Ignored When Chasing: Why Cry After I Got Engaged-Chapter 129: Can Face Be Eaten?

"Hahaha, no way. I’ve never been a caregiver for anyone in my entire life," Cecilia Nathan laughed.

Noticing her relaxed demeanor, Damian Hawthorne gently raised an eyebrow. "I figured as much. You don’t have the patience for it."

Cecilia Nathan tossed the cloth in her hand aside. "But now I have to be your caregiver. After all, you injured your eyes for my sake. Once your eyes are stable, we’ll be even."

She wouldn’t have stayed here if she hadn’t heard the doctor say his eye problems were caused by the car accident.

"Be even?" Damian Hawthorne pointed to his eyes. "My eyes were perfectly fine, and now they’re like this because I saved you. You’ll have to be responsible for me for the rest of my life."

Cecilia Nathan’s eyes widened. "For the rest of your life? Damian Hawthorne... you... you’re shameless!"

Damian Hawthorne crossed his arms and leaned against the edge of the bed. His gaze drifted over to her, a familiar look of lazy relaxation on his face.

"What’s shame? It’s not like you can eat it."

Cecilia Nathan: "..."

’I have never met such a brazenly shameless person.’

Cecilia Nathan thought to herself, ’If I’d known, I never would have made that grand declaration about us being even.’

"It’s lunchtime. I hear the food at this hospital is pretty good. Don’t forget to go get some." With that, Damian Hawthorne lay back down on the bed, perfectly content to play the part of a "patient."

Cecilia Nathan’s breath hitched, but she couldn’t take back her words. Taking a deep breath, she walked out quickly.

Cecilia Nathan had just stepped out of the hospital room when a girl in a face mask came stumbling and rushing toward her.

Cecilia reacted quickly, sidestepping out of the way.

But the girl grabbed Cecilia’s hand and cried, "Young Miss! Young Miss, I’m begging you, please help me! I was wrong."

Cecilia looked closely and realized the tear-streaked person in the mask was none other than Sharon Quincy.

Hearing the words "Young Miss," Cecilia’s expression hardened. "What are you talking about?"

If Sharon Quincy exposed Cecilia’s identity in front of all these people, it would cause endless trouble for her in the future.

Although one of Sharon Quincy’s hands was wrapped in bandages, her other hand gripped Cecilia’s sleeve with surprising strength, pulling her forward.

"Just tell me what’s wrong."

Cecilia had a pretty good idea of what had happened to Sharon Quincy.

For the past two days, Linden Nathan had been trying to call her, but Cecilia hadn’t picked up.

She was afraid Linden Nathan would say or do something that would only frustrate her.

After all, Linden Nathan and Sharon Quincy shared a certain father-daughter bond. If he went soft on her again, Cecilia was afraid she wouldn’t even want to acknowledge him as her father anymore.

Sharon Quincy knew Cecilia didn’t want her identity exposed, so she wiped her nose and sobbed, "I don’t want to marry that old man from the Hawthorne Family."

"I know I’ve done so many things to wrong you in the past. I admit it, I wasn’t in my right mind. I was wrong, I really know that I was wrong now. Please, I’m begging you, don’t make me marry that old man from the Hawthorne Family. It’ll ruin my entire life."

After she met with Linden Nathan that day, he stopped indulging her. He gave her only one choice: marry that old bachelor from the Hawthorne Family.

Sharon Quincy knew Frances Bennett was behind all of this, getting her revenge.

Cecilia watched Sharon Quincy sobbing her heart out. Her clear eyes flickered, and her lips parted slightly. "You’re right. You shouldn’t marry that man. Marriage isn’t how you should atone for the wrongs you’ve committed."

Hearing this, Sharon Quincy’s eyes lit up.

’She knew it. Cecilia was a soft-hearted person. All it would take was a little pleading, and she’d change her mind.’

’As long as Cecilia changed her mind, Linden Nathan wouldn’t be able to do anything to her either.’

"Thank you, Ce... Cecilia. I really was wrong before. If I get the chance, I want to atone for what I’ve done. I’ll turn over a new leaf from now on."

After Sharon Quincy finished, Cecilia didn’t say anything, only giving a faint nod.

After leaving the hospital, Sharon Quincy made a call. "It’s done. I handled it. Don’t worry, we’re all safe now."

’She couldn’t believe Cecilia was so soft-hearted. It only took a few words to handle her.’

A smug smile touched Sharon Quincy’s lips.

However, the moment she was gone, Cecilia sent a message to Linden Nathan: ’Submit the evidence to the police. Sharon Quincy says she wants to properly atone for her actions.’

She wasn’t a bad person, but she was no saint either.

She wouldn’t use a miserable marriage as revenge on someone who had nearly killed her, but that person still had to receive the punishment she deserved.

Suddenly, Cecilia thought of someone.

’There was another person who played a key role back when the accident happened.’

’Finn Hawthorne’s sister.’

An hour later, Cecilia arrived at Finn Hawthorne’s old home.

Unlike the last time she’d been here, Cecilia now saw that the door to Finn Hawthorne’s home was completely gone.

The dilapidated door looked like it had been smashed in. The lock was dangling, making it impossible to close.

Just as Cecilia was hesitating about whether to go inside, someone walked out.

A small, delicate-looking girl looked at her timidly. "Who are you looking for?"

The familiar voice instantly jolted Cecilia back to reality.

’It was the voice from the phone call.’

"You’re... Finn Hawthorne’s sister?" Cecilia’s question made the little girl shrink back in terror.

Cecilia quickly said, "Don’t be afraid. I’m looking for your brother. Are you two... doing all right?"

"My brother went out a long time ago, and he hasn’t come back." As the little girl spoke, tears began to stream down her cheeks. "He hasn’t been back at all since he left. I’m so scared."

After saying this, the little girl’s legs gave out, and she fainted.

Cecilia rushed forward and saw that the little girl was emaciated and filthy. It looked like she hadn’t eaten or slept properly in a long time.

Cecilia immediately called for an ambulance.

Once the little girl was at the hospital, the doctor immediately issued a critical condition notice.

"This little girl has acute myeloid leukemia, and she’s reached a critical stage. If she doesn’t get a bone marrow transplant soon, her life will be in danger."

Cecilia frowned slightly at the doctor’s words.

’Finn Hawthorne’s whereabouts were unknown, yet his sister was in such grave danger.’

’Throughout all of Veridia, the best hospital for treating leukemia was in Aethelgard.’

Realizing this, Cecilia decided she had no choice but to use the Nathan Family’s resources.

Even though the girl had played her "part" in the car accident, Cecilia didn’t want to stand by and watch a life vanish before her eyes, not before Finn Hawthorne showed up.

Damian Hawthorne was in his room waiting for Cecilia to bring him "lunch," but what arrived wasn’t lunch she’d brought herself, but takeout she had ordered for him online.

Staring at the stack of takeout containers before him, Damian Hawthorne narrowed his eyes and gazed out the window.

’Things really were different now.’

’The Cecilia of the past would have insisted on staying with him for every meal.’

’Cecilia... perhaps she really had let him go.’

A pang of bitterness welled up inside Damian at the thought.

Just then, a gentle voice calling "Damian" pulled him from his thoughts.

Damian Hawthorne looked toward the door to see Justin Bell standing there with a girl dressed in white.

The moment he saw the girl, a flood of memories rushed into his mind.

"Luna."