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
"You should grab the check quickly before I regret it," Stella said.Keegan stared at her for a moment and said, "Answer me this one question, and the check is yours."Stella looked at him. "What?""What did Albert discuss with you?"Stella's movements froze, and she pursed her lips. "Your mother didn't receive the white truffles. You could have just refused to help me if you were busy." He did not need to lie to her and say he had sent them.Keegan was stunned, and his expression became ugly. "You assumed I didn't send them on purpose?""Whether it was on purpose or you forgot, it's best you don't promise someone things so easily," Stella replied.Keegan's eyebrows were scrunched, and he wanted to say something before Aldor knocked on the door to enter."Mr. Kane, Mrs. Kane, the paperwork has been processed." Noticing that neither of them was answering, Aldor asked quietly, "Are you still going to discharge?"Throughout the journey, both of them were silent. Aldor, on the oth
At any rate, the housemaid had worked for the Kane family for many years. Hence, the words Keegan spoke were quite insensitive. Stella originally wanted to tell him to forget about it since she had taken the slap already. There was no meaning in pursuing this further.Before she could speak, she heard the housemaid stutter out, "It was... It was the missus... The missus threw away the item and did not let me...""Who are you talking to?" Before the housemaid could finish, Dahlia's voice came from the phone. Then, Dahlia took the phone."It's Mr. Kane. He's asking about the white truffles incident..."There was no sound on the other side. After a few seconds, Dahlia took over the phone. "It's just two boxes of white truffles. Do you need to call back home to interrogate people?"Keegan pursed his lips. "I just want to figure out this thing."Dahlia was infuriated. "What will you do after you figure it out? Call the cops to arrest us? She doesn't have any other talent, but her tale
Unable to persuade further, Keegan refrained from speaking more.Keegan could smell alcohol as Stella approached. Surprised, he asked, "Did you drink?""No," said Stella, her face flushing red with alcohol. After denying it, she realized that the smell of beer couldn't be hidden, and lying would only worsen it. She corrected herself, "Not a lot. Just a little."It was indeed just as little as half a bottle of red wine. With Stella's alcohol tolerance, half a bottle is not enough to make her drunk.Keegan stared at her for a few seconds, threw a towel at her, and said indifferently, "Wash yourself."This was the first in Stella's life that she had to bathe someone.Though they did mess around in the shower before, it was when she was trying to flirt with him by using the excuse of rubbing his back.Not even able to finish rubbing his back, she ended up giving up. In the end, he had to wash her up and carry her back home.In the past, Keegan rarely refused her advances. No matter