Chapter 471 Can I Borrow Your Nurse Uniform
After sending a message, Jessica didn't bother putting her phone back in her bag. Instead, she slipped it into her coat pocket, keeping a tight grip on it as she turned and headed back towards the security checkpoint outside the hospital room.
As she turned around, she spotted those two people again, and it seemed like they were on the same page.
She started walking at a normal pace, but once she passed the security checkpoint and was out of their sight, she picked up the pace, heading down the corridor.
Just as she passed Samuel, who had just finished a call, he noticed her coming his way. Thinking she wanted to talk, he stepped forward to greet her, but she walked right past him without a glance, heading to the other side of the corridor.
Samuel watched her go, then noticed those two people following her. His face turned serious, and he quickly picked up his phone and ducked into the nearby family waiting room.
Gabriel quickly replied to Jessica on Facebook.
Gabriel: [How many people? Can you take a call now?]
Jessica turned the corner at the stairwell, picked up her phone, and quietly sent a voice message.
Jessica: [Two people. I think they know I've spotted them.]
She couldn't go into detail, worried those two might catch up. She wasn't sure if they were onto her yet, but a chill ran up her spine as she hurried up to the next floor.
Jessica was sure those two weren't paparazzi. They had bulging bags but no filming gear. Thinking back, she remembered seeing them when she first arrived. They were standing far off, and she only caught a glimpse before passing through security. But once she exited the room, she saw them again and knew they were after her when their eyes met.
Daniel's impulsiveness suggested someone in the Jenner family didn't want her to make it out alive.
Eugene had to know Washington was dangerous for Jessica right now, yet he still called her back, using Donald's critical condition as an excuse. Was he using her as a pawn to stir things up or as bait?
It was so ironic that such a jerk was her biological father.
Jessica ran to the upper floor, keeping her emotions in check, unsure where those two were. To save energy, she couldn't keep running, so she dashed into the family waiting room on that floor. Ignoring the puzzled and wary looks from other patients' families, she headed straight for the door leading to the security checkpoint, bypassing the ward corridor security and running through the adjacent isolation passage to the stairwell at the end of the corridor, then she ran down from that side.
After running down two floors, she was about to head to the elevator. But with only four elevators in this inpatient building, if those two guys were already waiting on the first floor, she'd be caught as soon as she stepped out.
The safety passages on both sides were too far apart, and with six positions to block (including the safety passages and elevators), if there were only two of them, she could only hope one side had a temporary gap.
But what if those two split up and tried to block her at each stairwell before she reached the first floor?
No matter what, she needed to buy time for Gabriel to get there.
Jessica made a beeline for the elevator. This floor seemed to be for maternity care, with the sound of crying babies filling the air. She saw an elevator open and slipped in behind a few families holding babies, pressing the button for the fifth floor. Instead of going to the first floor, she got off on the fifth and quickly walked out, pressing all the up and down buttons on the surrounding elevators to make each one stop on the fifth floor. Then, without pausing, she headed straight for the nurse's station.
Jessica coughed as she approached and said to the nurse, "Sorry, I think I might have a cold. I have relatives hospitalized here and don't want to infect them. Could you give me a medical mask?"
Even though she was already wearing a black mask, the young nurse handed her a medical mask from the drawer.
After Jessica took it and thanked her, the young nurse suddenly looked at her eyes carefully and exclaimed, "You are..."
Jessica quickly took off her black mask and whispered, "Some unscrupulous media are following me. I need to avoid them. Please don't tell anyone you've seen me. Thank you."
The young nurse, realizing it was indeed the famous Jessica, widened her eyes in excitement but quickly nodded upon seeing the tension and warning in Jessica's eyes.
Just as Jessica was about to leave, the nurse carefully tugged her sleeve and whispered, "Our medical staff dormitory is on the eighteenth floor. You can hide there."
Jessica had just come down from the sixteenth floor and wasn't sure if going back to the eighteenth floor would get her caught.
Given her previous actions, those two might have already headed to the fifth floor.
"No need. Can I borrow a nurse's uniform?" Jessica whispered.
"Yes, but it's from yesterday and hasn't been washed yet," the nurse said, taking out the uniform she had changed out of that morning.
Jessica took it. "I'll take it and return it later."
With no time to chat further, Jessica quickly ran to the stairwell and headed up to the eighth floor. While panting, she scanned her surroundings. There was a fire escape and safety ladder on the eighth floor, a duty station, and a fire safety door. She quickly recalled the layout of the floors she had passed, forming a rough map in her mind. She knew that between the sixteenth and fifth floors, someone could come in to search at any moment.
Taking advantage of the empty stairwell on the eighth floor, she quickly took off her coat and hid it behind a trash can, put on the nurse's uniform, donned the medical mask, and took out a pair of blue-light blocking glasses from her bag, which she usually wore when going out without makeup. She tied her hair up in a bun like the other nurses and walked into the floor with her head down.
Jessica wasn't sure if the excitement of that young nurse would give away her whereabouts. She couldn't trust anyone, especially as she heard the stairwell door slam open just as she was about to enter the elevator. It seemed they were still following her.
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