A Mysterious Man novel Chapter 96

The doctor sees that this is his own colleague from the hospital, and tries to calm Kevin down, “You need to put her on a surface, I will be with you as soon as I am done with my patient.”

Kevin wants to say something, but then he sees the other patient who looks very sick, so he only nods in agreement to the doctor, “Okay, but please hurry.”

The doctor sits down again, and goes on with his work, when he finishes, he walks to Kevin’s side.

“What happened to her?”

“Her forehead is burning, I think she has a fever.”

The doctor takes Sunny’s temperature, and says, “Yeah, she’s 39 degrees now, I wonder how long has she been burning up.” He looks at Kevin blaming him, “You and...” He looks at the name tag, “What is your relationship to Dr. Ellen?”

“We are dating.”

“So Dr. Ellen has been on 39 degrees, and you only bring her now?”

Kevin doesn’t really know what to respond to that, so he only smiles awkwardly.

The doctor runs a complete check for Sunny, “It’s nothing major, I will get her some IV, and you can bring her to the room to get her medicine.”

“No... no need, I can walk...” Sunny wakes up and says confused, she pushes Kevin’s hand away, trying to get up.

Kevin looks at her and sees how stubborn she is, which makes him angry again, he doesn’t even care how Sunny tries to refuse, and grabs her.

Just when Kevin wants to walk out of the doctor’s office, he suddenly remembers something, so he turns back and asks the doctor, “Where do I go for the IV?”

...

“I will take you there, you can get the medicine from the pharmacy first.”

The doctor sees on his watch that it is almost time for the end of his shift, and since Sunny is his colleague, he helps Kevin to find the IV room.

“Could you please find a bed for Dr. Ellen, she is not feeling well.”

The doctor asks the nurse to free a bed for Sunny in the crowded IV room.

“But... sorry for the trouble...” Sunny has not thought that she would get so weak in just one afternoon’s time. An illness really knocks out everyone.

Kevin watches without any expression how the nurse injects the needle into Sunny’s blood vessel, and suddenly walks out of the room.

“Where have you been?” Macie is a little nervous, she seems to be very afraid that Kevin leaves without a sound.

“I went to... your mother needed water to take her medicine.”

Macie knows that Kevin does not feel burdened by the two of them, and is a little relieved.

“I think you can go, I will take care of Mom.”

Kevin looks at Macie, and notices a loose hair on her shoulder, he suddenly remembers something, and his eyes squint.

A second later, he pretends nothing happened, and reaches out to pick off her hair, “I will be back in just a second.”

He walks out of the IV room, trying to get a hold of the direction in the hospital.

Then he thinks for a while and dials a number, “It’s me, I need to get a DNA test, I will give you the necessary items when I get back.”

When he hangs up the phone, he asks the nurse where he can get some hot drinking water, and slowly walks towards the direction he was pointed to.

Jonathan is right, some things will always get to him, even if he tries hard to get out of the way, so why not just let it come and face it.

When Kevin realizes this truth, his steps become much lighter.

Sunny is already conscious when Kevin gets back with the water, she is leaning on her pillow talking to Macie.

The picture in front of him looks so warm, he doesn’t want to interrupt them, so he waits outside the room until Sunny raises her head and sees him, she waves him in.

“Why are you already sitting? Are you feeling better?” Kevin tucks in Sunny’s blanket for her, and notices that she has taken off her overall, and put it on the chair next to the bed.

“I can’t lie there after waking up, and I feel much better, I don’t want to stay here anymore.”

Kevin hears in her undertone that she wants to go home, and quickly pushes her back in her pillow, handing over the water he got for her.

“Let’s first wait for the IV to finish, and take the medicine, after all that we can go.”

Sunny looks at him curiously, “I didn’t even say anything, why are you so emotional?”

Kevin’s face turns red, I can’t say that I thought you were going to take off again, can I?

So he only waves his hand, “It’s alright, just take your medicine, and talk when you are done.”

Sunny rolls her eyes, but listens to Kevin and takes her pills.

“I am so bored, Macie, come and tell me a story.”

Kevin looks at Sunny, did he hear her right? She wants Macie to tell her a story?

Then he looks at Macie to see her reaction, it seems to be something normal between them, since she moves closer to Sunny, “Mom, what kind of story do you want to hear?”

Sunny thinks deeply for a while, “How about the story where the bear plants a sun, I wanna hear that again.”

“Hmph!” Kevin clears his throat annoyed, these two girls totally forgot about his existence!

But before he has the chance to say something, Sunny speaks to him.

“Why don’t you go home Kevin, we have troubled you enough for today.”

Look at her, is she serious?

Kevin does not only not go home, but he even sits back down.

“I also wanna listen to the story, can I listen?”

Sunny doesn’t believe her ears, she looks at Macie.

She sees Macie nod her head, and says, “Well, it’s up to you.”

She agreed?

Kevin walk through the room to find himself a chair, which he brings to sit beside her bed, then he lays his chin in his palm and prepares himself to listen to Macie’s story.

“So, once upon a time, there was a little bear in the forest, he really likes the sun...”

There the three of them sit, one telling the story, the other two listening, they seem very united in this moment.

In the end of the story, the little bear successfully planted his sun, Kevin sighs happily.

“Wow, that’s so great, life fairyland is always so wonderful...” Not like reality, which is filled with intrigue.

Sunny takes a close look at Kevin, who listened so carefully to the story, “Mister Quinn, you seem to have a lot of stories yourself.”

“No, no, not that much, it’s just life, that has taught me it’s lessons.”

“Like?”

“Like girlfriends running away with other guys when I didn’t even know, and I missed my best chances to get her back, this is probably what I regret most, I regret that I haven’t listened to my own heart on time.”

These words aren’t wrapped at all, putting it all out in the open.

Sunny doesn’t react to that, she gathers all of her courage to look at Kevin’s eyes, and asks in a small voice, “Really?”

Macie on their side looks at both of them, she doesn’t know why her story has made Sunny and Kevin fight again.

So she opens her mouth while pulling on Kevin’s shirt, “Kevin, I think I am a bit hungry...”

Kevin is reminded by her words, that he was here to pick up Sunny from work and to go to dinner, and he wanted to use this chance to have a good talk with her, but who could have know that she was sick.

Kevin feels a bit awkward right now.

“Macie, what do you want to eat? I will go and get it for you!”

“Hmm, I wanna go with you!”

Macie wants to spend some alone time with Daddy, even if Mommy cannot be with Daddy, she won’t have any regrets.

But she cannot say this, she can only call Kevin Dad in her heart, but she has to call him by his name.

“Okay, sure, let’s give Mommy a rest, we will go and get something to eat.”

Kevin takes Macies’s hand while talking, and turns to ask Sunny, “Do you want to have something?”

“You guy should eat, I don’t have any appetite yet.”

Sunny squeezes the back of her nose with her fingers, she hasn’t been sick for a couple of years, or to be accurate, she didn’t dare to get sick, who knew this time it hit her so suddenly.

If she has a fever, what would happen with Macie, she can’t make her sick too.

Sunny watches the two of them walking away, and reflects on her thoughts.

Macie is not thinking as much as her mother, she looks at Kevin’s hand, and squeezes her own into his, holding his fingers.

Kevin can feel a little soft hand holding on to his, and his heart skips a beat, he has a weird feeling.

Then he holds on to Macie’s little hand, “What do you want to eat, honey?”

Macie has never been called “honey” before in her life, her heart beats faster, Daddy gives me a different feeling than others, even my godfather has not called me that before.

“Da... Kevin, I wanna eat, KFC!”

Kevin looks at the KFC near them, “But that’s not healthy, you shouldn’t eat too much of that.”

Macie purses her lips, but she doesn’t say anything, Kevin though takes her hand and walks towards KFC with her, “Just this one time, never again.”

Macie’s mouth forms into a big smile, “But you can’t tell my mom about it!”

Kevin looks at her, “Why, are you afraid of her?”

Macie shakes her head, “No, but I don’t want her to worry.”

Kevin feels that she wants to tell him more, so he stops in the middle of his walk, “What do you mean?”

Macie looks at him and hesitates, “I get sick a lot, and Mommy, she doesn’t allow me to eat unhealthy food...”

She suddenly is afraid that Kevin will not allow her to eat it either.

“So...do you still wanna eat KFC?”

Macie takes a look at the fast food restaurant, and sniffs her nose, “No.”

...

Kevin suddenly laughs, “Let’s go, we will get a little bit, but it’s not our main meal for today.”

Macie’s eyes are full of surprise, “Really?”

“Yeah, let’s go, but don’t tell Mommy.”

So this meal at KFC becomes their little secret, Macie’s mouth is full of oil after finishing, and Kevin helps her to clean it off with a tissue.

“Let’s go, are you full?”

Macie nods her head, she doesn’t know what to do with her little oily fingers.

Kevin pulls them over to himself, “Let me help you with that, your hands are all full of it!”

All of Kevin’s attention was on the little girl, and he doesn’t notice the shadow that passes at the entrance.

“Kevin, I am done, let’s go back to Mommy, I think she is hungry.”

Kevin nods his head, “What does Mommy like to eat?”

Macie purses her lips again, “I thought you like Mommy, why don’t you know what she likes to eat?”

Kevin is stunned, how does she know?