“Oh? Does this count as anger out of embarrassment?” Victor quickly moved away, and the sneer in his eyes became even more apparent.“You have a death wish!” Conrad became a raging beast and immediately attacked him.Victor didn’t have too many hobbies, but he liked to box and trained himself physically. The two of them started fighting right in the corridor.Eileen frowned but the interest in her eyes became brighter.“They have the same blood in their veins… They’re both garbage.”Lyn wanted to say something, but she didn’t dare to say anything. She was very regretful of losing all the documents.“Should we report our loss to the police?”“After Fia’s surgery,” Eileen said after she took a deep breath. She was very anxious and she couldn’t think straight.The most important thing was for Fia to get out of the surgery theater safely. Everything else could wait.All the two cared about was attacking each other. In the end, it was Silas who pushed them apart despite the risk. H
“Are you sick in the head?!” Eileen glared at him. How could he be so insolent?!“Everyone has to die eventually. There’s nothing to it.” Victor let out a smile.“You trash!” Conrad could feel the fire that had already extinguished in his heart begin to burn again when he heard what Victor said. “How dare you curse my wife?!”He shouted and rushed over toward him.Victor frowned when he saw how he rushed over. If he were to move away, he would ram into Eileen.Eileen had accumulated quite a number of sicknesses during the past few years of acting. She would feel pain in her bones if she were hit even a little with how frail she was.That was why he didn’t move away.Bang!The fist hit Victor in the face. Conrad held his collar and pressed him against the wall.“Why do you have to curse others to die?!”“Ha, did I say a name?” Victor laughed despite being hit.Eileen could only feel herself getting a headache when she saw how carefree he was.“Silas!”“Yes, Ms. Reid?” Silas
Sally could see the fear in his eyes and she said to him gently, “Rest for a while. I’ll speak with her family.”“Sure,” Jason said as he gritted his teeth. He hated Conrad even more than ever.The surgery theater’s door opened.“Doctor Hall!” Both Conrad and Eileen walked to her.Sally gave Conrad a glance and then focused her eyes on Eileen.“The patient has been saved, but she’ll need to stay in the ICU for the time being. Once her condition stabilizes, we can then move her to a normal ward.”Eileen was stunned and asked, “Then, the baby…”That was also what Conrad wanted to ask about.“I’m sorry.”Sally took in a deep breath and remembered the pressure Jason was under during the entire surgery.“Ms. Reid, since you came to the hospital, you know what was happening at the time.“With an accident like that, no pregnant woman would be able to protect the baby inside of her. Not to mention that Fia had had multiple signs of placental abruption before this. She was already qu
Conrad knew what Jason wanted to do. Normally, he would be more than happy to oblige.But there was nothing more important to him now than to visit Fia.“Which ward is Fia in?”Sally quickly told them and said to Eileen, “Go with him, Ms. Reid.”“Sure.” Eileen thankfully looked at Jason and Sally before chasing after Conrad to visit Fia. Outside the ICU ward, they could see Fia lying inside behind a heavy glass window pane, wearing an oxygen mask with tube after tube connected to her body.Eileen’s tears couldn’t stop as she placed both her hands on the window, as if she could touch her and console her.“Conrad Maxwell… That is how the person that you protected harmed her.”Conrad tightened his fists as his veins popped. She was still alright yesterday, but she was lying in the ICU ward today.“I didn’t protect Esme. I didn’t want Fia to go through all of this too. If I had known something like this would happen, I would have picked her up earlier.”“You think this is all a
He had seen plenty of schemes to be able to get this far.He didn’t believe that the truck had suddenly lost control and coincidentally crashed into Fia’s car.The old driver gulped as he looked at the baseball bat in Conrad’s hand.“I… I’m not lying. The truck really did lose control. I didn’t want this to happen either.”Silas was worried that his boss would lose control and kill him.He carefully advised him, saying, “Sir, the police are already investigating this. They’ll find out if he lied.”“Yes, the police will find out everything.”The old driver looked at Conrad tearfully, thinking that he would let him go just like that. However, Conrad’s emotions were going haywire to the point of madness.He dragged the driver off the bed and pulled him to the window. He then pushed him out of the window.He let the driver go and grabbed him by the ankle as the driver screamed, dangling out of the window upside down.“Sir!” Silas was shocked. They were in a lawful society!Eil
“Have you ever seen this man, Ms. Manning?” Silas asked coldly.He could feel his heart harden whenever he thought about the accident. How Esme had a hand in it.And his boss trusted her so much too!“I do know him,” Esme said as she began to sweat. She realized that Conrad had found out about something.But she wasn’t stupid either.“How do you know him?” Conrad’s eyes and voice were icy as he breathed in another mouthful from his cigarette.Esme carefully looked at him and then crouched down to look at the driver who was sitting on the ground.“He’s the driver from my dad’s logistics company. He’s an old staff.”“…”Conrad raised his eyes and scanned Esme’s facial expression.Silas asked anxiously, “Then, do you know that he’s the one who crashed into the madam and that she’s been admitted to the hospital?!”“Fia’s in the hospital? What happened?!” Esme asked with worry and stared at the driver. “You crashed into her? Why did you crash into my cousin?!”The driver was sca
“Ah… Conrad, how can you treat me like this?!” There was no warmth in Conrad’s gaze at her. It was as if he was looking at a rock.“Ms. Reid said that you pretended to be hurt while you paid someone to rape Fia. Is there anything you want to tell me?”Esme crawled toward Conrad on her knees and grabbed his pants as she looked at him. “No! I swear on my family’s lives that I didn’t do it! I swear, if I’ve ever hurt Fia, the gods can punish my family!”Conrad laughed as he looked at her.“Why didn’t I realize how shameless you are?”He was questioning her but she made a vow using her own family? That was not the Esme Manning that he knew.“Esme.” He called out her name coolly. The warmth in the past no longer existed.“I will investigate this, and you better pray that it has nothing to do with you.”Conrad kicked Esme away after saying that and patted his pants before getting back into his car.Esme could only sit on the ground as she felt her heart become ice-cold.She had f
Jason ignored Conrad and consoled Eileen. “Don’t worry. I’ll make my rounds every half an hour. As long as the same thing doesn’t happen again, she should be conscious soon.”Eileen knew that Jason hadn't rested at all since last night.She was still waiting outside the ward early in the morning. He was the one who had arranged for a family lounge for her to rest in.She didn’t want to. But he told her that she couldn’t fall before Fia woke up because there was no one else that Fia could depend on.Jason checked Fia’s condition every hour the whole day yesterday. Even after she slept, he must have done the same thing.“You should get some rest, Doctor Evans. Let the other doctors do this. Otherwise, you won’t be able to handle the stress too.”Conrad glared at Jason coldly and said, “Ask Doctor Hall to help.”Eileen didn’t like how Conrad sounded, but she agreed with him.“True. Rotating with Doctor Hall works too. If you do this for 24 hours straight, Fia would blame herself o