The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife
Chapter 53 Reminiscence

If this was the past, Susan Shelby would have yielded instantaneously upon seeing Julian Shaw's raging expression. However, she discovered in astonishment that she did not fear Julian in her heart now as much as she used to.

"Julian, consider this a favor to me, alright?" Susan stared at Julian in a pleading manner.

She did not want anything bad to happen to Luke Jenkins.

After all, she used to love him so deeply in the past. She just could not bring herself to ignore Luke now.

Julian wanted to reject Susan's plea but he was utterly incapable of voicing his rejection upon seeing her misty-eyed look.

After a long while, Julian grunted coldly once. "I'm only doing this once and for all."

He agreed just as such.

Susan's eyes lit up as she nodded continuously.

Madam Jenkins felt relieved upon taking care of the issue with Julian. She hastily left along with the others and even closed the door considerately.

"Susie."

"Susie."

Luke was still holding on to Susan's hand tightly.

Susan looked at him with a rather gentle gaze. "I'm here."

Luke's expression relaxed at once.

"Ms. Shelby, please pacify Mr. Jenkins. I'm going to perform some examinations on him," said the doctor.

"Alright," Susan answered softly.

The doctor began bustling about while Susan continued to hold on to Luke's hand. She would speak to him every once in a while to soothe his emotions.

The head and neck examination was a complicated procedure. The doctor used his equipment to perform a rather meticulous examination for Luke.

"Doctor, what's happening to him?" said Susan with a bit of a complicated look on her face.

"The accident earlier caused some injuries to his brain. Judging from the results, I'd say that these injuries concentrated and flared up today due to some trigger," said the doctor. "So, what's going to happen to him?" Susan felt quite anxious.

"It's very difficult to predict issues related to the brain. We can only wait and see if he can regain consciousness on his own now. Ms. Shelby, your presence is very helpful in stabilizing his emotions. Next, I'm afraid that we might need you to accompany him at all times until he regains his consciousness."

"Sure," Susan agreed without the slightest hesitation. 1

The doctor nodded and left the room gently without making any noise, leaving Susan and Luke in their privacy.

Susan stared gently at Luke's distorted expression from pain. A look of complicated emotions flashed past his eyes.

She stretched out her hand and smoothed out Luke's furrowed brows gently.

It had been a very long time since she had taken a proper look at this man.

'Luke, even though you and I are not destined to be together, you'll be good now. You must be good.'

'Only by doing so, my love for you in the past will not be in vain.'

Susan looked at him. Her gaze slowly entered a trance.

She could still clearly remember the first time she met Like.

Luke was different from the domineering Julian because he was always gentle-mannered.

He treated everyone politely and the smile on his lips was always in the perfect angle.

Everyone talked about how Luke was really a great person.

Yet, she felt that Luke was kind to everyone but in reality, he was heartless to every person.

She suddenly found herself curious about how Luke would be when he had truly fallen in love with a person.

She bet by then, his smile would surely be so warm and affectionate, it would melt his lover, right?

At the time, she was young and reckless, brave and fearless so she began taking the offensive toward Luke confidently.

She would confess her love for Luke every day.

Luke rejected her once, twice, countless times.

However, she was still pursuing Luke stubbornly.

There was one day when she confessed her love to him ond again. She had even painstakingly prepared a bilingual love letter in Chinese and English to him.

Why did she prepare the love letter in two languages? It was to make her appear classy and elegant.

The love letter that she prepared meticulously would end up in a trash can straightaway every time.

However, she would still launch another attack in high spirits the next time.

This time, she was mentally prepared for the love letter to be tossed right away.

Yet, she did not expect that Luke would raise an eyebrow, unfold the love letter and take a glance at it nonchalantly. "You wrote this?"

She was excited beyond her imagination at the time. She nodded continuously.

Then, Luke frowned and took out a red pen from his pocket before marking the love letter. "The Chinese version is still considered acceptable. There aren't any wrongly-written characters at the very least. However, look at this English sentence. Can you tell me which one the subject is?"

"Huh, subject?" She stepped closer in a daze. "Uh, isn't this the subject?"

Luke heaved a sigh. "Have you passed your CET-4?"

She felt so embarrassed she wanted to die. "Not yet, I failed it twice..."

"Come and see me tomorrow. I'm going to tutor you."

"Okay." She was stunned for a long while before her lips cracked into a surprised smile. "Luke, so, so you're saying..."

"I can't just let my girlfriend not be able to write a proper, smooth English sentence," said Luke nonchalantly.

At that very moment, she was so surprised that she was going mad.

Susan could still clearly remember herself giving Luke's cheek a peck.

She still felt like chuckling now when she remembered how astonished Luke looked at the time.

Afterward, Luke graduated one year later and her graduation followed after another year. Their relationship was tested with his family issue after their graduation.

Madam Jenkins was not fond of Susan and she was constantly making things difficult for her.

Yet, Luke defended her at the time. She believed optimistically that she would certainly gain Madam Jenkin's acceptance if she were to put in more effort.

Yet, she did not expect that the accident...

The whole world was turned upside down in a split second.

She married someone and he had a wife too.

The two people that promised to be with each other until the end of time were separated at two ends in reality.

During that period of time when she had just lost Luke, she was in pain and despair. She found that she missed the man in her past more when Julian's coldness formed a bright contrast to Luke's warmth in the past.

Yet, recently...

She discovered that Julian did not seem as domineering and ruthless as she had imagined.

He spoke ruthlessly yet he would always step forward to defend her when she was bullied by others.

When she was faulted mistakenly by others, he believed her unconditionally.

When her brother went missing, he accompanied her to look for her brother patiently.

Her relationship with him underwent some minute changes without her notice.

Julian and Shawn were two completely different types of men. 9

If one were to describe Luke as water, then Julian was fire.

The water was gentle and ceaseless while Julian was the flame that could blaze through everything.

"Susie..." i

Susan was lost in thoughts for a very long time until Luke's babble jolted her back to reality.

Tm here," answered Susan. Then, she grabbed a paper towel to wipe away the sweat on Luke's forehead.

Luke was sweating profusely.

Susan sat by his side and dried his sweat tirelessly.

The sky darkened and the night deepened.

Other than the doctor performing a few rounds, Susan took care of him meticulously for the rest of the night.

"Mother! What's going on with Luke and that Susan girl?" Charlotte finally found an opportunity to speak to Madam Jenkins in private. She could not refrain herself from voicing the puzzlement she felt in her heart hastily.