Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem novel Chapter 1851

Elysia looked suspicious. "Do you know me?"

The man smiled and countered, "Do you know me?"

Elysia shook her head. "No."

The man chuckled. "If you don't know me, why did you save me?"

Elysia paused for a moment.

"I saw someone who needed help, and I happened to be able to provide it, so I came over. Isn't that a normal reaction for any decent person?"

What did knowing each other have to do with it?

It was just lending a helping hand. Did she have to know him to help?

The man smiled. "When you put it that way, it makes me look quite abnormal."

Elysia thought to herself: *You are a bit abnormal. What normal person would be this badly injured and still have the mood to joke around?*

Even though she found him strange, she didn't just leave him there.

After all, he didn't show any hostility toward her.

Elysia lowered her head to tend to his injuries. Seeing the gruesome way the wound had been torn open, she frowned.

The man narrowed his eyes, asking curiously, "What? Am I beyond saving?"

Elysia shook her head. "No, you'll live. But... doesn't it hurt?"

"It hurts," the man said. "But compared to this, my heart hurts more. These two stab wounds were given to me by the person I care about the most."

Elysia glanced up at him but didn't ask further questions, simply returning her attention to his wounds.

"Aren't you curious why he stabbed me?" the man asked.

"It's none of my business," Elysia said as she worked.

The man smiled. "It really is none of your business, but the person who stabbed me..."

He frowned slightly as he spoke, falling into a brief moment of thought.

Elysia looked at him again, assuming the pain had finally caught up to him, and didn't think much of it.

But a second later, he spoke again.

"He used to be so good to me. He couldn't bear to see me get even a scratch. But then he changed. Not only does he no longer care about my pain, but he also rubs salt in my wounds."

"Tell me, why do you think he changed?"

"I just want to know... can we really never go back to the way things were?"

Elysia furrowed her brow and said,

"I can't answer that for you. I don't know your situation, but I suggest you look at yourself for the reason."

"If it's not you, then maybe she just fell out of love and found someone else."

The man sighed.

"You actually hit the nail on the head. He did fall for other guys—two of them at once, in fact."

Someone nearby asked, "She's a cheater?"

The man replied, "He's a cheater!"

The man smiled. "Don't misunderstand, we're just friends."

Elysia pressed her lips together and went back to work.

The man let out a heavy sigh.

"I just don't get it. We were so close, and we promised to have each other's backs for life! How did we suddenly turn into enemies?"