When the call between Wendy and Connell ended, the taxi just arrived in front of the hotel.

She paid the bill and got out of the car, just in time to meet Gavin.

It was strange that she didn't feel anything before. But now, every move of Gavin suddenly became extremely charming in her eyes.

The moment he got out of the car, the moment he closed the door, and even every movement of his exuded a kind of fatal attraction. He looked so free and unrestrained that she couldn't help being obsessed with him.

When thinking about it carefully, she found that he had been single for a long time...

"Something doesn't seem right. It's not Gavin's usual style!"

"What are you looking at?" Gavin walked straight toward Wendy. "Do you not dare to believe that such a handsome man is your brother?"

Wendy nodded and then corrected his words. "I'm really happy, but I'm happy for you!"

Gavin looked interested. "Why are you happy for me?"

"Because you have a smart and beautiful younger sister now!" Wendy said seriously, "To be honest, I envy you!"

Gavin snorted and scolded her with a smile, "You damned girl."

He dragged Wendy directly into the hotel.

The manager heard that Gavin had reserved a table, so he came out to wait. Seeing him come in with a young girl, he thought it was his new girlfriend. When he was about to compliment Wendy, Gavin had already spoken first.

"It's my sister."

Previously, he had never heard that Gavin had such a beautiful younger sister.

However, Gavin, who was a VIP, was treated as God in the hotel-since he was God, he would never be wrong.

The manager greeted Wendy and led them into the private room.

Dolly didn't reach the hotel yet, so Wendy boldly teased Gavin. "The man we met just now thought I was your girlfriend, didn't he?"

"..."

Since it had been seen through, there seemed to be no point in denying it.

Gavin motioned for the waiter in the private room to leave and poured a cup of tea for Wendy in person. "That is to say, the manager here is shortsighted. You are my girlfriend-Is my taste so bad?"

"..." Wendy almost choked on the tea she had just drunk. She put down the cup and glared at Gavin. "Believe it or not, I'll spit the tea on you!"

Gavin raised his eyebrows and replied leisurely, "I don't believe it."

As the two of them were provoking each other, Dolly arrived.

Wendy immediately calmed down and called Dolly, "Mom."

"What are you shouting for?" Dolly sat down and looked at Wendy seriously. "I heard your voice from afar."

"Ahem!" Wendy took a sip of tea with guilt and squinted with a smile. "We were just playing."

Dolly scolded her in a low voice, "You're just taking advantage of your young age."

Wendy sneered and said meaningfully, "The age gap is not a problem. There is a person here who specializes in bullying young people!"

Gavin passed the menu to Dolly and gave Wendy a contemptuous look. "I don't want to talk to you."

Wendy turned her head and snorted. "I don't want to see you!"

Dolly couldn't stop Gavin and Wendy's banter. The dinner went along just like that.

When they left the hotel, neither Gavin nor Wendy had the desire to talk to each other.

In order to ease the atmosphere, Dolly said tentatively, "Gavin, you should take Wendy back to her apartment. My residence is close. I'll just take a taxi back."

"That's unnecessary." Without waiting for Gavin to speak, Wendy refused directly. "Mom, let him give you a ride. I would rather take a taxi than sit in his car!"

"Wendy!" Dolly reminded her seriously, "Gavin is your brother!"

"So what?" Wendy didn't take it seriously at all. She complained, "We don't get along well!"

Gavin came over, raised his hand, knocked on Wendy's head, and stopped a taxi to tuck her in.

Wendy rolled down the car window, covered her forehead in pain, and poked her head out. She looked at Gavin and said angrily, "Keep in mind what you did today!"

Gavin put his hands on the top of the car and leaned over to look at Wendy leisurely. "I remember. What can you do to me?"

Now, Wendy really couldn't do anything to Gavin.

"You'd better not fall into my hands!"

Wendy angrily rolled up the window and asked the driver to drive.

The green taxi soon went far away. Dolly then asked Gavin, "Have you and Wendy been like this all the time?"

"We've been like this since the first day we met." Gavin smiled helplessly. "We may... have to keep quarreling until she grows up."

Dolly was stunned for a moment and then smiled. "Wendy... hasn't grown up yet. When she applied to go abroad, I did not agree to let her go and be an exchange student if she didn't apply to stay in Arlington where Chris could take care of her."

"... If you need to go back to Australia, you can go without worries," Gavin said, "Though I quarrel with Wendy occasionally, I'll take good care of her if anything bad happens."

"I actually need to go back." After thinking for a while, Dolly continued, "I'll come back after handing over the company's affairs."

Gavin, who had been in the business world for a long time, suddenly grasped the main point. "Hand over?"

Dolly nodded and said, "Yes, I'm going to resign from my position in the company. In this case, even if I can go back to Australia, I won't be in the mood to work."

If Gavin remembered correctly, Dolly was the CFO of the company, and her ability was completely worthy of this position. As the chairman of the board, Conor was very dependent on her.

Would Conor agree to her resignation?

Dolly could tell what Gavin was worried about. She smiled and said, "Don't worry. Wendy's father will support my decision."

It was Dolly's business, so it was not appropriate for Gavin to intervene. He nodded and sent Dolly back to her apartment.

On the other side, Wendy was also on her way back to her apartment.

Unlike the time when she was arguing with Gavin, as soon as the taxi left the hotel, she was exhausted. She curled up in the corner of the taxi, like a little animal that had been hurt and forgotten.

It wasn't that she didn't want Gavin to offer her a ride home.

On the contrary, she was eager to be alone with Gavin. She was eager to smell his scent closely as before.

However, she was more terrified.

She was afraid that she would fail to hide her feelings in front of Gavin without Dolly's presence.

She was afraid that she would fail to control herself and hug Gavin, telling him that everything was fake, and the person she really liked was him.

If she really couldn't control herself, then everything she had done in the past would be in vain.

"To be more secure, I'd better go home alone."

When you're alone, even if you're in so much pain that you don't want to live, no one will see it.

"I'll go back and have a good sleep. Everything will be fine when I wake up tomorrow."

It turned out that Wendy was still too optimistic.

She was awake all night just like the night before.

The difference was that the next day was Monday. No matter what, she had to get up and go back to work in the hospital.

When she was washing up, Wendy checked herself in the mirror. Her face looked terrible, so she had to go back to her room and put on some light makeup.

Wendy had fair skin, and she had hardly put on makeup since her internship began. One sharp-eyed female colleague found that Wendy was wearing makeup today, so she joked. "Wendy, are you in a relationship?"

Wendy was confused. "Why do you ask?"

"Don't play dumb." Her colleague stared at Wendy with a smile. "If you're not in a relationship, why did you put on makeup?"

"...Wow, what kind of logic is this?"

Wendy smiled bitterly in her heart.

How could she tell them? The truth was exactly the opposite of what they had guessed-she was broken in love.

However, she really didn't have the energy to argue with her colleagues, so she sat down and began to work.

Since she couldnt be in love, she should use the time to work hard!

Only after a day's work did Wendy realize that she had overestimated herself.

She had thought that she could work hard, but she had been making mistakes all day.

It could only be counted as small mistakes that she was distracted when listening to the doctors' lecture and made the wrong patients' medical records erroneous. What was really serious was that she almost gave the patients the wrong drugs

If she hadn't reacted in time, something extremely terrible might have happened today, and her career would have been ruined.

After work, Dr. Oliver finally asked her, "Wendy, what 's the matter with you today?"

"Doctor Liang, I'm sorry." Wendy apologized in a low voice. "I'm not in a good state. I'll try my best to adjust myself."

Dr. Oliver had never shown any mercy when it came to working. He warned, "I'll give you one night. If you act like this tomorrow, you probably won't be able to graduate."

Wendy nodded. "I will definitely be better!"

As soon as she got home in the evening, Wendy took a shower early and lay on the bed, but she couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard she tried. She could only watch the sky turn dark into dawn.

The next day, not only did Wendy fail in adjusting herself, but her condition was even worse. A patient even complained about her. In the end, it was Dr. Oliver who took her to apologize in person to calm the patient down.

Needless to hear Dr. Oliver's warning, Wendy knew by herself that she wouldn't be able to graduate if things went on like this.

After work, Wendy contacted the psychology doctor, got a prescription, and went home with a bottle of sleeping pills from the hospital.

She was a doctor, so she naturally knew that sleeping pills could make people dependent on them. But she was completely clear-headed when it was one during midnight, and the whole city was quiet. So she finally realized that she had lost sleep.

Moreover, this was already the fourth day.

If things went on like this, she would not be able to survive, not to mention graduation.

Wendy didn't think about it anymore. She got up and poured a cup of warm water and took a piece of Stilnox.

For the first time, her body had not yet developed resistance to the drug, and it quickly worked in her body. She finally lost consciousness and fell asleep.

Before falling asleep, Wendy felt dizzy and thought that the world would really change after one grew up.

She had never thought that she would be unhappy.

But now, she felt that the place where she breathed seemed to be blocked by something, and every breath made her heart ache.

She also had never thought that she would lose sleep.

However, she had already reached the point where she needed sleeping pills...

"It's already so terrible. Will it get worse?"