Leah Thorne didn’t say anything, just said softly, "Serena, I’m tired, I want to sleep for a while."
"Okay." Serena Sterling reached out and covered Leah Thorne with the blanket, then left.
...
The ward was quiet, Leah Thorne closed her eyes, but she couldn’t fall asleep.
Her body was very tired, completely devoid of strength, and her flat stomach even had a faint pain.
Leah Thorne placed her small hand on her stomach, then slowly sat up, getting out of bed and walking out.
The air in the hospital was too oppressive, she wanted to go out and breathe so fresh air.
After going downstairs, Leah Thorne ca to a glass window, she looked at her reflection.
At this ti, she was wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, which was incredibly loose, making her shoulders look weak. Her well-maintained dark tea-colored curls casually draped over her shoulders, exuding a fragile and delicate beauty.
Leah Thorne’s gaze fell on her small face, her features were still astoundingly beautiful, but her right cheek had a thick layer of gauze on it.
She paused for a few seconds, then slowly raised her hand, peeling the gauze off her face.
Her pupils contracted violently.
A long scar stretched across her right cheek, just sutured, like an ugly caterpillar, ruining the aesthetics of her entire face.
Leah Thorne raised her hand, wanting to touch her wounded face, but her fingertips trembled in mid-air, unable to advance any further.
Won all love beauty, her face was a blessing and a gift from heaven, but now, it was destroyed.
Ah!
Then there was a scream beside her, it turned out to be two children playing nearby, they were frightened by Leah Thorne and scread, "Ugly! Where did this ugly monster co from? Her face is really ugly!"
The children’s screams quickly drew the attention of passersby, and people gathered around, "What’s going on here? Eh, isn’t this Leah Thorne who hasn’t been seen for a long ti?"
As a superstar in the entertainnt industry, Leah Thorne was easily recognized by the crowd, who gasped, staring at her injured right cheek,
"Oh my God, look at Leah Thorne’s right cheek, what happened to her face?"
"Did she get disfigured? She looks really ugly like this."
"Quickly, take out your phones and take pictures, the most flamboyant rose in the entertainnt industry has wilted."
The passersby eagerly took out their phones, snapping away at Leah Thorne with a "click click."
Leah Thorne had faced countless caras before, walked many red carpets, she was poised and gracious in front of these caras, even captivating, but now these caras before her seed glaring, unfamiliar, and frightening.
She wanted to leave here.
She wanted to escape.
Leah Thorne tried to block the caras with her hand, then turned and ran.
But she ran too hastily, tripping over sothing, twisting her foot, and she fell to the ground.
By now, more and more people had gathered, discussing in whispers, both kind and unkind.
Leah Thorne found it too noisy, her ears were filled with these voices, she wanted to hide, but couldn’t, so she could only cover her ears with her hands, pressing hard.
She thought she had been through the hardest tis in her life, but now she realized, after the hardest, there is even harder.
Her life, Leah Thorne’s life, would be so... timid and embarrassing.
At this mont, a pair of shoes suddenly appeared in her lowered vision, these shoes looked familiar, not so polished leather shoes, but the sa hospital slippers on her feet, only n’s.
Leah Thorne froze completely.
Then a casual low laugh ca from above her head, "How co I leave for just a few days, and you turn yourself into such a ss?"
This voice was very familiar, she couldn’t mistake it, Justin Xavier.
Justin Xavier ca!
Leah Thorne slowly let go of her hands covering her ears, then looked up, Justin Xavier’s familiar handso face zood in and out of her vision.
He was also wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, but with a black coat over it, clearly breaking out of the hospital just like her, yet unlike her disarray, he looked no different from usual, the bearing of an imposing man in every gesture, aloof, with a touch of coldness.
The onlookers had already made way for him, afraid of the imposing aura he exuded.
Justin Xavier looked down at her in her embarrassing state on the ground, his gaze quickly landing on her right cheek.
His black eyes narrowed sharply, a few seconds later, he curled his thin lips, "What happened to your face?"
He reached out to touch her small face.
Leah Thorne was so scared she moved back, avoiding his touch.
She struggled to get up, but a piercing pain ca from her ankle.
Then Justin Xavier bent down, stretched out his strong arm, and picked her up horizontally.
"Let go," she stretched out her hand to push him.
Justin Xavier carried her steadily back into the hospital, his thin lips curling into a tender smile, he chuckled softly, "Mrs. Xavier, if you want to let you go, next ti don’t make yourself look so pitifully hurt after I leave, you should live better than ."
Leah Thorne’s nose turned red suddenly, she moved, burying her small face in his coat.
His chest was still strong and warm as always, everything was as she was enamored with.
She was very tired, so she allowed herself this mont of softness.
...
Justin Xavier carried her back to the ward, Leah Thorne sat on the hospital bed, regaining her calm and cold deanor, "President Xavier, thank you, you can go now."
Justin Xavier let out a soft snort, probably mocking this reality of her burning the bridge after crossing it, he reached out his large hand to scoop up her small face.
Leah Thorne avoided him.
However, Justin Xavier forcefully held her small face, forcing her to look up, his gaze landing on the scar on her right cheek, examining it closely.
His fingertip soon brushed over it, lightly caressing the scar.
Leah Thorne felt his unmasked sympathy, but in her ears ca his mocking, "So ugly."
"..." Leah Thorne froze for a mont, then quickly kicked his solid calf.
Justin Xavier didn’t dodge, letting her kick him, his tall fra leaned down, he brought his handso face close to hers, chuckling and scolding, "Little ugly monster, what are you so fierce for?"
"...You’re the ugly monster, your whole family are ugly monsters!" Leah Thorne retorted.
Justin Xavier’s smile didn’t change, "You only act fierce around , how co outside you were as timid as a turtle? Mrs. Xavier, you just like to bully ."
There was a bit of accusation in his tone.
Leah Thorne watched his tender and indulgent look, curling her fingers, "Justin Xavier, don’t be like this, things shouldn’t be like this between us..."
"Then how do you want it to be?"
"I..."
"Like this?" Justin Xavier leaned in, and kissed her red lips.
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