His soul-Chapter 420: Trauma vs Bulimia
"Are you awake, honey?" Massimo’s hoarse voice could be heard clearly in Gina’s ears, who was still massaging her forehead with her left hand.
Hearing Massimo’s voice, Gina quickly opened her eyes again. "What time last night did you take me home?"
Massimo, who was still lying beside Gina smiled. "You should be saying good morning to me, sweetheart. Not such a curmudgeon."
"I’m serious, Massimo!"
"I’m also serious, I want my morning kiss first before answering your question," said Massimo hoarsely.
Gina took a deep breath, trying to contain her turbulent emotions. Trying to ignore the pain in her head, Gina approached Massimo and quickly kissed him on the forehead.
"Akh repeat... tasteless!"
"Massimo..."
"Quick repeat, otherwise we’ll be lying in bed like this all day."
Hearing Massimo’s threat, which sounded earnest, Gina finally relented and repeated the morning kiss ritual according to Massimo’s request.
Getting a kiss on the lips made Massimo smile widely, his warm eyes stared at Gina who looked pale. Wait, pale?
Massimo quickly touched Gina’s forehead with his left hand. "You have a fever!"
"Hmm?"
"Fuck!" Massimo cursed loudly before finally jumping off the bed.
The first thing Massimo did was grab his cell phone from the nightstand, after which he engaged in a serious conversation with Martin who was ready to wait for his orders.
"I don’t want to know, quickly get the best female doctor in Madrid to check on my wife. Use all our connections, Martin." Massimo was heard speaking in a deep voice to Martin on the phone.
After he finished talking to Martin, Massimo noticed that Gina was still lying on the bed, filled with concern that Massimo had turned off Gina’s condition again. Using his hands, Massimo checked Gina’s body heat which turned out to be above the normal threshold.
"I’m okay, Massimo," Gina said quietly to Massimo who was busy arranging a comfortable sleeping position for her by arranging several pillows on the right and left of her body.
Massimo looked up at Gina who was smiling at him. "Even though I’m not a doctor I know you’re not feeling well right now."
"Massimo..."
"Shut up and don’t protest, the sick person must obey," said Massimo curtly.
Gina smiled. "I’m not sick."
"Oh yes?"
"Yes."
"If it doesn’t hurt, why is your body temperature so high, hm?"
Gina moved her left hand, touching her forehead. "How high? It’s usually like this," Gina replied pretending to be fine, even though she could actually feel how high her temperature was right now.
"Usually huh? Keep talking and it’ll only make your condition worse," said Massimo curtly. "You better shut up and wait for the doctor to come, be a good girl."
"If I got sick it was your fault that took me around Madrid until the morning in a high speed car and one more thing I have to remember is that I’m not a girl anymore. You took my girl five years ago."
Massimo’s movements immediately stopped when Gina brought up what he had done years ago to Gina, his lower body reacting to those words.
"I-I have to go to the bathroom, you wait on the bed. I won’t be long," said Massimo suddenly.
Before Gina could answer, Massimo was already running towards the bathroom. Gina, who didn’t understand Massimo’s behavior, just shook her head slowly and closed her eyes again because the pain that had hit her head came back.
In the bathroom, Massimo was standing under the cold shower. Without taking off his clothes Massimo let the cold water touch his skin, cooling the heat of lust that was already boiling inside him.
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"Are you sure my wife doesn’t need an IV, doc?" Massimo asked a second time to the doctor who was examining Gina.
"No need, sir. Madame just needs to get enough rest and maintain a healthy diet," replied the doctor gently.
"But what about the vomit? It’s been a long time since she threw up like last night."
The doctor frowned at Massimo’s words. "Has your wife been throwing up often before, sir?"
"Yes, a few weeks ago, almost every time she finished eating she threw up," said Massimo firmly. "At that time my personal doctor had examined her, he said my wife only had digestive problems, nothing more. But I suspect something else is going on."
The doctor was silent, he seemed to digest the sentence Massimo had just said. Until finally, surprisingly the doctor said. "You don’t have bulimia, do you, madam?"
Massimo and Gina were both shocked to hear the doctor’s words, Gina couldn’t believe there was a doctor who could know the problem she was experiencing with just one examination and Massimo didn’t understand what bulimia meant even though she believed bulimia was a bad condition.
"Of course not doc, I..."
"Describe bulimia."
Gina and Massimo spoke simultaneously in response to the doctor’s words.
"Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by a tendency to regurgitate the food that has been eaten. Bulimia is a dangerous and potentially life-threatening mental disorder. Bulimia can be experienced by anyone, especially adult women and teenagers, who feel dissatisfied with their weight. body or body shape. People with bulimia tend to use unhealthy ways to lose weight, namely by forcibly removing food, either by vomiting or using laxatives, "explained the doctor at length.
Massimo’s face immediately changed when he heard the doctor’s explanation, Martin who had read Massimo’s emotional company immediately took action. Martin politely invited the doctor to have a one-on-one talk, asking for an explanation of bulimia and how to treat it, leaving Massimo and Gina alone in the room.
"So where do you want to start?" asked Massimo quietly to a pale looking Gina.
"I’m fine, Massimo."
Massimo took a deep breath. "Actually at that time I hoped you were pregnant because you kept throwing up food until I finally realized you weren’t pregnant when your period came, until there I was still thinking positively until finally the doctor who just examined you mentioned bulimia. Really I’m not a person who is good at everything, so please tell me all in detail. Since when and how did you get such an eating disorder?"
Gina lowered her head looking at her fingers that were playing with the blanket covering her body, she was too afraid to look at Massimo’s face at this time.
"Honey..." Massimo called softly. "I won’t be angry, tell me the truth. If you have a problem we can work it out together, now tell me what’s bothering you? Did the Sanders family force you to leave me again?"
"No, nothing like that," Gina answered quickly, her eyes immediately meeting Massimo’s.
"Then?"
Gina lowered her head again, seeing that Massimo finally acted. Using his left hand Massimo grabbed Gina’s chin and lifted her up so she could look at him.
"If not for your family then for who? Because of Patrick Davidson?"
"Don’t bring up uncle Patrick and his family, they have nothing to do with this at all," said Gina curtly, when Massimo mentioned his godfather and his family, Gina always acted fast. Gina didn’t want Massimo to do anything to his godfather’s family.
"Then explain to me, answer my question earlier. What is bothering you..."
"You, you are the cause of this problem," said Gina quickly interrupting Massimo’s words.
Massimo raised his eyebrows. "Me? What about me? What have I done?"
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"I don’t want to repeat the history that happened to my mother, because of that I have to keep my body in shape so that it remains attractive in your eyes. I don’t want to be abandoned by my husband when I was pregnant like what my mother did, I’m not as strong as my mother who is able to give birth and raise children alone without a husband."
Massimo massaged his aching head as he recalled the words Gina said an hour ago, Massimo couldn’t believe Gina would think that far.
"Coffee please, sir," Martin said quietly as he placed a cup of coffee americano in front of Massimo.
Massimo didn’t respond to Martin’s words, his brain was still working hard to find a plausible reason for Gina’s previous words.
"Doctor Lourdes has recommended one of the best psychologists in town who frequently treats patients with eating disorders, sir," Martin added.
"Psychologist?"
"Yes sir, according to doctor Lourdes the most appropriate and quick treatment for a bulimia sufferer like madam is to go to a psychologist, sir," Martin explained carefully, he was afraid to offend Massimo.
Massimo leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed for a moment before finally looking back at Martin with a serious look. "I already know what caused Gina to be like that, Martin."
"What? You already know, how come?"
"Gina was the one who spoke to me directly earlier when you were with Doctor Lourdes," Massimo replied expressionlessly. "Gina told me she threw up her food again for fear of changing her shape."
"WHAT?
Massimo smiled a little. "Yeah, Gina told me she threw up her food again for fear of changing her shape. Gina is afraid that I’ll leave her, she doesn’t want to experience the sad things her mother has experienced decades ago, Martin."
Martin opened his mouth wide at the master’s words, he couldn’t believe what Massimo had just said. How could Georgina Sanders, the only girl that Massimo del Cano loved until she almost went crazy thinking that Massimo would leave her. It was an irrational thought and to make matters worse, it was the thought that triggered Gina to experience bulimia.
"How can Madam have such thoughts, Sir. Don’t you believe that you really love her?" Martin said quietly.
Massimo pursed his lips. "I don’t understand either, I think with everything I’ve done for her so far she’ll know and understand that I’m really serious about her. But the truth is like I just said, Gina is afraid that she will go through something similar to what her mother did."
"It seems that Madam really had a hard time while she was with her mother, sir. Because now she was very scared."
"Yes, I think so, "said Massimo quietly." Julian Sanders jerk, he is the only person to blame for the trauma suffered by my wife this time.
"Continued
