CHAPTER 2: Sexy Stranger

Nora POV

I took a moment to calm myself down despite the surge of adrenaline rushing through me. I was disgusted at the mere sight of looking at them alone but a small smirk formed at the corner of my lips.

"Okay but do you mean the one beside my bed, Josephine?"

"Hmm, the one by the right stand."

I paused. That meant I needed to make a turn to the right. A thought appeared to me and I dropped to my knees, crawling my way through the bed stand.

From a reflection, I saw that the two had gone back to their irritable affection. I reached the bed stand and held the wood for support before turning, holding it still.

I opened the large cabinet and seeing that they were still engaged, I intentionally let the contents fall to the ground causing them to panic.

"What are you doing Nora?" The nurse screamed out.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to." I fell to my knees, picking up the bottles on the floor.

"Just bring the medicine," Landon spoke out, not wanting the plan to fail. "The one in a silver covering."

Nice try, Landon. I had seen the 'medicine' and noticed that it was condoms and not the cold medicine he wanted.

Tears streamed down my eyes but I picked up the box containing various medicines and stretched out the box to them. "Here, I don't know which is the right one."

Landon took the box from me and tried to search my expression but it was blank. My face was gentle, my lips pressed together into a thin line.

"Thanks." He murmured but dropped the box back on the floor with a loud bang before walking out of the room, his nurse following behind him closely.

I released the breath I didn't know I was holding when they left. I had been so close to getting caught. My eyes dropped to the label of a bottle of medication on the floor.

A gasp escaped through me, my hand moving to my mouth. I could recognize the label vividly. It was an illegal product, and the last time I checked, the government placed a ban on it.

But what was it doing here? I picked it up and saw Landon's father's hospital logo on it. Did they produce drugs? And an illegal one at that... I knew I was doomed so far I was here.

Landon walked down the hospital hallway with Josephine beside him. They had barely walked some distance when Landon stopped abruptly. He turned in the direction where the room was and back to Josephine. "You don't think she has recovered her sight, do you?"

Josephine shrugged, "I also suspect her but it's not possible. She didn't show any signs of improving these past months so there was no reason to."

"When was the last time you conducted a test on her?"

"Ehm…"

Landon raised his brows at her, "Don't tell me you haven't done it in a while." He raised his voice in anger.

"It's not like that," she moved closer to him and placed her hand on his chest, "I've just been preoccupied, you get..." She winked at him.

Landon sighed, understanding what she meant. He looked at the woman in front and realized why he loved her. From her pretty face to how she understood and gave him what he wanted, unlike Nora. He couldn't even see what his father saw in her.

If not for that accident, things would never have resulted in him being forced to marry her.

"Alright, alright," he knew he couldn't win against her. "But go and conduct a test as soon as possible."

She nodded.

I was not having it easy where I lay. My feet shook in fear and my heart thumped faster when I put the pieces of my accident together. My entire knowledge about Landon's family was shattered by one label on the bottle.

But I was more frightened for my mum than myself. My fingers moved to my teeth and I chewed on them continuously.

Landon's family was powerful, no doubt about it. They owned the hospital. And not only me, but also my mother was admitted here. Following the accident, my mother had a breakdown and Landon's father had willingly offered to help.

But if what I imagined was real, then we had to leave... Immediately! But how? A single move could put us in danger.

The voices at the door entrance made me recoil back on the bed in fear. I shut my eyes quickly though it was useless. The room was already dark and I could only rely on my hearing sense.

"What do you think about her?" I heard Josephine speak up first.

"If she can see now? I can't say, she looks asleep so we can't conduct the test but there seems to be an improvement."

I felt a hand open my eyes wide, conducting some examination on them.

"Oh, should we come back at night then?"

"Yes, we should."

Their footsteps retreated from the room and only until I heard the door shut did I open my eyes.

They were going to conduct a test on me? Were they that suspicious of me? The test had not been conducted in a few weeks now and since they wanted to, I needed to speed up with my plans.

The sound of an alarm jolted me from my sleep. The room was dim black and it seemed it was the whole hospital. I sat upright wondering what was happening.

Landon and his mistress weren't in the room either. Was something going on?

All patients should stay in their rooms, electricity will be sorted out soon. Please stay in your room! The announcement blared.

This was my chance, I knew it! I gently rose from my bed and with all the support and training I had, I walked out slowly from the room. The hallway was better than my room, a little light radiating from it.

Room 24. I recalled my mother's room number. I had six rooms to go. Gently staggering my way down and squinting to cross-check the numbers, I finally found it.

"Mum! Mum!!" I called out in a hushed voice, stirring the woman awake. "We need to leave."

"Who are you?" The old woman stared at me in confusion.

"Your daughter, Nora." I dragged my mum out of the bed and put her sweater on. We walked out of the room slowly but as I got out, my hands brushed against a man's body by the door.

"Who are you?" His deep voice echoed in the hallway.