Chapter 3

I don't know why Bryce looked at me that badly but I just tried not to pay attention to it even more and Braylon’s noises grabbed my attention. He is talking so much while I'm busy taking care of the medicines that haven't been taken out of the box yet. He also picks it up and then places it on the table in front of us while raising both eyebrows and giving me a silly grin. I made him suffer because he looked so annoying. Not because he's not handsome but because of the nonsense I read there.

"I know you want to know how Bryce described you last night, Nurse Gia. Come on. Don't be shy. I'll tell you, eh." He even got a wink at me.

"How sure are you that I want to know about it?" I raised an eyebrow at him and I don't know why he suddenly burst out laughing causing those people close to where we were to look at us and it felt like someone was watching me.

"Because I can see it." Braylon’s simple response to my question made him frown.

"What do you mean you can see it?"

Braylon immediately grinned because of my question. "I can see the future." He answered like a fortune teller while acting like he was holding a crystal ball in both of his hands.

I just shook my head and then turned away from him, but he seemed to turn into a tail as he followed me. I could hear him babbling but I didn't pay attention to it especially when Bryce got my attention. He's been looking at me for a while now because I can feel it and I don't know why he's just looking at me like that as if I'll do something bad. I try to ignore it but it affects me too much and makes me uncomfortable.

"Come on. You two might melt each other by the way you two look." I turned to my side and saw that Braylon was there and also looking at Bryce. He grinned and then jokingly saluted his friend while I turned my back on them and sat in one of the chairs there. "Do you know that Bryce would not have come here if Grandma Briella hadn't asked him to?"

I seriously turned to Braylon when he sat down in front of me and suddenly he started talking properly and without any mixture of teasing or anything else. “No.” He snorted when I answered him. Well, it's just that I don't know, eh?

"That's why I'm going to tell you, eh." His statement made me laugh because he looked like a child. "Bryce doesn't know why Grandma Briella needs to help the people who are here when they will evict them in just a few months."

"Get evicted? Why?” I immediately asked when Braylon got my attention.

"Because Bryce is going to build a new resort here."

"Shouldn't they help the people who are here even more because they will be evicted after a few months? At least that way he can help the people who are here even for the last time.” I couldn't avoid the statement and it was only then that I noticed those new tools, equipment, and stock of medicines that their staff was placed there in one of the canopy tents.

"Because from Bryce's point of view, they will only let the people here rely on the help they can give because they know that it will not be enough."

"But even so. Even if that is lacking, he should still help.”

Suddenly, Braylon looked at me seriously, which surprised me because, for the first time since I saw him and was with him, he became serious. He smiled bitterly at me and then looked at his friend who was still talking to Captain Leon and Doctora McKenna. "Because Bryce doesn't want anyone to rely on him again and in the end, he will only fail them."

"What do you mean?" I don't know why but there's something in me that wants to know why Bryce has such a point of view even though I understand him because it's business and I grew up seeing that's what Grandpa Gideon was doing.

"What's her name?" Suddenly, Braylon's eyes turned in another direction, so I frowned and followed what he was looking at, and there I saw Saighna checking up on a child not far from us. "Hey. What is her name?”

I even felt Braylon elbowing me slightly, causing me to frown and look at him again. "That's Dra. Saighna Kieth Hatz and you're not her type." I couldn't avoid teasing him so he immediately turned to me and gently knocked me on the head with a small medicine box which made me laugh because I agree with his snoring again. "Stop pouting." I gave him a serious order that surprised him a little until he slowly grinned. What is he thinking this time?

"Why do you want me to stop pouting? You're tempted to kiss me, right?" Both of his eyebrows were raised again while a teasing grin was drawn on his lips.

"You look like a duck, dude." I kept teasing him because suddenly he was like a child who crouched down on the table and hid his face there.

"Grandma Briella was right." I turned to him again after arranging the empty medicine boxes on the side of the table. "You and Bryce are the same. Both of you are teasing me."

I couldn't avoid being slapped on the forehead and then jokingly poked Braylon with the small medicine box causing him to raise his face again and just in time Saighna passed in front of us. I saw how he swallowed saliva so I couldn't help but laugh at his reaction. I just shook my head and then looked at Saighna and saw her heading in the direction of Bryce. I wasn't interested in what she would do there but there was something in me that I couldn't take my eyes off of until I saw how her hand wrapped around Bryce's arm. I don't know why I felt annoyed so I turned to Braylon again.

"Do you have Saighna's number?"

"Why don't you just ask her directly?" I asked him lazily while lying on my back and looking into the void.

"Eh, why does your face suddenly seem to be entwined with heaven and earth? Are you jealous?" I heard his smirk again but I didn't look at him.

"Stop with your illusions, Braylon."

He laughed and from my peripheral vision, I saw that he was still smirking. “Geez. Admit it. You're jealous, right?"

I turned to Braylon with a frown. "And why should I be jealous? I'm not his girlfriend."

"Why? Do you have to be his girlfriend before you feel jealous?” Wondering, he asked me while still holding his chin. "What I know is that it is not based on what you have with someone that you have the right to be jealous. The others are just crushes but they are hurting and crying, eh."

"I do not know about you. What kind of things are you thinking that have no truth." I shook my head and promised him.

"Wow. There is truth in that, no. I'm already jealous because Saighna is so close to Bryce even though I still have a crush on him." According to that, his snout is getting longer and he is still bowing. It might reach the ground hahaha.

"You're like a kid." I couldn't avoid commenting but he agreed and suddenly looked up at me again and smiled at me like a child given candy.

"N-Nurse Gia?" I immediately ignored Braylon's rudeness when suddenly I felt someone approach us and call me. When I looked at her, she was distracted while looking at my name tag. I immediately helped her to sit and when I grabbed her arm, she immediately started crying as if I had hurt her.

I couldn't see her arm but that's where I touched her and that's where she got sick. She was wearing a cardigan so I couldn't see it properly but I couldn't miss those small wounds on her forehead and eyebrows. I frowned because of that and some idea of ​​why she had what was formed in my mind.

"What happened to your wounds?" I turned to Braylon when suddenly his tone became serious again while closely observing the lady who was shocked by his question.

"What's your name, Mam?" When I changed the conversation, Braylon was about to complain when I held his arm and thought that he understood what I wanted to say is to keep quiet and I would do my job. I took a piece of paper where I would record the information about the lady who was still not speaking and just lowering her head. "I need to know your name, Mam." I insisted again when she still didn't speak after a few minutes.

"Elishea B-Berbedil." It was obvious that she was trying not to stutter but she was not succeeding. I even asked her the things needed to form the personal information needed in her future file.

"Where did you get those wounds?" I asked calmly as I felt Braylon move closer to listen carefully to what the lady had to answer.

"I just bumped into our house. I-I just want to ask for m-medicine.” The weakness in her voice was obvious but I was not convinced of her reason.

"Can you take off the cardigan you're wearing, Mam Elishea?" I asked properly, causing her to look up at me.

"I-I'm cold." He said but the tremor in her hand was obvious so I immediately stood up and took the temporal artery thermometer that was near me and then approached Mam Elishea and then placed it on her forehead to find out her temperature.

"Your fever is high." I couldn't avoid the statement. It's 40 degrees Celsius. I couldn't stand it anymore and I was the one who gently lifted her arm to remove the cardigan she was wearing. Due to her weakness, she was not able to complain anymore and Braylon and I were exposed to the lady's new bruises but some scars and bruises were still healing.

Braylon and I looked at each other. "I will call Captain Leon," he said and then immediately left to call the captain.

"I will take you there to the tent where there is a bed. You need to lie down and rest while we treat your wounds." I informed the lady when I saw the tent where there was also a curtain around it that Bryce's staff had just finished almost fixing because it was one of Grandma Briella's gifts as well as the hospital beds that I saw they put in there.

Mam Elishea didn't say a word but when I started helping her to stand up, she immediately helped herself to walk toward the tent. I saw Captain Leon, Dra. McKenna and Braylon were also approaching us when suddenly someone pulled Mam Elishea and because of that suddenness, I let her go immediately. When I looked back at her, she was already crouched on the ground because of weakness and when I looked up at the person who did that, I saw a man with a big body and a tattoo on his arm while his eyes were also clear of being high.

"Who told you that you can leave the house huh?!" That man's voice echoed and based on the smell of his breath that reached my face, the crazy person was drunk. Damn ass.

“Alvin, stop! You're hurting me!" The pain felt in Mam Elishea's voice because the man tightened her hair.

"Why are you complaining now huh?!" The man's eyes widened as he tightened his hold on the lady's hair.

“Alvin, that's enough. That's your wife." I heard Captain Leon's statement from behind me as if reminding the man that she was his wife.

"Gia, come here." Also from behind, I heard Dra. McKenna called me but I just stayed where I was and I didn't even look back at her. I was just looking at the lady that the man was trying to build up by pulling it up on the woman's hair.

"Don't interfere if you don't want to get hurt!" I could see the anger in Alvin's eyes until suddenly everyone gasped when he suddenly pulled out a knife. “I will kill this woman!” He said and then pointed the knife at Mam Elishea's neck. "I asked you for nothing but to serve me and follow my wishes but you still disobeyed me and left the house!" Alvin firmly said to his wife in an emphatic and restrained manner.

"Stop! It's a pity, Alvin. You're hurting me." Mam Elishea was crying and begging but Alvin seemed deaf because instead of listening to her, he looked up like a demon and laughed while playing with the knife in his hand. When I looked around, everyone was on the sidelines and we were the only ones here and in the middle of everyone. There are also guards surrounding us and waiting. When I turned back to the couple, Alvin was still laughing and for some unknown reason, I got the courage to take a few steps between the two of us and punched Alvin in the neck where his adam's apple was bulging.

"Gia!" I heard the voice of Dra. McKenna and Braylon were worried but I didn't pay attention to that anymore and immediately supported Mam Elishea to stand up properly after Alvin pulled her back and seemed to be short of breath as he grabbed her neck.

But before the bodyguards could get close to Alvin and Mam Elishea and I could get away from him, he immediately came close to us and pulled my arm and when I faced him, he was about to punch me when suddenly there was someone who stop his fist in the air that everyone who was there gasped. When I looked up at that person, I couldn't help but gasp in shock and amazement. He grabbed the fist of the man who seemed to have no trouble with him because nothing changed in the expression on his face. It was just blank and looked like he was looking at something useless while his eyes were directly in Alvin's eyes.

Bryce.