Burning Passion

CHAPTER 355: VALID REASON TO SEE YOU

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The next day, Jerome was preparing to visit the university to talk with Dean Collins. But before he could leave the house, he received a call from Mely. 

His wife was crying on the other line, and it caused Jerome extremely worried that he wanted to fly back to Hawaii. 

"Mely, calm down." He attempts to comfort his wife, but she continues crying. Gladly, he could hear Annie's voice soothing Mely to relax. 

Mely just woke up that morning when she overheard Annie talking to their bodyguards and mentioned Steven's attempts to escape. 

She forced the bodyguard to tell her everything that happened, and she learned why Steven had the chance to escape. Her son has to go to the hospital to treat his wounded knuckle.

"Jerome, I'm worried about Steven. I want to go home as soon as possible." 

"Okay. I am going to talk to Dean Collins today. Once he agrees to my request, I will fly back to Hawaii immediately." 

"Okay. Please, hurry! How if it's not only Steven's hand that will injure? How if next he..." Mely could not spill out the word. 

And Jerome understands what his wife is struggling to spill out the word, and he attempted to console her further, not to worry. 

"Stop thinking too much, okay? It won't help you. How if you have to stay in the hospital again? Then you can't have clearance to travel, but you might have to be confined instead. Do you want that?" 

There is silence from the other line. Later, Jerome hears Mely heave a long sigh. 

"Okay. For now, I will try to relax. But I keep worrying, Jerome."

"I know you are worried about our son. But, please... take care of yourself too." 

"Okay… But came back today, can you?" 

"Yes, I will. I won't visit the company anymore but arrange a flight back. By the way, I have to notify Nelson, and maybe he doesn't want to leave yet when he just sees Nina again." 

"Alright. I will tell Annie to reach them and ask Nelson about it." 

After a little more conversation, Mely ended the call and handed the telephone to Annie to contact Dona. 

Jerome noticed Harry was in the middle of the staircase, putting down the telephone, listening, and peering at him curiously. 

He asked, "What happens, Pa?" 

"Your mother... They sent an important message to me, and she heard it. Now she was in distress thinking about it." 

"It's Steven, right?" He could not think of other reasons that could make their mother stressed now.

Nodding to Harry, Jerome hurls a long sigh. Things that concern Steven is only getting worse. "Harry, I need to finish my consultation with Dean Collins today, so then I could get a flight back to Hawaii."

"Okay, Pa… So, how about uncle Nelson?" asked Harry. He is praying that Nina's father will also leave soon so that he is free to see Nina anytime, any day. 

Jerome replied to his son, "Annie will reach them to know Nelson's decision." 

"How if I visit the Li villa?" Harry suggested. In this way, he could see Nina today.

"That's brilliant! It will be fast. We will drop you at the Li villa; then I will return quickly to know what Nelson's decision is!" 

Jerome, we think that if he could go back to Hawaii tonight, he would set a flight back to China the next day. So then needs Nelson's plan to go back with them or entrusted the Li elders to him. 

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Later, at Li Villa… Before Nina could leave home for her morning class, it surprised her to see Harry on the doorsteps. But what shocked her more was to see Harry's hand with a bandage. 

"Harry! What happened?" she stressed out. Her beautiful face now exhibited her worry that her face turned pale from fright if it was severe.

It amused Harry, staring at Nina's worried face. But it brings joy to his chest seeing how concerned she is. 

Harry unconsciously reaches for Nina's face to rub the corner of her eyes. She was fighting her tears not to fall. He soothes her, "It's just a minor wound. Don't worry." 

"You're kidding me! Have you gone to the doctor?" 

"It's not serious. I can treat it myself, but I don't have time to change the bandage this morning. It was butler Feng dressing my wound last night." 

After he explained, Nina could not settle down when she saw blood on the bandage.

"You haven't changed the plaster yet!? How if it gets infected? Did you take medicine?" 

Harry felt he was floating above the clouds to see Nina throwing fret over his wound. "I haven't because I hurried to come here to talk to your father." He reasons out for Nina to stop worrying. 

He badly wanted to kiss her. But he must restrain himself now that Nina's father is here.

"What happened?" Nina asked curiously when he fell silent. 

Harry ponders whether to mention it to Nina. But soon, she will know, so there's no difference even if he will hide it. He answered, "I think it was news about Steven. I didn't hear the details, but Mama was stressing herself now. She's worrying a lot again, and it worried Papa that she will have another breakdown." 

"Oh..." Nina doesn't know how to react to hear Steven's name. But learning that Mely was distressing again, she couldn't help to get worried. "I'm glad that Aunt Annie was there, and someone could accompany her." 

"Yes. But mama could only stop stressing out until she saw Steven. So, Papa wanted to know if uncle Nelson would come with him back to China, and he will catch a flight later after a meeting with Dean Collins." 

"I see." It was what she could only say. Steven is still giving a headache to his family. She was glad that she already got over him and freed from his overbearing attitude. Otherwise, she will lose her mind and become depressed like their mother, Mely.

Nina and Harry, we're talking on the corner with low voices. Later Nina heard Harry's growling stomach. 

"You haven't eaten yet?" she asked with wide eyes. Later, she frowned when Harry blushed.

"I forget. I hurried to come here when I have a valid reason to see you." 

She mouthed, "Silly! You haven't clean your wound, and now you haven't eaten yet?!" Nina rolled her eyes when Harry only smiled cutely in front of her. "I can't believe you!" 

Nina grabs Harry's hand and leads him to the kitchen. She doesn't care anymore if her father saw them holding hands. 

Nina asked the chef to make breakfast for Harry.. She then makes a coffee for Harry, and they chat while he eats breakfast.