Sydney looked rather gloomy. "It's my medical report. I'm not feeling well, so please take it for me. The nurse will be here soon."
"Oh, okay okay." Luke nodded and gave her the medical report.
"Thank you." Sydney put the medical report beside her pillow.
Layden stared at the document with a heavy look. Thoughts were running through his mind.
"Oh yeah, Luke. Can you please get a wheelchair for me from the nurses? I can't just ask the nurses to help me walk when I discharge tomorrow. It’s more convenient to move around with a wheelchair,” Sydney said with a bitter smile.
Luke would never reject her, so he nodded." Of course. I'll go get it right now."
"Cayden, take care of Darling while I'm away."
Cayden smiled and hummed a reply.
After Luke went off, Sydney lifted her sheets and reached out to Cayden. "Cay, help me up. I want to go to the washroom."
"I'll carry you." Cayden reached out to her and wanted to carry her off the bed.
If it was before, Sydney would not have rejected him, but now...
When she recalled Julien saying that Cayden and Luke liked her, her feelings for them turned odd.
"It's okay.” Sydney shook her head. "I didn’t lose my legs. I don't need you to carry me. Just help me."
"Okay." Cayden looked slightly disappointed. He held her hand nevertheless and helped her to the washroom.
"Sis, are you going to be fine alone? Should I call the nurse for you?" Cayden looked rather worried.
Sydney smiled. "I'm not that weak. Okay, I'm going in."
She pulled her hand away from him and went inside the washroom by holding up against the wall.
Cayden stared at the shut door for a few seconds before he squinted and turned around to the bed. He picked up the medical report that Sydney put beside her pillow earlier.
He wanted to know what was in the report, and why she did not know that she was poisoned.
The hospital should have run checks on her.
Just when Cayden was going through the report, the washroom door opened behind him.
Sydney stared at him with a complicated gaze. Her grip on the handle tightened as she watched.
As though he sensed the gaze from behind, Layden's hands froze. He turned around and locked eyes with a disappointed Sydney.
Horrified, the look on Layden's face turned pale. "Sis..."
Sydney shut her eyes and said with a slightly heavy voice, "Lay, did you know Julien told me there are three suspects who poisoned me? It was Luke, Hunter, and you. I could accept it being Hunter because he and I weren't that close to begin with.
“But I can’t accept it if it's either you or Luke. So, when Julien told me that it might be you or Luke, I believed he was lying."
Cayden nodded. “You’ve always said you want to abort this baby but it has been three months and you did nothing. So...”
"So, you poisoned me to help me?" Sydney questioned him in disbelief.
Cayden tightened his lips. "I don’t think I did the wrong thing here. It has been three months. If you don't abort it now, as time goes by, it will only get harder for you, so I have to.”
Sydney was deeply shaken by Cayden's explanation. The complicated feeling got stronger in her. "Cay, what are you thinking? Whether I abort the baby or not, it's my business. It cannot be an excuse for you to intervene! Do you understand?"
Besides, she never said she wanted to keep the baby. Aborting the baby had always been a firm thought.
It was just that she got too busy and delayed all her plans.
Layden clenched his fists. "I don’t understand. I only know that keeping the baby will only give you more trouble."
He looked rather shaken, somewhat frantic. "Sis, you should know pre-marriage pregnancy isn't something to be proud of. When the world knows about it, people will only laugh at you and insult you. Even the people at the company will look down on you. I did it because of you!"
"You said you did it because of me but it’s actually for your own," Sydney frowned and said coldly to the Layden she no longer knew.
Curious, Cayden looked at her strangely. " What do you mean?"
"I'm saying that you aren't worried about people looking down on me, but because you cannot accept that I have another man’s child in my belly. It's because you like me, so when you see I didn't abort the baby, you got scared and decided to poison me, forcing me to abort the baby right away. Am I right, Cay?” Sydney quivered a little when she questioned him.
Cayden was horrified. "Sis, how... how did you...?”
"How did I know you like me?" Sydney asked with tightened lips.
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