The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 276

“Uncle Jeremy! You’re back!” Annie immediately got up from the hospital bed to make way for Jeremy as soon as she saw him appear.

However, her expression froze when she saw Anya coming in with Jeremy, and she subconsciously turned her head to see how Corinne reacted.

Corinne’s expression remained calm, and there seemed to be no emotional changes at all.

“Did you just wake up?”

Jeremy walked slowly to the side of the hospital bed. He stood in a dignified and relaxed posture, with his hands inserted elegantly in his trouser belt. His calm eyes were indecipherable as he gazed downward at her.

“Yeah.” Corinne nodded, looked at Jeremy’s handsome eyes, and shifted away without lingering too long on him as she looked at Anya who was by his side.

The man could tell what she wanted to ask and turned around

to look at Anya beside him. He then turned back to Corinne and said softly, “She wanted to see you.”

Annie stood to one side and let out a barely discernible cold

snort from his nostrils.

Anya, like Corinne, was wearing a puffy hospital gown. There was gauze wrapped around her forehead, and her injured appearance made her look even more slender and weak–the very epitome of a sick woman who needed to be cared for.

However, she did not seem haughty at all and had a cheerful yet easy–going smile on her face. She took the initiative to step forward and ask concernedly, “I heard Jeremy say that you were hospitalized due to allergies, and I came with him to see you because I’m a little worried about you. How are you feeling now?”

Corinne replied politely, “Thanks for your concern. I feel much better now. How about you, Miss Anya? You look injured too. Are you okay?”

Anya touched her gauze–wrapped forehead and sighed helplessly, “I’m fine. It wasn’t a very serious car accident. All I suffered was a graze on my head. My family’s a bit fussy though, and they insisted that I had to be hospitalized for a couple of days‘ worth of observation!” She had something of an annoyed expression on her face, like there was nothing that she could do with what her family members imposed on her.

Yet, that very helplessness inadvertently revealed how much she was cherished by her family, who lavished her with love and affection. Since she received such care ever since she was a child, she did not lack wealth, companionship, and love— anything she wanted could be had without any effort, which allowed her to act like a child. The good life she had then probably meant that she had saved the world in her previous life.

Corinne smiled and kept quiet.

Anya seemed to have noticed something was amiss. She looked left and right and all around the ward, noticing that Annie was the only other person in the ward aside from herself and Jeremy, who had just come in.

“Where’s your family, Corinne? Why aren’t they here at the hospital to take care of you?”

Corinne’s face darkened slightly when she heard that.

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‘Family? I don’t have a family.‘ Only recently did she find out that Marvin was not her biological father, so even Sherlyn whom she had always thought to be her half–sister—was not related to her by blood either. Meanwhile, the Carews in the countryside had nothing to do with her either.

Therefore, one could say that she did not have any relatives.

Corinne remained silent, and it was Annie who stepped forward to voice her opinion, “Your remark is a little strange, Miss Anya. Aren’t Uncle Jeremy and I Corinne’s family? We’re with her at the hospital now!”

Anya looked at Annie and explained innocently, “You

misunderstood me, Annie. I know that you’re Corinne’s family, but what I mean by my question is, why didn’t any of her own family come here?” This is property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

Annie did not know about Corinne’s family affairs and simply felt that Anya was being nosy. “Having myself and Uncle Jeremy here is good enough. We shouldn’t bother her family!”

Anya disagreed. “You can’t keep it from them just because you’re afraid they’ll get worried. Corinne’s allergies are so severe that she must feel very uncomfortable right now. I’m sure she’ll feel a lot better if her close relatives are by her side at such a time.”

Annie felt that Anya’s words made sense, so she turned to look at Corinne and asked obediently, “Would you like your family to come and keep your company? Do you want Uncle Jeremy to send someone to pick them up?”

Corinne shook her head and said, “This is a small injury.

There’s no need to get them to come back since I’ll be fine in a couple of days anyway.

Annie was very obedient and did as Corinne told her. She nodded and did not get involved in that anymore.

Seeing that Corinne did not budge, Anya looked at Jeremy worriedly again and said sincerely, “Corinne might insist that it’s not serious, but I still think it’s better to call her family and inform them!”