OH PLEASE, MY EX-WIFE

Chapter 37: She Is Charming.

Kelly stuns at Alice’s question at first then laugh out loud when she realizes Alice misunderstood the situation.

She put the bouquet on Alice’s desk, “The bouquet is yours.”

Alice couldn’t believe what she heard. Looking at Kelly, who can’t stop laughing, she points at herself and asks, “Why are you sending me such a huge bouquet?”

“It is not from me. The florist sent it over and said it is for Dr. Roberts, and you are the only Dr. Roberts we have around.” Kelly explains with a look to dig for gossip on her face, “Did your boyfriend send it?”

“I don’t have a boyfriend,” Alice explains.

“Well, it is strange then. Who would have sent this? Could it be Dr. Blake?”, Kelly teases Alice, “Wow, he is romantic!”

Alice is feeling doubtful when she sees that bouquet of beautiful roses on her desk. John knew that she doesn’t like roses. Furthermore, why would he send the bouquet?

Could it be…Edward?

“You know who this is from, didn’t you? It is from someone you like, right? That look on your face tells me everything.” Kelly thinks she is onto what Alice is hiding, so she starts teasing her with it.

“It’s not what you think.” Alice turns and takes a close look at the bouquet. Edward must be on something, that’s why he sends this bouquet, she thinks.

If that jealousy Joanna finds out about this, she will surely come and make a scene in the hospital. Alice quickly grabs the bouquet and walk towards the main exit.

“Alice, where are you going?”

“I’m going to throw it away.”

What? Kelly is surprised by Alice’s reaction. She quickly stops Alice, “Hey, I have never received any bouquet in my life. Don’t throw it if you don’t like it. We can still keep it as a decorative item.”

“If you like it, it’s yours.” Alice handover the bouquet to Kelly, walk back to her seat and starts reading the piled-up clinical notes of diagnosis on her desk.

“No, this is for you… Hmm? What is this?” Kelly takes out a card that stuck in between the roses and read out the content. “For the beautiful Dr. Roberts. From a grateful family member of a patient.”

Alice stopped flipping the clinical notes. A patient?

The face of the elegant hottie she met yesterday come across her mind. She walks to Kelly and read the card by herself. She frowns. Looks like it is not from Edward.

“Looks like Dr. Roberts has an admirer”, Kelly teases Alice and smells the roses, “Ah, these roses smell lovely.”

Alice doesn’t know what to say about Kelly, “Alright, if you like the bouquet, you can have it. Just don’t tell anyone about this.”

“I promise. Other than Hanna from the reception, no one will know about it. You know what, the last time when Dr. Fields cured a patient, he received a silk banner from the family, and he mentioned it every time he sees someone.

Look at you. Patient sends you roses and you want to throw them away? Do you know that this is a great chance for you to prove your excellent skills and that you are loved by your patients?”

Kelly won’t stop nagging about Alice’s reaction towards this bouquet of roses. Alice knows that Kelly cares about her but this person who sends the bouquet is certainly targeting her instead of complimenting her medical skills.

She saw that quite a lot when she stationed in overseas hospitals.

“Fine. If anyone sends me flowers next time, I authorize you to help me to spread the news, alright?” Alice surrenders.

An upwards curve appears on Kelly’s lips. That should be the way, Kelly thinks. She never really like that arrogant Dr. Fields who thinks she is the most skilful doctor in the world anyway.

…

The bouquet-incident is settled and Alice moves on. However, when Kelly approaches her with another bouquet of flowers the next day, her mind goes blank.

It’s like the sender knows she didn’t like red roses. Today, he sends white roses instead. It is still from the same person as the last bouquet.

Kelly counts the number of roses- thirteen in total.

“Thirteen roses mean that he adores you. Alice, tell me, who is this family member of a patient? You are so new in this hospital. Oh my, this is so romantic.”

Kelly continues to joke around on the subject. When she sees Alice frowning, she put the bouquet aside and put on a more serious attitude, “Hey Alice, I was just goofing around. If you really don’t like them, I won’t bring them to you anymore.”

Alice knows Kelly is a straightforward and sincere person, who will never have malicious intentions. She shakes her head and smiles, “Don’t worry, I’m not angry at you. It’s just that I have told this guy off clearly but he still sends me flowers. I feel bothered.”

“Hey, is this guy rich?”

Alice nods.

“That’s right! Rich kids like to play this trick. You should just ignore them.” Kelly says. Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“I know.” Alice nods again and wishes that guy could just give up.

Apparently, Alice underestimates the sender’s determination. She keeps receiving flowers from the same person for the next few days. There are always thirteen flowers but it is always a different type of flowers every day.

After a week, the whole hospital knows that some family member adores a female doctor from the Andrology Department. Everyone is wondering how this mysterious man looks like.

He sends in flowers every day but he never shows up. Alice becomes the topic of the town.

Wherever Alice goes, there will be doctors and nurses asking her about this ‘romantic boyfriend’ she have. It leaves Alice in no choice but to clarify every time she’s asked.

When time goes by, the rumour grows bigger and bigger. Alice gives up explaining and clarifying when things go out of control.

The flowers are sent in every day, regardless of good or bad weather. Alice’s department is fills with aromatic scent from the fresh flower, and it makes everyone feel more energetic in working their shift.

John, who stations in the Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department, heard about the news not long after it starts spreading. His brows furrow when he first knew about it. After completing his round in patrolling the rooms, he quickly goes to the Andrology Department on the third floor and look for Alice.

“So I’ve heard. You have an admirer?”

John is nervous about how Alice would answer. He can stop her from doing stupid things about Edward but he doesn’t have the right to stop her from accepting another man.

He sincerely hopes that Alice could walk out of the trauma she went through by herself but at the same time, he wishes that he could be the one to help her out.

In struggles, he can only stay beside her and be there for her. He is afraid that if he gets too close, she doesn’t even want him to be her friend anymore.

“Oh, don’t listen to the nonsense. It is just some random guy. Give it some time and he will go away,” Alice sounds helpless and shakes her head.

John instantly feels relief. He smiles, “I’ve heard the same thing from some other female doctors. If you just ignore him, he will eventually leave you alone.”

“You’re right,” Alice nods and thinks, I hope so.