Chapter 149 - Wrapped in his embrace

Tim could be seen beside Ella's bed, after getting his hand treated.

He looks lost and confused as he stares at Ella's skin, which seems to have changed within a few hours.

It looks like it's regenerating itself.

Before dismissing the doctors, they were all stunned as well. Some of them even exclaimed that, 'this is impossible!" Before knowing it. 

He couldn't find any explanation for these mysterious things. How did Ella got the wound in the first place?

Let's assume she got it. What did Leo, Clara and Belle did to make her getting better with a short span?

Everything seems confusing, but he trusted that Leo would feed him in, on the details later.

...…

Leo, on the other hand, could be seen in a different ward with Clara wrapped in his embrace.

He was sitting on the bed with his back resting on the pillows that he set to maintain a comfortable position and had Clara between his thighs, with his arms wrapped around her so tightly and head resting on her own.

He had no idea how he was supposed to help her, but he has never left her side since then.

This seemed weird to the doctors, as he is not letting them check on her, and did not seem to care about himself either.

He has been holding Clara in his embrace for quite a while now, which is not so good for his own body as well. He didn't change from one spot.

It's hard for one to hold onto an umbrella for a long period of time without feeling cramp on one's hand, not to talk of a whole human, and an adult at that.

Yet he stays still in one place like he didn't care.

When they are left alone, he would call Clara's name, and ask if she's okay.

In return, Clara would open her eyes, which was cloudy white and close it again.

There was a nurse who seemed to be extra worried about him. She kept coming to ask if he would like to eat anything or probably use the restroom, assuring him that she will look after her for him, yet Leo refused her kind offer, claiming that he's fine. 

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Outside the little princess ward.

Mick, who had also arrived later, sat silently looking at the door.

The doctor in charge of the little princess was fuming with rage as she checks her condition over and over again. 

The Doctor just became a mother recently and couldn't believe someone could let their child suffer so much.

She couldn't take it anymore and headed out, after instructing a nurse on what to do.

"Please, can I have a word with this child's parents?" the doctor asks Mick.

"I'm her grandfather, you can talk to me. How is she doing?" Mick replied.

"I'm sorry, but her parents are not here?" The doctor asked, as she could not release her anger on an elderly man. It will seem rude. 

Mick saw the determination on her face and asked her to follow him, as he himself was pissed.

They took the little princess away in a healthy state, and he had no idea how she became like that. He couldn't help but cried when he saw her looking so pale.

Her cute pink lips are all white and looked dehydrated.

Getting to Clara's ward, Leo was informed by the nurse who had been making offers that would make Leo leave the ward, that the doctor tending to his daughter wanted to see her.

Since it concerned Belle, Leo carefully set Clara on the bed and warned the nurse not to go near her, before leaving the room.

Immediately he stepped out, Mick frowned at how messed up he looked, but before he could ask how Clara is doing, "is he the father?" The doctor asked, sizing up Leo with some kind of displeasure in her eyes.

What is her problem with how messy Leo looks? She only wants to see the kind of parent who could let their child get to such a state.

"I am." Leo answered.

"Good. So you can admit to being a parent without a shame?" The woman fired at him.

Mick stared at the doctor side view in awe.

"I'm sorry." Leo apologized.

"No, you are not. May I know what you did to that little girl? Making her so drained like that? 

You call yourself a parent and let that little girl who was supposed to be in her parent's warmth, growing perfectly, become so weak and sick?" The doctor said to Leo, forgetting she was not supposed to go all out like that.

She took it so personal, as someone who has been having a hard time conceiving a child and just recently got blessed with one.

Mick didn't try to stop her either, even though she is being a little harsh on his master, he also wants to know what happened.

Yet, Leo just kept uttering one statement "I'm sorry."

This infuriates the doctor more and more. "If you knew you can't take care of your child, why bring her to this world then? To make her suffer? I'm sorry to say this, but you are not fit to be a parent." The doctor said and walked away looking annoyed. 

She doesn't care about the outcome of her outburst. She's glad she let it out.

Immediately she walked a bit far from where Leo and Mick stood, someone suddenly pulled her to a corner of the corridor.

"Mrs William, I heard all you said to that man. Do you have any idea who you just scolded?" A male doctor asked her, as he released her hand.

"I. don't. care. who. that. inhuman. being. is." She said as a matter of fact.

"I will advise you to watch what you utter, or you might get into serious trouble." The male doctor warned.

"Excuse me, but there is no way I'm showing any respect to that man. If not for the fact that I am not in the right position, I will make sure I sue that man for child abuse." The lady replied.

"What! Mrs William, I really admire your courage. I will like to leave now before you affect me with it, bye." The male doctor said and sprint off.

"How is she?" Leo asked Mick.

"You should worry about miss Welch, I will be taking her home tomorrow. The doctor said she needs a lot of rest and not to let her stress herself." Mick explained what the doctor said before looking up at Leo with a confused expression.

"Stress." Mick repeat the word while looking at Leo.

"She's just five, and we were being advised not to stress her. What did you guys do to that poor girl? She looked so different since I last saw her." Mick said, as he cleaned the little tears at the corner of his eyes and took a deep breath.

"It's all my fault, I'm sorry." Leo apologized. He wasn't sure if he would have asked both Clara and Belle not to save Ella even if they claimed it's dangerous.

He would have clung unto their persistence and ask them to help.

He blamed himself for everything.

Mick looked at his pathetic state, but for the first time, he neither felt sorry nor advised him to take care of himself.

If not for how Leo is to him, he would say a lot more than the doctor.

He turned and left, leaving Leo standing alone.

Leo was about to enter the ward back, when he heard a loud screech from inside.

"Arhhhhhhh!!!!!! Oh my god!"