Chapter 50 Maintaining Distance in the Hospital
"Ava, you know what? Mia's in the hospital."
Ava, who had looked tense a moment ago, relaxed. She thought something had happened to a patient, but it was just this. What did Mia have to do with her? Ava casually picked up a bottle of water, took a sip, and responded indifferently.
"Ava, and I heard that as soon as Mia woke up, she kept crying nonstop. All the nurses around are talking about it. No one knows what happened."
"What does whatever happened to her have to do with us?"
"Ava, Mia got what she deserved, but you don't seem excited at all. I'd say she had it coming."
She was fine yesterday and now she's hospitalized today? Based on what Ava knew about Mia, she was probably faking it.
But that had nothing to do with her. "...I don't care about her problems."
"Ava, you're really cold. Well then, let me ask you a question about yourself."
"Go ahead." Ava nodded.
"What's your relationship with Dr. Harvey? I feel like you two have something special going on." Thora asked with a curious look on her face.
Ava paused, pressed her lips together, and looked at Thora seriously. Under those beautiful but intimidating eyes, Thora suddenly shivered.
"Ava, why are you looking at me like that?"
"Thora." Ava called her name earnestly.
Thora stood there confused. "What's wrong?"
Ava gently tapped Thora's forehead. "You have too much free time."
"Come with me for rounds later." With that, Ava got up and left.
"..."
Inpatient Department.
Five doctors were doing rounds together. Ava walked in front with a calm expression, moving briskly, flipping through patient files in her hands while fluently answering questions from the other doctors.
"Your recovery is going well. Make sure to take your medicine on time. Dr. White will take you for a checkup later. If everything looks good, you can go home to rest." Ava closed the file in her hand and spoke to the patient with a gentle smile before walking out of the room and heading to the next one.
"Ava."
Just as she stepped out of the room, a low, magnetic voice called from behind.
Ava turned around to see Gilbert walking over. "Doing rounds?"
"Yes. What about you? Isn't your department busy?"
Gilbert's warm voice continued, "It's okay. I just finished a surgery. They told me you were doing rounds, so I came to find you."
"Find me? Is something wrong?"
Gilbert held a bottle of medicine in his slender hand, raised his eyebrows slightly, and handed it to Ava. "I knew you wouldn't remember to apply your medicine."
Only then did Ava remember the injury on her arm. At that moment, her wrist suddenly felt warm as Gilbert's large hand grasped it. Gilbert placed the medicine in Ava's palm.
"You're a doctor yourself. Don't you know that if you don't apply medicine properly, the wound will heal slowly?"
"..." Ava looked at Gilbert, stunned.
Seeing Ava's expression, Gilbert couldn't help but gently ruffle her soft hair. "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Ava was even more startled by Gilbert's affectionate gesture and shrank back slightly. Inexplicably, Cleo's casual remark floated through her mind: because Gilbert likes you.
Ava was startled by her own thought.
With that thought in her mind, she unconsciously shook her head.
Impossible.
Hearing Ava cough, and seeing that her expression wasn't right, Gilbert frowned slightly and asked with concern, "Ava, are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
Ava immediately snapped back to reality, then suddenly remembered what Gilbert had said about having someone he liked, so his feelings toward her must just be like a brother's feelings for a sister.
Besides, Gilbert had always had that gentle, jade-like temperament and was kind to everyone. She was overthinking it.
Ava quickly collected her thoughts, relaxed her expression, and nodded. "No, thank you."
Only when he saw she was fine did Gilbert feel relieved.
Thora, standing nearby, couldn't help but sigh. "Are you two showing off your relationship in public?"
"Thora, don't talk nonsense." Perhaps because she hadn't fully recovered from her own thoughts, when Thora said this, Ava got flustered and her voice suddenly rose.
Thora was startled, not expecting such a strong reaction from Ava. But the way Gilbert looked at Ava made it hard not to misunderstand. That look in his eyes, full of gentle affection, as if she was the only one in his eyes and there was no room for anyone else—Thora was practically melting, like watching a romantic drama.
It wasn't just Thora who was enjoying watching this perfect match. Many nurses, doctors, even patients and their families couldn't help but take a few extra glances at this handsome couple.
Many nurses were whispering, "Look, it's Dr. Harvey and Dr. Davis. Don't they look perfect together, like a match made in heaven?"
"How do they match? Dr. Harvey is so handsome. How could a woman with impure intentions like Dr. Davis be worthy of him? She must have seduced Dr. Harvey."
"Exactly, exactly. How could Dr. Davis possibly be worthy of Dr. Harvey? Dr. Harvey is a genius in the medical field, and he's so handsome and gentle. Last time he talked to me, I thought Dr. Harvey was the gentlest guy in the whole world, bar none."
"Not only that, I heard Dr. Harvey comes from a good family, he's rich and handsome, and his medical skills are excellent. Where can you find a man like that?"
The whispered discussions inevitably carried some jealousy. Feeling the gazes directed at her from all around, Ava suddenly felt like she must have accumulated a lot of hatred at this moment.
Gilbert was indeed very charming—handsome, with a gentle and refined temperament, a true gentleman, and excellent medical skills. On his first day at the hospital, word spread, and the female doctors and nurses immediately regarded him as their dream man.
And because of Gilbert's defense of her at the conference room, Ava had also become the focus of hospital gossip.
Ava shook her head helplessly.
"Gilbert, I think when we're at the hospital, we'd better not stand too close together."