Filed To Story: Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family
No one in the corridor had noticed her then.
There was no CCTV in the fire escape.
But he didn’t see Carol on his way down.
So, where did Carol go?
Clark could only hack into the first-floor surveillance, but at that time, Carol was nowhere to be found.
Neither was she on the rooftop.
The more Clark investigated, the more anxious he became. There were blind spots in the hospital’s CCTV coverage. With Carol’s skills, if she wanted to leave, avoiding all cameras wasn’t impossible.
Clark called his subordinates again, “Keep an eye on the train station, bus station, and the airport for any sign of Carol. If you see her, stop her. She might be in disquise or using a new ID to buy tickets. In any case, remember her face, don’t let her leave Summerfield!”
“Got it”
“Don’t hurt her when you stop her. We’ll discuss everything when I get there.”
“Understood.”
After hanging up, Clark suddenly thought of Logan and Taylor in the morgue.
Would Carol go to see them?
With that thought, he rushed back to the hospital in his car from the garage. But when he pushed open the morgue door, there was no one inside.Tears welled up in his eyes.
Where on earth did Carol go?
Despair, pain, and fear all surged up at this moment. Clark didn’t know how he managed to pick up his phone and dial his sister’s number.
“Bella, did Carol contact you?” Clark’s eyes were brimming with tears, “She…”
“Carol? She’s right in front of me. What’s going on?” Mirabella noticed Clark’s voice was choked with emotion.
Hearing this, Clark asked in disbelief, “Where are you?”
“we’re in the small pavilion in the hospital’s first-floor garden.” Mirabella had noticed Carol standing alone in the pavilion when she arrived at the hospital. She wanted to ask what was going on, but just as she greeted Carol, Clark’s call came in.
“Wait there for me, I’ll be right there.” Before hanging up, Clark added, “Keep an eye on her for me.
Don’t let her leave”
Mirabella was a bit confused but she guessed something was going on. After ending the call, she put her coat on Carol.
“You’re still recovering. Don’t catch a cold, otherwise, Clark will be worried.”
Carol tried to take it off to give it back, but Mirabella forcibly put it back on her, pretending to be serious, “I don’t have time to save you again.”
Carol couldn’t help but give a weak smile, “Thank you.”
“It’s Grandpa Beck you should be thanking. He did us a huge favor.”Mirabella remembered that night, Grandpa Beck rushed to the ICU door with the antidote, saving Carol’s life in the nick of time.
If it weren’t for that antidote, the outcome would have been unthinkable.
“What happened with you and Clark?” Mirabella looked at her gloomy face, “Did you two have a fight?”
Carol gave a pale smile and shook her head.
She was willing to explain, but Clark didn’t give her a chance.
“Carol”
From afar, Clark saw Carol, draped in Bella’s coat, standing in the pavilion.
In the midst of falling snow, Clark put his coat on his sister, then turned to Carol with tear-filled eyes, “You silly girl, where did you run off to? Do you know how worried I was?”
Before Carol could say anything, Clark scooped her up in his arms.
“It’s freezing out here. What if you catch a cold?” Clark carried her towards the ward, his eyes red and teary, even his voice was choked up, “If it wasn’t for Bella finding you, where would I even begin to look?”
Carol looked into his eyes, “Are you crying?”
“Could you at least let me know where you’re going next time?” Clark’s eyes were even redder, his voice rough and strained.
Carol gently wiped away the tears that had fallen from his eyes. “You’re a grown man. Why are you crying?”
The moment she wiped his tears, fresh ones welled up, rolling down his face. His voice choked with hurt, “Why weren’t you answering my call?”
He looked at her with red-rimmed eyes.
Each time the busy tone beeped, it felt like his heart sank a little further.
“I don’t even know where my phone is.”
She hadn’t touched her phone since she woke up. In fact, she didn’t even know where it was.
“Where did you go?” Clark asked, cradling her into the elevator, drawing the attention of many.
People watched as he inquired about the girl in his arms with teary eyes, his puppy-like demeanor tugging at their heartstrings.
With several pairs of eyes on them in the elevator, Carol didn’t respond.
“You’re dressed so lightly, and it’s snowing outside. You’re still recovering. What if you get a cold?”
“I can accompany you wherever you want to go, do whatever you want to do, but you can’t just disappear without a trace.” his heart couldn’t take it.“Do you know how worried I was when I came back from grabbing breakfast and found the whole room empty?
The nurses hadn’t seen you and your phone was off. I didn’t know where to find you”
An elderly woman nearby was moved to tears, “Young lady, you scared this handsome young man. He cares so much about you, don’t break his heart. Where else can you find such a good man?”
“Indeed. Someone who is willing to hold you like this in public, who cares about you so deeply, is hard to come by,’ another woman chimed in. “If you don’t cherish him, many others will. You need to hold onto him.”
Caught off guard, Carol didn’t know what to say.
Clark quickly added, “Thank you both for your kind words. I still need to improve.”
The elevator dinged open, and Clark thanked the kind strangers, before turning to Carol again, “You still haven’t told me where you went.”
“The morgue.”
Clark was taken aback, “I’ve been there too. Did you go while I was getting breakfast?”
So they had missed each other?
“Mhm.”
Carol figured he wouldn’t be back for a while, so she decided to visit her foster parents.
Seeing their pitiful state, she felt suffocated and wanted to get some fresh air and see the snow.
She hadn’t expected him to be this worried.Seeing his reddened eyes, Carol felt a pang of sympathy, “I was only gone for a while and you’re like this. What if”
What if she couldn’t be saved?
What if the antidote wasn’t developed, or she didn’t take it in time?
What would he do then?
Clark thought she was about leaving him.
Clark gently laid the girl on the hospital bed, his hands braced on the side, eyes reddened from unshed tears, observing her closely.
“Did you overhear what my folks told me?° “Mmhm,’ Carol didn’t deny, quietly meeting his gaze.
“So, are you planning on leaving? Just like last time, leaving me in the lurch, disappearing off the face of the Earth?”
Clark stared into her eyes, a raw mix of hurt and indignation in his voice, “You know I can’t live without you.
What am I supposed to do if you leave? Did you even consider my feelings? The last time you left me like discarded trash, did you ever think about how heartbroken I would be, how I’d miss you?”
Seeing his tears fall once again, Carol tried to wipe them away, but Clark turned his face, a hint of petulance in his voice, “If you truly cared about me, you wouldn’t even think about leaving.”
Carol’s hand froze mid-air.
“Aren’t you going to wipe them?” Clark turned his gaze back to hers.
Carol was at a loss for words, reaching to wipe his tears, only to have her hand caught by his.
“You just went ahead and removed your IV. Bella barely managed to save you, and you treat your health like it’s nothing, going out into the cold.”
“Are you done?”“No.” Clark was looking into her eyes, a hint of anger in his voice, “Do you think if you disappeared without a word, I wouldn’t be able to find you? I could search for ten, twenty, thirty years. As long as I’m alive, I won’t stop until there’s nowhere left for you to hide”
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