Trapped with a Lawyer novel Chapter 79

The packaging read 'Levonorgestrel Tablets'.

Samuel's face grew dark. He turned to Ella suddenly with a look of horror on his face and slapped off the glass in her hand.

The kitchen floor was marble, and the glass shattered instantly.

The sound of shattering glass started Joy Liu who was busy in the kitchen.

Accustomed to keeping to herself, Joy closed the door and left, as if nothing had happened.

Samuel grabbed Ella's face with his right hand and stared into her eyes. "Who gave you these pills?" Samuel's eyes seemed to pop out of his head in anger.

Ella grabbed his wrist and tried to shake her face free from his grasp.

"Who gave them to you?!" Samuel's voice was getting louder as he shook Ella's head.

"Don't you want a divorce? Why would I give you another child?" Ella said in pain. Her jaw ached under the pressure of Samuel's hand.

Yesterday had been the latest day for her period to come. Having not occurred he had moved on to protective measures.

Samuel's eyes were red and seemed to bulge out of his head with fury, "You may have just killed my unborn daughter! Murderer!" After saying this last word, he threw her away violently.

Ella fell to the ground in a squat. She accidentally pressed her left palm into a shard of glass.

"Ah!" Biting her lower lip in pain, she lifted her hand to have a look. Several shards of glass were sticking out of it.

Small drops of blood fell to the ground and her face turned pale.

Hearing her cry out, Samuel, who was heading out the door, stopped and turned.

Watching Ella sitting helplessly, with blood dripping to the ground, Samuel's pace quickened. He walked over to her, put his arm over her shoulders and rushed her outside.

In a bit of a panic, Samuel put Ella in the back seat of his porsche and dialed Chuck's number.

"Go straight to the hospital. I'll be there in just a moment."

Chuck was in the midst of taking a half-empty glass of milk from Daisy.

Hearing the urgency in Samuel's voice, Chuck let go of the glass, which in turn spilled all over Daisy's face. Daisy sat dripping with milk.

"Chuck!!" Daisy shrieked at Chuck, who was busy changing his shoes.

Chuck took a look at the milk-soaked Daisy and gave her a gap-toothed smirk. Then he continued out the door and dashed down the street.

Daisy remained in the kitchen cursing Chuck with every foul word she could think of. When she was finished, she left to get cleaned up.

In a luxury VIP ward

Samuel slammed the breaks of the Porsche as they approached the hospital. The sudden stop caused Ella's forehead to hit the seat in front of her.

Now she had a head ache too! Head aches, hand aches, heart aches. Everything was aching these days.

Samuel opened the back door of the car, and lifted the wounded Ella out of the car. He hurriedly steered her towards the hospital front door.

Chuck was already standing in the waiting room, dressed in a white coat. Samuel rushed in.

Chuck looked curiously at Ella, helpless-looking in Samuel's arms. A little anxiously he asked, "What happened?" Only after he spoke did he notice the terrible condition of her hand.

Ella had always been like a little sister to Chuck. Seeing her condition made his heart sink in his chest.

Chuck called the nurse station and asked them to deliver a first-aid kit and the associated medicine.

Gently, Samuel set Ella down on a sofa and sat next to her.

"She cut herself on a broken glass." Samuel explained what had happened to Chuck. He felt a bit guilty about the whole situation, though he tried to hide from Chuck.

The nurse brought the first-aid kit to Chuck. Chuck took out tweezers, cotton swabs and a few other items. He looked tenderly at Ella, "This may hurt a bit. But I know you can bear it."

Samuel unbuttoned the right cuff of his shirt and rolled up the sleeve. Revealing his bare arm, he placed it in front of Ella. "Bite it if you feel pain."

Chuck looked solemnly at the two. He thought back to his own experience. Having been scratched by a scalpel, Daisy had offered the same thing.

He would be touched if he were a woman. But alas, Chuck was a man. For him it was shameful to have a woman offer such a thing.

Feeling animosity towards Samuel, Ella happily obliged and bit into his arm.

Chuck carefully disinfected the wound. He felt her tremble each time he prodded the wound.

As he began to pull the pieces out, Ella bit even hards. Her pain was obvious for all to see.

Samuel's free arm suddenly wrapped around her waist. Trying to make light of the situation, Chuck opined, "Hey you two, get a room!"

A display of affection, here? Didn't Samuel think she was some kind of an evil woman? Wasn't he impatient to cast her aside? How strange it was for him to show her affection after all they had been through.

Chuck thought he saw a faint smile on Ella's face when he cracked his little joke. The smile quickly left though. Something seemed wrong with Ella.

He quickly stole a glance at Samuel again, who was staring intently at the wound with a blank expression.

These two.. Chuck thought to himself. ...must have some real problems.

"What are you looking at? Do your job, man!" Samuel had noticed Chuck's ponderous look and glared back at him.

How strange! Chuck remembered Samuel as a cheerful, happy man. Never before had he seen such hostility from the man. Did this have something to do with the gossip about Ella? Was this what had caused this strange energy between them?

If it was, Chuck felt that he needed to have a serious discussion with Samuel.

Slowly, Ella withdrew her teeth from Samuel's arm. Two neat, little rows of teeth were already rising on his skin.

Ella looked daze, though she didn't seem to be bothered by the pain. After all, compared to the pain she had belt lately, her hand was nothing.

After Chuck finished removing the last small shards of glass, he carefully applied an antiseptic medicine and wrapped her hand with gauze.

"Don't press on the wound or get it wet. Come in tomorrow and we'll change the dressing." Chuck spoke to the couple while packing up his things.

Suddenly, Ella's pocket began to vibrate. She quickly pulled out her phone with her good hand.

She pressed answer as she walked out of the doctor's office.

As Samuel began follow her, Chuck stopped packing his things. He spoke softly, "Samuel."

Samuel turned around in confusion. "Well? The bill?"

... Chuck felt the strange impulse to throw a scalpel at Samuel. The two men stood staring at one another.

"Spit it out!" Samuel was clearly in a rush.

"What's going on Samuel? Between you and Ella?" Chuck hadn't seen them for a while, but they seemed like different people.

Samuel cocked an eyebrow. "Nothing. Everything is fine. How about you worry about your own wife, huh? We're fine." After all, Samuel's issues with Ella were not something which could be quickly summarized.

"Ella is a nice girl. Don't hurt her." Chuck was not the type to worry about other's business. If Ella had not been like a sister to him, he would have likely stayed silent.

Samuel reacted to Chuck's by frowning and sneering at the doctor. "Don't be fooled by what you see. She's not what you think she is." With that, Samuel turned and left the room. Chuck remained behind puzzling over what she had heard.

There must be something else behind this! How could anyone ever think Ella was a problem..