“Being together with the person you like?” Shirley smiled and repeated the sentence. She then parted her lips slowly. “True happiness is being united with your family.”
The maid nodded in agreement when she heard what Shirley had said.
Shirley lifted her alluring and beautiful eyes. There was happiness in her eyes, happiness that had been long absent. “I think I’ll be reunited with my family soon.”
Shirley spoke and gently steered her wheelchair to the edge of the stairs.
The maid was still contemplating Shirley’s words when she heard a sudden crashing sound.
Carter was about to speak with Kendrick when he heard the sudden scream from the maid upstairs.
Just as he turned around, he also heard a loud crash coming from the stairs as if something heavy was rolling down the stairs.
When he lifted his eyes to look closer, he saw that it was Shirley who was falling down the stairs with her wheelchair, and he was stunned.
“Shirley! ” Panicking, Carter rushed over to Shirley who had tumbled down the stairs.
Camille hurried over as well.
Niamh and Kendrick were surprised too. Despite all of the despicable acts Shirley had committed, they did not look coldly from the sidelines.
The maid on the first floor stood as still as a statue as she watched Shirley fell the whole way down the stairs.
Carter had repeatedly told her to properly watch over Shirley, but now that Shirley had fallen down the stairs along with her wheelchair, the maid was worried that she, too, would soon suffer.
Shirley fell the entire way down to the ground floor. When she lost her balance, the wheelchair ran over her. She felt pain but she did not care anymore.
Carter ran to the bottom of the stairs and squatted down to carry Shirley.
The fall and stumble from the first floor had given Shirley some flesh wounds, but her head suffered the most grievous injury as it had crashed against the metal railing of the stairs.
Carter picked Shirley up, getting ready to run to the hospital.
When Shirley, whose eyes were half-closed from the pain, saw Carter’s panicked countenance, crystal
-clear tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.
“You don’t have to send me to the hospital,” Shirley said with a smile.
Carter stopped abruptly in his tracks. He felt a hot, sticky liquid on the palm of his hand.
As he wondered what it was, Camille suddenly screamed, “Her lower body’s bleeding! Send her to the hospital! Hurry!”
When Carter heard this, he felt as if his heart had stopped, suffocating him, for one second.
After spacing out for two seconds, he strode onward once again.
Sensing Carter’s concern for her, the corners of Shirley’s lips curled up against her volition, revealing a contented smile.
‘It seems that you like me too, Carter.’
Shirley finally dared to confirm this, but it was too late.
“Carter, don’t take me to the hospital…”
Shirley spoke again, rejecting Carter’s kindness. “I’m deliberately seeking death.”
Her answer made Carter stop walking again.
Carter lowered his eyes and looked into Shirley’s teary, red eyes in disbelief.
“What did you say? You’re seeking death?”
“Yes, I am. I don’t want to see you again. I’m tired.”
The corners of Shirley’s lips tugged as an endless pain and despair could be seen in her smile.
“I truly felt thankful for meeting you back then. All those years we’ve spent together make me feel that I’m the luckiest person in the world.
“In those earlier times, I had always been immersed in my selfish hatred. I hated my parents for only loving my brother, but after finding my father’s notebook, I realized that their love had never been biased. They had even cared for me a little more than they had for my brother.
“They sent me to St. Piaf to further my studies, yet I thought that they wanted to abandon me. Believing myself infallible, I left school and wandered the streets. I was indifferent when I learned about their deaths, but I finally know how stupid I was. Hiss…”
As Shirley recounted her past, she frowned in pain, and more tears filled the corners of her eyes.
“Even though my stupid brother always seems to make life difficult for me and occasionally scolds me, I know he cares about me. Yet, his so-called sister’s stubbornness killed him and that kind girl in the end …”
As Shirley spoke, she turned her face toward Niamh and Kendrick who stood nearby.
“ I’m sorry. I hope it’s not too late for me to atone for my sins.”
Upon hearing what Shirley said, Niamh and Kendrick felt a little touched in the depths of their hearts.
“Don’t speak. If Adam was aware of this, he wouldn’t want you to be like this as well Let’s go to the hospital.”
Niamh urged but Shirley softly shook her head, her eyes starting to close from exhaustion.
“ I miss my parents and my brother. I also want to apologize to that girl who had been taking care of me for so long …”
Shirley closed her eyes. Warm tears flowed down from the corners of her eyes.
Carter’s eyes reddened as he sobbed.
“Shirley, you only remember your parents, your brother, and Cathy with whom you have no blood relation. But what about me? Did you ever think about our child?”
“Heh.”
Shirley closed her eyes and chuckled.
“We don’t have a child. This child has been destined to die in my womb since the beginning.”
Once again, Shirley’s words simultaneously stabbed Carter’s heart like a sharp knife and also shocked everyone in the room.
Camille, too, was extremely agitated and anxious.
“Carter, ignore whatever she says. Get her to the hospital now! Get to the hospital and you might still have a chance to save the child!”
Shirley laughed when she heard that. She murmured to herself, “It’s no use even if you save the child, he’s destined to not come to this world…”
Even though Shirley was speaking very softly, Carter could still hear her.
Her words made his mind buzz.
On the way to the hospital, Carter nearly lost his grip on the steering wheel.
He could not accept that Shirley had done this on purpose. She had deliberately fallen from the stairs. She deliberately wanted to die in front of him.
How could she be so ruthless?
How could she also not care about the child? How hopeless was she to be able to do this?
Carter paced back and forth as he waited outside the operating theatre. He felt as if his heart had been burnt, tortured to the point of breaking.
He regretted. He should have taken care of Ada when he knew that she was the one who disfigured Shirley instead of keeping Ada around, giving her more chance to hurt Shirley and the people around Shirley.
Adam and Cathy’s deaths might have been the last straw for Shirley.
She wanted to die because of her guilt over Adam and Cathy’s deaths. It was also because there was no longer anyone she would live for in this world.
Not even him and the child in her womb.
Niamh and Kendrick got to the hospital after some consideration.
Throughout their journey, they were still astonished by Shirley’s attempt in ending her life.
They also believed that Shirley had been sincere when she apologized earlier.
Perhaps she had already come to her senses long ago, but she just had not been showing it.
When Carter saw Niamh and Kendrick, he felt anger suddenly rising in his chest.
He walked toward Kendrick. When he was about to speak, the light of the emergency room turned off and the doctor walked out.
Carter felt dizzy when he saw the strikingly salient bloodstains on the doctor’s gloves.
He turned around and strode over, then frantically asked, “Doctor, how’s the patient? She’s fine, isn’t she? The baby in her womb is also fine, right?”
From the anxiety in Carter’s tone and statement, Niamh could hear how much he wished Shirley and the child in Shirley’s stomach to be fine.
However, what he got was the doctor’s remorseful shake of his head.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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