One Night Surprise Chapter 485
Chapter 485 Thank You, Courtney
The afternoon after Josephine left, Scott suddenly acted uncharacteristically as he became cooperative
when the doctor came to confirm his indicators and conditions were correct before the surgery. He
even asked the doctor if they could bring forward the surgery because he wanted to go back home
earlier and keep his great-grandsonpany.
When Linda told Courtney about this, thetter had been registering some details about a particr
medicine. She was stunned for a moment before she smiled.
On the day of the surgery, the doctor helped Scott change into a surgical gown before getting
everything ready. Courtney was watching silently when Scott suddenly grabbed her hand.
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He rubbed his old fingers against her palm, giving her a faint sense of warmth.
“Courtney, I don’t want to embarrass myself, but I wasn’t this scared when I was young. After so many
years, I can’t believe I’m finally afraid of dying at an old age.”
The old man’s voice was hoarse with a hint of trembling. Upon listening to his words, Courtney felt her
eyes turn red as she held his hands. “Grandpa, I promise you that the surgery will be a sess. You
still have to watch Jordan, Tina, and Josie grow up.”
Her words instantly touched the softest parts of his heart. The reason why he had fallen in love with this
world today was because he had watched his broken family slowlying back together over the
years.
Now, people from four generations of his family were living in the same house, which was a rare joy for
anyone. Although he felt happy, he was sad at the same time because he always felt that it wouldn’t
last long. One day, he would have to say goodbye to all of this.
“Thank you, Courtney.”
She apanied him to the entrance of the operation room. Before the door closed, the old man’s
hand slowly detached from hers, and right at that moment, she could hear him thanking her with his
hoarse voice.
For a moment, it felt as though a huge stone was ced above her heart. As she stared at the light that
lit up in front of the operating room door, images of memories ovepped in her mind, causing her to
lose her footing.
Suddenly, her icy palms were filled with warmth as she felt the familiar breath of a man next to her,
slowly giving a sense of relief to her anxious heart. She tightened her hand, greedily drawing on the
sense of security brought to her by Alexander.
“Grandpa believes that without you, the Duncan Family wouldn’t be where they are today.”
Though he sounded slightly tired, he gave a pertinent dissection of the gratitude that Scott had
expressed to her before entering the operation room.
The waiting time outside the operating room was particrly long, so Courtney leaned against
Alexander’s shoulder as they messily recounted everything that they went through in the past.
“When I was in the elevator at that time, my hair identally got entangled with your button, so Josh
used me of seducing you for my own intentions… Afterward, Tina and Shay got so close with each
other that you became jealous and signed him to yourpany…”
She always picked a funny or wholesome story to talk about. As he listened to her, Alexander couldn’t
help but smile.
Amid this intermittent narrative, the door to the operating room suddenly swung open.
Harry was already walking around in circles before the door opened, so he was the first to run forward
and grab the doctor’s arm.
“Is Old Master Duncan alright?”
The doctor took off his face mask to reveal a smile on his face. “The operation is a sess. The
patient is still in aa, but as long as there are noplications over the next few days, he can be
discharged from the hospital. There will be some precautions after the operation, which the other
doctors will tell you all in detailter on.”
The moment the operating room door opened, Courtney abruptly sunk her hands into Alexander’s arm,
leaving a deep mark under his suit. After listening to the doctor, she calmed down a little and breathed
a sigh of relief.
“It’s alright now, Alexander.”
She got up and quickly followed Scott’s bed, ignoring her leg injury.
After all, Scott was now at an old age, so it would take him a rtively longer time to recover after the
surgery. In the meantime, the doctor came to confirm his situation, saying that he was not fully awake
and would experience indirect respiratory distress during hisa. As such, he should remain
sedated.
After school, both Tina and Jordan came to the hospital and apanied Scott for a long time. Only
when Tina fell asleep on Jordan’s shoulder did Courtney ask Alexander to bring them back home.
Then, she continued to apany the old man past midnight. It was because of Harry’s constant
urges that she finally went back home.
Alexander was already asleep by the time she returned, and he looked to be sleeping peacefully as his
brows were rxed. After sitting on the edge of the bed, she reached out to brush his eyebrows.
After all, he had not gotten enough sleep for the past few days. Even though he didn’t say it out loud,
she knew that he was worried about Scott deep down.
“Darling, you’re back…”
She suddenly felt a force on her waist as Alexander’s hands peeked out from the nket. With a gentle
pull, she fell into his arms while a hoarse and hazy voice melted next to her ears.
She slept peacefully in his arms, but a whileter, she was woken up by the sudden ringing of her
phone. She answered the call in a daze, but as soon as she heard the voice on the other end, it felt as
though the blood in her body was boiling in an instant and rushing toward her head.
“Something happened to Old Master Duncan…”
The air at dawn was thin and cool while the streets were sparse with vehicles. However, a white car
whistled past the roadside, waking up the sleeping Melrose City to a brand new day.
Right now, Courtney had many thoughts appearing in her head while she sat in the passenger seat.
Meanwhile, Alexander seemed calm as he drove the car, but the clear fingerprints on the steering
wheel showed another story.
“The patient’s brain has been deprived of oxygen for too long, which led him into apletea.
Fortunately, the problem was discovered just in time. Had we discovered thister, he would’ve lost his
life.”
In less than 24 hours, Courtney stood in front of the hospital’s corridor twice in a daze. As she pulled
the hem of Alexander’s coat with her pale fingers, she heard a hasty voice ringing next to her.
“How is he now?”
“A part of his brain tissue was damaged, but we’ve done everything possible to save him. He is no
longer in danger at the moment, but we don’t know when he will wake up again.”
“Which means…”
“He is now in a vegetative state.”
The doctor’s professional judgment and response blew up inside Alexander’s ears, turning hisst
piece of sanity into rubble. He could no longer control the pain in his eyes.
Behind him, Harry barely stood while holding onto the wall, but the moment he heard the doctor’s
verdict, he instantly fell onto his knees and cried out in a broken voice, “Old Master Duncan… I’m sorry.
I was sleepy, and I allowed someone to harm you!”
The old man couldn’t help himself as he wailed in a deep, husky voice. However, Alexander seemed to
have caught something from his words, so he looked at Harry with his bloody eyes and asked, “What
do you mean? Who harmed him?”
“It was a middle-aged man, but he was wearing a face mask and a cap, so we couldn’t see his face
clearly. He snuck into the ward at 3.20AM, so we suspect that he must have pulled off Old Master
Duncan’s oxygen tube at that time. I have copied the surveince video for the police.” Linda’s voice
was heard from behind. There was a hint of coldness in her serious tone, and it was followed by her
light footsteps.
With that, she ced the sh drive in her hand into Courtney’s palm and shook her hand hard.
She had been a doctor for many years and was used to death, so there was a rare sense of ndness
and cold to her body. Without saying any words offort, she left after finishing her words.