Stella bit her lip. "Don't exaggerate. Get him on the phone.""Stella, how could I lie about this? You can call him if you don't believe me. He's unconscious. How could he be on the phone? The two bastards yesterday were ruffians. They had knives and were ruthless with their strikes. If the police hadn't come earlier, Keegan's life would have been gone. I have never seen that much blood before."Stella was now slightly panicked. She was unconscious yesterday, so she did not know what had happened. When she woke in the morning, her sleeve had red-brown spots. She thought it was coffee at first, but maybe it was blood."Stella, come over now. I'm scared he won't make it." And then the phone call disconnected. When Stella called again, the phone was occupied. Keegan's phone was off, and it wrenched her heart.From the store, Felicity called Stella. Stella regained her senses and went inside to pay. She turned her head to Felicity and said, "Something happened back home. I have to go b
Just then, a familiar voice sounded from the door. "What are you doing?"Stella paused and turned her head slowly.At the door of the ward, Keegan was wearing a hospital gown, and his arm was in a sling. He looked at her expressionlessly, and Vermont was next to him in astonishment.Stella was speechless."Keegan!" Aurora rushed over. "You scared me!"After everyone asked, they found out Keegan was in Room 709 formerly. But the room had poor lighting, which he disliked. So, he switched to 704 in the morning. However, the hospital system still displayed 709 because they had yet to update the system. Hence, a big mistake was made.Finally, a little color was back on Dahlia's cheek. "What happened to your arm?"Vermont answered before Keegan could speak, "He helped the police to catch some guys and was accidentally struck by one of the bad guys last night. He was seriously injured and needed seven stitches!"'Seven stitches...' Stella felt a little sorry suddenly."Why didn't you
Dahlia, Aurora, and Albert surrounded Keegan's hospital bed. There was no place for Stella at all.Vermont said, "Aurora, go get some warm water. Keegan hasn't taken his medicine yet."Aurora frowned. "Isn't someone standing there?""Hey! You..."Vermont wanted to say something else, but Stella took the empty glass and said flatly, "I'll do it."Stella just did not want to stay here with these people.As soon as the door was closed, Dahlia asked, "What happened last night?""Nothing," Keegan said succinctly. "I ran into a few troublemakers while drinking, and there was a conflict.""What kind of conflict can hurt others in this way? Who hurt you? Where are they now?""Mom, I'll handle this by myself. So leave it alone."Dahlia was upset. "How can I leave it alone? Look how seriously you were hurt. It happened last night, and I only found out at noon today! If someone can take good care of you, I can rest assured. But you stay in the hospital alone for the whole night. Nobody
After exiting the ward, Albert stopped Dahlia. "Dahlia, you look great lately."Dahlia replied without emotion, "I'm so-so.""I asked Stella to give you the white truffle a while back. Have you tried it? How is it?"Dahlia frowned. "White truffle? I didn't get it."Albert looked surprised. "That's impossible. I handed it to Stella and asked her to give it to you. How can you not get it?""What do you mean?" Aurora raised her voice. "Do you mean my mom denied after accepting your gift? She has all the good things. Is the Kane family short of your piece of junk? Don't think the Jewell family can raise their standing by relying on Stella just because she married Keegan. She's nobody in the Kane family!"Albert's expression changed, looking unhappy.After Aurora finished, Dahlia said lightly, "Aurora, how can you talk to your elders this way?"Aurora snorted coldly. She did not take him seriously at all.Albert, a middle-aged man in his early fifties, was a little embarrassed to b
Stella could not even ask more questions. She turned around and ran toward the ward.After opening the door of the ward, only Keegan was there. No policemen were seen. Rather, Keegan was shocked by the sound of her pushing the door. He frowned and said, "Reckless."Stella was relieved. She unscrewed the water bottle and cooled the water for him with the two paper cups she found.The water she just took was hot. Keegan was hard to serve. He disliked the mixture of cold and hot water and only drank water that cooled naturally.Stella tried to trick Keegan by mixing some cold water into the hot water for him once before. However, he only took a sip and refused to take another.The hospital did not have a device that helped to cool the water down quickly. So, Stella had to use this method to cool it for him.Keegan looked at her movements and asked abruptly, "Where did you go this morning?""To buy a lottery ticket."Keegan was speechless. Then, he asked, "Where's the lottery ticke
"Besides, I was defending myself, not beating people up. Your drug test results have been submitted to the police, too. The lawyer has full authority to deal with it for me," said Keegan.Stella still could not figure it out. 'Those people had knives. How could I dare shout if they threatened me with knives when they abducted me?'"Come here." Keegan's deep voice interrupted her thoughts.Stella raised her eyes. "What's up?" Even as she said so, she walked to Keegan's bedside.Keegan frowned. "Head down. Come closer. I won't bite."Stellar pursed her lips, bent over and leaned in. "What the hell are you going to...?" Before she could finish, she felt something cold on her lips.Keegan lowered his eyes and gently applied the ointment on the wound on her lower lip with his index finger. That wound was created when she bit herself last night to remain conscious. The ointment was ice-cold, but it seemed to carry Keegan's warm love and tenderness with the temperature of his fingertips
Stella pushed his hand away and said, "You still remember that you're my dad? If you could believe in the words of strangers, why couldn't you believe in the words of your own daughter? If I had said I had sent the item, I would have already sent it. If you suffered humiliation from Dahlia, what makes you think you can throw them back at me?"Albert did not believe her statement at all. "If she did receive the item, why would she have told me she didn't get it? Previously, we told you to mention the project at Cavalry City to Keegan, and you keep putting it off. Did you think that by having Keegan as your patron, the Jewell family would be pointless to you? Did you assume the wind would sweep away the yearly payment of millions of dollars for your mother's hospital bills? In the end, who were these things I told you to do for? If the Jewell family can't stand on its own two feet, do you think the Kane family would still respect you?!"Albert spoke with so much grandiose as if the thi
His voice was getting smaller as he continued, and in the end, he shut up.'Alright, who knew I would come up with such a crappy idea?' Vermont thought. As he was thinking, Stella returned.Vermont knew how to read the room and immediately said, "Mrs. Kane, I have some business at my company and will be leaving first. You take good care of Keegan. If anything happens, you can call me anytime."Keegan gave him a sidelong glance and then said, "How unfitting of you to leave empty. You can take the fruit basket with you.""I'm not the patient. Why should I eat the fruits —" Vermont cut himself off. He suddenly realized that Keegan was not letting him bring the fruits with him. This fellow was just using another way to subtly hint that Vermont had come empty-handed."I won't be taking the fruit basket. Mrs. Kane, you should keep this card. There are 500 thousand dollars in it. It's the payment that I promised you. The extra will be counted as compensation for Keegan's lost labor and r