Chapter 683


    Chapter 683: A Monster In The Shape Of A Human


    From the window, one could see the sky outside darkening as rain clouds gathered, covering the bright


    sun.The woman in the ward looked as gloomy as the dark sky.She suffered from an inner storm.


    "Don''t you want to exin yourself?" Brandon''s eyes, which were trained on her, were as sharp as an


    eagle''s.


    Charis swallowed uneasily.Brandon''s question was straightforward.


    Apparently, he had already talked to J before they came.


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    Charis wasn''t sure what J had told Brandon, but she doubted J had any evidence of her past


    crimes.


    Therefore, it was likely that J didn''t tell Brandon everything.


    Otherwise, Brandon wouldn''t have been so gracious as to give her a chance to exin herself.


    In fact, he might not have visited her at all.


    Since Charis had figured this out, she knew what to do next.She pretended to be angry and asked


    pointedly, "Why don''t you trust me? I''ve never lied to you! Brandon, I described your rtionship with


    J only from the perspective of an outsider.Didn''t I tell you before? You never talked to me about


    your rtionship with her.If you didn''t tell me anything, how could I have known whether or not you two


    had a good rtionship? Now, I realize that I must''ve misunderstood your rtionship.иσν???вσσк.


    ￠σмAfter all, what I saw was just the way you two got along in public.You are always cold and


    indifferent with everyone.I thought you didn''t like her either."


    Charis''s exnation was somewhat convincing.It was true that Brandon didn''t talk about his private


    affairs with others.


    But Charis was an intelligent woman with a discerning eye.She should''ve seen the rtionship


    between Brandon and J for what it really was.


    Which meant that she wasn''t telling the whole truth.


    Still, it was difficult for Brandon to tell which part of her words was true and which part was not.They


    had known each other for years.


    Thus he still trusted in Charis somewhat.


    As for J, Brandon could only feel that there was some sort of a special bond between them.


    But every time he tried to recall something rted to her or their past together, he''d get a splitting


    headache that would debilitate his thinking.


    "Indeed, I''m not good at expressing myself."


    Brandon fell silent for a moment.


    After a while, he stood up and said, "All right.Get some rest.I have go back to work.I''ll visit you another


    time."


    Although what he said wasn''t out of character, his eyes were as cold as ice.No matter how hard she


    tried, Charis couldn''t read him.So she simply forced a smile in response.She could see that although


    Brandon had stopped questioning her, he didn''t trust her as much as before.


    Not long after Brandon and J left, Charis''s attending doctor entered the ward with several nurses.


    The doctor nced at Luke and then said to Charis, "Miss Turner, the gauze can be removed today."


    Charis had been in the hospital for a long time now.Because her burns were severe, the doctor never


    talked about removing the gauze until she had calmed down.


    After all, in his experience, many burn patients just broke down as soon as they saw their disfigured


    faces.


    Charis was nervous.Her whole face and body had been covered in gauze since she woke up.She


    couldn''t see how bad it really was and therefore hadn''t really mentally prepared herself for the fact that


    she was disfigured.


    Standing beside the bed, Luke said in a fatherly tone, "Only after checking the wounds can the doctor


    decide the treatment n for the next stage."


    "Okay."


    Charis slowly squeezed her eyes shut andy still.She could feel the nurses slowly peelyer upon


    layer of gauze off her body.


    Then she heard someone gasping.иσν???вσσк.￠σмCharis slowly opened her eyes, only to find her


    mother crying in her father''s arms.The doctor and the nurses also looked at her in shock.


    There was even a trace of pity and fear in their eyes.


    Charis slowly turned her head to look at the mirror in the ward.


    The reflection staring back at her didn''t look like human at all.She looked like a monster in the shape of


    a human.


    Not a single part of her skin was intact, and her face was beyond recognization.


    Therge ck scabbing all over her body looked like a pangolin''s shell.


    In the blink of an eye, Charis''s self-esteem was shattered.She started scratching at the scabs on her


    face like a madwoman and screamed at the top of her lungs hysterically.