Me After Meeting You

When Amber regained her wits, she found that she and Ian were the only two people on the street, and that Calvin had left some time ago.

She was still a bit dazed and somewhat scared because Ian’s kiss this time was quite different from the previous two times. He had learned to stick his tongue out somewhere, and despite not having any finesse, had licked her lips and face like a little dog. This kiss had shocked Amber more than any other.

When he tightly embraced her, she could also feel that he had gotten an erection.

‘This was ….’

She clutched her face. At the very least, he hadn’t done anything about it, but she guessed that it wasn’t that he didn’t want to, but rather that he … didn’t know how to? This guess came from the fact that he was currently looking strangely at the lower half of his body, and even reaching his hand out as if to touch it.

When Amber saw his movements, she felt black lines streaking a cross her forehead, and she quickly grabbed his hand. “Let’s go. My hand’s really about to break off.”

She pulled him back to the office with her, only relaxing once she saw that he had calmed down-given his earlier behavior, she was worried that if her colleagues saw him, they would beat and throw him out as if he were a hoodlum.

Amber had Ian sit down. He did so obediently, like a deep thinker sitting with his back straight and head held high and coolly. His indescribable antics made Amber want to laugh at the absurdity.

She pursed her lips, not thinking about him, but not leaving the room either. She took her jacket off and prepared to look at the arm that Elly had bitten.

When she rolled up her sleeves, even Amber herself was a bit shocked by the sight. Elly’s bite had been very fierce indeed, and there was a clear set of large and round tooth marks embedded into her skin.

Luckily, since it was winter, she had been wearing a jacket. If it were summer, she probably would have had a large chunk offlesh ripped out of her arm.

She was also trying to be brave. Amber didn’t want to cause any more trouble, so she scavenged some iodine and cotton swabs, intending to privately disinfect her wound.

But she was quite sensitive to pain. As she poured iodine on to her wound, she immediately felt pain course through it again. It was as if there were thousands of mouths gnawing on her flesh, and she was almost unable to continue.

“Do you regret it?” Ian had finished thinking some time ago, and had come over to watch her treat herself.

Amber’s forehead was covered in a thin sheen of sweat. She forced herself to raise her head to look at him. “Regret what?”

Ian took a cotton swab and poked at her wound.

“Ouch!” Amber couldn’t handle it anymore, and her head hit the table top out of exhaustion as she powerlessly said, “Don’t make a fuss, Ian.”

When he noticed that she hadn’t called him Mr. Axton, he felt rather happy. He decided to lether off the hook, and even kindly offered, “Let me help.”

And then he took another cotton swab, poured alcohol on it, and helped her clean her wound.

A rich young master like him had never done such a thing. As the cotton swab penetrated deep into Amber’s wound, so much pain wracked her body that she started quivering. After stubbornly bearing it for a while, she gave up, and exerted just enough strength to stop the cotton swab in his hand. “Alright, you can stop now.”

‘If he were to continue, her arm might really break off!’

This time, she didn’t even dare let him help wrap her wound. She did it herself casually, rolled her sleeve back down, and then put her jacket on.

“Just that?” He raised his eyebrows questioningly.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

“No. I’ll go get some medicine from the surgery area later, and I might also have to get a shot.”

Ian looked at her.

“What is it?” she asked as she tidied up the table.

“Why?”

“Hmm?”

“Why help her like that?”

“I’m the doctor whose responsible for her.”

Upon hearing this, Ian smiled coolly, but didn’t say anything more.

His grandfather’s banquet was still going on, and Ian naturally couldn’t stay out for too long. Once they called him and asked about his situation, he left quickly.

Amber never returned. She didn’t know what Elly would be like when she woke up, and she didn’t feel comfortable leaving before finding out.

But she also was somewhat worried about Ian, and she forcibly found him a substitute driver, even calling Nancy to warn her. “His condition doesn’t seem too stable, as if he was scared by Elly’s incident. Once he returns, please help take care of him, professor.”

Nancy replied, “Okay.” Perhaps it was because she could hear the note of remorse in Amber’s voice, but she also reassuringly added on, “It’ll be fine, don’t worry. He’s nota novice, and won’t truly be scared from something like this.”

Amber smiled. “That’s good.”

Not long after Ian left, her colleague came back and said that she couldn’t find Elly’s ‘aunt,’ who had presumably left during the disturbance. Even the phone number that she had left was fake. When Amber went to go review the security footage, she realized that this socalled aunt looked quite familiar.

Her memory was quite good, and after thinking for a moment, she quickly realized that this mystery person was actually the restaurant owner’s wife that worked near Elly’s school.

“Call the police,” Amber said.

“Ah?” Her colleague jumped up in fright. “T-there’s no need to, is there?”

Amber didn’t say anything else, and instead immediately sought out the head of the department directly. After hearing about the situation, he stared at her and finally squeezed out some words. “Dr. Camille, do you think that our reputation is too good?”

Amber understood what the head was saying. If word of this incident got out, their hospital would have to take responsibility for negligent personnel. If they really called the police, then it wouldn’t reflect well on them either.

Amber comforted the head by saying, “Self-reflection is also a form of improvement.’