
"Alden.. how are you?" Steve enters the VVIP room with Zoe. He put the fruit parcel on the nightstand, then sat down on the chair beside the bed. Zoe stood beside her father.
"Good, Sir. Tomorrow I'll probably go home." Alden tried to get up and lean on the head board.
Zoe who was near Alden of course helped Alden carefully.
"Den, you're still sick. Its alright. You rest first." said Steve with a look that led to Alden's stomach. Steve spoke to the doctor before he went to this room. Alden's wounds had 12 stitches and he was still looking at whether there was an infection.
"I'm fine, sir."
"Den, don't be stubborn. Dad can hire people for a while."
Alden looked to the side, precisely at the hand of Zoe who was still holding her arm.
Zoe regained her senses, then she immediately let go of the hand spontaneously.
"Where's your wife?" asked Zoe who remembered Valen. He left Valen because Valen was taken by Sam somewhere.
"He's resting at home. I don't want him to be exhausted from taking care of me."
Zoe nodded. Alden does look very bar-bar, but he is actually a man who is very attentive to women, especially his wife.
"Excuse me." a nurse came in with a trolley containing the patient's food.
"How are you doing, sir? Is your body hot?" ask the nurse while putting food on the nightstand.
"I feel ordinary." Alden replied briefly.
"Thank God." "You are indeed very lucky to always escape death" said the nurse who had known Alden.
The conversation Alden and the nurse were of course inviting curiosity Steve.
"What do you mean?"
"Alden was always in and out of the hospital because.." the nurse glanced at Alden who was getting upset.
"He always fights?" continued Steve while confirming his sitting position to face the nurse.
"Don't listen to him, sir. He just doesn't like it if I go back and forth to the hospital." Alden gave the nurse a code to shut up. Alden did not like it if his flaws were revealed by others.
"Want to eat, Den?" Zoe's already taken Alden's dinner plate.
"No need, I can do it myself."
"Den, your infusion can come off." remember Steve.
Alden looked at the needle in his right hand. He forgot that his left hand could not be infused because it was too often inserted intravenous needles.
"Okay, Dad has to go out first to see Doctor Luke. You okay here?" Steve stood up from his stool. He patted Alden's shoulder slowly, then went out just like that.
"You don't have a schedule, Zo?" ask Alden while chewing his food.
"Today I want to be with Dad" Zoe said with a smile. This is actually a classic reason. Zoe canceled some filming schedules so she could accompany Steve to meet Alden.
"Thanks Zo." "Valen is right, you are a good friend."
Zoe smiled again. But, there was a slight sense of disappointment because Alden mentioned the word Valen.
'Zoe, you must be crazy.' Zoe's inner self after realizing what she was thinking.
"Your father is so rich and he is troubled. Why did you become an artist?" Alden asked Zoe to speak again, seeing the woman daydream.
"I don't like office work." replied Zoe casually. "Aren't you like that too?" "Mr Sebastian has a lot of hospitals. Why don't you continue?"
Alden smiled cynically hearing what Zoe asked. That girl is so smart. Flip the question with the question. Zoe was exactly with Valen.
"Zo, I'm not Ben Sebastian's son." "I'm just a foster child." I'm Alden.
"Whaaaat?!" Zoe almost dropped the plate in her hand if Alden did not swiftly hold it with his left hand.
"Seriously, Den?"
"You remember, Bi Mira?"
Zoe tried to remember the name Alden mentioned. She remembers the babysitter who followed Alden everywhere. She is tiny and very beautiful. If not using typical babysitter clothes, Zoe thought it was one of the Sebastian family who often played there.
"She's my real mother" Alden said flatly.
"Jeez. I can't believe this." Zoe felt her head suddenly dizzy. Alden's just a maid's son?
"So, I have a good reason if I don't want to take care of Ben Sebastian's family" replied Alden, who now looks at Zoe intensely. " It's different with you." "Isn't the artist's world so pathetic?"
"What do you mean, Den?"
"Zo, they seem to live happily, but the truth is not like that." "They only live two-faced." Alden smiled cynically.
He already knew the secrets of many artists in this city. Infidelity, debt, depression due to work demands. That's all they say when they're drunk in front of Alden.
Alden only felt sorry for Zoe because Zoe was his boss's son and also his wife's friend.
"Den. but I like it.."
"Alden.." Valen's voice shocked the two of them, especially Zoe.
Valen stood in front of the door watching Alden and Zoe together. Moreover, Zoe's position sat on the edge of Alden's bed.