Chapter 47
Vanessa was his destined disaster.
When Shawn stepped into the Diagnosis and saw Vanessa sleeping quietly on the chair, he was sure about that.
He did not say a word and stared at her for a long time.
It seemed that he had been compromising with Vanessa step by step from the beginning.
Up to now, he seemed to have retreated beyond the bottom line.
When Shawn figured out that, he suddenly felt relieved.
He could really do nothing to change the fact that he loved Vanessa but accept it.
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It was noisy in the emergency room. People came and went, leaving footprints with water stains.
Vanessa was silent for a long time with her head lowered.
Shawn's words once again put Vanessa in a situation where she was ashamed of herself.
They seemed to be reminding her over and over again what she had done. After understanding them fully, Vanessa felt he was disappointed and frustrated.
He was a proud man. When he felt he had been toyed with by her and said she was his doomed disaster, he should have been upset.
But he came here.
Although he thought she was a disaster in his life, he still came.
He was a ray of light in the dark secret realm that belonged to him in Vanessa's heart.
Since he didn't vanish and break the connection with her, she still had a chance.
Maybe sick people were more sentimental. Thinking of that, Vanessa felt a hint of sweetness in the boundless bitterness, but she wanted to cry more.
She raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, and her fingertips got wet.
Her tears were about to come out when a girl sitting next to her suddenly said in a sarcastic voice, "Jeez, come to do the public display of affection in the hospital. Is it something that people do?"
...
She took back her tears in an instant.
Vanessa slowly turned her head and looked at the girl.
The girl was wearing a flat cap and typing rapidly on her phone. She was probably complaining on her WhatsApp.
Feeling Vanessa's gaze, she paused for a moment, slowly turned her head, and said embarrassedly, "Uh ... Did I say it too loud?"
Vanessa sniffled.
"Ah, I'm sorry." The girl made a "please" gesture toward her and put on her earplugs. "You guys continue, and I'll mic off."
Shawn was speechless.
He reached out and got Vanessa's head back.
"Are you going to leave?"
"Oh."
Looking down and seeing that his jacket was still on her, Vanessa reluctantly took it off and handed it to him. "Thank you for the jacket."
She held up her hand, praying in her heart, "Don't take it. Don't take it. Let me continue to wear it."
Obviously, Shawn could not hear her thoughts. He took the jacket, rested it on his arm, and walked outside of the emergency room.
Vanessa was speechless.
She picked up her purse, but she didn't find her phone.
She didn't know if it had slipped off while she was sleeping. She bent over and searched for a long time before pulling out her phone from the crack of the chair.
However, she was about to stand up when she saw Shawn in front of her stop and look back at her with some impatience on his face.
"Are you planning to live here?"
Vanessa was still sitting on the chair, looking at Shawn pitifully.
"I'm feeling my head swimming. I can't walk."
That was true. She was not acting.
The moment she picked up the phone and got up, she did feel a moment of dizziness.
Shawn seemed to smile a little.
Vanessa wasn't quite sure if she had seen it wrong.
If he had really smiled, he must have been mocking her.
He put his jacket on and walked to Vanessa fast.
"Are you starting it again?"
"Ugh..."
Vanessa let out a long sigh and carefully stood up with the handrail supporting her.
But she had just straightened her legs when her feet suddenly left the ground.
Shawn picked her up and walked toward the Diagnosis without saying a word.
The girl with the flat cap said behind, "Jeez..."
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Vanessa was stunned for a while. Then she slowly raised her hands and wrapped her arms around his shoulder gently when she saw that he didn't refuse.
Sensing her small gestures, Shawn suddenly said, "Vanessa Green."
The corridor outside the Diagnosis was crowded with people, and the radio was noisy, but Shawn's soft words were extremely clear.
Vanessa replied softly, "Hmm."
Shawn sighed deeply, and his voice was very soft. "Are you sure that I will buy it?"
Vanessa's heart skipped a beat slightly.
His tone was serious. Although it was a question, it sounded like a statement.
So he was expressing his compromise in a disguised and helpless manner.
He was buying it.
Vanessa did not speak, but she felt that the faint light in her heart seemed to reignite.
This time, she was sure that people were really sentimental when they were sick.
When he said something that made her sad, she wanted to cry, but when he slowly compromised and gave her another chance to get close to him, her nose tickled.
It was a while before Vanessa's muffled voice came from Shawn's arms.
"You should not even call me by my full name. It sounds scary."
Shawn showed a smile with little warmth and said word by word, "Vanessa, don't change the subject."
"I didn't... and I didn't dare to. I'm just timid."
As Vanessa said that, her voice was getting lower and lower. She herself felt she had a guilty conscience saying that.
In fact, she knew that Shawn would buy it when she whined and acted up around him.
This idea has long been unknowingly engraved into the bones.
Obviously, Shawn did not believe her.
"Well, continue your acting."
Vanessa said, "I didn't..."
When she thought about it carefully, she realized she had indeed been acting for a long time after she knew Shawn.
She had always been acting when she created an opportunity to flirt with him, when she pouted prettily to him to show her feminine charm, or when she smiled at him with her glowing eyes when she meet him to make him feel her love.
With time passing by, it seemed to become her habit as if it was her nature to be like that when facing Shawn.
Even those deliberate sweet talk became her natural expression.
Vanessa didn't know when all this started, nor did she know if it was acting.
She didn't even know when her false love became true love.
Nor did she know when she fell in love with Shawn.
She slowly buried her head into Shawn's chest and whispered, "Actually, I'm not lying to you all the time."
Shawn was holding her and walking toward the outside of the hospital. Hearing her words, he tightened his arms around her.
But he had no expression on his face.
He only replied coldly, "Oh."
Oh?
That was it?
"What does it mean?"
Vanessa jerked her head up.
Shawn ignored her and walked faster.
Vanessa wouldn't let it go. "Do you believe me or not? Tell me what you meant."
Shawn did not even glance at Vanessa.
"Say something!" Vanessa began to get anxious and reached out to wrap her hands around Shawn's neck, trying to draw his attention. "What exactly do you mean?"
Shawn suddenly stopped and lowered his head for a moment, leaving almost no distance between his face and hers.
His eyes were particularly bright in the light of the corridor, and his dark pupils were full of Vanessa.
Vanessa suddenly held her breath.
Shawn's breath gently touched the tip of her nose.
She saw Shawn smile slightly.
"I mean it depends on your behavior."
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Shawn's words made Vanessa a little dizzy.
But it was different from the feeling when she was sick.
She felt like drowning for a long time and being pulled up by someone. Then she inhaled too much oxygen and felt like she was floating.
Along the way, she was thinking about how to behave well and did not say a word.
She couldn't flirt with Shawn recklessly like before.
At that time, she was so consumed with getting back at Jackson and Bianca that she didn't care what Shawn thought of her or how he responded.
But now she cared.
Vanessa was so involved in thinking about it that she didn't even notice that Shawn had glanced at her several times.
When the car arrived at her home, she could not help but say, "I do not know how to behave. Why don't you give me some tips?"
Shawn pursed his thin lips and did not want to answer her question.
Vanessa came closer and pulled his sleeve. "Or do you let me take a naked exam?"
"A naked exam?"
Shawn curled his index finger against the lower lip with his eyes measuring Vanessa up and down. "How do you want to take the naked exam, huh?"
Vanessa was speechless.
Why was this man so dirty lately?
"Forget about it." She took her purse and hurriedly opened the car door. "Don't blabber. I did not mean that."
When she got out of the car, Shawn heard her mutter in a very low voice, "Nasty."
Shawn felt he kind of enjoyed being abused.
When he heard her scolding, he actually felt like laughing a little.
Vanessa took a few steps and suddenly heard Shawn call her.
"Vanna."
She was stunned.
He called her Vanna, not Vanessa.
"What's up?"
Vanessa tried to control her smile and turned back to look at him.
Shawn picked up her phone from the passenger seat.
Oh, she left her phone.
Vanessa ran over and reached her hand into the car through the window. She had just touched the phone when Shawn took it back.
Vanessa was confused. "What's wrong?"
Shawn was propping up on the car seat with his arm and shook her phone in his hand twice carelessly.
"Did you forget something else?"
Vanessa was even more confused. "What else did I forget?"
Shawn replied, "You think about it."
Vanessa thought about it very carefully and poked half of her head into the car through the window.
"I forgot to thank you for taking me home?"
Shawn narrowed his eyes, turned his face away, and handed the phone to her.
Vanessa took it. When she held it in her hand, a distant scene suddenly flashed through her mind.
It seemed to be an extremely cold day like this a long, long time ago.
The rain was pouring like it was going to drown the city. She stood at the entrance of Warner Manor with her cell phone in her hand and refused Shawn to send her back home.
And at that time, he also looked the same way, staring at her with cold eyes.
Winter was approaching that day, and there was a biting wind.
Today, although the wind was still biting, spring was on the corner, and everything would recover.
"What are you thinking about?"
Seeing that she didn't move, Shawn asked.
Vanessa was getting sentimental again.
She had rarely been so quiet in front of him. She lowered her eyes and said softly, "Nothing serious. I just remembered our first meeting, and I actually refused you to send me home. I felt it was a great loss for me."
Shawn looked at her with deep eyes.
For a long moment, Vanessa thought he was going to mock her again but heard him say, "Who told you that was the first time that we met?"