Chapter 152
Chapter 152 Fever
Tonight was probably the first night on which Elias had a very peaceful sleep. He had a long, long
dream, in which he traveled back to four years ago. Amanda told him she was pregnant and produced
the pregnancy test strip showing a positive result. This time, he believed her without a doubt and
apanied her to the hospital for a pregnancy checkup. Just when he dreamed of apanying her
to undergo a color Doppler ultrasound scan, he suddenly awoke from his dream.
In a sleepy haze, he felt a small hand touching his face all over. After knitting his brows for a moment,
he slowly opened his eyes to see Aiden’s little face. The boy was staring at him like a curious baby
while continuing to poke him with his little hand.
Aiden was apparently startled to see the man open his eyes. “Mommy! Uncle Elias is awake!”
Elias then saw Amandae over with a rather serious expression. “You’re up atst? You had a fever
in the middle ofst night. We were scared to death and wanted to send you to the hospital, but we
couldn’t wake you up no matter what, so we had no choice but to try to cool your body temperature.”
Only then did Elias notice that he had an iced towel on his forehead. So, this little brat is poking my
face to see if my fever has gone down? He wanted to say something, only to find that his throat was
dry and sore, making it hard for him to speak.
“You want to drink some water?” Amanda turned to look at the boy. “Baby, go pour a ss of water for
Uncle Elias, okay? He’s ill right now, so he can’t get up on his own.”
“Okay!” Aiden climbed out of bed and ran out of the bedroom as fast as his little legs could carry him.
Amanda came over and removed the iced towel from his forehead. After touching his forehead for a
moment, she said, “Good thing that your fever has finally gone down a little. Now get up and take the
fever medicine.” As she spoke, she struggled to help him to a sitting position with his back against the
headboard.
Seeing how she took care of himself, Elias felt that it touched a soft spot in his heart. Just then, Aiden
entered the bedroom holding a ss of water. He said in a childlike voice, “Mommy, here’s the water.”
Amanda took the ss of water without forgetting to praise him. “Thank you so much, Baby. What a
good boy.”
Elias couldn’t help but smile at how mature his son was. Before going to sleepst night, he had felt
happy to see his wife and son sleeping before his eyes, but the scene right now made him even
happier-so happy that he was willing to do whatever it took to freeze this moment in time.
Amanda handed the water and medicine to him. “Here, take the fever medicine. If it doesn’t reduce
your fever, you’ll have no choice but to go to the hospital.”
Elias washed down the pills in one gulp with most of the water.
Aiden looked on while asking in a childlike voice, “Mommy, is Uncle Elias gonna die from his illness?”
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Elias’ lips twitched involuntarily for a moment. Is this little brat hoping that I’ll die young?
Amanda couldn’t help butugh in amusement. “Why would he die from that? He just has a fever, so
he’s not going to die from that. It’s like when you got put on a drip in the hospitalst time, remember?”
“Oh… that hurts a lot. It hurts to be put on a drip.” Aiden turned to look at Elias. “Are you scared?”
The man patted his head with a smile. “No, I’m not scared.”
“You’re very brave, Uncle Elias. I got put on a dripst time, and it hurt when the nurse put the needle
in my arm. I even cried, you know.”
“You cried?” Elias asked with augh.
“Yeah!” Aiden replied in all seriousness. “My arm bled when that nurse put the needle in it. It hurt a lot.”
Elias’ lips curled into a smile. Patiently, he listened to his son’s story of his stay in the hospital. Amanda
said, “Let Aiden stay with you while I make some congee. You probably don’t have much appetite for
food, but you should eat a little to get something in your stomach.” She stood up and was about to
leave.
Elias couldn’t help but ask, “Don’t you have to go to work at yourw firm today?”
“Today’s my day off,” replied Amanda before stepping out of the bedroom. And besides, I’ve moved out
of the vi in Gxy Bay. If I go to thew firm, I’ll get pestered by Simon again, which I honestly have
no idea how to deal with. Let’s run away from all of this for the time being, she thought to herself.
Meanwhile, Aiden fetched his picture book over, suggesting, “Uncle Elias, let me tell you a story, okay?”
“Sure.”
The boy thus began to tell the story ording to the picture book. He told the story in such an
incoherent way that no one could understand what he was talking about, but Elias nheless listened
very seriously. He felt as though he had gotten addicted to this tender ce, unwilling to go anywhere
now that he had his beloved woman and child with him.
After about an hour, Amanda entered the bedroom to get them to eat breakfast. “Aiden, go eat your
breakfast. And you, can you move? Would you like me to bring your breakfast in for you?” She spoke
to him gently, which was rare. This was because she thought she had something to do with the man’s
fever. She and Aiden had snatched the nketst night, leaving him to sleep for most of the night
without a nket, which was how he caught a cold and had a fever.
Elias was quite unused to her being so gentle toward him. Tll eat in the dining room.” Throwing back
the nket, he stood up and walked out of the bedroom.
The three of them ended up sitting at the dining table ready for breakfast. This made them look very
much like a family of three.
Amanda served Aiden a small bowl of congee. “Hurry and finish it.” Then, she filled another bowl with
congee and ced it in front of Elias, saying, “Eat more if you have an appetite. If you don’t, you can
eat
less of it
Elias narrowed his eyes while studying her facial expression.
Amanda felt somewhat uneasy under his stare. “What’s wrong? Why are you staring at me like this?
Do I have something on my face?”
Elias asked with a solemn face, “I can’t help feeling that something’s wrong. Why are you so gentle
toward me all of a sudden? Did you do something wrong to me?” He couldn’t help feeling that
Amanda’s gentleness at this moment had a hint of guilt about it.
“What nonsense are you talking about? I’m not being gentle all of a sudden. You’re overthinking it.”
Amanda lowered her head and ate her breakfast, not wanting to talk to him again.
To her surprise, Aiden, who was sitting between them, answered innocently. “Uncle Elias, Mommy said
you got ill because we snatched your nketst night, so we have to be nicer to you.”
“Aiden Bailey! Can’t you eat instead of talking?!” Amanda picked up a piece of garlic bread and stuffed
it in his mouth while shooting him a re.
Seeing how angry his mother was, Aiden ducked his head and ate breakfast obediently, not daring to
speak anymore.
Atst, Elias understood what was going on. “Oh… So that’s it. I wondered why it was so coldst
night. So, it turns out that you two snatched my nket, huh?” He let out a chuckle. Watching the
guilty-looking mother and son before him, he found them very adorable.
Amanda replied stubbornly, “Don’t listen to his nonsense. You caught a chillst night by throwing off
the nket yourself. And besides, that nket isn’t big enough for the three of us in the first ce.”
Elias narrowed his eyes. “I don’t care about that. It’s because of you two that I have a fever now, so you
two have to take care of me. There’s no way I can go to work today, so I’m staying here for a good
rest.”
Amanda was speechless. This jerk has started acting shameless again!
Arden blinked his puppy-dog eyes. “But I’m a kid. How am I supposed to take care of you? I need
somebody to take care of me, too.”
Elias replied, “You can pour me some water to drink.”
Aiden was stupefied.