The Woman From Hell

Chapter 819 When it was over, I could not fall asleep for a very long tand looked at the moonlight outside the window while feeling a pang in my heart.

Just as I was finally about to fall asleep, I heard Theo moaning painfully beside me. I quickly turned on the bedside lamp and sat up to check on him.

His head was covered in sweat, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed together, and pain was written all over his face.

"What's wrong?" I was terribly anxious. "Where does it hurt?" Theo opened his mouth slightly. "It hurts." "Where does it hurt?" I grabbed my phone while anxiously asking.

Theo's breathing quickened. "Wanda, don't. Don't-" I finally realized that he was having a nightmare and quickly shook his arm. "Wake up, Theo. Wake up.” Theo slowly opened his eyes and reacted for a few seconds before pullinginto a tight embrace. He was so strong that it hurt me. "Can you please don't go, Wanda? Please, I beg you, don't go." I pursed my lips and could roughly guess what he had dreamt about. I put my hand on his head and comforted him softly, "I'm not leaving. I'm here." "Don't go!" He kept repeating these words as if he could not hear me.

When he had calmed down a little, I helped him to bed and drew out a piece of tissue at the bedside table to wipe the sweat on his forehead. "Go back to sleep.

Don't worry, I'll be here." He nodded and pulledinto his arms. He took a deep breath. "You're my life, Wanda. You can't leaveor I'll die." It was then I knew that I was not the only one struggling in pain. In the last three years, life was easier to get by with Munchkin by my side, but Theo could only suffer in the dark by himself.

I felt sorry for him and hugged him like an octopus." I'll not leave as long as you need me. I'll never leave." He was not the only one who was lonely. Theo and I were like two puppets that had sunk down at the bottom of the ocean. We needed to hold each other to survive the darkness that was engulfing us.

He said, "Every tI woke up at midnight in the past, the room would be empty and the space besidewould be cold, so cold it was as though you never existed. Sometimes, I would think that you were never there in those years, that I had made you up in my head because I was too lonely.

"I didn't even have the courage to step into the house in Salt City. Sometimes, I'd be put in a trance thinking that I was dreaming. There were many times I wondered if I could hold you again if I die in the dream and then wake up." I felt a lump in my throat and held his hand tighter." I'm sorry." Theo let out a self-deprecating smile. "I've had many teachers. They all taughthow to survive in the business field and how to negotiate with people, but none of them taughthow to love someone. I was afraid of hurting you, so I refused to get close to you. I apologize for my foolishness." His words sent tears to my eyes. I sniffed and said," Theo, I don't know how to love someone either. I'm a very selfish person." All these years, I probably had never truly put myself in his shoes.

I loved him, but my way of loving him was not right.

When Theo swapped Cindy's and my DNA report back then, the main reason was that he was afraid he would not be able to hold ontoanymore once I becGrayson and Petra's daughter.

If I had not been so bent on getting away from him and told him what I really thought, our child would not have died, Cecilia would not have died, and my biological parents would not be spending their days in remorse.

On this night, we embraced each other as each of us confessed and repented.

Theo said, "I don't want another three years of that. It's too long and too lonely." Tears wet my eyes. "There won't be another three years like that. We'll be together for the rest of our lives." He huggedtighter. "Do you love me?" I smiled, both certain and serious. "I love you." A chuckle cfrom above my head, accompanied by the sentence, "I love you too. I love you very much." This was the first twe confessed our true feelings to each other.

"Thank you." He suddenly thanked me.

I was stunned. "Why are you thanking me?" Theo kissed my lips. "Thanks for still being willing to love me. Thank you for still being willing to cback to my side." The winter in the north was very long. Munchkin had plenty of tto admire the snow scene, so it cas no surprise that he had caught a cold.

Keith would take Munchkin to kindergarten every day. This included a wake-up call service.

On this day, he went to wake Munchkin up, only to see his flushed face and quickened breathing. He quickly knocked on my bedroom door.

Theo had gone to work very early in the morning. I rushed to Munchkin's room and asked Keith to get a doctor. "Should we get Dr. Lynch?" He hesitated to ask.

I thought about it and nodded. "You can get him." He was Munchkin's father, after all. It would be more than reliable to get him to treat Munchkin.

Mason cin no tat all. He was so fast that I was in disbelief.

"Where did you cfrom?" I asked curiously.

It would take at least an hour to drive from the city, but he had arrived in 20 minutes. Did he fly here? He pursed his lips and made no reply. He sat by the bed and reached out to feel Munchkin's temperature.

"He's a little hot," I said.

Mason nodded and took out a thermometer from the first aid kit to take his temperature. Then, he looked atand asked, "Do you have ice cubes at home?" I nodded. "We do." "Wrap the ice cubes in a towel to lower his temperature. Grab a couple of thick blankets later and turn off the heater in the house." Having said that, he started rummaging through his first aid kit.

I was stunned for a moment. "It's so cold. If we switch off the heater, will he be able to stand it when he's having a fever now?" He stopped in his actions and looked up atwhile narrowing his eyes. "Are you the doctor or am I?" u 99 What was that attitude? Although I was unhappy, I did not say anything else.

I went to the kitchen to grab sice, and as he said, found a few blankets and switched off the heater.

When the preparations were made, he looked up at me. His gaze fell on my body and he frowned slightly. "Go and wait in the living room. I can manage the situation here myself." I wanted to say something, but he seemed reluctant to havehere. After noticing the thin layer of clothes o n me, I left.

I went to the bedroom to grab a down jacket and went downstairs to wait in the living room.

About half an hour later, Mason cdownstairs.

He put the first aid kit on the coffee table and said, His fever has gone down. Make sure he stays at hΝΟ for the next two days and eats plain food. Don't give him anything that's fried or hot."

After a pause, he added, "I left the medicine in the room. Just make sure he takes it once a day. Even though it's medicine, it's more or less poisonous, so the fewer pills he takes, the better it is." X