37

"I'm sorry, I was driving too fast. How about I take him to the hospital for treatment right away?" Henry said.

"It's not your fault. We weren't paying enough attention," Lucas said as he carefully examined Mendes1 other leg as well.

Rachel wiped Mendes1 tears away with a tissue.

Seeing this, Marcus couldn't help but think that they looked like a couple. He glanced back and forth between them with suspicion in his eyes.

Mendes' other leg seemed to be all right. Normally, with a fall like this, one wouldn't have bruises anywhere other than their head and four limbs. Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

However, Rachel was worried about Mendes' broken left arm, which might not have completely healed yet. She looked up at Lucas and said, "Let's go back to the hospital first. He recently had a fracture in his left arm."

"Which hospital are you going to? I'll drive you there," Henry immediately offered.

"It's all right, we have a car," Rachel said, politely turning him down.

Lucas stood up with the boy in his arms and nodded at them. "We're sorry for the scare. We'll take him to the hospital ourselves, you don't have to ■3

take responsibility for it."

"It's okay. Rachel is our buddy's wife. Even if it wasn't our fault, we can't just stand by and do nothing," Henry insisted, glancing at Rachel with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Rachel's face darkened, but Lucas just smiled at Henry and said, "Ah, you're Rachel's friends."

Then, Rachel, Lucas, Mendes, and Marcus got into Rachel's car while Henry got into his Bentley. Sitting in the back seat with Rachel, Mendes gradually stopped crying. He pointed to his knee and looked at her with a pitiful expression on his face. "It hurts..."

Rachel pulled him into her arms and murmured, "It won't hurt if I blow on it..."

"Okay," Mendes said softly like a spoiled child, sliding closer to her.

As she patted the boy in her arms to comfort him, Rachel cast a glance behind her at the Bentley which was following them leisurely.

Both Henry and Marcus had insisted on coming along to make sure that Mendes was fine, so she had no choice but to let them.

Marcus, who was sitting in the passenger seat, frowned at this scene.

He turned to Lucas and asked in a low voice, "Is he your son?"

Lucas looked at him in surprise and shook his head. 'The boy's father is someone else?' Marcus thought. He had assumed that the boy must be ■3

Lucas' son since Rachel cared so much about him.

By the time they arrived at the hospital, Mendes had completely stopped crying. Lucas held him in his arms and walked to the hospital, followed by Rachel, and then Marcus and Henry.

Marcus and Henry felt like they were bodyguards. But of course, they were both so outstanding in terms of appearance and temperament that nobody would actually mistake them for bodyguards.

Soon, Lucas and Rachel took the boy inside the X-ray room while Marcus and Henry waited outside.

Once Rachel was out of sight, Marcus reached out and nudged Henry. "Have you texted him?"

"I did but I didn't get a reply. Maybe he didn't see it. I'll just call him instead," Henry replied.

"Go ahead."

Marcus took a seat nearby while Henry made the phone call.

A few moments later, he heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from the other end of the corridor.

When he turned, he saw a nurse rushing over to the X-ray room. After asking a few questions to the nurse outside, she turned her face to look at the X-ray room with an anxious expression on her delicate face.

She stomped her feet in anger, but her eyes were full of girlish charm. Marcus couldn't help smiling as he watched her.

Inside the X- ray room, Mendes was ■3

comfortably lying on the sofa. It would take some time for the X-ray report to arrive.

As soon as Celia came in, she held him down, rolled up his left trouser, and began angrily applying some medicine on his knee.

"I knew you would make trouble! Why are you so disobedient? As soon as I find your mother, I'll mail you to her! You're so annoying!"

Hearing that Celia was going to send him back to his mother, Mendes was thrilled. He clapped his hands and said, "That's great!"

"Damn you!" Celia was so angry that she knocked him on the head.

"It was my fault, Celia. I should have paid more attention to him," Rachel said sincerely. She was the one who had taken the boy outside. In the end, he had fallen down and gotten hurt.

In fact, Celia had heard the two men outside talking about how they were responsible for Mendes' injury, so she already had an idea of what must have happened. Frowning, she said, "Dr. Shen, there's no reason for you to apologize. It's all his fault! He's not obedient!" As she spoke,

she pinched the chubby boy's cheeks.

Mendes cried and struggled, pretending to be in pain so that he could get away from his sister's torture. His narrowed eyes, however, were smiling.

Watching the sister and brother playing around like this, Rachel smiled.

However, the happy moment was soon interrupted by a knock at the door. Rachel turned ■3

around to see who it was and widened her eyes in surprise.

Jack walked in leisurely, his eyes on the boy. Celia and Mendes had already met him before, but stared back at him curiously without blinking.

Rachel stood up abruptly. The surprise in her heart didn't show on her face. With a slight frown tugging at her beautiful eyebrows, she asked, "Why are you here?"

"I heard Henry hit your kid with his car."

"What?!" Rachel wondered if she had heard him wrong, but then, realizing what must have happened, she shook her head and sneered.

Noticing the mockery in her tone, Jack hid the embarrassment in his eyes.

In the past few days, the way Rachel had questioned him that day had kept appearing in his mind.

When he had gotten the call from Henry, he hadn't wanted to come to the hospital at first, but Henry had insisted, afraid that Rachel would hold this incident against him.

An inexplicable feeling had risen in Jack's heart after he heard Henry mention "Rachel's kid." How could Rachel have a kid?

Thinking that everything would become clear if he just went to the hospital in person, Jack had immediately set off.

But in the end, it turned out to be this kid! Jack couldn't help cursing Henry in his mind for spouting nonsense. ■3

He had come here just because he had been worried after hearing Henry's words, but now he had found out that the boy Henry had hit was Mendes.

"Well, where did he get hurt?" he finally asked, seeing the red potion on the boy's knee. He could not see if he had any other injuries.

"Let's talk outside." Rachel turned around and walked out without waiting to see if Jack was following her. Her slim body was covered in the large white coat, and only her slender calves peeked out.

As she walked, her ponytail waggled from side to side at the back of her head, emitting the faint fragrance of shampoo.

Once outside, Rachel turned around and put her hands in her pockets. "Mendes is all right. You can tell your friends to leave. They don't need to take any responsibility," she said lightly.

"Can you tell me what's going on?" Jack asked.

"You can go and ask your friends. The point is, nothing happened to Mendes. Tell them I said thank you for their kindness."

"Okay," Jack answered indifferently.

Since that seemed to be the end of their conversation, Rachel turned to leave, but she suddenly heard Jack's voice again. "Are you free on Wednesday evening?" he asked.

Rachel raised her head and looked at him. "What's up?"

With his lips curved into a thin line, Jack said in a low voice, "Francis Cheng is getting engaged on ■3

Wednesday. Both of us have been invited to attend his engagement party."

'Engagement party?1 Rachel thought with a frown. Realizing that Rachel had never heard of the Cheng family before, he explained, "The Cheng family are family friends of ours, so it would be inappropriate not to attend this engagement party."

Since it was an engagement party, Francis had only invited his friends, not the elders, so Jack wanted Rachel to accompany him.

Rachel stayed silent for a moment, hesitating about what to reply. In the meantime, Jack did not urge her. He just stood in front of her, waiting leisurely for her answer.

Finally, she said, "I'll come."

"It's settled then. I'll ask the driver to pick you

up."

As Jack and Rachel spoke, Marcus watched them from a distance. "The atmosphere between them is quite awkward. They look like they're talking with daggers drawn," he commented.

Henry, who was staring at his mobile phone, laughed and said, "Why don't we wait for Jack to come and ask him what it's about?"

Marcus squinted at him suspiciously. Then, he leaned back with his long legs outstretched. "Why do I feel like you called him here just so you could watch a show?"

"You're thinking too much." Henry smirked.

At this moment, two new voices were heard. "Celia, I want chocolate!" ■3

"No! No way! Don't even think about it!"

The door of the X-ray room was opened. The nurse who had run into the room in a hurry walked out with the boy in her arms.

As soon as she turned around, her eyes met Marcus' and Henry's. Marcus withdrew his long legs and stood up. At the same time, Henry put away his phone.

Celia blinked her eyes. She knew that these two men were the ones who had insisted on bringing her brother to the hospital. Just now, one of them had explained the incident to her.

Anyway, as far as she was concerned, it wasn't their fault. Mendes had fallen down on his own.