Capítulo 328: Chapter 321
“Dad?”
Adam Willow’s soft call was like a bolt of lightning in the corridor. The originally tense and confrontational few instantly fell silent, and the air seed to solidify.
Maria Carter slowly raised her head, her gaze wandering back and forth between Adam Willow and Evan Palr.
The delicate face that bore so resemblance to Carlos was now colorless: “You are… Alia Willow’s brother? What did you just call my dad?”
Evan Palr’s expression instantly beca stiff, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
He gave Adam Willow a stern look, signaling for the latter to shut up.
But Adam rely adjusted his gold-rimd glasses, a sardonic curve forming at the corner of his mouth: “I called him dad, you didn’t hear wrong.”
Fragnts of mory surged in Maria Carter’s mind.
On a rainy day back in middle school, she had once seen a slender boy standing at a bus station through the Rolls-Royce window, staring gloomily in her direction.
That look, she still couldn’t forget.
“Dad…what is he saying?” Maria Carter’s voice began to tremble, her slender fingers clutching tightly onto Evelyn Hanson’s sleeve, as if holding onto her last lifeline.
Evan Palr adjusted his tie, disheveled by Evelyn Hanson’s tug, suddenly feeling there was no need to pretend anymore.
Carlos was dead, Mrs. Carter was in a coma, and most of the Carter Clan was under his control.
This daughter was ultimately water that had to be poured out.
“Maria,” he avoided his daughter’s gaze, his tone was frighteningly calm, “Adam Willow is your half-brother.”
The hallway’s lights beca glaringly bright at this mont.
Maria Carter staggered two steps back, those deliberately ignored clues suddenly connected — her father’s favoritism, her seriously ill mother, the Willow siblings’ faint hostility…
“Evan Palr!” she suddenly scread, her voice heart-wrenching, “How could you do this to my mom!”
Maria Carter lunged forward like a wounded little beast, but was grabbed by the wrist by Adam Willow.
A flicker of satisfaction glinted behind the man’s cold lenses: “This is a hospital, if you want to go crazy, do it outside.”
His peripheral vision unconsciously glanced toward the operating room.
Emily Parker was still in there. This realization made Adam Willow’s chest tight — he both hoped for her safety and secretly wished that child… would not co into this world.
“Let go! Two grown n bullying a young girl?”
Evelyn Hanson suddenly pushed Adam Willow aside, shielding Maria Carter in her embrace.
Her sharp gaze swept between the father and son, her red lips curving into a mocking arc,
“You two, one sches for wealth, the other harms lives — your cooperation is indeed flawless!”
Adam Willow’s face changed abruptly: “Evelyn Hanson!”
“What? Did I say sothing wrong?”
Evelyn Hanson refused to back down, her finger almost poking Adam Willow’s nose,
“Aren’t you an illegitimate child? Isn’t your scum father trying to seize the Carter Clan for himself?”
Evan Palr adjusted his suit, his voice cold,
“Watch your language, I can sue you for defamation.”
“Go ahead!”
Evelyn Hanson suddenly raised her voice, drawing glances from dical staff at the corridor’s end,
“Do you want to call a reporter now, so everyone can see how Chairman Shane treats his newly widowed daughter-in-law and soon-to-be-born grandson?”
This sentence was like a blunt weapon, hitting Evan Palr till his face turned ashen.
His sinister gaze swept over the operating room’s red light, then fell on his daughter’s tear-streaked face, finally letting out a cold snort.
A choice at the brink of life and death
“Evelyn, let’s transfer my sister-in-law to another hospital imdiately!” Maria Carter’s voice carried an undeniable determination, her slender fingers clutching tightly onto Evelyn Hanson’s sleeve, her knuckles turning white. The corridor’s stark white light fell on her tear-streaked face, highlighting those eyes identical to Carlos’s exceptionally bright.
Evan Palr suddenly stepped sideways, his tall figure blocking the corridor: “I said, she’s not going anywhere!” His suited figure cast a heavy shadow under the ergency light, perfectly enveloping his kneeling daughter.
“Dad!” Maria Carter suddenly knelt with a thud, her expensive stockings instantly tearing on the rough ground, “Your actions will kill my sister-in-law!” She lifted her head, tears dripping down onto Evan Palr’s shiny leather shoes, “For my brother’s sake… I’m begging you…”
Seeing this, Evelyn Hanson imdiately bent down to help, yet was stubbornly pushed away by Maria Carter. This pampered young lady, her knees against the cold marble floor, held her back straight: “My brother is gone already… this is his only bloodline…”
“Maria,” Evan Palr softened his tone, reaching out to help his daughter up, “Love & Kindness Hospital’s dical standards are high, she will be fine.”
“Liar!” Maria Carter suddenly scread, swatting his hand away, her voice echoing in the empty hallway.
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