CHAPTER 47 DOMINIC CONRAD

"Nope, have a good rest! I'll go check on the other side.” Shane took off his stethoscope and was about to leave.

However, Sue suddenly stopped him. "Dr. Summers, please don’t forget to inform Mr. Henry that his wife is already awake when you’re upstairs. And ask him to visit her if he has time instead of just taking care of someone else. He should know that madam is his wife."

"Sue!" Not expecting Sue to do this so suddenly, Yvonne hurriedly shouted to stop her from saying anything else.

However, Sue pretended not to hear her and continued to tell Shane, "How could he take care of other women instead of his own wife? As his friend, you should talk some sense into him, Dr. Summers!”

Shane was also surprised by Sue's remarks. He knitted his neat brows together. "You're saying that Henry never came to visit sis-in-law until now?"

Sue snorted in dissatisfaction, "Sir has his full attention on that woman right now that I don’t think h e even remembers about madam.” 2

Shane's face sank, "I got it. Don’t worry, I’ll tell him!”

He patted Sue on the shoulder and quickly exited the ward.

It seemed like Henry didn’t keep his reminder from yesterday in mind. 3

It was really bad of him to not even visit his wife once after her surgery.

Shane went to the ward upstairs and knocked gently o n the door.

The door was very quickly opened by a middle-aged man. "Shane, you're here."

"Hello, Mr. Conrad." Shane gave the man a slight nod, then took a good look at him.

The middle-aged man felt his scalp going numb from the way Shane was looking at him. It felt as though he was being cut open by his gaze, leaving his internal organs exposed to the air.

"Shane, is there anything on my face?" The middle-aged man cleared his throat and then asked with an uncomfortable smile on his face.

Shane retracted his gaze and his lips curled into a small smile, "Not really. I just suddenly recalled a rumor that I heard before. You had an ex-wife, right?"

Dominic Conrad was taken aback for a moment before the memory got him looking nostalgic, "Yeah."

"Did you two have a child?” Light reflected off Shane’s glasses. 1

Dominic was silent for a while before he nodded painfully. His voice was even a little choked, "Yes, but the child was gone before it was born. Why do you ask?"

"Nothing, it was just a random question I asked out of curiosity. Is Jacqueline awake?" Shane changed the subject calmly. 1

Dominic thought that Shane’s sudden question was rather strange and it sounded like he was probing for information. Since Dominic couldn't quite put a finger on what exactly, he decided to not think about it too much. "Not yet,” he sighed in reply.

"I'll go in and examine her then," Shane walked past him and entered the ward.

After examining Jacqueline, Shane took off his latex gloves. "She's fine. The anesthesia just hasn’t completely worn off yet. She’ll probably wake up tonight. By the way, where’s Henry?"

"I’m here!” Henry came in from the balcony, still smelling of smoke. It was obvious that he had been out there for a cigarette.

Shane glanced at him, "Henry, do you know where I just came from?"

Henry raised his eyebrow, "Yvonne Frey's ward?"

"Yes, she’s awake!"

"When did she wake up?”

"Quite a while ago. They told me to ask you when you would visit them upstairs," Shane patted his clean white coat.

Henry pinched the bridge of his nose, "Alright, I'll go over in a bit."

"Why wait?" Shane looked at him incomprehensibly." Jacqueline isn't even awake yet, but Yvonne is. Why not go see her right now? I heard that you haven't paid her a visit since she came out of the operating room."

When Shane thought nothing of Yvonne back then, he never cared about how Henry was treating her. He would just watch from the sidelines.

Now that he had changed his opinion on Yvonne, he was starting to get irritated by the way Henry was treating her.

Not only that, but he really didn’t want Henry to regret it in the future!

When Henry heard how Shane was speaking for Yvonne, he secretly felt unpleasant. "When did you start defending her like this?"

"I'm not defending her, I just think you are being unfair to her," Shane frowned.

Henry narrowed his eyes, "You never spoke like this before."

"You said it yourself too before." Shane pushed up his glasses, "Henry, people change and so do you!"

Dominic couldn’t help but interject when he heard the conversation between the two. "Henry, this Yvonne Frey you mentioned is the one who saved Jackie, right?" i

"Yes. She isn't only Jacqueline's lifesaver, but also Henry's wife," Shane responded. Content is © by .

"Shut up!" Henry pursed his thin lips coldly. 1

Shane wasn't intimidated. He leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, then said in amusement, "Isn’t she your wife? Is there something I shouldn't have said? Were you trying to keep that a secret, Henry?"

Henry's face turned dark and didn’t answer Shane.

Dominic looked at him in disbelief, "Henry, you're married?"

"Yes, he did, three years ago. But it wasn't made public for some reason, so I’m not surprised that you didn't know, Mr. Conrad,” Shane said.

Dominic was stunned.

Three years ago. Wasn't that when Jackie went abroad?

"Henry, you're really..."

Henry nodded slowly, "Yes!"

Since Shane had exposed the truth, Henry had no reason to hide it any longer.

Dominic got angry. "Then what about Jackie?"

"Jackie?" Henry glanced at the woman lying on the hospital bed solemnly. "What do you mean by that, Mr. Conrad?" "What do I mean?" Dominic pointed to him with a shaky finger. "Henry, did you not know that Jackie has been waiting for you these three years? Aside from returning to the country to get herself treated, she actually planned on getting back with you. But what did you do? You actually married someone else!"

"Mr. Conrad, that didn't sound too nice."

Shane interjected before Henry could speak, "I'm sure you are very well aware of the reason behind their breakup three years ago, Mr. Conrad. It was Jacqueline who was in the wrong, not the other way round. Besides, she didn’t even say anything about returning after she went abroad. You're not expecting Henry to wait for her for his whole life, right?"

Upon hearing that, Dominic's wrinkled face instantly turned purple. He couldn't even find any words to fight back.

Dominic let out a long sigh after a while, looking as though he had just aged by several years. He then looked at Henry guiltily, "Henry, it was indeed Jackie's fault back then. Could you forgive her?"

"I never blamed her," Henry lowered his gaze and answered softly.

Though he did grieve over it.

It was true that he never blamed Jacqueline, let alone hate her.

After all, he did all that willingly. It was only natural for her to leave him when he didn’t even know if he was going to survive.

"You really don't blame Jackie?" Dominic seemed skeptical.

Although he was quite a lot older than Henry, he would never be able to forgive something like that as a man.

Shane played with the stethoscope in front of his chest and suddenly spoke up. "Hmph, Henry wouldn't be treating her this well if he really blamed her. He even sacrificed his wife's bone marrow for the sake of saving her life."

Dominic was taken aback before he smiled. "That's true. Henry doesn’t seem to be blaming Jackie, given how well he's treating her. Well then, do you still have those kinds of feelings for her now?"

He stared at Henry.