Chapter 8

"Good morning, how does the most beautiful patient in the world wake up?" says Dr. Reynolds as soon as he has opened the door to Christina's room. Christina can't help but not smile at such a comment, because the truth was that she hadn't heard a compliment like that for a long time. "Very good, and thanks for the food, it was delicious" Christina replied. Dr. Reynolds just smiled. "I'm glad you liked it, I know hospital food isn't the best, and well, since today is your last day here, I thought you were going to want to eat delicious" says Dr. Reynolds. Christina couldn't believe it, but Dr. Reynolds was treating her so much better than her blissful husband, with Dr. Reynolds being a stranger she was barely getting to know, and her husband being the man she thought she had known for over 20 years. marriage. "Well, now, I have to see what I'm going to do with my life" says Christina as soon as she felt the uncomfortable silence that took place in the middle of the hospital room where they were. "Well, you're very lucky, I have an assistant who just quit, you know, this job of being a doctor is so busy and stressful that I don't have time for anything, and I need the help of someone who may be taking my appointments, who You can be reminding me of the homework I have to do during the day and so, and if you want, I can give you the job" says Dr. Reynolds. The doctor approached the stretcher where Christina was lying, took the empty food tray in his hands, and placed it on the visitor's chair that was to one side of him to then sit on the edge of the stretcher and get closer to Christina. Christina did not know what to say she had finished a university degree in business administration, she had worked for three and a half years until she met Michael when he got married, he asked her to stop working because he had sworn to she was not going to need anything in life if she was by his side. At first, things were like that, Christina did not have any need to go back to work, because at first, she felt very comfortable with her life of being a wife who only dedicated herself to her priorities, but later, things were getting worse, and more when she had her daughter. Responsibilities began to come into her life, and the absence of her husband, and his mistreatment, in addition to the mistreatment she received from Michael's family, were giving her a lot to be desired, she had already decided to want to go back to work, she had the experience necessary to get a job in a good company with a good position for a good salary that would be very worthwhile for her and not have to depend on her husband anymore. Now that she had the opportunity to start a new life, she was going to accept without any problem job that Dr. Reynolds was offering her. "Are you offering me that job without even first doing interviews with people who have a lot more experience doing this than I do?" Christina asks Dr. Reynolds, she knew why he was offering it to her, because, in those few hours that he had been under the doctor's care, he had been more evident that he liked Christina, however, Christina wanted to hear him give his reasons from their lips. "Yeah, I know I should, but come on, you need the job, and if I don't help you, who else will?" says Dr. Reynolds. That was true if Dr. Reynolds didn't give Christina a job, it would now be much more difficult for her to put herself in the task of wanting to look for a job in a company, not because she didn't have experience, but because things had changed so much during In recent years since she hasn't worked, she knows how difficult it will be for someone to want to hire a woman her age with experience in a position, rather than having to hire a young woman who only has experience in labor practices. university. "If that's true, that's fine, I agree, I agree to work with you as your assistant," Christina replies with a grateful smile at the doctor. But a nurse interrupts the conversation when she enters the room with a cell phone in her hands. "Sorry to interrupt doctor, but someone has called to ask about Miss Evans" says the nurse. Christina is surprised because the truth is that she did not know who could be calling the hospital to ask about her when her own family has not bothered to do so. "Who is calling to ask for me?" Christina asked the nurse strangely. "Mrs. Evans, she says that she is her mother-in-law, is that true?" asks the nurse. Christina rolls her eyes and hesitates to answer the call, however, she decided to do so, because she wanted to know what that bitter and heartless lady wanted to tell her. "Yes, that's true, let me talk to her to find out what she wants from me" Christina tells the nurse. The nurse complies and walks over to the gurney to hand Christina the cell phone, then she and Dr. Reynolds leave her room to give her more privacy. "What do you want Mrs. Evans? Didn't she have enough with what happened more than 2 days ago in her house? " Christina tells Mrs. Evans as she puts the cell phone to her ear. "Ah, if it's you, you're alive, what bad luck, you must have died in that accident you say you had, and I was just calling to remind you that you are not and will never be welcome in this house, in this family, is that clear to you?" says Mrs. Evans with that hateful tone of voice that she Christina had always known since she met that family.