Chapter 12 Don’t tell them about her death
“What is this? I have never seen this before.”
Steward had a bad feeling when he realized that it was a medical record.
Mia stopped talking but stared at him with sharp eyes.
Steward froze for a while and then took a deep breath. He picked up the medical record on the ground and opened it with
quivering hands. He could not understand many medical terms on it but the words “malignant brain tumour” got him overwhelmed.
He remembered about a month before, Nora said to him, “I have got really sick and have few days left for me.” He felt he could
not be able to hold the light paper.
The medical record showed that Nora had been to the hospital several times and the doctor prescribed some medicine for
treating her brain cancer.
Steward refrained from even thinking about this thing. He did not want to believe what he had just known was true.
But Mia forced him to face the truth, saying, “Nora has long decided to donate her cornea to you. It was risky for her to do the
surgery so she would rather spend the rest of her time living with you even if she was in great pain.
Steward could hardly digest the information and every word Mia said was like a big hammer hit on his head.
“I do not want her to do this for me,” he was upset and did not know what to do next.
Mia couldn’t stop herself from crying, “You don’t deserve what Nora did for you, Steward. She was such a kind and brave
woman. If I had known she would end up like this, I would do anything to stop her from being with you. It was because of you that
Nora had to lose both her cornea and kidney. You were so mean to her!”
It was true that he acted like a jerk. He did hope she left him, but definitely not in this way. He did not want her to die.
His heart was hurting and he came to realize that his feelings toward Nora were mixed up but at the moment he was afraid to
know he loved her.
“I do NOT believe you!” Steward suddenly yelled at Mia and questioned her, “Where were you hiding Nora? Is she in your house
or her parents‘ home?”
“She had already been cremated. I will not even tell you where her grave is. You leave her alone!” Mia said coldly and thought he
was very ridiculous. When Nora was still alive, he did all he can to hurt her but now he acted like he had lost someone he deeply
loved.”
Steward was infuriated by Mia’s words but he could not argue with it. He held Nora’s medical record tightly in his hands.
“I am going to her parent’s home right now. Don’t try to lie to me about Nora!”
At the moment, he still did not believe Nora had died.
He started wondering whether Nora was sick at all. In the past, Nora had behaved like a normal healthy person. How could she
suddenly die?
Actually, at that time, he did not care much about her so he did not notice what she had been through. She kept losing weight at
that time.
Steward felt very guilty for Nora. At this time, Mia said to Steward, “Nora wanted to keep her death a secret. If you go to the
Hill’s, don’t tell her parents she had died…”
“Stop saying that!” Steward said with a fierce look. He could not believe why Mia kept saying bad things about Nora! In his mind,
Nora had not died!
Mia left his house without taking anything but the photo of Nora that she brought with her when she came.
Steward started to tidy up Nora’s room because he remembered she did not like messy places.
He knew that she liked to keep everything in order and clean. She could not stand sticky things.
At that time, he was blind and he always made his room a mess on purpose. Nora did not like sticky things so he would knock the plate or the bowl over.
And soon he asked Leo to find him a noisy dog. It kept running about and saw the whole house as its bathroom.
He refused to be taken care of by other people so Nora had to do all the housework.
Nora had not lost her temper one single time. Every time he or the dog made a mess, she would tidy up the whole house and behave gently.
Once, he asked her, “Why did you treat this dog so well even if it had been so annoying?”
The reason why this dog was so fussy was that it was betrayed by its former owner.
Nora said, “Because you like it.”
When she said this, Steward could sense her delight.
He shrugged and thought, “He brought this dog home but it did not mean he liked it.”
“I brought you home. Do you think it is because I like you?” Steward said to Nora.
