Love My Friends with Benefits

Half an hour later, Leonard came to the hospital.

He led me to the cashier and gave them his card.

Now that there was money, Grandma was immediately arranged to undergo the operation.

The nurses pushed her into the operation theatre.

I hadn't stopped crying since Leonard had shown up. Once Grandma was in the operation theatre, I sobbed harder.

Aunt Nancy sat next to me and wept as well.

...

"Stop crying," Leonard glanced at me and said rather awkwardly.

I ignored him and cried harder.

His expression stiffened. He looked a little helpless and angry as he patted me on the shoulder awkwardly. "I said, stop crying."

...

I wasn't even paying attention to him.

I had never imagined that Grandma's condition would deteriorate so suddenly. If the operation were to fail, the conversation we had earlier today would become our last.

How could things have suddenly become like this...

Aunt Nancy wiped her tears and stood up, saying hoarsely, "Thank you, Leonard. If not for you, Mum would've been in trouble."

I noticed that she addressed him differently now. Calling him Leonard instead of Mr. Nell was definitely much more affectionate than before.

He stood up and nodded politely. "It's no problem. It's only natural to help."

"How can it be natural?" She sighed. "I doubt that even blood relatives can do what you've done."

Choked up, I reminded her, "Aunt Nancy, you're saying too much."

After all, Leonard was an outsider. Regardless of Bell's shortcomings, it was still better to keep things between him and Grandma private.

Aunt Nancy realised that she'd had a slip of the tongue and felt a little embarrassed.

changed the topic. "It's late, so

you know

hadn't had the time to change

little embarrassed. "I

didn't react. "Go

it's fine. You should

smiled. "Phoebe's my fiancée. It's only right for me to take

felt disgusted

fine, then." Aunt Nancy didn't

wallet. "You should be hungry after waiting around for so long, right? I'll go get you and

walked over to her and said, "I'll

head. "No, it's fine. I want to

was only normal that she wanted to get out. She'd been cooped up in the hospital for such

moved out of her way. She

down next to me and wrapped an arm around my

strange and twisted a little. "What

get me riled up," he said indifferently. "I'm just allowing you to have

be polite. Now that Aunt Nancy was

no need, really." I pushed him away and said sincerely, "You know that I'm not interested in sharing shoulders with

sharing the same man as well, I thought to

arms. "Go

he think he was? What made him think that he knew me

overshadowed my sorrow. "I don't need it! Let go of

don't know what's good

and kept his

"You..."

saw Aunt Nancy standing

ran down my spine and I got to my feet. "Aunt Nancy, why

realised that I forgot to ask what you

feeling a little guilty. "I'll

even flinch. "I'm fine

nodded, then

stumbled over some

she'd probably

run wild. Would Aunt Nancy tell Grandma

"Don't think too much."