My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

Chapter 569: What Happened to Him

“It’s me. Wake up,” Florence whispered to call. She wanted to wake him up but seemingly, she was afraid to bother him with her voice. This text is © NôvelDrama/.Org.

She felt conflicted but extremely delighted.

“Ernest...” she whispered to call him again and again.

However, the man on the bed seemed to have been in a deep sleep. He didn’t respond at all.

His eyes still closed, his eyelashes covering his eyes tightly. He was lying there peacefully and breathing slightly. His breath was so light that she could barely see his chest heave up and down.

Florence was taken aback in confusion. Ernest had always been quite alerted. Even if he was in a sound sleep, as soon as there was any movement next to him, he would wake up immediately.

Besides, she had been calling him so many times. He should have opened his eyes long ago.

Florence stood there motionlessly for a long while. Blood drained from her face bit by bit. It wasn’t until now did she calm down from the extreme joy. She realized that something was wrong.

“Ernest, what’s wrong with you?” she asked in a soft tone.

Slowly, she reached her hands towards his face.

Her fingers reached his cheek first. What she could feel was the icily cold.

It felt like touching a piece of ice.

Florence’s eye pupils fiercely shrunk. She wondered why his body was so cold.

The temperature was so low as if he were not an alive human being.

“Ernest, wake up. What’s wrong with you? Don’t scare me!” Florence said trembly. The cold sweat dripped from her forehead.

It was so difficult for her to finally find him. She couldn’t let anything bad happen to him.

She dared not to test his breathe. She grabbed his shoulders, trying to shake him to wake up.

When she was about to move, Clarence snapped to stop her, “If you moved him, he would truly die.”

Florence stopped in fear.

Her tightened heart was trembling. However, in extreme nervousness, she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

She could tell from Clarence’s words that Ernest was still alive.

However...

“Why can’t he wake up? What happened to him?”

Florence looked back, gazing at Clarence in anxiety.

Clarence walked to the bed and looked at Ernest with a complicated look.

He whispered, “Since I rescued him and took him here, he has been always in a coma. He hasn’t woken up at all.”

Florence was shocked. “How could it be?”

“It should be because he has been seriously injured.”

His words were reechoing in Florence’s mind.

Florence was startled. Then, she lifted the quilt on Ernest with her trembling hands. Then, she paled.

She saw that Ernest’s chest was wrapped by thick bandages, which had been soaked by his blood.

Florence’s fingers trembled, tears dropping from her eyes.

She had no guts to check his wounds under the bandage at all.

With a trembling voice, she asked, “How serious has he been injured?”

He was in a coma.

Clarence said solemnly, “When I was swimming in the sea, I found him. He was dragged by a piece of wood, floating on the sea. When I saw him, his body was soaked with blood. There were a lot of bomb fragments on his body. His wounds looked bloody and ferocious...”

Before finishing his words, he noticed that Florence looked extremely pale and couldn’t help trembling. Immediately, he stopped and decided to change the subject.

“I pulled him and swimming onto the shore. Then I brought him here and find a doctor from a private clinic to see him. The doctor said he was badly injured, but he was quite strong both physically and mentally. He could struggle to survive.

“But he was too seriously injured, there was no advanced equipment here. His health condition couldn’t be improved. That’s why he couldn’t wake up.”

Ernest was seriously injured. Even he had survived, there was not advanced medical equipment or treatments, he had to rely on his own willpower.

Florence felt so sorry for him that her whole body shook.

She tightly gripped Ernest’s hand and asked between sobs, “Why did you keep him here? You should have sent him to the hospital. Contact Stanford and ask him to save Ernest! Collin is an excellent doctor. As long as Ernest is alive, Collin could save him. Let’s go back to find Collin. Ernest will recover pretty soon.”

Clarence shook his head.

“As soon as I got on the seashore, I took him to the hospital. Before the treatment, I saw Benjamin filtering the patients one after another in each hospital.

“They might have realized that I would ashore in the nearby area, so they were looking for me everywhere. I could hide from them myself, but Ernest couldn’t see a doctor on time.”

That was why Clarence found such a shabby building and took Ernest to hide here.

That was also the reason that they didn’t have a good medical environment. Instead, they could only receive some simple treatment while hiding here.

It could be imagined that all the telecommunication in this city was watched by Benjamin’s men. They were waiting for Clarence to contact Stanford for help.

It was certain that all the entrances and exits of this city had been guarded as well. As soon as Clarence was leaving, he would be caught.

Besides, Clarence was taking care of Ernest, how was seriously injured and in a coma. He couldn’t escape from this city in secret at all.

Florence looked quite pale, feeling depressed and upset.

Her lips parted. She stammered, “But... But...”

Clarence seemed to have read her mind.

He explained directly, “I’ve been searching for ways and chances to escape from here besides taking care of him. That’s why I happened to meet you.”

It was such a coincidence.

If not, Florence would be beaten to death or disabled on the street.

Florence’s eyes twinkled. She looked at Clarence gratefully.

Unexpectedly, she made Clarence escape from the yacht, and now he had rescued Ernest and her.

“Thank you so much, Clarence,” said Florence, sobbing.

She could also tell how difficult Clarence was in the past few days.

The city was full of people trying to catch him, but he still took the risk to search for ways out. Besides, he also found the doctor and the medicine to cure Ernest.

Raising his eyebrows Clarence smiled.

He said jokingly, “If you do appreciate my help, why don’t you marry me?”

He was making the same fun of her again.

Florence rolled her eyes at him. In this case, her tears stopped dropping.

She said, “Except for this one, I’ll try my best to fulfill other requirements.”

Let alone that he had saved her, she would always be grateful for him all her life just because he had to save Ernest.

“I don’t need other things.”

Clarence shrugged, looking at Florence with a faint smile. His tone was kind of serious as well as kidding.

“You don’t owe me anything, Florence. You save me on the yacht. That’s why I had the chance to save you guys. After all, you’ve saved yourself.”

In this case, Florence believed that Clarence was kidnapped because of her.

Hence, it was such a complicated matter that they could never get even with each other.

However, they had formed a friendship that experienced life and death.

She would remember his kindness all her life.

“Clarence, let’s not talk about it first. Do you have any method to cure Ernest and wake him up?”

That was the thing that Florence cared about the most right now.

She wanted Ernest to be fine and wake up.

Clarence looked confused. He was a bit surprised. Florence had known how dangerous and hard they were now.

However, her first request was still based on Ernest’s health and safety.

He wondered if she thought about herself before considering Ernest.

Clarence stared at her in a complicated way.