Chapter 276


    “Uncle Jeremy! You’re back!” Annie immediately got up from the hospital bed to make way for Jeremy


    as soon as she saw him appear.


    However, her expression froze when she saw Anyaing in with Jeremy, and she subconsciously


    turned her head to see how Corinne reacted.


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    Corinne’s expression remained calm, and there seemed to be no emotional changes at all.


    “Did you just wake up?”


    Jeremy walked slowly to the side of the hospital bed. He stood in a dignified and rxed posture, with


    his hands inserted elegantly in his trouser belt. His calm eyes were indecipherable as he gazed


    downward at her.


    “Yeah.” Corinne nodded, looked at Jeremy’s handsome eyes, and shifted away without lingering too


    long on him as she looked at Anya who was by his side.


    The man could tell what she wanted to ask and turned around


    to look at Anya beside him. He then turned back to Corinne and said softly, “She wanted to see you.”


    Annie stood to one side and let out a barely discernible cold


    snort from his nostrils.


    Anya, like Corinne, was wearing a puffy hospital gown. There was gauze wrapped around her


    forehead, and her injured appearance made her look even more slender and weak–the very epitome of


    a sick woman who needed to be cared for.


    However, she did not seem haughty at all and had a cheerful yet easy–going smile on her face. She


    took the initiative to step forward and ask concernedly, “I heard Jeremy say that you were hospitalized


    due to allergies, and I came with him to see you because I’m a little worried about you. How are you


    feeling now?”


    Corinne replied politely, “Thanks for your concern. I feel much better now. How about you, Miss Anya?


    You look injured too. Are you okay?”


    Anya touched her gauze–wrapped forehead and sighed helplessly, “I’m fine. It wasn’t a very serious


    car ident. All I suffered was a graze on my head. My family’s a bit fussy though, and they insisted


    that I had to be hospitalized for a couple of days‘ worth of observation!” She had something of an


    annoyed expression on her face, like there was nothing that she could do with what her family


    members imposed on her.


    Yet, that very helplessness inadvertently revealed how much she was cherished by her family, who


    lavished her with love and affection. Since she received such care ever since she was a child, she did


    notck wealth,panionship, and love— anything she wanted could be had without any effort, which


    allowed her to act like a child. The good life she had then probably meant that she had saved the world


    in her previous life.


    Corinne smiled and kept quiet.


    Anya seemed to have noticed something was amiss. She looked left and right and all around the ward,


    noticing that Annie was the only other person in the ward aside from herself and Jeremy, who had just


    come in.


    “Where’s your family, Corinne? Why aren’t they here at the hospital to take care of you?”


    Corinne’s face darkened slightly when she heard that.


    —


    ‘Family? I don’t have a family.‘ Only recently did she find out that Marvin was not her biological father,


    so even Sherlyn whom she had always thought to be her half–sister—was not rted to her by blood


    either. Meanwhile, the Carews in the countryside had nothing to do with her either.


    Therefore, one could say that she did not have any rtives.


    Corinne remained silent, and it was Annie who stepped forward to voice her opinion, “Your remark is a


    little strange, Miss Anya. Aren’t Uncle Jeremy and I Corinne’s family? We’re with her at the hospital


    now!”


    Anya looked at Annie and exined innocently, “You


    misunderstood me, Annie. I know that you’re Corinne’s family, but what I mean by my question is, why


    didn’t any of her own familye here?”


    Annie did not know about Corinne’s family affairs and simply felt that Anya was being nosy. “Having


    myself and Uncle Jeremy here is good enough. We shouldn’t bother her family!”


    Anya disagreed. “You can’t keep it from them just because you’re afraid they’ll get worried. Corinne’s


    allergies are so severe that she must feel very ufortable right now. I’m sure she’ll feel a lot better if


    her close rtives are by her side at such a time.”


    Annie felt that Anya’s words made sense, so she turned to look at Corinne and asked obediently,


    “Would you like your family toe and keep yourpany? Do you want Uncle Jeremy to send


    someone to pick them up?”


    Corinne shook her head and said, “This is a small injury.


    There’s no need to get them toe back since I’ll be fine in a couple of days anyway.


    Annie was very obedient and did as Corinne told her. She nodded and did not get involved in that


    anymore.


    Seeing that Corinne did not budge, Anya looked at Jeremy worriedly again and said sincerely, “Corinne


    might insist that it’s not serious, but I still think it’s better to call her family and inform them!”