Adam, You Can't Be Romeo!

That night.

It was late at night when Adam finished teaching Alice Grey her private lessons.

I went to the VIP ward again.

Beatrice and Mary continued chatting, showing no signs of sleepiness.

Emilia, being a young girl, was exhausted after a day of tossing and turning and fell into a deep sleep on the extra bed next to her.

"Mrs. Cooper, you can rest now."

After checking all of Beatrice's data and finding everything stable, Adam smiled and reminded her, "Beatrice also needs to rest."

"I don't want to sleep."

Beatrice chuckled self-deprecatingly, "I'm afraid that once I close my eyes, I'll never be able to open them again."

No, it won't.

Mary quickly comforted her.

"Go to sleep."

Adam cautioned, "Emilia's birthday party is the day after tomorrow; you'll need plenty of energy to participate."

"Mary told me."

Beatrice, now even more awake, looked at Adam gratefully as she spoke of this, "I haven't thanked you for your help yet. Thank you, Adam."

"You're welcome."

Adam laughed and said, "I have a close relationship with the Cooper family, so this is nothing to do."

"Yes."

Mary chimed in, "I've always considered Adam my own son or nephew; we're all family."

"Yeah?"

Beatrice was somewhat surprised by Mary's statement.

"Yes."

Adam laughed and chimed in, "Sheldon and I are best friends, and I'm also very close to Georgie Jr.. and Missy. We used to hang out at the Cooper's Home a lot in high school."

"Adam is excellent."

Mary said meaningfully, "If he hadn't ended up with the better Paige, I would have actually wanted him to be my son-in-law. It's such a pity."

"..."

Adam's lips twitched, and his smile became somewhat awkward.

How could he not have noticed the hidden meaning in Mary's words?

Alas, his illustrious reputation!

Who is this Paige?

Beatrice glanced at the two of them thoughtfully. "Even better Missy?"

Her niece, Missy, was already the most perfect girl in her eyes, but now there was someone even more outstanding Missy, which aroused her curiosity.

Certainly.

She was someone who had been through it all, and Mary's cousin whom she had fought with since childhood, so she naturally understood the reminder and warning in Mary's words.

But she wasn't surprised.

It's perfectly normal for a young and outstanding person like Adam to attract attention.

Um.

Then you should tell Emilia to stay away from Adam.

Emilia grew up without a father.

What she feared most was that Emilia would be attracted to men who were significantly older than her.

In her eyes, Adam was both handsome and refined, and his charm was irresistible to Emilia.

No normal mother would want her precious daughter to be too close to someone like Adam, who actively attracts unwanted attention and is disliked by others.

She's too easily hurt by love.

"I'm telling you..."

Mary talked incessantly to Beatrice about Paige, and her simple descriptions left Beatrice speechless, unable to believe that such a girl existed in the world.

"By the way, you'll see her at her birthday party the day after tomorrow."

Mary spoke to Beatrice first, then looked at Adam: "I remember Paige lives next door in New Jersey. She'll be at the party the day after tomorrow, right?"

"Certainly."

Adam grinned. "Sheldon's here, so she'll definitely come too. They're best friends."

He felt deeply offended by the wary looks the two mothers gave him.

Is it really necessary?

He is such a good person.

Otherwise, given his qualities, what's the use of you keeping an eye on him if he wants to? Is there any girl he can't win over?

Adam left dejectedly.

The next day.

Morning rounds.

"What do you think of gardenias? There are gardenias all over the mountains, and we're among them... should we be careful of bees?"

The man lying on the hospital bed looked seriously at Adam and the others who were lined up in a row.

"That's why I love him."

A beautiful woman sitting on the sofa looked at the man with shining eyes.

"What?"

Dr. Burke, who walked in, was taken aback.

"It's nothing, just some casual conversation between lovers..."

Cristina quipped, then explained, "They're getting married soon. Cave Paulus was hospitalized last night with chest pain. Tests showed it was an acute heart attack. He has no family or personal history of heart disease, and there was no trigger for his heart attack."

He's as healthy as a horse!

The patient's fiancée added with a smile.

"A horse lying in a hospital bed, having just suffered a heart attack."

The patient joked.

"Within a minute, the doctor will tell us that this is just a false alarm."

The patient's fiancée exchanged glances with the patient and said, "Then we'll go back and do what we need to do."

"..."

The interns lined up in a row had different expressions.

Cristina was very impatient.

Meredith was lost in thought.

George looked on with envy.

Adam smiled calmly.

He had heard all of what the horse-headed insect had said; this was nothing compared to what he had heard before!

"Mr. Paulus, the scan results show a very large mass around your heart."

Dr. Burke did not smile, but looked at the medical record and said.

"A lump? Is it a tumor?"

The patient was taken aback.

"This is absurd!"

The patient's fiancée couldn't help but get up and walk over. "He can't have a tumor, he's so healthy!"

"We cannot be certain until we observe further."

Dr. Burke said cautiously, "So today we're going to do an angiography for you."

"OK."

The patient and his fiancée are no longer laughing.

"Cristina, you're in charge."

Dr. Burke glanced around at everyone, his gaze settling on Cristina.

"Yes, Dr. Burke!"

Cristina held her head high and her chest out.

The group filed out to continue their ward rounds.

Noon.

Self-service restaurant.

"What's wrong?"

Adam stood at the door and talked with Emilia, who was passing by, for a while. When he came over with his tray, he noticed that Cristina and the others were staring at him, so he asked them a question.

"You know it's illegal to date underage girls, right?"

Cristina offered a reminder.

"And you don't meet the Romeo and Juliet Law either."

George added, "You're 24 already, you can't be Romeo anymore!"

"I know more about these things than you do."

Adam scoffed, "What are you guys thinking about all day? Is it all hormones?"

In the United States, the Romeo and Juliet Law was enacted to prevent the explicit sexual acts between two willing young people from being crudely defined as crimes.

Simply put, if a person wants to have a relationship with someone under the age of 17, as long as they are not a registered perpetrator, both of them are over 14 years old, and the age difference is not more than three years, they are not breaking the law.

"We meant well."

Cristina said with a half-smile, "You may not have the intention, but you can't resist a girl's initiative. It's common knowledge that men have almost zero resistance to temptation, let alone a girl as beautiful as this!"

"That's right."

Meredith laughed and said, "You have no idea how attractive you are to high school girls. If I were her, I would definitely fall for you."

"Trust me, I know."

Adam joked, "Emilia isn't you either, well, I believe most high school girls aren't you either."

"..."

Meredith's smile froze; she was deeply offended.

"You really didn't mean that?"

Cristina looked at Adam in surprise. "Then why did you throw her a birthday party?"

"This isn't for her."

Adam shrugged and said, "It's for my good friend's aunt who is about to pass away. Besides, it's just a small favor."

"..."

Everyone was speechless.

If they remember correctly, the last time the director's wife tried to persuade him to throw a party for her niece with cancer at the hospital, she slapped him in the face with the threat of divorce if he disagreed, and that's how she succeeded...

P. S.: Thank you Twilight of Leaves for the donation!