Chapter 219 Exin Yourself Properly
Jean couldn’t help but look up, meeting Carl’s deep, cold gaze.”
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He was staring straight at her. His expression was still distant, butpared to before, there was now something oddly… human about him.
She shifted her gaze away from Carl and looked up at the stark white ceiling.
Only then did she notice the strong smell of disinfectant in the air…
This was a hospital room.
She instinctively raised her wrist. A cold needle was inserted into the back of her hand, and a clear liquid was quietly flowing into her vein.
“I… how long was I unconscious?” she asked without thinking.
“Three days,” Carl replied simply.
“Three days?” Her eyes widened slightly in surprise. Then she curled her lips and let out a self–deprecating chuckle. “Guess I was hurt pretty badly, huh…”
Carl pressed his lips together, saying nothing. He just silently looked at her.
“Then… what about Queenie…” Jean suddenly remembered Queenie-
The one who’d caused her serious injuries, the one responsible for her three–daya.
But she wasn’t sure where Carl stood on Queenie.
After all, Queenie was his subordinate, acting under him. She didn’t exactly have the right to demand Carl punish her.
Even though he… seemed to care, just a little more about her now than he used to…
But most likely, Carl’s connection to Queenie was stronger than his connection to her.
He would probably take Queenie’s side…
Carl listened quietly to the girl’s inner thoughts and, strangely, detected a hint of sorrow.
His lips tugged slightly as he spoke. “Queenie has already been punished. You won’t be seeing her around here anymore.”
“And besides, didn’t you say…” For the first time, Carl spoke such a long sentence directly to Jean. Halfway through, he subconsciously paused, his thin lips pressing together slightly as if considering his words. “Didn’t you say you were grateful to me… because you knew I was on your side… that you felt I treated you
well…”
He still remembered that night, when he brought Jean to her room. Just before he left, she had said those
words to him.
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Carl’s low voice, clear and cold, dropped suddenly into the air andpletely scattered Jean’s thoughts.
She blinked, stunned for a second, then came back to her senses and blinked up at him again. “Hm?”
“Did I hear that right?” she asked, incredulous.
Carl actually said a <i>full</i>, <i>uninterrupted </i><i>sentence </i><i>that </i><i>didn’t </i><i>sound </i>like he <i>had </i>to drag it <i>out </i>word by word<i>. </i>Amazing!
“Your hearing’s fine,” Carl reminded her calmly.
Jean instinctively reached up to touch her ear, then broke into a grin, her eyes curving into crescent moons. “Thanks for the reminder.”
She pursed her lips and added cheerfully, “But you’re the one who said I was overthinking things.”
Of course, the bigger reason was—
She couldn’t be sure whether Carl had <i>allowed </i>Queenie to take her to the advanced interrogation room and subject her to that cruel procedure.
After all, it was Carl who brought her to the bedroom, and only he had the <i>key</i>. Yet Queenie had been able to sneak in and take her away without a problem…
If Queenie had acted under Carl’s orders, then they were clearly on the same side.
Why would Carl punish a subordinate who was just doing her job for him…?
“I had no idea that happened,” Carl exined almost instantly. His jaw tensed slightly, as if genuinely afraid Jean might misunderstand. “Queenie acted entirely behind my back. I only found out after the fact.”
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