Chapter 86

Alaricka was forced to shed a few tears: “Kieran, let me go…”

Kieran looked down.

Alaricka suddenly shut her eyes.

She just felt a cool, soft touch on her eyelids, and the fleeting sensation, along with Kieran’s faint but distinct scent of fir, made her a little dazed.

“What are you crying for?” Kieran’s voice was low and deep.

Alaricka knew what that was.

That was Kieran’s kiss.

A tear finally fell from the corner of Alaricka’s eye. She opened her eyes, which were red, her pale cheeks flushed with excitement, and her lips trembled.

“Kieran, I didn’t want to be the other woman,” Alaricka thought. What was this supposed to be? Last night you made her drink ten strong drinks, and now you’re doing this. Was this like giving a slap and then handing over a sweet date?

The word "mistress" dropped, and Kieran went quiet for a moment. Then he got off her, and that scent of fir left with him.

Alaricka hugged the cup and curled up in the blanket. Kieran’s deep voice came through the sheets.

“Who thought you were the other woman?”

Alaricka sneered and said directly, “I wish you and Ms. Whitaker have a baby soon.”

She had her head covered, so she wasn’t too sure what was going on outside the blanket. She didn’t hear Kieran’s answer, just heard Kieran’s footsteps leaving, and the last thing he said.

“Remember to drink the chicken soup.”

Hearing the door open and close, Alaricka finally came out from under the covers. She carefully avoided her left hand that was on an IV, sat up, and looked at the chicken soup on the nightstand that was still steaming.

She smelled that greasy chicken soup again, and Alaricka felt sick to her stomach. She frowned and got out of bed, picked up the thermos, and was just walking into the bathroom when Jaylene came back with her little sidekick.

Jaylene saw her back and said in surprise, “Why did you get out of bed?”

Alaricka didn’t look back and answered in a low voice, “I wasn’t that weak either.”

Jaylene’s footsteps slowly came closer, and she peeked around behind her: “Are you going to pour out the chicken soup? Aren’t you going to drink it?!”

Alaricka’s hand paused, and she turned her head seriously and said, “This smell made me feel kind of sick, I just couldn’t drink it at all.”

Jaylene looked really worried and took the thermos from her hands. “There was still a lot of chicken and drumsticks in there, this is called wasting food, do you have any sense or not?”

“This kind of chicken soup looked like it was made from free-range chicken. You just couldn’t compare it to farmed chicken. This kind was really nutritious.”

Alaricka actually didn’t want to waste like this.

Jaylene was still rambling on, sounding sure of herself: “Even if those two had character issues, there was nothing wrong with this kind of chicken soup, right?”

Alaricka pushed the IV stand and walked back. “Then you guys drink it.”

Right away, Jaylene’s little followers all rushed over, fighting to get a drink. Alaricka slowly sat down by the hospital bed and quietly watched as Jaylene and the others finished all the chicken soup.

She looked up and saw Kieran and Roschelle, who had come back. Her heart skipped a beat.

Roschelle looked kind of down. After picking up her bag from the bench in the hospital hallway, she tugged on Kieran’s sleeve.

“Let’s go.”

From a distance, Alaricka saw Kieran’s dark eyes, cold and sharp.

That day, Alaricka finished her IV and got discharged, and it was Jaylene who took her home.

Jaylene was a bit surprised when she saw the shabby rental building she lived in: “I thought girls like you all lived in villas. How come you…”

Suddenly, Jaylene shut her mouth like she just remembered something. About the Argent family kicking Alaricka out, a lot of people in this city had heard about it, not to mention those who went to the same school as Alaricka.

“Uh… uh, you go up. I’ll just see you off here.”

Alaricka said, “Okay.”

The next day at school, the homeroom teacher just asked her and Jaylene and the others about their absence once or twice, kind of turned a blind eye, and didn’t ask anymore. Alaricka thought not many people would find out about what happened at the club, because Jaylene had already told those little followers over and over not to mention it outside.

But the impact of this thing still went beyond her expectations.

During the break, students came and went outside the classroom, and there were some excited whispers.

Alaricka had actually died once, so she didn’t care about these rumors.