Love Coming from the Least Expected novel Chapter 168

I was stuck in the hospital for a whole day. Lyle actually treated me like his wife for once, which I was completely unused to. Even though I tried to be petty and pick here and there, he treated my complaining as flirting and let me be.

I lost count of the number of times I had sworn at him in my heart. Even my appetite was affected and all I wanted was for Crystal to swoop in and take Lyle away.

My prayers didn’t go to waste. At Lyle’s second visit, Crystal walked in all decked out. Her elaborate outfit almost lit up the room as if she were a disco ball.

“Crystal! What are you doing here?” Lyle stood up nervously and put down the apple he was peeling for me.

“I just wanted to visit Yvonne,” Crystal said and she stared at me like she was trying to bore a hole through me. I lay there, letting her stare me down. I even returned her stare with a goofy smile.

If this had happened before, this smile would have seemed like confirmation that I was small fry to her. However, in this context, I knew this smile came across as mocking.

As expected, Crystal’s expression darkened and she walked toward me.

Her stifling perfume threatened to choke me and I sneezed. Impatiently, I said, “Ugh, I don’t like that smell. Please don’t come closer.”

She was practically hissing at me now. “Rest well, Yvonne. I’ll be going now.”

After that, she stalked out of the hospital ward. I even heard her sobbing faintly, and Lyle did too as he shot up and started running toward her. Before he stepped outside, he turned back to glance at me as if asking for permission.

I shrugged with a grin. “Go ahead. If you don’t go now, you might really lose her. You can get tickets to Anglandur any other time.”

“How did you know?” Lyle asked in shock.

Innocently, I said, “Next time, don’t bang in the middle of a public park. It pains me to have to bump into that. Cleansing that scene from my brain took a long time, you know.”

Lyle couldn’t handle my eerie calmness and finally left, but not before he said, “Yvonne, give me three days to settle everything, okay? I won’t forget your feelings for me.”

Can someone please come and take this absolute fool away?

There was another box within the first one that was also quite pretty. What is this? I opened the second box again only to see another box nestled inside.

I was more confused than ever. Did Christopher just send me a bunch of boxes?

I patiently opened all the boxes up and the true present finally showed itself: a set of paintbrushes and a box of regular paints.

At the sight of the art supplies, my eyes started to tear up.

I carefully positioned my fingers around one of the brushes as tears dripped silently down my face. Once upon a time, paintbrushes never left my hands and I painted artwork after artwork, never thinking of the day I would finally stop.

Even during my hard times in the Tanner family, I still saved up and bought some paints and brushes whenever I could. I would lock myself in my room and painted all my dreams and hopes for the future.

Painting remained my one true love until I got replaced by Crystal and got chased out of the Tanner residence. Then, I lost all faith in my skills and truly gave up on my future.