Flash Marriage: Slow Down Mister novel Chapter 263

In the ward, Horace was holding Clara's hand and waiting for her to wake up.

When Clara woke up, she saw a room of white. And then she was relieved as she realized that she was in a hospital after finally escaping.

"Babe, you wake up." Seeing that Clara had woken up, Horace was happy yet nervous.

Hearing Horace's voice, tears rolled down her eyes and she felt scared and panicked again. She wanted to see him so much when she was struggling in that warehouse and now it finally happened.

"Horace, I..." She called his name while sobbing, and she couldn't say anything more but looked at him with watering eyes.

Horace wiped her tears lovingly and held her to his arms, and comforted her in a choked voice, "It's okay, I'm here with you."

Hearing Horace's comfort, Clara finally broke down crying in his arms like she could vent all her anguish, scare and anger to him.

Hearing her crying, Horace felt that his eyes were also moist. He blinked and patted her back gently, "Oh, don't cry, it's okay. It's all gone."

Clara finally stopped crying after a long time, but she was still sobbing in his arms.

Horace slowly pushed her away, grabbed a tissue nearby to wipe her tears, and then held her into his arms again with his chin touching her head, which was a soundless comfort.

Clara was snuggling in his arms, feeling his warm chest and the peace of her mind.

After a long while, Clara finally regained composure and raised her head from his chest, only to find out that his shirt had gotten wet from her tears and snot.

She was a little embarrassed and was afraid to see him in the eyes so she just took a tissue to help him clean.

"That's okay, I'll get changed later." Horace held her hand gently and said while looking at her in the eyes.

She was all crying emotionally when she saw him before and didn't take a good look at him. Now she finally saw him clearly when their eyes met.

Horace looked terrible with his swollen eyes, dull and unfocused gaze, dark shadows under his eyes, and some stubble on his chin and around his mouth, which suggested that he hadn't been on good rest for a long time.

Clara touches his face and asked with love, "Why did you do this to yourself? I'm sorry you were so worried."

Hearing her words, Horace felt worse as it was nothing compared to what happened to herself, but she was apologizing. It was his fault that he didn't protect her well enough.

He held her into his arms and tried to hold back his tears, "It's all right, babe. I will never leave you no matter what happened."

"What?" Clara looked at him doubtfully while gently getting herself untangled from the hug.

Horace took her face in his hands and said, looking at her in the eyes earnestly, "Clara, I love you for your heart and your soul. I'll never leave no matter what happened. So please promise me that you'll never leave me and we'll be together forever."

Hearing his loving confession, Clara was greatly moved but she didn't understand what he meant.

She pulled down his hands, held them, and asked in confusion, "Horace, why did you say that? What will happen to me? I'm here!"

Horace was dumbfounded at her words but immediately realized, "That's true, you are here. Nothing happened. It was all gone, let's just pretend it didn't happen."

"What didn't happen?" Clara was still confused.

"Nothing." Horace tried to squeeze a smile and hid the sorrow in his eyes.

Seeing that Horace didn't want to talk about it, Clara put the question to rest though she still had doubts, and asked another thing, "Did Logan tell you I was here?"

Clara remembered that it was Logan who saved her at the last minute and so he must have taken her to the hospital and called Horace.

Thinking about it, Clara was deeply grateful to Logan as she wouldn't have been here and had the courage and confidence to face Horace if it weren't for him.

Horace was confused about why she would ask that but he didn't give a second thought, "No, Sean told me."

"Sean?" Clara was shocked by his answer.

"Yes." Horace regretted that he said Sean's name in front of her as he thought it would bring some bad memories of her, then he patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, he can't hurt you now."

Clara didn't pay attention to his words but thought about why Sean would know she was in the hospital.

She was sure that it was Logan who took her to the hospital because she saw him before she passed out. Then the only one who knew she was in the hospital was Laura except for Logan. So did Laura tell Sean that she was in the hospital?

At this thought, Clara asked tentatively, "What about Laura? I remembered I saw her too."

"She said that she and Logan saved you." Horace thought Clara remembered that Laura saved her, "When you get better, we'll thank her together."

Hearing that Laura told Horace she and Logan saved her, Clara realized it must have been Laura and Sean who kidnapped her.

Clara thought, "Laura was doing it for Horace, but what was Sean doing it for? To threaten him?"

"What are you thinking?" Seeing that Clara was in a daze, Horace asked while touching her head, and said with love, "Don't think too much."

Clara looked up at Horace and wanted to tell him her guess but remembered what happened at the coffeehouse before.

Would he believe her this time as he didn't trust her then? Would he think that she was just throwing mud at Laura?