Winning Her Heart Back

 What You Deserve

Emelie's steps faltered when she heard that, and she turned her head sharply to look at William.

William's gaze was dark as he waited.

Emelie clenched her jaw slightly. "You really know who it is?"

William answered plainly, "I do."

Emelie stared at him.

Wesley was in a coma for a month because of that car accident and had been injured. She had vowed to find out who was behind it and make them pay. Unfortunately, there had been no leads.

However, William was saying he knew.

She knew without asking that the price for this information was her accompanying him to the hospital.

Emelie asked aloud, "Why do you insist on having me take you to the hospital, Mr. Middleton?"

William raised his hand to cover his mouth as he coughed. Although the wedding ring on his ring finger caught her eye, Emelie's expression remained unchanged.

He said, "Rather than saying I want you to go to the hospital with me, it's more accurate to say that I want to spend a little more time with you."

Emelie stood while he sat. She looked down at him from above.

From his prominent brow ridge to his sharp nose, he was clearly someone with a cold, indifferent, and heartless demeanor. Yet, he looked utterly weary and desolate.

"The snow has stopped, the ice is melting, and the roads will soon be clear. You'll be heading back to Capebatt City, and I'll return to a situation where I might not even see you after waiting all night. So, I'm reluctant to part ways with you," he said.

He was reluctant to part ways so he wanted her to be by his side a little longer. It was such a humble and heartfelt sentiment.NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

However, Emelie felt absolutely nothing. She wasn't even stirred by that.

She wasn't new to his tendency to play the emotionally manipulative card. She would agree only because he claimed to know the identity of the true culprit behind Wesley's accident. "You better tell me something I don't know. If you try to trick me, Mr. Middleton, you might just get to experience being broke, stranded in Borealis City, with no contacts and no way to reach your trusted men," she said.

She would confiscate all his electronic devices and dump him on the streets of Borealis City to see how he would survive.

William smiled instead. "Even the most ruthless man pales in comparison to the most venomous woman's heart. We are indeed a perfect match."

Emelie merely laughed.

The rescue team arrived two hours later.

Their transportation was a sled dog team. There were no other tools available for travel given the thick snow.

Because the sled dogs could only carry a limited number of people, the team said they could only bring one person along. Emelie was unable to bring Jodie along, so she went alone with William to the hospital.

Perhaps due to being out in the freezing weather, William's cough worsened. The young doctor, unfamiliar with such cases, was at a loss.

Eventually, William had to tell the doctor the medications that he normally took, and the doctor prescribed them to him. Once his cough eased, they would proceed with the examination.

The doctor saw his pale complexion and worried that he might not hold up.

He spoke to Emelie, "You should get a wheelchair for him."

Emelie replied nonchalantly, "His illness is in his lungs, not his legs. He can walk."

The doctor found that inappropriate. "He was coughing so hard that he could barely stand and almost coughed up blood. If there's internal damage to his organs, he should avoid moving too much. A wheelchair would be safer. Aren't you his wife? Why do you not care about your husband's condition?"

Emelie's smile didn't reach her eyes. "Just because a man and a woman are together doesn't mean they're married. You might be better suited as a matchmaker since you seem to be so out of touch that you need patients to teach you what to prescribe."

The doctor was unable to refute and muttered, "Aren't you a couple coming to the hospital together?"

Emelie crossed her arms and said to William, "Can you walk? If you can't, I'll call a nurse to wheel you around."

William pursed his lips together and stood up on his own, one hand pressed to his aching chest and the other steadying himself against the hospital wall as he walked to the CT room.

After the examination was done and they received the report, they returned to find the doctor frowning at the results.

Before the doctor could speak, William said to Emelie, "I'm thirsty. Can you get me a glass of water?"

Emelie smirked. "If you don't want me to hear your condition, just say so. I'll leave right away. I'm not interested anyway."

She turned and walked out, closing the door behind her.

Before the door shut completely, Emelie heard the young doctor ask William in disbelief, " Who exactly is she to you? In this heavy snow, someone who accompanies a patient to the hospital is usually very close. I've never seen someone with such a terrible attitude towards a

patient."

Despite her beautiful appearance, her personality left a lot to be desired.

William grinned. "She's my creditor. I owe her a lot. Whatever she does to me, I deserve it."