Love at First Sight? Mr. Harrison Has Been Scheming All Along-Chapter 127: The Note

A single incandescent bulb was the only light in the room, its wattage too low to illuminate every corner.

The man stood before her, his broad shoulders easily blocking all the light.

A pair of inky eyes were lost in the shadows, his emotions dark and unreadable.

Sean Harrison pinched the woman’s delicate chin, his face pressing forward bit by bit.

The distance between them shrank to nothing.

"A colleague."

"A junior."

"Who will it be tomorrow?"

As the man spoke, he pecked lightly at the woman’s soft lips again and again.

The warmth of his breath overwhelmed her senses.

The village they had come to this time was in the mountains.

It was early autumn in September, and the weather had clearly begun to cool.

Rory Linden had a thin jacket draped over her shoulders.

Yet right now, she felt her face burning hot.

Sean Harrison lowered his gaze, his dark pupils reflecting the woman’s silhouette.

Like scattered sparks falling on wild grass.

They spread in small areas, forming little rings of fire.

Finally, the rings, as dense as a starry sky, intersected and burned down the entire prairie.

The man’s hand clasped the woman’s waist as he couldn’t help but say, "You’ve gotten so thin."

The woman’s waist had always been as slender as a crescent moon.

But it still had some softness to it.

In just a few days, her waist had slimmed down a size.

"No, I haven’t..."

Rory Linden shook her head in denial.

Even though the woman denied it, he could still see that she had indeed lost quite a bit of weight.

Not just her waist, but also her arms and legs; even her calves were a size smaller...

The bedding on the bed was brand new, still bearing sharp creases.

Even as they were engaged in the most intimate of acts,

Rory Linden could clearly sense the man’s anger.

He wasn’t gentle. There was a certain roughness to him, as if he were punishing her...

Later...

He grew even more ferocious.

The nights in the countryside were exceptionally quiet.

Rory Linden was afraid someone might come, so she didn’t dare make too much noise.

She could only bite down on the man’s palm...

When it was all over, Rory Linden sat up and began to straighten her clothes. Looking at the satisfied man, she asked, "Can I explain now?"

Sean Harrison tied a knot in the used item and threw it away, then looked up at her.

Rory then asked, "Did you see the note I left for you when I left?"

"Yes."

He remembered.

She had written:

"I love you, and I trust you."

After receiving his affirmative answer, Rory finally asked him, "Then can you... trust me too?"

Sean Harrison stood very close to the bed, his gaze fixed on the woman.

Rory Linden never denied that Sean Harrison was a perfect man in every respect.

Especially in his appearance.

Over six feet tall, with chiseled features and a commanding posture.

Standing in this humble room, his presence alone made the entire space more pleasing to the eye.

’How could he be jealous of people like Evan Hollis and Cameron Goodman...’

Rory Linden continued:

"I just don’t want to be treated as a special case on this team."

"The medical mission has about a month left. The team leader doesn’t know about our relationship. If he found out, he would definitely give me preferential treatment, and for the rest of this month, I’d become a special case."

"I don’t want that. I don’t need to be treated preferentially."

Rory Linden didn’t come from a powerful background.

Everything she had, from childhood until now, she had earned on her own.

Sean Harrison stood in place for a long time, then walked over to the woman and kissed her forehead. "I’m sorry. I was being inconsiderate. I’ll go back first thing in the morning."

"You don’t have to. If you have work, just carry on as usual. I just wanted to explain."

Rory didn’t want to interfere with the man’s work because of her.

Sean Harrison bent down, his well-defined fingers taking hold of a button on the woman’s shirt.

As he buttoned it for her, he explained, "I don’t have work. I came just to see you."

Rory Linden tilted her head up.

After fastening the button, the man pinched the woman’s cheek. "Let’s go. I’ll walk you back."

"Okay."

Rory Linden didn’t refuse.

There were no streetlights in the village at night; it was indeed too dangerous for her to walk alone in the dark.

On the way back, Rory Linden learned that the man had actually arrived by helicopter.

It was just past nine when she returned to her room.

She went out again to take a shower.

She was rooming with the same people as before.

Two of them were nurses from Elysian Hospital.

One of the nurses quietly asked her, "Dr. Linden, isn’t that President Harrison from this morning your boyfriend? Did you two break up?"

Gossip of all kinds spread the fastest in a hospital.

Even if they weren’t in the same department, everyone knew about the young, beautiful Dr. Rory Linden at the hospital.

Later, they also all found out she had become the girlfriend of Sean Harrison, Veridia’s most sought-after bachelor.

Today, Rory Linden had called the man "President Harrison."

So they didn’t dare ask too many questions.

It wasn’t until nightfall that they could no longer suppress their curiosity and had to ask.

"We didn’t break up," Rory Linden explained. "He came here as a director of the foundation. I just didn’t want the team leader to think I was special." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Oh, I see..." the nurse blurted out. "I thought it was because of that woman at the hospital, the one with the last name Willow."

"Nadia Willow?"

Rory Linden immediately guessed who it was.

The surname Willow wasn’t common, and the only one connected to Sean Harrison was her.

The nurse lowered her voice. "I heard it from people in our department. They said she tried to commit suicide in her hospital room a couple of days ago. There was blood all over the sheets. Everyone in the department was scared to death."

"Suicide?!"

Rory Linden was surprised.

During the time she had been away, she hadn’t heard any news about Nadia Willow at all.

Sean Harrison must have known about this, but he hadn’t mentioned a word.

"Yes, she slit her wrists. When we found her, we couldn’t tell if she was asleep or unconscious. The blood on the wound had already clotted."

The nurse complained, "I heard it was because of your boyfriend. Honestly, I can’t stand people like that."

Rory Linden understood the nurse’s feelings.

Doctors and nurses in a hospital see too many patients who desperately want to live, but whose conditions won’t allow it.

When they encountered someone who attempted suicide, especially over love, they felt like slapping them twice.

The today that people like her threw away was the tomorrow those patients could never have.

The other nurse spoke up, "I heard President Harrison’s mother was on the phone in the hallway, telling him to come over, but in the end, President Harrison never showed up once."

Rory Linden remembered what Nadia Willow had said that night.

She had said that Rory would soon find out what she planned to do.

’That couldn’t possibly have been suicide, could it?’

She felt Nadia Willow wouldn’t go that far...

She wasn’t the least bit afraid of Nadia Willow using suicide as a threat.

What she was afraid of was...

the evidence Nadia Willow might have that could send Sean Harrison to prison.

Lying in bed, Rory Linden couldn’t sleep.

For no reason, she thought of the video in her email that she hadn’t finished watching.

She took out her phone, connected her Bluetooth headphones, and started to watch the last video.