"Your grandfather has something to say to you; he wants you to come inside." The man's cool, deep voice fell on her ears, making her whole body startle.
She then said three consecutive "Okays" and hurried towards the door of the operating theatre.
Her steps were too fast, she accidentally bumped her knee against the edge of a long bench. The sudden pain made her gasp.
The man's ink-like eyebrows deeply furrowed, and without a thought, he pulled her into his embrace, annoyed, saying, "You are old enough, yet you don't know to watch your steps?"
Amelia stood in the man's embrace with cold sweat, her hurt leg trembling slightly, a clear sign of how severe the knock was.
Daniel Cooper looked down, his gaze on her constantly trembling eyelashes and the beads of sweat on her forehead. Wordlessly, he picked her up and with long, steady strides, headed towards the operating theatre.
