It'll Come Naturally
Chapter 1349 Death Was No Laughing Matter (Part Two)

"Yeah, of course she deserves it." Tom smiled. But suddenly, his smile turned to a frown, remembering that Leena would have a lot of difficulty getting pregnant. He glanced at Kevin with worried eyes. Till now, Kevin had no idea about it. But what would he think once he knew? Would he still be this good to Leena? Would he treat Leena the same way he was doing now or would he change his mind? Tom knew that it was impossible for a man to completely ignore it. Maybe Kevin wouldn't mind it for now. But what if, in the future he wanted a child and Leena couldn't get pregnant? Who could guarantee that his feelings for Leena wouldn't change? "How is Patricia doing right now?" Kevin asked Tom in a more serious tone. Since his wife had spent the whole night worrying about Patricia, he couldn't help but get anxious as well.

"If I tell you that her condition is not promising, what would you think?" Tom felt helpless. Yes, he was a damn good doctor, if he said so himself. But he also just was human and sometimes, things were just out of his control. It was not up to him which patient got to live and which patient would die.

"It doesn't matter what I think. What matters is what you are going to do about it." Kevin's heart dropped. If Tom, a great doctor, said that Patricia's condition was not promising, then it was surely not promising at all. Did this mean that Patricia would not survive this ordeal? "I am a doctor. I am not God." Tom rolled his eyes at Kevin. He felt pressured. No matter how good he was in his field, if it was someone's time to go, it was time to go. He really wanted Patricia to get better. But it was not up to him.

"So there is nothing you can do? Really?" Though Patricia was not family, Kevin still cared about her as a friend. Besides, he did not know how he was going to tell his wife.

"At least not for now. Do you think that I would still be here if I already figured out how to save her?" Even if Patricia wasn't Leena's best friend, he would still do everything he could so that she would live.

"So, all we can do for now is wait for her to wake up on her own?" Kevin didn't hide his uneasiness. He remembered feeling helpless when his own wife had fallen into coma, not knowing when she would wake up.

"Yes, that's all we can do for now." Tom had seen many people succumb to death right in front of him. It was a given circumstance in his chosen profession. But his heart throbbed badly when he thought of someone who was once a lively and tough girl, slipping away, never to return. He badly wanted to save her, he really did. Now, he hated the feeling that he couldn't do anything about it.

Kevin's heart still felt heavy when he walked out of the hospital. His mind kept coming back to Tom's words, and he couldn't help but worry about Leena's reaction when he broke the news to her. He didn't get to see Patricia today because she was in a critical state and was still under close observation. They couldn't risk her being infected.

Meantime back at the apartment, Leena woke up without Kevin by her side. But she didn't think much of it. She just thought that he had gone to the army base as usual. After all, things always came up at the army base that needed Kevin's attention and she had already gotten used to it. Maybe it was an emergency so Kevin didn't wake her up.

She didn't even think of Patricia. Maybe she still hadn't fully woken up, or maybe she tried to forget about it completely. She loved her friend dearly but she didn't like that she had lost sleep the previous night over it.

Slowly, she got out of bed and walked to the bathroom to brush her teeth and freshen up. Then she started cleaning their bedroom. The room was a mess. Though Kevin was a soldier, he didn't keep things clean and tidy. Maybe this was because he came from a wealthy family and he didn't have to pick up after himself. Also, he was very busy with his job so he didn't have time to do housework.

They did not hire a servant so Leena had to do it all herself, changing the sheets and even mopping the floor. She acted as if her best friend wasn't in the hospital at the moment. She could get really oblivious sometimes. Maybe what happened to Patricia was so bad that she couldn't help but forget about it to make herself feel better.

"Nana, you are up!" Kevin stared at her with surprise. He didn't expect to see her cleaning their bedroom when he came back home. What the hell was happening now? Why was Leena acting like this? Was the crisis that Patricia was in, too hard to accept? Or was she tidying up the bedroom to have at least some sense of control? This sometimes happened to people who felt extremely powerless in some situations.

"Why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be at the army base right now?" Leena was also startled that Kevin was home so early in the day. She blinked and looked at him with confused eyes.

"Leena, are... are you okay?" Kevin asked a bit hesitantly. He was suddenly anxious all over again. But this time, he was worried about Leena. He was afraid that she couldn't accept what had happened to Patricia and lost her mind. He had never seen her act this strange. "Of course I am okay. Why would I not be okay? You still haven't told me why you came back. Did you forget something?" Leena looked around the room with curious eyes, trying to see if Kevin had forgotten to take his phone or keys with him.

"No I didn't forget anything. Aren't you happy to see me home? Do you want to see me work my ass off and exhaust myself to death? Do you like me going to the army base on a weekend?" Kevin said in a casual tone and then winked. But when he saw that Leena's face suddenly become pale with what he just said. He immediately realized that he had used the wrong words.

"Were you kidding just now? Because it wasn't funny at all! I don't want to hear you talk like that again! You know how much you mean to me! Why are you trying to twist my words?" Leena was particularly sensitive these days. She didn't like Kevin talking about his own death, even if it was just a joke. In times like this, death was no laughing matter.

"Okay Nana, I am so sorry! I didn't mean to upset you. It was just a silly joke. Please don't take it seriously. I'm really sorry." Kevin had gotten used to her throwing tantrums, but he didn't know that she could get this sensitive. He didn't expect that his silly joke would upset Leena like this. Leena loved him so much that she couldn't even tolerate this kind of joke. She just couldn't stand the thought of losing him.

"But I have already taken it seriously." Leena furrowed her eyebrows. Then all of a sudden, she had a feeling that she had forgotten about something very important. But she just couldn't tell what it was. She felt lost, like a very important part of her memory had faded into nothingness.00000