The doctor’s expression was grave as his gaze swept over everyone present before he asked a question, “Who’s the family mber of the patient?”
“!”
Taylor stepped forward.
He stared at the doctor’s face and asked, “How is my wife?”
Hearing this, the doctor turned toward him. “She’s not
in critical condition now.”
Upon hearing this, Keira relaxed, but her hands unconsciously began to tremble.
“Dad!”
Suddenly, hearing Isla’s cry of alarm, Keira looked up just to discover that Taylor had collapsed onto the floor.
It seed that he had been extrely tense, and having heard the doctor’s words, he completely relaxed.
While Isla and Jake tried to help him up, Taylor waved his hand. “I’m fine.”
His entire deanor was like that of soone who had just taken a walk through hell, and now he finally
resud the comportnt of the Olsen family’s head of the household.
He stayed seated on the floor and looked up at the doctor. His voice was still shaky, and he seed sowhat frightened. “What happened to my wife? Why was she coughing up blood? Is it serious…”
“She was agitated, causing a sudden spike in blood pressure, which led to the rupture of a blood vessel and the vomiting of blood. You got her to the hospital in ti, and there’s no major issue, but the patient will need to keep her emotions stable and avoid further stimulation in the future.”
After giving his instructions, the doctor turned and opened the door of the operating room, and a nurse
wheeled out a stretcher.
Taylor imdiately got up from the floor and
approached the stretcher, holding Mrs. Olsen’s hand tightly.
Burying his head in Mrs. Olsen’s hospital bed, tears rolled down his cheeks; he exuded a sense of relief as though he had escaped death, “Shirley, you nearly scared to death…”
“Just transfer her to a regular ward; the patient isn’t in danger anymore.”
After giving this instruction, the doctor and a crowd of people surrounded the stretcher, proceeding toward the regular ward.
Keira followed them from a distance, her eyes slightly red by now.
Once Mrs. Olsen had been wheeled into the ward, Isla and Jake finally turned their gaze sharply toward her.
Isla rushed over, accusing her, “Keira, how shaless can you be? You’ve harassed my mom to that point, so what are you doing here?!”
Keira didn’t speak.
But Lewis stood in front of her, his tone loaded with warning as he began, “Isla!”
Just hearing her na made Isla shiver.
However her gaze quickly fell upon Ellis. who was
standing nearby, and she imdiately said, “Uncle, even if you intend to discipline according to family law today, I must say this! If it weren’t for her insisting on entering our house tonight and seeing my mom, how could my mom end up like this? This whole incident is because of her!”
Lewis frowned upon hearing this. “Shut up!”
Isla put on an aggrieved face, and as expected, in the next mont, Ellis interjected. “Lewis, you really can’t tell right from wrong, can you? Now I see how you abuse your power here. I never thought you could be such a person!”
Lewis looked at him coldly. “What kind of person I am is none of your business.”
Ellis laughed derisively. “But if you try to bully the person I’m protecting, then it becos my business! Lewis, you should know, not everyone here is easy to
provoke!”
He pointed toward the ward, fuming, “I’ve seen everything tonight. From start to finish, it was Keira who insisted on entering to show Mrs. Olsen so damned photo, then her mom, that shaless.
mistress, barged in to provoke Mrs. Olsen. That’s why this happened! With here, it’s not your place to
bully the Olsen family!”
Only then did Lewis understand why Keira went to the Olsen house.
The Olsen family had always been an unspoken pain in Keira’s heart; she hardly ever visited unless necessary.
Today was supposed to be a visit to the Allen family to see a photo, but instead, she ended up taking the photo to the Olsen family… There must be sothing going on.
However, he didn’t ask right away but looked down at her and said, “Keira, you haven’t had dinner yet, have you? Let’s have sothing to eat.”
Keira nodded nonchalantly.
After descending the stairs, they found a random restaurant near the hospital.
Lewis ordered a portion of porridge for her and didn’t order anything else.
Keira stirred the porridge with a spoon, her eyes downcast the entire ti, exuding an air of disappointnt.
Lewis thought back to when he first t her. The girl with those cunning, pretty eyes called him husband, and how she appeared before him later with various identities, always with a hint of playfulness.
She was like a little sun, forcibly barging into his life.
When had he ever seen his little sun so downcast?
Lewis couldn’t help but ask, “What photo did you look at tonight?”
Only then did Keira realize that she had been clutching that old photo in her left hand the whole ti. She looked up and handed the photo to Lewis.
Upon seeing the person in the photo, Lewis was also slightly taken aback, and after a mont of silence, he spoke. “Your mother, Poppy, I’ve already investigated her. She and your uncle Finley’s mother don’t look like this… so this must be your paternal grandmother.”
Keira kept her head down, silent.
Lewis then said, “Last ti you found out you weren’t Taylor’s daughter, Poppy said she didn’t know who your father was either. Looking at the photo, this
woman is dressed in luxury, and that’s Mr. Allen beside her, so she must be from Clance…”
He paused there, then suddenly asked, “Keira, who would’ve thought you turned out to be a lost heiress from a wealthy and noble family? If you get
acknowledged and taken back, you won’t look down on the Horton family for being of inferior social status and not worthy of you, will you?”
Keira slowly lifted her head.
He spoke unhurriedly, and his tone had a lightness to it; his deep, magnetic voice cald her unconsciously.
At last, reason began to return slowly.
Just as she was about to say sothing, a snicker from Ellis ca from the side. “Pfff, Lewis, the powerful and influential in Clance, the families who could look down on you, are just our few great families. What a joke you’re making. Keira, as an illegitimate daughter, where could she get such a high-born background?”
They slowly turned their heads and saw Ellis lounging at a table next to theirs. “I’m familiar with everyone from Clance. Let see the photo; I’m sure I’ll recognize the person.”
He was curious about which photo had caused such a big emotional fluctuation in Mrs. Olsen.
Upon hearing this, Lewis hesitated for a mont.
Ellis was born and raised in Clance; perhaps he would really recognize the person…
Lewis passed the photo to Ellis.
Before Ellis could look at it, he heard Keira ask, “Has
Mrs. Olsen awoken?”
Ellis replied, “She should wake up soon. The doctor just said it would be about half an hour.”
No sooner had these words fallen than Keira stood up abruptly, her eyes regaining clarity, and her face shedding the weakness of monts before, as she said to Lewis, “Mr. Horton, Mrs. Olsen held onto my hand before she fainted, telling not to go. She must h sothing to tell ; I want her to see the mom she wakes up.”
Understanding her aning, Lewis imdiately said, “Okay, I’ll make the arrangents.”
Keira no longer wished to eat and stood up to leave.
Lewis quickly followed after her.
Ellis frowned at the conversation between the two, then lowered his head to look at the photo in his hand…
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