She thought it was a miracle that Lola was still alive.
She was horrified at the thought of what might have happened if she had been just a little bit later.
“Call a doctor right away. Someone’s hurt, they need treatment, don’t they?”
Frank urged again, and the nurse moved quickly.
Ten minutes later.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Otis arrived at the hospital room, and Professor Kent, who had been contacted by the nurse, appeared in the room not long after.
“What on earth…?”
They were all speechless with astonishment.
“What happened?”
The nurse explained everything that had happened a little while ago to Professor Kent, who asked sharply.
After the medical staff arrived, Frank quietly left the hospital room.
Standing in the hallway and looking out the window, Frank hesitated repeatedly.
He knew he should contact Dylan, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
There was the woman’s desperate request, and he knew that Dylan would be terribly shocked if he saw Lola’s condition.
Since when did I start worrying about other people’s feelings?
“This is driving me crazy.”
Frank fiddled with his phone several times, but in the end, he didn’t contact Dylan.
*****
Lola struggled to lift her heavy eyelids and barely opened her eyes. As if returning to reality, all her senses vividly returned, and every part of her body ached. Even the slightest movement made her whole body throb and sting.
Suppressing a groan, Lola only slightly turned her head.
‘But where is this?’
A large silhouette was standing by the window, looking outside.
“D-Dylan…?”
She was in a daze, and the tall, well-built man in a suit looked somewhat like Dylan from the back, so she naturally assumed it was Dylan.
“Ugh…”
As she tried to get up, she groaned involuntarily.
As if sensing her presence, the man slowly turned around.
“Should I call Dylan?”
Frank asked as he walked towards her. Lola’s face was filled with confusion.
“How are you here, Prosecutor?”
“Why I’m here doesn’t seem to be the important thing.”
“……?”
“How’s your body? You have more than one or two injuries.”
That’s right.
It seems I’m badly hurt.
“Ah!”
Belatedly, Lola remembered that she had been completely helpless against Amaya and had almost died, and she let out a low sigh.
“I-I didn’t die.”
Lola was overwhelmed with relief that she was alive.
“Why would you die?”
Remembering the woman’s tragic situation, being helplessly assaulted without even being able to scream, Frank felt an inexplicable surge of anger again.
“I thought I was going to die.”
She thought she would never see Dylan’s face again.
That’s why she felt so wronged and resentful!
Seeing Lola smiling faintly, relieved even in the midst of all this, Frank was dumbfounded.
“But Prosecutor… you haven’t contacted Dylan yet, have you?”
“……”
When Frank didn’t answer immediately after she asked, Lola tried to sit up, her face already tense.
“Ah!”
Lola couldn’t help but groan at the pain spreading throughout her body.
Frank hurriedly stopped her.
“Don’t move. You need to stay lying down.”
“I don’t want Dylan to worry.”
Lola said softly, and Frank let out a long sigh.
“I haven’t contacted Dylan yet.”
“Thank you.”
“But he’s a very perceptive guy, so it won’t be easy to fool Dylan. He might get very angry later when he finds out.”
I know that very well.
She didn’t know how long she could keep it from him, but she didn’t want him to see her in this pathetic state right now.
She was worried that he would be shocked to see her injured, and she was also afraid of the aftermath.
“But I don’t want him to know right now.”
As Lola finished speaking, the hospital room door opened and the intern nurse wheeled in a medical cart.
Seeing that Lola had already regained consciousness, the nurse breathed a sigh of relief.
“Ms. Lola.”
The nurse glanced at Frank once, then turned her gaze back to Lola and repeatedly stroked her chest.
“Oh, my! It’s such a relief that it’s only this much. If it weren’t for the prosecutor, something terrible almost happened.”
Ah, so this man saved me.
At the nurse’s words, Lola finally realized that Frank was the one who had saved her.
She felt sorry for being indebted to him against her will, but she was also grateful.
“I’m indebted to you, Prosecutor. I’ll definitely repay you.”
Frank lightly shrugged his shoulders at Lola, who was awkwardly expressing her gratitude.
“I’ll get it back from Dylan twice over later.”
Lola couldn’t help but burst into a small laugh at Frank’s blunt joke.
The atmosphere was fine until then, but it gradually turned grim after Professor Kent entered the hospital room.
*****
“Ms. Lola, how’s your body? Are you okay?”
Kent asked Lola as he opened the hospital room door, but Frank, who was standing stiffly to one side, answered instead.
“How could she be okay when she’s been beaten to that extent?”
His gruff voice was filled with displeasure.
Is she okay?
Isn’t that a question that doesn’t need to be asked?
Frank thought that the doctor was foolish for asking such an obvious question.
“Excuse me, but what is your relationship with Ms. Lola?”
Kent asked, puzzled by the unfamiliar man he was seeing for the first time.
‘Is he Ms. Lola’s husband?’
He couldn’t help but think that.
He had once spoken to a man who claimed to be her husband, and he was so cold and stiff that he remained vividly in Kent’s memory.
“It doesn’t matter who I am. Did you report that patient to the police?”
The man’s expression and eyes were cold as he asked abruptly in a stiff tone, but Kent responded calmly.
“That’s something our hospital will take care of.”
