Chapter 764 Thank You For Your Concern

"If you're here to see a patient, talk less and don't shout." Toby's slightly hoarse voice said which came out surprisingly calm.

Suzanne was fuming. "So what if I talk too much? If there is anyone here who has a problem with it, send them to me and I'd like to have a word with them."

"You can't do that. Just lower down your voice."

Suzanne moved a chair closer to his bed and asked, "So tell me, what's going on?"

Toby sighed before answering her. "Someone tried to kill her."

"Who did she offend now?" She thought for a moment and asked sarcastically, "Is Nick just going to sit idly by? Since someone is trying to kill Veronica, wouldn't it be enough for Nick to take this matter to his own hands? Then, what do you have to worry about? For goodness' sake, Toby, you only have one life! Should anything bad happen to you, I---"

Toby looked at her and Suzanne frowned and shrugged. "I'm afraid one friend of yours is going to cry to death."

He looked away and said nothing.

"I can only guess that you always lose your mind when it comes to Veronica." Suzanne laughed at him, but eventually took a deep breath. "Toby, I know that you won't even blink if you give up your life for her, but if you think about it, what has she done for you so far? You see, when she sent you to the hospital, she just waited outside the operating room while you fought over your life and left without even waiting for you to wake up. When she called earlier, she sounded like she was just reporting for work. Did she ever think or even care about you the way you do for her? She doesn't care about your life and I bet she wouldn't care even at your death. I have just come to realize that Veronica is also a ruthless person."

"I'm going to take her away from Nick." Toby said with determination lacing through his voice.

Suzanne frowned. 'Has this guy not listened to a word that I said?' "And what exactly do you mean by that? Are you really doing all of these because you want to win Veronica back?"

Toby continued to stare at the window, but this time, with gloomy eyes.

He always wanted Veronica, and he also intended to compete with Nick.

If he wouldn't do it, he didn't know what else he would do.

Toby closed his eyes. "Go home. I'm going to rest now."

"How would I know if it's already fine to leave you looking like this?" Suzanne mocked Toby but he didn't respond. "Anyway, what would you like to eat?"

"There is a nurse here. You don't have to be around."

"I don't think you treat Veronica the same way you are treating me now, am I right?" She shouted before standing up and completely leaving the ward.

A while ago, when Veronica hurried to get out of the hospital and hopped on the car, her mind kept flying on Toby's deep wound and couldn't help but to think that she needed to buy a tonic to at least replenish the blood he had lost.

After coming back, the smell of blood on her body wafted through her nose for a long time and she knew that she had to rinse the rusty smell off her!

She went straight the bathroom to take a bath, and the warm water graced her body. The feeling of the water against her skin eased her tensed muscles and that was what she needed to calm down.

She stood there quietly and her eyes were red.

After knowing that Toby was fine, she just had to leave, so that Toby would think of her as a ruthless person.

But she still couldn't control herself when she was in the car.

How was she able to pull herself together when Toby was close to dying in her arms?

She's so afraid of what would have happened to him.

As for what she said in the car, she couldn't have possibly meant every word.

There was no need for them cross paths together.

She pushed aside the concern that was starting to creep on her.

The door behind was forcibly pushed open.

Veronica's body shook slightly. She knew who it was without looking back.

Then a warm body hugged her from behind. "Are you hurt?"

She moved away from his touch and turned to face Nick. "Thank you for your concern."

Nick's tensed face slightly brightened when he made sure that there wasn't a single scrape on her skin. But noticing Veronica's cold attitude, he realized something and slowly backed away, and from his voice, one could hear how he's holding back from something. "How long will it take you to finish?"

"I have been so out of my trance that even I do not know how long I've been under the shower." Veronica said numbly.

Nick pulled the bath towel from the rack and was about to wrap it around her, but Veronica refused to be near him again. She took the towel from his hands, stepped back, and turned around.

But Nick was quick enough to catch her waist before enclosing her in a tight embrace so that her body stayed close to his. She could feel his cold breath brushing against the crook of her neck "Why do look so dejected?"