Chapter 9 Hospital

      Vincent woke up two days later.

    The injuries on his head were heavy. Luckily, he was sent to the hospital on time. No severe sequelae was triggered. Still, the doctor requested him to have a really good rest.

    Samuel and the old Beta took most of his work and asked him to stay in the hospital until he was fully recovered. Vincent didn’t argue with them. He just asked one question before Samuel and Harold left.

    “How’s Talia?” he wanted to know.

    Before he left the house, he had decided to end it with Talia, but he sort of changed his mind after he met that little girl at the fountain.

    That little kid was apparently in a desperate need for her father. That was why she insisted on calling a random stranger “Daddy”.

    Vincent felt that he couldn’t do it to Charlie. If the boy somehow spoke in the future and asked for his mom, what was he supposed to do by then? He couldn’t just grab a random woman from the street to be the boy’s mom. Pups are extremely sensitive about their parents.

    He was kind of overwhelmed by the awkward situation between him and Talia right now. To his surprise, Talia solved the problem for him.

    “She left,” Samuel shrugged his shoulders at Vincent’s bedside, “I am sorry, Vince. But Mrs. Mead called me yesterday. She found Talia emptied her room and took all her stuff away. I asked Tom. He told me Talia hopped on an airplane to Spain the night she hit you. I guess she doesn’t want to continue this relationship anymore either, just like you.” The college boy’s tone was indifferent, even cold.

    Vincent fell into silence. He weirdly felt relieved, but also lost at the same time. He knew he must have scared Talia that night. At that very moment, he seriously wanted to kill that woman. But no matter what, Talia was still his mate. They were bound to each other by the sacred mate bond. Even if he wanted to end it, he couldn’t do it without a rejection.

    “Find her for me, would you?” he asked Samuel, but actually didn’t know what he would do with Talia if she came back.

    Samuel nodded his head and reminded Vincent to take a good rest, and then left with the old Beta.

    Vincent stayed in the hospital bed for another two days. On the third day, his secretary, Sophia, came to visit him with a pile of documents that needed his signature.

    Vincent signed all those papers, and asked Sophia from the hospital bed, “Anyone … particular called my office?”

    He was thinking about that little girl who insisted on calling him Dad. He gave the little girl his office number to avoid unnecessary misunderstanding. If the little girl called, it would be Sophia to take the phone call. But Sophia shook her head.

    “No, Sir,” the young secretary was sitting straight on a single sofa at the corner of the ward. She looked a bit confused, but replied very quickly and professionally, “They were all regular business phone calls. Your brother had taken care of them.”

    Vincent nodded his head quietly. Somehow, he felt disappointed to hear that answer. He knew he should feel lucky that the little girl’s mom didn’t show up with a police officer to issue him a restraining order, but he couldn’t control how he felt.

    Lying on the hospital bed gave him a lot of time to think. During the past few days, he had tried to think about his work, Charlie, even Talia. But that little girl just kept jumping into his head.

    He could never forget the way she looked at him and asked when she could see him again. And he could never forget how happy she was when she heard him saying “Daddy loves you too”.

    Vincent knew he was acting like a pretty sick per/vert. But he seriously wanted that girl to be happy. He wished she could find her real dad, and he wished she could get all the love she deserved.

    He thought for a while, and then told Sophia, “If a little girl named Angela calls and asks for her dad, transfer the call to my personal cell.”

    It was a request with explosive information. Sophia almost thought she had heard it wrong. She couldn’t help but widen her eyes and ask, “You mean….” She stuttered as she didn’t know how to ask that shocking but improper question.

    Vincent knew Sophia had just misunderstood from her facial expression. He felt regretful and quickly explained, “She is not my daughter. Charlie is my only child. She’s the daughter of…a friend of mine.”

    Sophia quickly nodded her head and said, “I know! I know!”, but her dodging eyes told Vincent that she didn’t believe him.

    It was the sort of thing that explanation only makes it worse. Vincent suddenly felt a headache. He pinched the bridge of his nose and then told Sophia, “You can leave now”, and then added, “Keep it secret from Samuel, will you?”

    Sophia quickly nodded her head again. “Sure, of course!” She said with panic in her head.

    She wasn’t a wolf, and knew nothing about the personal affairs going on in the Lanton family. In her eyes, Vincent wasn’t an easy-going boss and his alleged wife was a stark bitch. That woman could trash Vincent’s meeting room for being late for a dinner appointment. Sophia couldn’t even imagine what would happen if Talia found out Vincent had a secret child with another woman.

    She quickly picked up her briefcase and walked out of the ward, with some of those documents still in her hand. Her handsome, but bad-tempered, and also henpecked young boss suddenly had a secret daughter and needed her to cover it was way too overwhelming. Sophia wasn’t really looking when she walked past the nurse station a few yards away from Vincent’s ward.

    A thin blonde woman in a brown trench coat had just ended her consultation there and turned at the same time. They accidentally bumped into each other.

    Vincent saw it through the open door of his ward. When that woman turned facing Sophia, he surprisingly found that it was the green-eyed woman he had seen at the fountain that day.

    He instantly felt his **** grow hard again as if he had just got a dose of powerful philter. It made him feel like the sickest per/vert on earth.

    What the hell was wrong with him? It’s just not okay to get hard on a strange woman whenever he sees her!