Bella shuddered at the thought of the needle piercing her skin once more to draw her blood.
She felt that giving birth was already enough of an ordeal, with all the procedures and having to stay overnight at the hospital. She made a mental note to avoid returning to this hospital again in the future.
"Does he prescribe any medicine for me?" She couldn’t focus earlier due to a headache when the doctor spoke to her.
"Of course, I have already put all your medicine and vitamins in your bag. And also settle the hospital administration and charge. Boss, would you like to stay here or go back?"
"Back to the Villa, of course!" Bella said firmly.
"Okay. Let’s get out of here," Sam smiled as he called the nurse to ask them to remove the IV needle.
A few minutes after the nurse removed all the IV tubes from Bella’s hands, the doctor who had previously examined her returned and informed her about the medical treatment she needed to do at home. Shortly after, the doctor and the nurse thanked her for choosing their hospital and wished her a speedy recovery.
"Thank you, Doctor," Bella replied with a genuine smile.
After the doctor left, Bella took her long coat and bag and followed Sam out of the hospital.
****
Meanwhile, a black Maybach was parked in front of the Promise Hospital lobby. A woman in her mid-forties stared unblinkingly at the lobby door, excited as she waited for someone to appear.
Before long,
"So, that woman is Arabella Donovan?" Her sweet voice echoed in the car, and her eyes caught sight of Bella walking with Sam.
"Yes, ma’am. The woman is Miss Donovan, and the man beside her is her driver. At least that’s what our informant tells us..." The man sitting next to the driver answered.
"She looks beautiful. And intelligent, too," the woman said, her lips curving into a smile.
"Miss Arabella Donovan is indeed beautiful and intelligent," the man said. "Master Sean has chosen a perfect future wife."
The woman sighed deeply before responding to his assistant, "Please, don’t assume she will be part of my family. It’s not that easy, especially being Sean’s wife."
The man chuckled, "If you still have doubts about her background, why do you issue a black card for her? You know how exclusive that card was, right?" he rhetorically asked.
"I am curious about the woman who made Sean ask for an absurd request. She was an outsider, yet she had access to my family’s private card. My nephew is quite independent, especially after serving in the military, so I rarely receive requests for a favor from him. When he asked me for this favor, I couldn’t reject it. But I also couldn’t help but wonder who this woman was."
The man smiled faintly before he asked again, "Ms. Spencer, and now that you have seen her, are you going to cancel her black card?"
"No. I want to see how long this woman can restrain herself from using that card. Because since this girl received the card, she has never used it; even when she was admitted to this hospital, she also didn’t use it. If I had not created an alarm every time her name and identity number entered Spencer’s Group’s system server, I would not have known she had been admitted to one of our hospitals."
Amanda Spencer is amused with what she is doing now. She is too curious about Sean’s girlfriend, so she abandons her work in the capital and rushes to fly to this city, only to catch a glimpse of her.
"Okay," the man said, looking at Amanda Spencer. "Ma’am, should we stay here or return to the capital?"
Amanda Spencer pondered momentarily as she watched the car Bella was driving disappear from her line of sight. After a while, she looked at her most trusted and reliable assistant with a faint smile, she said,
"Let’s go back to the capital. I should meet my sister-in-law and give her some information about Sean’s future wife. She will be excited."
Amanda’s eyes lit up at the thought of her sister-in-law finally having a daughter-in-law after asking Sean to get married for so long. Still, Sean always refused or avoided talking about it.
****
At the same time, in the car driven by Sam. Bella felt much better than before when she was going to the hospital. At that time, she couldn’t even open her eyes because her head hurt so much.
Bella gazed at the beautiful night scenery of Nova City, with lights twinkling along the streets, her smile illuminating her face.
However, a moment later, she remembered her cell phone. Bella looked for it in her bag but couldn’t find it.
"Sam, have you seen my cell phone?"
"I found your phone in your coat pocket. Earlier, it kept ringing, and I was worried it would disturb your rest, so I turned it off. I even turned my phone off, too. I don’t want anyone unnecessarily worried if I told them I was in the hospital," Sam explained while looking at Bella in the rearview mirror with a look of guilt and worry. "So, no one knows you were in the hospital, Boss.
I’m sorry if that troubled you...boss," He muttered softly.
"No worries, Sam. You did the right thing. If Aunty Noora or Grandpa asked me, I had an excuse that I couldn’t be contacted because my cell phone battery ran out, and I didn’t have time to charge it. And so did you." Bella said with a reassuring smile.
Bella turned on her cell phone and immediately received many short messages and pending emails, which vibrated nonstop for several minutes.
She was no longer surprised when she saw the missed calls from her son, Noora, and grandfather.
But what surprised her was the missed call from Tristan’s number. When she checked, there were 23 missed calls from Tristan. It would’ve been more if Sam hadn’t turned her phone off.