Chapter 58 – Feverish Dreams

Charles stood beside the bed and looked at her attentively. He quietly noticed every change that happened to her body.

Bella’s eyes were closed. Her ordinarily pink lips turned to bright red because of the fever, which was much more alluring than before.

Why was this woman so attractive when she was sleeping and sick?

“So uncomfortable…” Bella felt sleepy, but her head was so heavy and painful that she could not sleep well.

Charles sat down at the bedside and stroked her hot forehead. He spoke to himself, “You are unable to stand those things, why couldn’t you listen to me?”  He could not understand.

His voice was shallow and sexy. It seemed that his voice was useful to help Bella fall asleep. She gradually calmed down, and her head subconsciously leaned toward the cold hand on her forehead. As if the closer she was, the colder she would feel.

Her body moved, and the soft hair touched Charles’s arm, which made him itchy.

“So warm.” Bella subconsciously moved closer to Charles. He withdrew his hand from her forehead at once.

“Ice, ice, don’t leave me alone.” Bella fumbled and finally caught his hand and put it on her boiling face.

Charles was speechless. This woman regarded him as the ice to diminish the fever.

Charles tried a few times and failed to withdraw his hand. Bella held his hand as if she held something especially important to her. She mumbled, “Ice... ice. Don’t leave me. So comfortable.”

“Bella! Open your eyes wide and see clearly who am I?” Charles was about to go crazy. No one had ever treated him like that.

Ice? He was that cold?

Charles reached out the other hand to pry her fingers apart that held him tight. “Loosen your hand.”

He regretted the moment he touched her forehead.

She felt as if someone was taking the coldness away. Bella reached out her hands and grabbed everywhere. Finally, she grabbed ahold of something tightly and said relentlessly, "Bastard, you dare to steal my ice.” That something just happened to be Charles’s collar.

Charles had never expected that someone in this world would dare to seize him by his collar. He became furious and grabbed her by the neck, “You dare to behave atrociously when sick.”

Bella slouched down again and held Charles’s hand subconsciously as she mumbled, “No one can steal my ice…”

Then she fell asleep again.

“Bella.” Charles had run out of patience. He shook her quickly and tried to wake her up to let her see him clearly and apologize for what she had done to him before.

But Bella leaned forward and fell into his arms when he shook her. She still held his other hand.

What… a persistent woman!

Looking at her, Charles furrowed his eyebrows, and his anger weirdly receded.

Damn it!

Charles didn’t realize he was smiling. In the next moment, he collected himself.

What the hell was he doing?

He immediately threw her back to the bed.

However, her hand still held his, and her legs wound around his body like vines.

Looking at her satisfied expression. Charles suddenly felt something soft in his heart. He did not know what to do next.

“Bella, let go of me.”

In fact, he had countless ways to bounce her hand away. But after all, he was afraid to hurt her.

His palm felt the hotness of her face, and his expression gradually softened in this private space. "Bella, let go of me. I’ll call Elsa to come and check on you."

Why was she so hot although she had taken medicine?

Bella did not reply to him. Charles patted her face trying to wake her up, “Bella? Can you hear me?”

“Hmm…” Bella mumbled.

Her expression was as satisfied as before.

“Do you know whom I am?”

“Hmm…” She raised her eyebrows and was too tired to utter a word.

Charles felt that this was interesting. He heard from others that if you talked to someone who was in a dream, then they would tell the truth without reservation.

It seemed that Bella was in such a situation. She was telling him what she was feeling like.

“Do you know what’s wrong with you?” He softened his voice deliberately.

“Hmmm, I got a fever.” Bella moved in his arms and felt that he was not stealing her ice. She loosened her hand a little.

“Do you know why have got a fever?”

“I was caught in the rain. The wind was also strong.” Bella felt aggrieved and replied in a faint voice. She blinked her eyes, and suddenly they were moist with tears.

“Why were you caught by the rain?”

She sighed and replied sadly, “Charles punished me.”

“Do you dislike Charles?”

Bella shook her head in his arms.

Her reaction surprised him. He smiled and looked at her gently, “You like him?”

“You can’t say that. Because…”

“Because… what?”

“I hate him.”

Charles was taken aback. The only thought he had now was to throw her away.

While in fact, that was what he had done.

He forced to make her hand open and did not care whether he would hurt her or not.

“Don’t leave.” The coldness in Bella’s hand was disappearing.

It was as if she had lost the most important thing and could not help but cry.

Well, that last second, he did not use much strength and put her on the bed softly.

Charles stood up and was about to leave. However, he stayed.

He looked at her from above and asked again, “How much do you hate him?”

“I hate him desperately. But…”

“But what?”

Charles wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at him. Bella was still speaking, but the words were too quiet for him to hear anything.

Charles frowned and walked toward the door. He spoke to Roy, “Ask Elsa what has happened, why the medicine does not work.”

“Elsa told me that she would be all right the next day. Now the symptoms are all normal.”

Charles questioned, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

Roy lowered his head and apologized.