Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 389

The incident soon died down, having been perfectly resolved.

With Sally chased off, the show that’d been about to wrap up shooting obviously couldn’t finish as they’d originally planned.

The female side character’s position needed someone to come up and fill in, and it wasn’t a choice that could be made right away, so nobody knew how long this was going to drag on.

Considering that, Laura frowned, troubled.

But she didn’t have too much time to think about it, because the moment the incident was resolved, Max took her away.

As Max was taking her off, everyone saw it, and the gossipy flames in their eyes felt like they were going to burn her.

But her hand was in the man’s grip, and she couldn’t get loose.

Laura was panting by the time he dragged her onto the car. She wrenched free and asked irritably, “What are you doing?”

Max scoffed and told the driver, “Drive. We’re going to the hospital.”

Laura blinked.

“What are we going to the hospital for? My hand is all bandaged up. It’s just a small wound, I’m fine.”

But no one listened to her. Soon, the driver had driven to a private hospital nearby.

The man dragged Laura off the car and tossed her over to the doctor.

“Check her arm injury and give her a tetanus shot.”

The hospital was under the Nixon name, so the doctor naturally knew Max.

Hearing him, he hurriedly nodded. “Yes, Mr. Nixon, don’t worry. I’ll take her there.”

With that, he took Laura away.

Before Laura could react, she’d been taken to a room and sat on a chair.

Quickly afterwards, two doctors attentively took the bandages on her arm off, reapplied a poultice, while another nurse went to ready a tetanus shot.

Her slender body was surrounded in the middle, and for the first time, she felt what it was like to be put on a pedestal.

The environment was just a little strange.

Laura was a bit exasperated as she lifted her head at the man leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed, chuckling, “You’re making too much of this, aren’t you? It’s really not that serious, and there’s no need for a tetanus shot. Besides, the cast doctor already treated the wound back there. Isn’t it just asking for trouble to treat it again?”

Max scoffed. “Quit overthinking it. I’m just being humane and afraid your arm might have to get lopped off, so I had people check you again.”

After all, he didn’t know what the cast doctor’s abilities were like. If he was good or not, or if he was just an amateur, wouldn’t that make things worse?

He didn’t say all that to Laura, though.

Laura sighed helplessly and let them keep working on her.

About half an hour later, everything was done. She turned to the doctor and asked, “Well? I’m fine, right?”

The doctor smiled, “It’s fine, ma’am. The wound looks serious, but it was really just a scratch. If you don’t leave it near water and rest for a while, it’ll heal up fine.”

Laura nodded.

Then she turned to the man at the door and shot him a look that said “see, I’m fine”.

Max turned his head to the side and didn’t look at her.

Inside, though, he was grumbling.

This damn woman didn’t know what was good for her!

Soon, Laura’s wound had been treated, and she rubbed her arms as she stood, thinking that even though Max had a filthy mouth, his heart was in the right place.

At least, he cared about her.

She was feeling a bit of warmth when at that precise moment, he dragged her to the checkout window.

“The bill.”

“What?”

Laura blinked.

Max cocked his eyebrow mockingly.

“The poultice, the bandages, the shot, they cost money, you know? So pay up.”

“…”

So he wasn’t concerned about her and had only dragged her here to his family hospital to squeeze her for money!

Ha. Ha ha.

Laura was so furious she almost laughed.

All the warmth and gratefulness she’d been feeling vanished into the wind!

Laura snapped, “I didn’t bring money.”

Max cocked his eyebrow. “You didn’t bring money, eh? That’s a kerfuffle.”

Laura was about to blow her top.

She smiled coldly instead. “Max, you can’t be this stingy! Forget that you dragged me here today, I was injured while filming, so it counts as a work injury, right? As a boss, aren’t you supposed to pay for the hospital bill?”

Max grinned at her. “Are you sure it’s a work injury? You weren’t deliberately targeted because of that woman’s grudge with you?”

Laura jolted.

Gritting her teeth, she snarled, “Max! You’re really pushing it!”

Seeing her lose her temper, Max knew that it was time to rein it in, so he laughed it off and said, ‘Hey, it’s just a joke! So serious, jeez! When have I ever let a woman pay?”

Besides, the hospital was his family’s, so it didn’t even make sense to pay money anyway.

Laura watched him hand down his orders to the cashier, then crossed her arms and left.

Max hurriedly followed her.

“Hey. Where are you going?”

Laura replied coldly, “Where else? Back to the set! I need to shoot!”

“What do you think you’re shooting in this state? I already asked for a holiday. Don’t worry, I’m a stand-up guy. Even though your injury will set things back and probably waste more of my investment, I still told Leroy to let you rest for a few days and heal up.”

Laura stopped in her tracks.

She turned to look at him, her gaze icy.

“All right, tell me the truth, Max, what do you want? Why do I feel like you keep trying to go against me?”

She was so pressed for money right now she was about to go mad. Now this bastard had chased Sally off, and the cast couldn’t finish shooting, while she couldn’t get her money.

Just considering that, Laura’s temper flared.

She knew that Max had done this to stand up for her.

But she just felt like this man’s goals weren’t so simple.

Max raised an eyebrow, a bit of insecurity flashing through his eyes.

“What do you mean I’m going against you! Really, you… thinking so lowly of my good intentions. I’m just helping you on account of our friendship when we were small. Don’t think you’re so important everyone’s going after you.”

He said that, clearly not meaning a word of it.

Laura couldn’t be bothered to keep tangling with him.

“Fine, whatever your purpose is, please stay away from my life. I’m going back to the set. See you later!”

She paused, then harshly corrected, “No – see you never!”

With that, she took a taxi and left.

Max looked at the car receding into the distance, his cheeks puffing up in a pout.

He kicked a pebble into a nearby bush, growling, “This ungrateful girl!”

Because of Laura’s injury and the female side character having to be recast, the cast had to stop shooting and go for a few days’ holiday.

Unexpectedly, on the first day of said holiday, something happened.

Some obscure big account online suddenly released several photos.

The photo showed the corridor of a large entertainment center, where a man with a bulging gut had his arm around a young girl.