Novel Square
Chapter 233
Chapter 233
Chapter 233 It was His Honour
Paula agreed freely at the other end of the phone, "I can do you one thousand favors! Just let me know!"
Lucia laughed, asking in a whisper, "Could you drop on my flat and grab me some clothes?"
Her flat happened to be on the way from Paula's home to the hospital, and she had given Paula a spare key before.
Paula suggested immediately, "Sure! Just give me a list and I'll send them to you later."
She then got herself dressed up and went downstairs to the living room when everything was ready.
Seeing his sister rushing in such a hurry, Paul, who was reading a magazine while drinking the tea on the sofa, raised his enquiring eyebrows, "Are you going out?"
Facing the penetrating look of her brother as if he had caught her on the spot, Paula rolled her eyes and answered firmly, "I'm not going to the pub during the daytime!"
"Then what are you doing?"
Paul put down the cup onto the table gracefully, giving her a gaze which was compelling, if not authoritative.
Paula sighed in despair.Her brother just watched her like a prisoner since the tempest in the pub last time.
She answered casually while putting on her shoes in the hallway, "I'm going to see Lucia in the hospital..."
The mention of Lucia triggered a flicker in Paul's eyes.
Putting down the magazine swiftly, he walked up to Paula, "What's happened to Lucia?"
Paula tried hard to conceal her snicker, seeing her brother getting so nervous.
"Nothing's happened to her, but her father is in hospital.I'll pick up some clothes from her flat and send them over to the hospital.I should pay a visit to them, shouldn't I?"
Knowing Lucia was all right, Paul sighed with relief secretly.
"I'll go with you." he then offered.
Paula couldn't help laughing.She didn't went on teasing her brother only because there was no time to lose at the moment.
Instead, she tossed the key of the car to him, "Then you'll be the driver.Be quick!"
They headed for Lucia's flat after five minutes and reached the hospital forty minutes later. This is the property of Nô-velDrama.Org.
Paul asked Paula on the way toward the lift, "What's happened to Lucia’s father?"
"Some heart problem.She told me he's just gone through an operation.But I don't know how he's going recently."
Paula answered as they were approaching the ward.
"Lucia!"
Paula was so thrilled seeing her friend that she darted into the room through the door which was left unlocked.
Yet she then hushed at the sight of Bill Mitchell who was sleeping on the bed, only smiling in embarrassment to Lucia and Elisa.
Elisa welcomed Paula warmly though under her breath, "There you are, Paula!"
Lucia's smile froze when she found Paula only carrying some fruit and milk.
She was about to ask whether Paula had forgotten her clothes, when a tall figure appeared in the ward.
"Paul..."
Lucia muttered.
"Lucia,"
Paul put a bag on the chair aside, beaming a warm smile at her and saying lightly, "Here are the clothes Paula picked up for you."
"Thanks." said Lucia.
She then suggested, casting a discreet look at her father on the bed, "Shall we talk outside?"
Bill Mitchell needed more rest in a quiet environment and Lucia was afraid too many visitors would disturb him.
Paula and Paul went out with her understandingly.
Elisa followed them, greeting Paul cordially, "It's long since we met, isn't it?"
Paul took a polite bow at once, "Indeed.How are you, Mrs.Mitchell?"
Elisa was really fond of this decent young man, and responded cheerfully, "Fine, thanks!"
While the polite conversation between Paul and Elisa went on, Paula just couldn't wait to express her doubts to Lucia, "Did anything go wrong? Your father looks weaker than I expected...you told me about the operation, didn't you? How is it going?"
Lucia answered with a sigh, "He was shocked by some accident, which got his health worse.I'll have to provide the 24-hour care for him now."
Paula sighed too, looking at the small ward worriedly, "Where do you and your mother sleep these days?"
Biting her lip, Lucia answered with some hesitation, "Just on the chair inside the ward, or the bench in the passage outside."
In fact, she hadn't really slept for several days.
Yet she wouldn't grumble, as she thought it was already quite fortunate for her to be able to look after her father here.
Paula exclaimed incredulously, "That's why you look so pale! Alas..."
Paul, who was standing aside, heard that and dropped his eyes to the floor as he really felt sorry to see the dark circles around Lucia's eyes caused by the lack of rest.
After thinking for a while, he took out his phone and showed it to the women around, "Excuse me but I'll have to make a call."
He then left.
Elisa gave a deep sigh and held Paula's hand, "I keep urging Lucia to go home for a rest and she just wouldn't listen! Could you help me persuade her, Paula?"
Lucia re-empted Paula with a firm tone, "How can I really get relaxed leaving father like this..."
There was a dead silence.
No one could protest with a good reason.
It was true she would still be agitated even if she did go home, when her father's situation was still unstable.
"All right."
Elisa waved her hands with resignation before she returned to the ward.
Paula eventually gave Lucia her advice gently, "But you do have to watch your own health.Or you'll be worn out!"
"I know that.Don't worry."
Lucia replied and started chatting about other subjects with Paula.
At that moment, Paul turned up again, followed by two nurses carrying a folding bed before long.
Paul hastened to walk up toward them.
"Thank you so much!" he told the nurses gently, "Just leave it to me."
He then carried the bed into the ward before Paula and Lucia could realize what was going on.
Lucia then walked up and asked, "That is...?"
Paul answered suavely with a grin, "I've got a friend working at this hospital, and I asked him for a favor for a folding bed, so that your mother and you can rest better at night."
He then carried the bed into the ward, landed it on the ground near the window, and pulled the folded part out nimbly.
Lucia just felt as though he was a magician, who not only conjured a bed from the air, but laid the sheet over it quickly.
That really made her feel so warm.
After that, Paul straightened up and told Lucia and Elisa softly, "You finally have got a bed, though a narrow one.I'll get you a bigger one later on."
Elisa hastened to reply in amazement, "Thank you so much, Paul.It's so amazing! No need to change for a bigger one."
Paul answered as softly as usual, "You are welcome, Mrs.Mitchell", tough he then gave a smile to Lucia, thinking it his honour to be able to give a helping hand to her.