Of Pillows and Pampering นิยาย บท 5

After recovering from her thoughts, Sally scrambled to pick up her phone and squeezed out a smile at Javier. “Senior… You work here?”

A smile flashed across Javier’s handsome face.

He extended a hand fondly and ruffled Sally’s head. “How old are you now, and still as clumsy as ever?”

Sally answered him earnestly with beaming eyes. “Twenty years old.”

The man turned his head to the side as he laughed. “Why are you here at the hospital?”

She pointed to the consultation room behind her and replied, “My friend is chatting with her cousin.”

Javier lowered his gaze to look at the time. “It’s lunchtime now. Your friend should only come out after a while.”

“I’m about to have lunch. My treat?”

Sally pursed her lips as she considered his offer for a while before knocking on the door to inform Evonne.

“Let’s go.”

Javier led the way with a smile while Sally followed him silently.

Sally’s crush on Javier started when she was in Year 2 Senior.

That year, her grandmother had fainted suddenly during a visit to Sally’s school. It was Javier who had given her grandmother first-aid and carried her on his back to the nearby hospital.

It was coincidentally a sunny day back then. He stood in the hospital’s corridor and told Sally that he was a medical student. He also imparted knowledge to Sally on how to take care of her grandmother.

That was the first time Sally felt attracted to a boy.

Eventually, that became her motivation to sign up for medical school in the future.

She wanted to go to the same school that he did and trace his footsteps on the same path.

However, after realizing this dream, she had lost the courage to look for him.

The last time she met Javier, she was still in Year 3 Senior and Javier had cheered her on.

Javier brought her to a clean little restaurant.

“What do you want to eat?”

Taking off his white robe, Javier looked more handsome than ever. He flipped through the menu swiftly. “If I remember correctly, you have a sweet tooth?”

“Uh-huh.”

It had been too long since she last saw him. Sally was so nervous that even her voice sounded tight.

Suddenly, her phone rang. It was an unknown number.

Sally apologized and answered the call.

“Where are you?”

The man’s deep voice that was void of warmth sounded rather familiar. She frowned. “You are…”

“Elijah Moses.”

“!!! How did you get my number?”

“Is that surprising?”

The man’s cold voice traveled into her ears in the form of soundwaves. “Come home and eat with me.”

“...”

Sally threw a hasty glance at Javier who was still busy looking through the menu. “Can I… Go back a bit later?”

Seeing how her senior, who she had not seen for a long while, offered to buy her food, it did not feel right for her to excuse herself before they even managed to warm their seats.

The voice at the other end of the phone lapsed into silence. “Ten minutes.”

“Alright.”

“Boyfriend?”

Javier asked with a smile after she hung up.

“Not a boyfriend.”

Sally scratched her head in embarrassment. “He’s my husband.”

The smile on Javier’s face froze.

After a long pause, he replied with a smile that seemed to be directed at himself, “You got married so early? When did that happen?”

“... Yesterday.”

Javier’s self-directed laugh became more significant. He coughed lightly. “As your senior, I didn’t give you any wedding present. Let this meal be my blessing to you!”

With that, he called for the waiter and was about to order food.

“No, don’t.”

Sally stopped him. “I’m leaving after drinking this cup of water. My husband wants me to eat with him at home.”

Javier’s face turned into a sudden pallor.

Sally was still beating herself up because she did not get to speak longer to Javier. Her thoughts were in a mess. Therefore, she did not think to look into the effects of the medicine.

After dropping Evonne at the school gate, Ol’ Joe drove Sally back to the villa.

In the spacious and empty villa, Elijah sat at the dining table alone. The afternoon sun elongated his shadow, painting a strangely lonely feeling.

Once she arrived at the villa, Sally washed her hands and went running over.

After getting seated, she looked at the luxurious array of dishes on the dining table in shock, “Are there guests?”

“Nope.”

With his eyes hidden behind black silk, the man’s voice sounded nonchalant. “Just the two of us.”

Sally nearly choked on her words in shock, “... There’s no way we can finish this.”

“Indeed.”

Elijah picked up his chopsticks slowly. “I ordered the chef to add a few more dishes.”

“Why?”

The hand that held the chopsticks paused ever so slightly. Then, he smiled. “Just in case.”

“In case the next day after their wedding, Mrs. Moses goes to a small restaurant to have a meal with another man. Perhaps others might think that I’ve been mistreating Mrs. Moses.”

Sally was speechless.

“You…”

“You knew that I came back from a restaurant?”

The man continued eating emotionlessly. “It seems like Mrs. Moses did go to a restaurant with another man.”

“...” Sally did not reply.

Did he take her for an idiot?

It was not like she could not read between the lines!

She hated it the most when people beat around the bush like this!

She took a deep breath before saying, “I wasn’t complaining that the food at home isn’t nice, nor was I reluctant to eat at home. I just bumped into someone I know in the hospital.”

The man raised an eyebrow. “What are you doing in the hospital?”

Sally rose to her feet, rummaged in her bag, and arranged bottles after bottles of medicine that Evonne gave her in front of Elijah. “You have a weak body. So, I got you some vitamins.”