Renee took the bus back to her little wooden house at the foot of the mountain.
Her neighbor, Mr. Jones, came running out with a panicked expression. “Joan, you’re finally back!
Please check on Van right now. Something’s happened to him!”
“What?!” Renee narrowed her eyes and quickly got out of the bus, rushing into her home.
As she hastily picked up her pace, she identally tripped and fell, scraping her knee and throwing the
groceries in the bag all over the ground.
“I was just going to get some juice, but Van just climbed up a cherry tree for some reason! He ended up
falling, and now he’s unconscious!” Jones exined the situation as he ran with Renee.
Apart from the rows and rows of sunflowers, there was a tall cherry tree in their garden as well. Since it
was summer and cherries were in season, the tree was brimming withrge, juicy fruits.
Renee had been eyeing the cherries for quite a while, but the tree was just far too tall to climb, which
made harvesting quite a difficult task. Hence, she had prepared to borrow adder from Jones.
However… Jovan seemed to have overheard her and tried to fulfill her wish on his own.
“Jovan!” The woman noticed the man right under the tree, his hands still clutching onto a fewrge,
bright red cherries.
“I don’t know if he’s broken any bones, so I didn’t dare to move him. Don’t worry, Joan, I’ve already
called an ambnce.” Jones patted Renee on her shoulder andforted her.
The townspeople had paid extra attention to the couple ever since they moved in six months ago. That
was was simply unimaginable for the fragile-looking woman to take care of the disabled man all on her
own.
Thus, everyone was more than happy to lend them a hand whenever they needed it.
“Jovan…” Renee’s eyes widened as she held his hand, ming herself. “It’s all my fault. I should’ve
brought you to the market with me. I was too careless.”
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The ambnce arrived a short whileter. After treating Jovan’s wounds, they immediately ced him
on a stretcher and drove towards the town hospital. Naturally, Renee followed along as well.
As the check-up concluded, the doctor diagnosed Jovan with a lower back injury, and he was required
to stay in bed for two weeks. Moreover, he had fainted due to anemia, which made his body
exceedingly weak.
Renee stared at the thick report on Jovan’s condition, only to find her legs going weak from regret. The
weight of this guilt was slowly consuming her soul.
She had never expected the price for Stefan’splete recovery to be this high, as it had basically
ravaged Jovan’s life.
‘If I knew the consequences would be so severe, I wouldn’t have agreed to that surgery at all!’
Just then, a loudmotion could be heard from the main hall.
“Doctors, please! Someone save my fiance!”
Renee found the voice rather familiar and turned around. As expected, it was Stefan, and in his arms
was Seraphina, who was drenched in blood.
She felt her heart sink to the bottom of the ocean. ‘What happened?! They were just happily having
coffee in that cafe a while ago! How did things take such a horrible turn?!’
“Make way! Make way!” The medics looked panicked as well, yelling loudly as they pushed Seraphina
into the emergency room.
With that, the entire group of people disappeared from Renee’s field of vision as if they had never
shown up before.
‘This is such a coincidence…’ Renee took a long while to snap back to reality, wondering if she was
hallucinating earlier.
She didn’t intend to get to the bottom of this either, so she headed to a nearby store to buy some stuff
for Jovan during his hospitalization. This included two new sets of fresh clothes, some cutlery, a mug, a
small cake, and a bouquet of flowers.
As Jovan had received a full bag of fluid, he had regained consciousness as well. He seemed to be
rather anxious, begging to be let go. However, his entire body was constricted to the bed, and he could
only lie still.
“Where is this?! Who are you people?! Let me go! Let me out of here!” Jovan screamed as he punched
the edge of the bed, his voice filled with despair as veins popped on his forehead.