CEO's Reborn Wife

Chapter 80: Chapter 88: Applying Medicine

After hearing the sound of water rushing in the bath room, James Black picked up the menu from the tabletop and flipped through it, then used the landline inside the room to call for a meal.

Jane Sampson came out of the bath room to find James sitting on the sofa, inspecting something in his hands, but she couldn’t tell what it was.

Hearing her, James looked up at Jane and gave her a look that suggested she come sit by him, without saying a word.

Jane shuffled slowly over with tiny steps, glancing at the backpack next to her. Then in a soft voice, she asked, ”Aren’t you staying at the guesthouse with Peter Gingery?”

”Mhm,” James responded in a deep voice, then opened the box he was holding, bent over, and applied the ointment from the jar onto Jane’s somewhat swollen toenail.

It was then that Jane realized what he had been studying in his hand was the ointment, and the bag he had carried in was from a pharmacy nearby.

So, he had remembered the minor injury on her foot and specifically bought medicine to apply on it for her?

”Keep it dry for the next two days.” After applying the ointment to Jane’s foot, James instructed, then noticing the sandals next to her, he asked, ”Did you bring any flat shoes?”

”I did,” Jane nodded.

”Don’t wear high heels for the next two days,” James said as he put the medicine back into the box, ”Twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. Remember to apply it first thing when you get up, and wait ten minutes before putting on socks.”

Jane responded with an ”Okay,” and continued nodding. Then, seeing James take bath products out of his backpack and proceed to the bath room, she finally confirmed that James was indeed planning to spend the night here.

If she had known it would come to this, Jane thought, she would have kept quiet on the express train, even if the annoying child had pulled off her toenail.

Why had James been popping up everywhere in her life lately?

To think she would bump into him on a business trip!

Despite her internal complaints, Jane turned her head to look at the medicine on the table, then glanced once more toward the direction of the bath room.

James, in fact, was a man of few words, frugal with his speech.

If he ever did speak more than necessary, on the express train, he might have said something like this.

Endure it for now, once we get off the train and back to the hotel, I’ll go to the pharmacy and buy you some medicine.

But him, he would only utter two words and do the rest through actions.

The doorbell sound interrupted Jane’s daydreaming; opening the door, she wasn’t at all surprised to find the hotel’s meal delivery, having guessed as much when James wordlessly discarded her instant noodles.

A simple meal of two dishes and a soup: one meat, one vegetable, a bowl of yam soup, a small bucket of rice, and a small dish that appeared to be a complimentary pickled radish appetizer.

Jane had just set the meals on the table when James came out of the bath room. The fragrance of the meals finally suppressed the smell of instant noodles in the room. Seeing the waiter preparing to leave, James pointed to the trash can, indicating for the waiter to take out the trash as well, effectively eliminating the odor of the instant noodles.

After eating, Jane held her mobile phone and played a game to help her digest, only climbing into bed reluctantly when her phone shut off automatically due to low battery.

It was just after ten o’clock. Looking at James, who had been sitting on the sofa reading a book since after the meal, seemingly undisturbed by her playing games, Jane buried her head into the quilt and mumbled, ”James Black, sleep!”

She had thought he would get annoyed by her voice, which would give her a legitimate reason to send him away. But unexpectedly, he didn’t make a sound.