"Mom, Anthony has hired the top experts all around the world. They will be here tomorrow. Let's go home for now and come back tomorrow.""You should go. I'll stay here. Someone has to stay with him." Sarah did not want to leave Nigel."There are nurses here with Dad who can take better care of him. There are even bodyguards outside the door. He's going to be fine. Besides, if we run into Dorothy and Bianca again, we are all just going to end up arguing. That's not going to help with Dad's recovery," Anne said.Sarah hesitated and Anne directly dragged her out of the room.On their way back, both Sarah and Anne sat in the car quietly. Neither had thought that something like that would happen during their trip. Not only was Anne worried about Nigel, she was concerned for Sarah as well as she had never seen her mother so devastated before.After arriving home, Sarah returned to her room and Anne did the same. Instead of showering, she sat on the edge of bed dazedly.She could not un
If Sarah was at the hospital as well, Dorothy and Bianca would definitely try to provoke, or even hurt her.Anne was concerned. She did not want her mother to get hurt when her father was still unconscious.The door to the meeting room flew open and there were men and women sitting by the long meeting table, to whom Anne assumed were the experts Anthony had hired.Anthony sat at the further end with Kathryn on one side and next to him were Dorothy and Bianca.Both Dorothy and Bianca stared at Anne coldly and she simply proceeded to take her seat next to Kathryn.Anthony glanced at his watch and Kathryn took it as a hint to start the meeting. "Everyone should have a copy of the medical report. You all know that he is currently in a coma. Anyone here who manages to improve his condition even by the slightest will be rewarded handsomely."Everyone knew what she meant by it, that payment was not an issue if they had the talent worthy of it.One of the men looked at the report and sa
"Relax, there won't be an issue in applying that to a human being. The worst outcome would simply be no outcome at all," the expert said."It's settled, then. Kathryn, report the daily progress to me," Anthony commanded."Yes, Mr. Marwood."Anne was relieved and overjoyed that there was hope, however slim.Anthony got up to leave, and Dorothy and Bianca followed.Anne walked behind them and took out her phone to call Sarah.Sarah answered right away and said, "Anne, how was it? Can they cure him?""Only three of the experts stayed and said that they can try, but there's no guarantee," Anne said truthfully.Feeling as though a rock had been moved from her chest, Sarah said, "The doctors would never make promises even for simple surgeries. That means that your dad is definitely waking up!"Anne did not dare to agree considering how severe her father's brain injury was. However, she could not deny her mother hope as well and said, "Let's wait for him to wake up. However long it t
"Even if you need to read the will, we don't need outsiders here. Mr. Stahl, Nigel has nothing to do with Sarah. Sleeping with him a few times doesn't count. If she insists on getting paid, we can pay her a thousand for each time she slept with him."The insult was distasteful and Robert felt extremely awkward to be put on the spot.Bianca felt pleased to see the suppressed anger on Anne's face and said, "Mom, we all know about it, so why bother saying it out loud? It's so embarrassing."She was clearly implying that it was embarrassing for Anne and was being sarcastic about it."That's the thing, though. Both Sarah and Anne are mentioned in the will," Robert said."What?" Dorothy lost her senses. "Sarah, too?""Yes."Both Dorothy and Bianca glared daggers at Anne, who was surprised as well.It made sense that she was to inherit a portion of her father's property because she was his daughter, but her mother was not legally bound to Nigel in any way.Bianca kept Dorothy down an
"Why would Dad write such a will? He left them with his most valuable, and what did he leave me and my mom? I don't care about money, but I won accept his either!" Bianca threw the paper onto the ground. "Me and my mom are supposed to be the beneficiaries.""I'm sorry, but this is what Mr. Faye intended," Robert said, before turning to Dorothy. "Mrs. Faye, I believe that you've signed a prenup when you married Mr. Faye stating that you have no right to his money upon his death.""What?" Bianca gaped at Dorothy.Dorothy lowered her gaze gloomily. "Yes! But what about Bianca? Why isn't Bianca the first beneficiary? The money in his bank isn't even one third of what his funds are worth. Does he take us for beggars? Mr. Shahl, something is wrong!""I was shocked as well and asked Mr. Faye if he was sure, but he insisted."Anne had remained quiet the entire time, but decided to speak up, "I think that something is wrong as well."Dorothy shot her an enraged look. "Is that so? What exa
Sarah was provoked. "We were overseas. What exactly can we do? Don't just make false accusations!""Tell me why my dad would write a will like this, then? I'm his real daughter who he had raised, the same daughter he remarried my mom for, yet he left you two everything. Does that even make sense?" Bianca questioned.Indeed, it did not seem logical.Anne's eyes darted back and forth between Dorothy and Bianca. "I think that you two did something horrible and enraged Dad into making such a decision."Dorothy tried her best to conceal the guilt she felt deep down. She knew that Nigel had made such a decision because he found out that Bianca was not his daughter by blood, but that was simply far too cruel of him. As his wife, she had worked hard for their family and was left with nothing.'I should have accepted his proposal to divorce when he offered to give me everything instead!' She thought. 'Now I get nothing!'"What exactly can we do to force him into such a reckless decision?
"He isn't that easily fooled, but it depends on who's fooling him!" Bianca said sarcastically."You-" Sarah wanted to curse at her, but Anne interrupted her."I won't give you anything."Dorothy and Bianca's faces twisted in anger as they itched to tear Anne's face apart. Bianca refused to give up and since she could only rely on Anthony, she trusted that he would side with her."Anthony, Anne and her mom are clearly trying to take over my inheritance. They probably plotted this from before. My mom is the wife and Sarah is nothing but a homewrecker. How could the legal wife lose to the homewrecker?" Bianca said.Anne instinctively glanced at Anthony, as the conflicts between wives and homewreckers had always been the source of drama around them, especially because Anthony's own mother died because of a homewrecker.Bianca knew Anthony well enough to know what to say to provoke him.Anthony remained expressionless as the tension raised inside the room to the point where it became
'What is this?' Bianca thought. 'Nigel didn't even mention us at all! Forget his wife, but he didn't even mention me? Is it because he raised me, so he feels sorry for Anne? Is that why he just gave me whatever cash he has in the bank and called it a day?'"Dad is going to wake up at some point, so I don't see the point in signing this," Anne said."The company needs someone to make the calls and for you to do so, you need to sign this," Robert said."Just sign it first. Once your dad wakes up, you can always just give it back to him," Sarah said, deciding that it was still better than to leave the company to Bianca.Anne nodded, before signing her name on the paper, and handing the pen to Sarah.Bianca and Dorothy stared at them with anger boiling in their eyes, Dorothy felt all strength draining from her and fell back to the chair.All the hard work she had placed in her family had gone to waste.After signing, Anne turned to Robert and asked, "You see the state Dad is in righ