Georgia blinked, then understood that her husband was jealous.
"What compensation would you like?"
Georgia giggled.
Robert laughed, then flipped the blankets up and covered the both of them.
As she slept through the night, Georgia dreamt of Robert holding hands with Eliana, and his words carried an inexplicable rage.
"Georgia, Eliana's my senior, and she's especially capable. She's also got great people skills. You have to learn from her from now on. You're still too behind compared to her in these aspects. I'm planning on letting Eliana stay here for a while as your teacher, and you should study under her."
Hearing Robert say that, Georgia grew furious.
She was just about to reach out to grab him and jerk him around a bit.
But when her hand waved a bit, the person before her disappeared.
Georgia opened her eyes and found that the sky had already lit up.
She thought back to her dream and couldn't help but giggle, covering her mouth with a palm.
She'd suppressed it the best she could, but Robert still woke slowly at the side.
He hugged his wife to his arms, his eyes still groggy.
"It's so early in the morning it just got bright out. What are you laughing about?"
Georgia hugged her husband tight, her laughter growing louder, with almost no room to tell him about her dreams.
That had Robert curious, and he felt like her dream had something to do with him.
"Did you dream something funny about me? Tell me, or I'll make it so you can't move out of bed today."
"Okay, okay, calm down, I'll talk about it slowly..."
Georgia chuckled, clasping her chest to stay calm, and talked about the contents of her dream.
At that, Robert didn't seem to find it funny, and he made a solemn promise.
"That couldn't possibly happen. Forget what Eliana's done. Even if she's still a friendly senior with me, I couldn't possibly demean you in front of her, then have her be your teacher. That's not possible! How could you dream about me like this? Is that how you see me?"
Robert started doubting his life at the end. Was his image in his wife's eyes that bad?
"Don't you understand what's funny about it?"
Georgia couldn't help but laugh again.
"Did you forget how I was praising Rick in front of you last night? You even got jealous then. As a result, I dreamed about you praising other women at night, and I was furious in the dream too. I understand how you felt last night now. Sorry, dear. I won't heap praise on other men so casually from now on."
As Georgia said that, she leant over and gave her husband a kiss.
Robert blinked, then started laughing too.
"Seems like Mrs. Simpson understands how Mr. Simpson feels. I'll reward you with a few more kisses."
"Well, no need for that, it's time to get out of bed..."
Georgia saw a dangerous light in Robert's eyes and she didn't think it was going to be that simple, so she reflexively got up and prepared to flee.
In the end, though, they ended up partaking in some early morning exercise anyway.
What it came time for dinner, they'd gotten out of bed half an hour later than usual.
They two walked sweetly over to the dining table, where Annie and Wesley had already eaten.
Georgia smiled at the two kids and spoke.
"Daddy and I have found a home tutor for you. He's a genius master's PhD student at D City University, and he's especially smart. In a few days, he'll come over to teach you two. You two remember to be good and learn properly then."
"Is it a guy teacher or a girl teacher?"
Wesley asked curiously, while Annie also spoke up, confused.
"Back then when I went to class, I had a grammar teacher, a math teacher, and like a P. E. teacher and a music teacher. Is one teacher enough, Daddy, Mommy? I feel like I have to learn every subject."
As Annie said that, she stood and put her hands on her hips, looking especially formal and stern. Her gaze towards her parents held a hint of disapproval, as if she felt they were thinking of getting away with hiring just one teacher.
"You slick little thing, you. The teacher we hired is an all-star genius. He's a guy teacher, and can teach you every subject. Know what his grades were in his public exams? Full marks in math, and in high school physics and chemistry too. You won't learn those two subjects yet, but you know what full marks means, right? It's difficult to get a genius like this over, so the two of you have to be good. You can't have the teacher hate you, or prank him to force him to leave. A genius teacher like this only comes around once in a blue moon, and the two of you will definitely make leaps and bounds studying under him."
Annie was young, but back when she was studying, she'd taken exams with other kids too.
Not a lot of people could get full marks in the whole class.
"Don't worry, Mommy, I'll learn properly from this genius teacher."
Annie puffed out her little chest. Her young heart was already full of admiration for the teacher.
Wesley also showed an eager expression. He wanted to learn too.
Hearing Georgia and Robert say that they had a teacher this excellent, he was very expectant too.
After breakfast, it was ten or so in the morning, and Robert finally received a call from the hospital.
Georgia saw him stay silent for several minutes. After he hung up, she walked up to his side.
"What are the results? Was Eliana really the one who donated the bone marrow to you?"
Robert nodded quietly.
"It really was her. Ivan was at the hospital too, and he told me over the phone that he'd already destroyed all the data. He'd kept his eye on the hospital all the while, and there was no possibility of it being faked."
Both of them fell silent.
Robert didn't say a word for who knew how long. Georgia didn't know what he was thinking, but she spoke up anyway.
"I don't get it. Eliana already confessed her feelings yesterday. She says I don't deserve you and expressed her liking to you. If she was also your savior, why didn't she talk about this before? She had to wait until that kind of situation yesterday to speak out. Is someone forcing her not to tell the truth?"
"Never mind. Let's not consider those anymore. The results are out, so let's go see Eliana and her father Milton today. Even if she did save my life back then, does that mean we can ignore what she did to you?"
Georgia and Robert headed to the Warner household again.
As the car drove on, Georgia held Robert's hand and spoke.
"There's no such thing as karma, and sometimes a harmful thing can linger on for a thousand years. But we can't be the sort of people who disregard favors. I want to do right by our kids and our parents. If she saved your life once, we can't go too far against her too. Let's give her a chance, and let her go. She only messed around with drama online. It didn't do any tangible harm."
Maybe it was because she was soft to begin with, and maybe it was because Robert's body could still have some unknown issues.
Either way, Georgia felt she should let Eliana off this time.
"I need to make sure if Eliana was responsible for the reporter attacking you during the assault last time. That's the deciding factor for what her punishment should be."
Georgia understood Robert's meaning. If Eliana had only started drama against her online, there hadn't been any physical damage.
But last time, during the reporters' bombardment, one of them had attacked her head.
This was this and that was that. If the reporter had been holding a lethal weapon, it would have been murder.
So Robert had to make sure what that was about.
The two sat once more in the Warner home's living room, with Milton and Eliana facing them.
Eliana looked pale, and her face was shrunken. She didn't seem to have rested well yesterday night.
The Warners had kept their word, though, and hadn't let Eliana escape.
"The results are out. You did donate the bone marrow to me back then."
Robert said that, and Eliana raised her head, overjoyed.