After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 496

Chapter 496: Patient (Part 1)
The nurses looked at the handsome man pale ‘with worry’ and their hearts softened, the younger ones even falling a little in love.

“O-Oh yes, of course.” One of the doctors said, pointing the newcomer to the bed. He gently placed the woman there and she shifted, looking at the man with a teary face.

She was so pitiful. Although the man didn’t show it, he probably felt heartbroken too… right?

“Drakey-honey…” she mumbled. “I’m in so much pain… hold my hand please.”

The man flinched and he even shivered, though the doctors assumed it must’ve been from too much heartbreak.

The man slowly took the woman’s hand and the female doctors couldn’t help but sigh at the ‘young love’ blooming even in this hellhole.

At the same time, some more patients had been brought in. They seem to have been injured from hunting, so the more minor cases were moved deeper into the clinic.

Before the nurse left though, Drake cleared his throat. “Can we have a female healer with her, please? I heard of a name, Vanessa?”

Jona immediately opened her eyes as she realized that Drake knew one of the doctors here.

The nurse looked awkward, “Miss Vanessa only takes very important patients,” she said, “She’s the only Healer in this village, after all.”

Jona pursed her lips, recalling the good-looking healer they had, the gorgeous Betty. Even Turbo was quite handsome. The pretty Sheila also seemed to be on her way to trigger it, too!

Was this a requirement? How pretty would this Vanessa be?

Drake didn’t seem to notice Jona’s discomfort at all and just looked at the nurse with a serious face, making her blush. “We can pay a hefty amount,” he said and the nurse nodded.

“I… I’ll call her,” she said though Jona noticed she was blinking a lot more than before.

She extended her hand to hold Drake’s hand tightly and the woman awkwardly cleared her throat. “I’ll be going now.”

Drake’s eyebrows rose as he looked at their intertwined hands. He pulled it out, “No one’s around anymore.”

Jona pursed her lips and glared at him, before looking away. Drake flinched, a bit unused by the annoyed look.

They sat in silence until Vanessa went down. “I’m here,” a pretty voice said, and Jona turned to look at the newcomer. She immediately saw Vanessa and her heart dropped.

This woman was so beautiful!

But then she guardedly looked at Drake who didn’t look at the woman any differently and she heaved a sigh of relief.

But then she paled: This meant that her position was just the same as this one!

Jona’s pale face didn’t bother the two who were catching up.

“Drake?” Vanessa exclaimed with wide eyes. “It’s you?”

Drake nodded. “We are refugees and our territory just fell from a beast tide,” he said. “We are now looking for a new home.”

“Well, it is a good thing you arrived in this territory,” Vanessa said with a gentle smile. “At the very least, there’s a lot of us here.”

At this, Drake appeared surprised. At least considering how stiff he had been.

“How’s your father? Your brother?”

“They’re fine,” she said. “Both of them are healthy and we’re all together.”

Hearing everyone seemed fine, Drake smiled a little in relief.

Drake, despite all his flaws, was really a bit handsome. Vanessa couldn’t help but look at him a bit deeper. This sent many alarm bells in Jona’s mind and she immediately moaned pitifully, catching the two people’s attention.

Vanessa stared at the woman on the bed. She was a little pretty, but not the type she thought would ‘enlighten’ Drake at all.

“Is she really your girlfriend?”

Her tone irked Jona and she whipped her head to Vanessa, grabbing Drake’s hand in the process. “Yes, so?”

Vanessa’s eyebrows rose and her feminine sense of challenge was raised. What’s more, Drake was handsome and she naturally appreciated him a bit.

So, she smiled as she looked at him, taking a chair next to him. It wasn’t overtly flirtatious, but most men would feel a spark.

She kept some distance though, because she knew of Drake’s weakness regarding women.

Studying them closer, Vanessa found a few things. Drake was obviously awkward getting held by the clingy woman—as if they weren’t really lovers. At the very least, only the woman thought they were.

Vanessa’s eyebrows rose at this realization. Drake did seem to have asked for her specifically.

Was there more to this visit than she thought?

Either way, she felt that this woman was trying to challenge her and she couldn’t help but want to answer.

“You need a healer, right?” She said, gentle, using her ability on Drake’s ‘girlfriend’.

Soon a gentle blue light surrounded her as well as the other woman.

Vanessa had been told she looked ethereal when she used her ability, so she was especially confident with her aesthetics.

At this time, Vanessa indeed looked especially beautiful when she used her ability and it sent threats to the ‘girlfriend’.

Jona looked at Drake who was just staring blankly without much emotion and she heaved a sigh of relief. But then she thought: Would Drake even show any differences if he really got touched?!

“There, do you feel better?” Vanessa asked, staring at her, and Jona looked back with a bit of guardedness. She also felt a hint of superiority in the other woman’s look and it irked Jona very much.

Jona looked at her, recalling the fact that she was the only one here. She looked around and saw everyone was busy with the bleeding newcomers.

Not as good as Betty, she whispered, but it was loud enough for Vanessa to hear.

Vanessa frowned and looked at her and Drake. Drake gave Jona a reprimanding look (which was unusual, and she found it sexy).

Drake sighed and looked at the healer. “Don’t mind her. She’s just a bit irksome due to the pain. Now that we’re here, I would love to reminsence old times with some old friends.” he said in what was probably one of the longest sentences he said the past couple of days.

“Can we meet your father and brother after this?”