Nia was still in the hospital with Zya looking after her. Meredith already said that she would head over once work was done. How could she look after Nia if she was drunk?"Mister Josiah, I can't drink today. Can we have some other type of fun?" She asked stiffly."What fun do you want to have?"Someone by the side started a ruckus, "Mister Josiah, stop pretending to be a prude. Do you need to ask what fun the lady wants?""Yes, she's already taking the first move, you can stop pretending!"Meredith listened to them, but she was calm as water. Perhaps she was forced by Josiah to do too many embarrassing and humiliating things for the past few days. She had started to grow numb to it.At that moment, she only wanted to rescue her mother out and earn some money to treat Nia. Not only joking around drinking with other men, even if they stripped her clothes off and sold her off, but she would also be willing to do it.Josiah swirled the glass of wine in his hands. He looked at the w
"Where are your bruises? Show me, then I'll believe you."Meredith was speechless. Ysabelle slapped her on the injured side of her face. There was no bruise to show him."I saw the footage of you pushing her to the wall. I saw the injuries on her head today too." Josiah bent down and looked at her closely once more. "Meredith, do you think there is still a reason for you to talk to me?"Meredith panicked.Just because she hit Ysabelle, so she did not have a chance to speak at all?"Mister Josiah…" Meredith shook her head with difficulty, she tried to calm herself down. "I can't explain myself about Ysabelle. You won't believe me either, but my mother can't go to prison. Her health is terrible. She passed out in the hospital a few days ago.""Shouldn't you tell all this to Ysabelle?"If it worked with Ysabelle, she would not have come to plead with him, even forced herself to drink so much alcohol."I know that you are close to Ysabelle, Mister Josiah. As long as you help me, I'
"You're so weak, yet you want to play with me? You overestimate your powers," He coldly spat, turned around, and headed out of the bathroom.Everyone in the room has left. Josiah was about to leave too.He just opened the door of the room when Meredith's cries could be heard coming from the bathroom. "Joe, don't go. I'll explain…I'll explain…"Josiah turned around and headed back to the bathroom.Meredith was not conscious, she remained in the same position at the corner of the bathroom, only with the addition of two lines of tears on her face."Meredith, were you calling for me?" He bent down and pinched her chin. "What right do you have to call my name? Hmm?"He used a lot of strength, Meredith was hurt, she opened her eyes slowly.In blurriness, she saw Josiah's face, but she could not see the expressions on his face or the disgust he had for her.It was like he was the young man she knew back then."Joe! You're here!" Meredith supported herself against the corner of the wa
Meredith kicked and hit the intricately carved door and said frantically, "Open the door! Open the door! I want to go out!"She managed to open the door with difficulty, yet Josiah slammed it shut again with one move."You want to leave?" He sneered.Meredith looked at him and nodded. "Yes, my daughter is waiting alone for me in the hospital. I want to go look after her. Can you open the door, please?""She's just a bastard, it's nothing if she dies.""I've already said it. Nia is not a bastard!" Meredith suddenly flared up. She kept hitting him with both hands. "Josiah, you listen up. Nia is not a bastard. She is kind, adorable, and smart. She is my precious sweetheart!"Meredith grabbed Josiah by the collar and yelled at him, "Josiah, you don't have to want her, but you can't insult her. If not, I will not let you go! Do you hear me?"Josiah lowered his head and looked at the hands grabbing his collars. He smiled. "Is that so? How do you plan to do that?""Like this!"Slap!
The next day, Meredith was awoken by the torturing pain.She clutched her swollen forehead and got up with difficulty by supporting herself against the wall. She was stunned by her surroundings.She quickly scanned around and realized that the bedroom looked rather familiar, yet foreign to her at the same time.Was she at…the Shelbys?She looked closely and finally recognized it. She was at the Shelbys. This was the room she lived in with Josiah when she got married.However, why did she wake up there? She closed her eyes and tried to think hard about the incidents that happened the night before.She remembered drinking a lot of alcohol, then accidentally passing out in the bathroom. She did not have any memories about how she arrived at the Shelbys.The next memory she had was her slapping Josiah twice. Meredith quickly looked at her palm. Did she actually slap the devil twice? Also, Josiah did not kill her in rage? That did not seem like his character! Meredith had no heart
Meredith could not help but walk into the bedroom. With every step she took, it was like someone put a tremendous weight on her, crushing her lungs. She felt so uncomfortable she could barely breathe.Yena was much skinnier than before. Her face was as pale as paper. It was a heartbreaking sight to see."Yena," Meredith looked at her and called out to her. She smiled bitterly and said, "I know you didn't mean it. I know you're the victim, like me, but you're much luckier. At least Josiah still loves you. I have nothing anymore. No, I have a huge debt and a mother and a daughter to rescue. I can't hold it any longer."I beg you, please come around quickly. Because only if you come around can you clear me of my name and then I can leave that devil forever."Meredith's tears which she fought so hard to keep in fell once again. At the thought of how deep the misunderstanding Josiah had for her, she quickly wiped her tears away and walked out of the bedroom.The moment she walked out o
The nurse quickly ran up. She apologized nervously, "I'm sorry, Mister Josiah. I touched Miss Yena just now. I didn't feel that she was cold, so I…went down to have breakfast.""How unprofessional. Who sent you here?""I'm sorry. It's my fault…""Leave!"The nurse was so frightened her face turned pale. She frantically ran away.Josiah went over to turn up the temperature and tucked Yena in properly, then he only left when he felt her body temperature return to normal.When he walked out of the bedroom, he realized that Meredith was still kneeling by the door.He furrowed his brows.Meredith reached out and tugged the corner of his sleeves. She pleaded, "Josiah, please let my mother go. I beg of you…""Let your mother go?" He gazed down at her and sneered, "Sure.""Do you mean it?" Meredith straightened her back excitedly. She looked at him. "Mister Josiah. If you let my mother go, I am really willing to do anything, besides…dying."She could not die at that moment! She was
No matter how she thought about it, Ysabelle still could not wrap her head around why Josiah wanted Meredith to take care of Yena.There were a bunch of doctors and nurses who were much more professional than Meredith in the hospital. Ysabelle herself too had volunteered to stay in the mansion to take care of Yena on the first day that Yena was discharged from the hospital, yet Josiah only wanted that b*tch, Meredith, to take care of Yena?"Josiah, could you bear to let Meredith take care of Yena? What happens if she secretly poisons Yena?"Josiah's head was buried in the documents in his hands. His eyebrows scrunched in annoyance.It was as if Ysabelle did not notice. She continued to swing Josiah's arm. "Josiah, I'm really worried for Yena. I'm willing to stay here to take care of her. Just let me do it, please?"Josiah finally turned to the side and looked at her. "Why do you think that Meredith would poison Yena?"Ysabelle hesitated for a while before saying, "It was Yena who