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Please Let Me Go novel Chapter 133

When they were full up and leaned against the sofa, she suddenly understood what the constellation of that waitress was. An outsider cared about her appetite, but what about her husband?

"Thank you." Adelaide seemed to say it to him often. These days, she had no appetite for food. Every day, she was hungry, but she didn't want to eat anything when she sat at the table. She nearly wondered if she had anorexia.

Calvin didn't point it out, but asked with a smile, "I have no patients to see today. Do you want to go to my office?"

She hesitated for a long time. She didn't want to disturb him, but...she had failed to sleep well for a long time.

So Adelaide nodded and thanked him one more time.

His clinic, or office, was in an administrative building. He rent a room by himself. Compared with offices of big companies, his office was more like a small cozy room.

Adelaide was quite familiar with this room and she sat on the bench inside directly. Leaning on it, she was very sleepy and fell asleep before Calvin took a cup of tea and came in.

He put down the cup in his hand, took a blanket from the room and covered her with it gently. She frowned when she was asleep. It could be seen that she did not have a sweet dream. Calvin pursed compressed his lips. He had seen the tiredness on her face when they were in the restaurant. In his memory, they hadn't seen each other for just a few days. But she already had deep-set eyes. He knew her problem, but he was just a psychiatrist, not the person who could solve it.

He could regulate her mood, but could not cure the sequela caused by her incomprehension of that injury.

Calvin sighed helplessly and closed the door for her when he walked out quietly. Mellow music was on in low volume inside the room.

Adelaide woke up in the afternoon and felt dizzy. She looked at her watch, realizing that it was late afternoon. She stumbled to open the door and attracted the attention of everyone outside the room. She blushed instantly in shock, nodded hurriedly and smiled apologetically.

"It's okay. She is also my patient and just came here." Calvin's voice was always like a medicine that could refresh her like the spring in the mountain.

Adelaide nodded hurriedly.

This patient was also a girl. Under great study pressure, she ate a lot of food and therefore got fatter and fatter. Her classmates laughed at her, saying that she was fat and ugly; her teachers looked down upon her for poor study; her parents didn't care about how hard she worked, just asking why she made those mistakes in tests and beating and scolding her finally.

Having a sense of inferiority and being under great pressure for a long time, the girl was finally overwhelmed and committed suicide after the placement test. Luckily, she was saved because the cut wound was not deep and her parents found it and sent her to the hospital in time.

Her parents were standing behind her. They seemed to be workers with little education. The fact that she committed suicide really shocked them. And the girl hadn't said a word since she came here.

Seeing that Calvin asked her questions for many times but she did not answer, the grumpy father rolled up his sleeves and wanted to beat her. The girl subconsciously dodged.

"You won't have such a good opportunity next time if you use violence!" Calvin stood up quickly. In Adelaide's memory, he was gentle and would never get angry. But now, he was livid. It seemed that he was very angry.

Adelaide gave a glance to the girl who was sitting on the chair. She was overcautious and alert, paying attention to changes around her all the time as if she were an injured little leopard. She was not ugly, but she was a little fat as a result of eating junk food for a long time. Her smart eyes became dark.

She came close to the girl out of sympathy, squatted beside her and couldn't help praising her, "Look, what a beautiful girl. What's your name?"

Her voice caught her attention. She blushed. Lowering her head, she talked in a voice as low as mosquitos did for fear that other people would hear what she said, "My name is Zofia Hughes."

Her parents wept tears of joy after hearing her speak. They hugged each other and cried out loud. These days she did not utter a word though she was awake, which worried them a lot. Through the introduction of the director of the hospital, they came to Calvin with her.

They did not know what their daughter had gone through at school and also did not know why their well-behaved and quiet daughter would commit suicide.

Calvin pushed his glasses and smiled indulgently. A girl really tended to talk with another girl. Adelaide's praise worked better than his rigmarole. He smiled resignedly and turned around to get some water.

With Adelaide's help, they undid the knot in the girl's mind quickly. After all, she was still pure. When they left, the girl was smiling and said that she would come to visit her when there were chances, which pleased Adelaide a lot.

Calvin closed the door of the office after they left. It was not late and people would still come to him if there was an emergency, so he closed the door so that people would think that he had left.

"Did you have a good sleep?" Calvin always had a faint smile on his face, making him irresistible.

He had wanted to ask this question just now. However, when Zofia came, he was so busy that he did not have the time to ask. Adelaide said in embarrassment, "Yes, I slept well. I'm sorry to disturb you. I meant to sit there, but I fell asleep after I lay down habitually."

That was a room in which he hypnotized patients in serious condition. In the first few days, Adelaide only talked after he hypnotized her. For the secrets buried deep in her heart, she never revealed them easily.

Calvin poured a glass of water and handed it to her.

Adelaide thanked him and then they continued to talk about her.

These days, she still dreamed of a baby covered with blood running towards her. When she tried to chase the baby, there would be an abyss between them. However, the baby would continue to run until falling off the cliff. Standing there, she could not reach her child by any means and watched him fall again and again.

Sometimes she caught up with the child, but it changed. She saw Antonio hold Clarissa in his arms and flirt with her. When they saw Adelaide, they laughed at her because she failed to protect her child. She crazily wanted to flee, but their voices were around her like ghosts.

When she woke up at midnight, she was so scared that she was in a sweat. Even her friend Hanna who was sleeping by her side would be awakened by her. She really couldn't trouble her any more. After she came back home, she had more of those dreams which was displayed in a more realistic way.

After telling all these to Calvin, she was much relaxed physically and mentally. Calvin listened to her silently, feeling very sorry for her. Knowing that she dreamed at nights and the scene in her dreams, he could do nothing as a psychiatrist. For the first time, he resented himself for being helpless.

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