Chapter 4 Top Agent (1/2)

Fortunately, the director was not a very smart man. He believed Cherry without hesitation; it actually made her feel a little sorry for him that he was so gullible.

No wonder Jonny had insisted on her coming to his rescue. If she hadn't, who else would he be able to find to make excuses for his laziness?

Cherry had just learned something new, Jonny had a brother she had never heard of!

Jonny pretended to be innocent, and said, ”I need to rest for a while. I've lost a lot of blood you know.”

”All right, I'll drive you straight home then,” Cherry replied, starting the car.

”Didn't I say you should take me to the hospital my brother works at? I've already asked him to wait there for me, but don't worry, it's very close.”

Cherry looked back at him in confusion, still not entirely convinced, ”Do you really have a brother?” She had been his agent for many years now and somehow this had never come up. How could she not know this?

Jonny simply laughed.

He slumped down in the back seat, getting really comfortable and replied, ”I really do. But he's nothing like me. He was a good student and studied hard. Later on in life, he went to the best medical university in the country. Recently, he was deceived by my mother and came back.” There seemed to be a hint of mockery in his tone which made Cherry frown. It seemed she was missing something, but she said nothing of it, deciding to just let it be.

Jonny had started his career very early, and all the hard work he had put in to it was not something that most people understood.

Perhaps it was just that his efforts were overshadowed by his more academic brother's achievements.

Cherry headed for the hospital at the address she had been given.

But for some reason, this road felt so familiar.

It looked like they were heading for the hospital she had been at last time.

”My brother is a surgeon. Recently though, he seems to be working shifts in the emergency room. He was supposed to have dinner with my mother tonight, but I called him to deal with my wound first.” Jonny then stretched himself and added, ”You can leave after he's done treating me.”

Cherry couldn't hold her tongue any longer.

She just had to ask, ”Is you brother by any chance, Jacob Nalan?”

Jonny's eyes lit up. ”What? Do you know him?”

Cherry sneered silently and did not reply.

'It's a small world I guess, we were bound to cross paths again,' she thought to herself.

She hadn't expected to see him again so soon though.

Jonny shuffled around in the back of the car and the wound was about to start bleeding more profusely again.

Cherry parked the car and followed him to the elevator.

When they stepped out, they found Jacob already waiting in the exam room.

He got to his feet quickly when he caught sight of Jonny, a trace of worry on his cold face. ”How did this happen?”

He glanced at Cherry but concealed his surprise perfectly, turning back to lean over and examine Jonny's wound, ignoring her completely.

When Jonny saw his brother, he seemed to totally forget his injury. ”Well, wounds like this are quite common. I had a little accident hanging from a wire and got myself injured. That's it...”

”We need to disinfect it first. With this sort of injury, it's safer to have an injection to get rid of the tetanus,” said Jacob, quickly ushering him to the medical station.

Jacob touched a cotton pad to Jonny's wound and he immediately let out a cry of pain. Jacob raised his head and rolled his eyes. ”You're crying out in pain now, why didn't you just take better care of your body in the first place?” he asked.

Jonny was upset, his stinging wound sending him into a foul mood. ”Who said I didn't take care of it? The stunt wire broke, can I control that? I've been working like this every day and I often get injured. If you don't want to take care of this for me, I'll find someone else to do it!”

Jonny was famous for his bad temper, and in the years since he'd become famous, everyone had learned about it.

Jacob just stared back at him coldly. ”Nobody else will take care of you like a brother!” He pressed the cotton down hard. Jonny was in so much pain he wanted to beat his brother.

”Anesthetic.” He turned around to look for the injection and said, ”You need to have stitches, and don't let it come into contact with water until they're removed.”

Jonny glared back and said, ”If you're taking care of me like a brother, why were you so rough with my wound, huh?”

Jacob didn't answer, he just skillfully gave him an injection and said lightly, ”I'm not like you. I can tell the good from the bad. You know, you shouldn't hang out with people you don't know that well.”

Cherry was stunned.

'What is he talking about?' she wondered, but Jonny spoke first.

”What do you mean?”

Jacob then lifted his head and looked directly at Cherry. She sneered back at him with hate in her eyes.

”What? Doctor Nalan, do you remember who I am now?”

”I apologize, I didn't recognize you before you lifted the dress.”

Basically, he had not been able to forget her after she lifted her dress.

Jonny blinked blankly, turning his head back and forth between the two of them.

What were they hiding from him?