The True Lady Strikes Back novel (Cecilia and Christopher)

Chapter 211

Cecilia, who had been staring at Christopher, immediately noticed that he was responding to her words.

She smiled happily and continued her efforts.

"Chris, Charlie has ordered the creation of the toxin in your body. He'll certainly use you to threaten me. At that time, shall I fall into his trap or avoid it? What do you think?" She answered herself immediately.

"I will definitely jump into the trap knowing that I love you, and I won't let anything happen to you."

Christopher's eyelids twitched as if he were about to open his eyes.

But Cecilia couldn't get him to open his eyes, even after a long wait.

She pinched Christopher's cheek. "Can't you open your eyes and look at me? I'm worried about you."

There was no miraculous happening. Christopher's eyes remained closed.

However, Cecilia knew he could hear her.

Twenty minutes later, she removed the silver needles from Christopher's body.

His sallow complexion improved significantly.

It didn't take long for the nurse to bring a portable bathtub to the ward. She also brought the prepared concentrated medicinal bath.

"Ms. Yancey. Do you need my help?"

As she spoke, she placed the waterproof bandages on the bedside table. Cecilia shook her head. "Please leave after you draw the curtain over the glass wall." "Sure, Ms. Yancey."

After the curtains were drawn, the sterile ward became a small room of its own.

Cecilia poured the giant bucket of medicinal bath liquid into the portable bathtub and went to the attached bathroom for warm water.

After preparing the concentration of the medicinal bath, she undressed

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Christopher, applied waterproof bandages to his wounds that might get wet, and laid him in the portable bathtub.

The water level reached his chest just right, and the bullet wound on his shoulder didn't come in contact with the liquid.

Perhaps due to the slightly higher temperature of the water, Christopher soon began to sweat profusely and his lips turned pale.

The medicinal bath was used to detoxify.

The medicine would take effect by seeping through his skin, entering his bloodstream, and passing through his liver. She would then expel the toxins by bloodletting.

That wouldn't remove the toxin completely, but it would stop the toxin's spread and reduce the damage to his liver.

It would buy them more time to develop an antidote.

When the medicinal bath had cooled, Cecilia made an incision on Christopher's finger.

Dark red blood trickled down and splashed on the shiny white floor, staining the floor's surface red.

When the blood color returned to normal, she immediately lifted Christopher out of the portable bathtub. She toweled off his body, laid him on the hospital bed, and bandaged the wound on his finger. She helped him put on a hospital gown and reconnected him to the ECG monitor after bandaging his wounds.

Cecilia felt all her hard work paid off when she saw the improved statistics on the device's screen.

She drew the curtains and asked the nurse to remove the portable bathtub. Next she went to the laboratory.

Since Elaine had ordered the hospital to cure Christopher at all costs, the laboratory now worked in three rotating shifts, covering 24 hours a day, to develop an antidote as soon as possible. When Cecilia arrived at the laboratory, a handful of laboratory

technicians were busy working.

They divided their time between observing the effects on the Petri dishes and experimenting with reagents.

When they saw Cecilia enter, they greeted her and then continued working.

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Cecilia was very capable as a traditional medicine practitioner, and she also had a good understanding of Western medicine.

She began to participate after taking some time to observe the experiment.

At first, the laboratory technicians cared little about her. They simply thought she was using her connections to make her presence known and to get some credit for their work.

However, their attitude toward her changed drastically when they heard her suggestions and ideas, which impressed them greatly.

They were like eager students and listened attentively to Cecilia, a good instructor.

Cecilia was exhausted after a busy day. She returned to the sterile ward to rest with Christopher after two hours of experiments.

When it was around dawn, she felt her face tickle as if a feather had brushed across it.

Still groggy from her sleep, she raised and waved her hand impatiently, and hit something.

Cecilia remembered she was in Christopher's hospital bed and feared she had accidentally touched his wound. So she jolted awake immediately.

She turned her head in his direction, and her eyes met his eyes, which were now open.

She couldn't react for a moment. She thought she was dreaming and blinked in confusion. But the scene she saw didn't disappear.

A smile crept across Christopher's face when he saw how adorable the confused Cecilia was.

"I'm awake, Ceci."

The voice that was so familiar to her was hoarse, and it brought Cecilia back to her senses immediately.

Her beautiful face expressed joyous surprise. "Chris! When did you wake up?" she asked.

Christopher raised his hand to tidy up Cecilia's disheveled hair from sleep. He replied softly, "I just woke up a while ago. I wanted to get closer to you, but my breathing has disturbed you." Cecilia took the initiative to move closer to Christopher. She asked, "Do

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you feel uncomfortable? Would you like something to eat?"

Christopher shook his head slightly. "I'm not hungry or uncomfortable when I look at you."

She replied, "My face can't cure illnesses, so if you feel uncomfortable, just let me know. Your condition is quite serious, so don't hold it in."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. You must be worried since I went into a coma." Although Christopher was in a coma, he was occasionally conscious. He knew he had gone under surgery in the operating room twice and had heard Cecilia's many words to him.

He couldn't remember the details of most of them.

He only remembered two sentences, as if they were carved into his being. He said inwardly, 'First, she said Aiden has destroyed the mastermind's branch at Lusterg.

Second, she said she loves me!'

When he thought of that, he stared at Cecilia with a smoldering gaze.

Cecilia found it difficult to meet his gaze and raised her hand to cover his eyes.

"Yes, I'm worried about you. I'm scared you won't wake up, and I'll be lonely if you leave me."

Christopher didn't know if the toxin in his body could be neutralized. With a serious expression, he said, "Ceci, if I am gone...'

Cecilia covered his mouth before he could finish his words.

"Don't talk nonsense. My medical skills are good, and I won't let anything happen to you!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a hint of warmth emanating from her pálm.

It was Christopher's kiss.

Cecilia immediately withdrew her hand. She leaned her head over and kissed Christopher on his eyelid.

"Your body is too weak, so you need to rest more. Get some sleep. You have to hold a video conference with the shareholders of Forte Group tomorrow," she advised. Perhaps because of his severe injury, Christopher indeed felt exhausted. But he wasn't sleepy.

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He knew Cecilia was tired, so he nodded. "Let's have a rest together. We can talk about everything else tomorrow."

"Mmm," Cecilia mumbled her reply drowsily and quickly fell asleep.

Christopher looked at the sleeping Cecilia. His eyes expressed his heartache for her.

He wanted to know everything that had happened today, but was concerned about disturbing Cecilia's rest, so he decided to give up. Perhaps he was too weak, he also fell asleep not long after. They slept until nine o'clock in the morning and were awakened by

someone.

"Ahem, Ms. Yancey... Mr. Forte should have a medical examination."

The attending doctor didn't want to disturb the cuddling, affectionate couple, but the examination could not be delayed.

Christopher's health might deteriorate at any time, so a checkup would help detect problems sooner.

Cecilia knew the importance of the examination. She immediately got up and accompanied Christopher to the medical examination.

As Christopher was being wheeled into the examination room, she received a phone call from Charlie.