He soaked the cloth in cold water, wrung it out, and gently wiped her forehead.
He had clearly said he would only take a look and leave, but he didn’t understand why he was doing this.
Mira was delirious with a fever. She felt like she was hallucinating, otherwise, how could she see Tony Brown sitting by her bed?
He wrung out the cloth and gently wiped her forehead. This man was like a night demon on the training ground, but off the training ground, he was gentle and considerate.
At that time, although she was lucky to survive the earthquake, she was very sad to learn that her family was dead, and she didn’t eat much. Later, she got sick, and his wounds had just healed, but he still sat by her bed to take care of her.
She used a lot of effort to open her eyes, but the hallucination hadn’t disappeared. She saw him still sitting by her bed, wiping her forehead and then her palms.
His rough hand grasped her wrist. Her whole body was burning hot, but when his hand touched her, she felt a coolness.
No, this wasn’t a hallucination. It was really Tony Brown.
“Tony Brown?”
Her hoarse voice called out to him. She tried to sit up. She felt his body stiffen, but he quickly returned to normal. He naturally pressed down on her shoulders to prevent her from moving.
Her gaze fell on him, and she stared for a long time, finally confirming it wasn’t a hallucination. He was really beside her.
She felt inexplicable. Since he pretended not to know her, why was he taking care of her?
She struggled to sit up. He wrung out the cloth to wipe her forehead, and she angrily slapped his hand away. She sneered at him, “Didn’t you not recognize me?”
Tony Brown’s fingers stiffened. He looked away and said, “Lie down properly, you’re still on an IV drip.”
Mira thought of the woman and the child she saw that day, and she mocked, “If your wife finds out you’re taking care of me, she’ll be unhappy. What’s more, I’m a public figure now, and I don’t want to have anything to do with a married man.”
“Wife?” Tony Brown was puzzled. “Are you delirious? What are you rambling about?”
His puzzled look didn’t seem fake, but she was still sad, hating him for betraying her. She sneered, “Do you remember when I went to find you that day? I saw everything. I heard the little girl call you Daddy.”
Tony Brown thought for a moment before understanding who she was talking about. “That’s my brother’s wife and child. The fruit shop was also opened by my brother.”
Mira: “…”
It wasn’t his wife and child.
She looked incredulous. “You’re not married?”
“No.”
“…”
He wasn’t married, he wasn’t married… An indescribable joy welled up in her heart, but then she thought that he hadn’t been married all these years but hadn’t come to see her, and even pretended not to know her when he saw her, and a surge of anger rose in her heart.
“Tony Brown, you’re such a liar.”
He didn’t speak, closed his eyes, and gritted his teeth. He stood up and said, “Your assistant went to get medicine, she’ll be back soon. I’ll go first.”
As he said that, he walked towards the door. However, as he got up, he caught sight of her putting her hand on her elbow. He knew what she was going to do; she wanted to pull out the IV needle.
Tony Brown quickly turned around and grabbed her hand. His face was gloomy as he angrily said, “What are you doing? Do you want to die?”
She didn’t speak, her slightly red eyes fixed on his face.
He remembered that this little girl had always been willful. When she didn’t eat, he would play the harmonica for her for an hour to coax her to eat. When she didn’t want to take medicine, she secretly hid it under her pillow. He was angry and asked her why she did that, and she said that she got sick so he could come to see her.
When he wasn’t around, she was fearless. But when he was, she was afraid of everything, even the smallest things would make her cry.
Looking at her slightly red eyes and cheeks flushed with fever, his heart ached. After returning from the battlefield, he was seriously injured, and one of his eyes was blind, making him half a cripple. Afraid of involving her, he didn’t dare to see her. He hid far away in Posh and constantly sent messages to her that he had died on the battlefield, hoping to dispel her thoughts.
He hoped she would give up on him; she deserved a better life. But the little girl was so stubborn, she had to find him.
He was afraid of his own eye, let alone her.
