Chapter 37


    "I''m sorry, I was driving too fast. How about I take him to the hospital for treatment right away?"


    Henry said.


    "It''s not your fault. We weren''t paying enough attention," Lucas said as he carefully examined


    Mendes1 other leg as well.


    Rachel wiped Mendes1 tears away with a tissue.


    Seeing this, Marcus couldn''t help but think that they looked like a couple. He nced back and forth


    between them with suspicion in his eyes.


    Mendes'' other leg seemed to be all right. Normally, with a fall like this, one wouldn''t have bruises


    anywhere other than their head and four limbs.


    However, Rachel was worried about Mendes'' broken left arm, which might not havepletely


    healed yet. She looked up at Lucas and said, "Let''s go back to the hospital first. He recently had a


    fracture in his left arm."


    "Which hospital are you going to? I''ll drive you there," Henry immediately offered.


    "It''s all right, we have a car," Rachel said, politely turning him down.


    Lucas stood up with the boy in his arms and nodded at them. "We''re sorry for the scare. We''ll take


    him to the hospital ourselves, you don''t have to ■3


    take responsibility for it."


    "It''s okay. Rachel is our buddy''s wife. Even if it wasn''t our fault, we can''t just stand by and do


    nothing," Henry insisted, ncing at Rachel with a smile.


    Upon hearing this, Rachel''s face darkened, but Lucas just smiled at Henry and said, "Ah, you''re


    Rachel''s friends."


    Then, Rachel, Lucas, Mendes, and Marcus got into Rachel''s car while Henry got into his Bentley.


    Sitting in the back seat with Rachel, Mendes gradually stopped crying. He pointed to his knee and


    looked at her with a pitiful expression on his face. "It hurts..."


    Rachel pulled him into her arms and murmured, "It won''t hurt if I blow on it..."


    "Okay," Mendes said softly like a spoiled child, sliding closer to her.


    As she patted the boy in her arms tofort him, Rachel cast a nce behind her at the Bentley


    which was following them leisurely.


    Both Henry and Marcus had insisted oning along to make sure that Mendes was fine, so she


    had no choice but to let them.


    Marcus, who was sitting in the passenger seat, frowned at this scene.


    He turned to Lucas and asked in a low voice, "Is he your son?"


    Lucas looked at him in surprise and shook his head. ''The boy''s father is someone else?'' Marcus


    thought. He had assumed that the boy must be ■3


    Lucas'' son since Rachel cared so much about him.


    By the time they arrived at the hospital, Mendes hadpletely stopped crying. Lucas held him in


    his arms and walked to the hospital, followed by Rachel, and then Marcus and Henry.


    Marcus and Henry felt like they were bodyguards. But of course, they were both so outstanding in


    terms of appearance and temperament that nobody would actually mistake them for bodyguards.


    Soon, Lucas and Rachel took the boy inside the X-ray room while Marcus and Henry waited


    outside.


    Once Rachel was out of sight, Marcus reached out and nudged Henry. "Have you texted him?"


    "I did but I didn''t get a reply. Maybe he didn''t see it. I''ll just call him instead," Henry replied.


    "Go ahead."


    Marcus took a seat nearby while Henry made the phone call.


    A few momentster, he heard the sound of hurried footstepsing from the other end of the


    corridor.


    When he turned, he saw a nurse rushing over to the X-ray room. After asking a few questions to the


    nurse outside, she turned her face to look at the X-ray room with an anxious expression on her


    delicate face.


    She stomped her feet in anger, but her eyes were full of girlish charm. Marcus couldn''t help smiling


    as he watched her.


    Inside the X- ray room, Mendes was ■3


    As soon as Celia came in, she held him down, rolled up his left trouser, and began angrily applying


    some medicine on his knee.


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    "I knew you would make trouble! Why are you so disobedient? As soon as I find your mother, I''ll


    mail you to her! You''re so annoying!"


    Hearing that Celia was going to send him back to his mother, Mendes was thrilled. He pped his


    hands and said, "That''s great!"


    "Damn you!" Celia was so angry that she knocked him on the head.


    "It was my fault, Celia. I should have paid more attention to him," Rachel said sincerely. She was


    the one who had taken the boy outside. In the end, he had fallen down and gotten hurt.


    In fact, Celia had heard the two men outside talking about how they were responsible for Mendes''


    injury, so she already had an idea of what must have happened. Frowning, she said, "Dr. Shen,


    there''s no reason for you to apologize. It''s all his fault! He''s not obedient!" As she spoke,


    she pinched the chubby boy''s cheeks.


    Mendes cried and struggled, pretending to be in pain so that he could get away from his sister''s


    torture. His narrowed eyes, however, were smiling.


    Watching the sister and brother ying around like this, Rachel smiled.


    However, the happy moment was soon interrupted by a knock at the door. Rachel turned ■3


    around to see who it was and widened her eyes in surprise.


    Jack walked in leisurely, his eyes on the boy. Celia and Mendes had already met him before, but


    stared back at him curiously without blinking.


    Rachel stood up abruptly. The surprise in her heart didn''t show on her face. With a slight frown


    tugging at her beautiful eyebrows, she asked, "Why are you here?"


    "I heard Henry hit your kid with his car."


    "What?!" Rachel wondered if she had heard him wrong, but then, realizing what must have


    happened, she shook her head and sneered.


    Noticing the mockery in her tone, Jack hid the embarrassment in his eyes.


    In the past few days, the way Rachel had questioned him that day had kept appearing in his mind.


    When he had gotten the call from Henry, he hadn''t wanted toe to the hospital at first, but Henry


    had insisted, afraid that Rachel would hold this incident against him.


    An inexplicable feeling had risen in Jack''s heart after he heard Henry mention "Rachel''s kid." How


    could Rachel have a kid?


    Thinking that everything would be clear if he just went to the hospital in person, Jack had


    immediately set off.


    But in the end, it turned out to be this kid! Jack couldn''t help cursing Henry in his mind for spouting


    nonsense. ■3


    He hade here just because he had been worried after hearing Henry''s words, but now he had


    found out that the boy Henry had hit was Mendes.


    "Well, where did he get hurt?" he finally asked, seeing the red potion on the boy''s knee. He could


    not see if he had any other injuries.


    "Let''s talk outside." Rachel turned around and walked out without waiting to see if Jack was


    following her. Her slim body was covered in therge white coat, and only her slender calves


    peeked out.


    As she walked, her ponytail waggled from side to side at the back of her head, emitting the faint


    fragrance of shampoo.


    Once outside, Rachel turned around and put her hands in her pockets. "Mendes is all right. You can


    tell your friends to leave. They don''t need to take any responsibility," she said lightly.


    "Can you tell me what''s going on?" Jack asked.


    "You can go and ask your friends. The point is, nothing happened to Mendes. Tell them I said thank


    you for their kindness."


    "Okay," Jack answered indifferently.


    Since that seemed to be the end of their conversation, Rachel turned to leave, but she suddenly


    heard Jack''s voice again. "Are you free on Wednesday evening?" he asked.


    Rachel raised her head and looked at him. "What''s up?"


    With his lips curved into a thin line, Jack said in a low voice, "Francis Cheng is getting engaged on


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    Wednesday. Both of us have been invited to attend his engagement party."


    ''Engagement party?1 Rachel thought with a frown. Realizing that Rachel had never heard of the


    Cheng family before, he exined, "The Cheng family are family friends of ours, so it would be


    inappropriate not to attend this engagement party."


    Since it was an engagement party, Francis had only invited his friends, not the elders, so Jack


    wanted Rachel to apany him.


    Rachel stayed silent for a moment, hesitating about what to reply. In the meantime, Jack did not


    urge her. He just stood in front of her, waiting leisurely for her answer.


    Finally, she said, "I''lle."


    "It''s settled then. I''ll ask the driver to pick you


    up."


    As Jack and Rachel spoke, Marcus watched them from a distance. "The atmosphere between them


    is quite awkward. They look like they''re talking with daggers drawn," hemented.


    Henry, who was staring at his mobile phone,ughed and said, "Why don''t we wait for Jack toe


    and ask him what it''s about?"


    Marcus squinted at him suspiciously. Then, he leaned back with his long legs outstretched. "Why do


    I feel like you called him here just so you could watch a show?"


    "You''re thinking too much." Henry smirked.


    At this moment, two new voices were heard. "Celia, I want chocte!" ■3


    "No! No way! Don''t even think about it!"


    The door of the X-ray room was opened. The nurse who had run into the room in a hurry walked out


    with the boy in her arms.


    As soon as she turned around, her eyes met Marcus'' and Henry''s. Marcus withdrew his long legs


    and stood up. At the same time, Henry put away his phone.


    Celia blinked her eyes. She knew that these two men were the ones who had insisted on bringing


    her brother to the hospital. Just now, one of them had exined the incident to her.


    Anyway, as far as she was concerned, it wasn''t their fault. Mendes had fallen down on his own.