The care stopped in front of the hospital. Cormac got off. A security guard walked over and reminded, “You can’t park here, Sir.”
Boyce tossed the key to the guard and rushed to follow Cormac.
When Loredana was rescued, she fainted. Victoria was still in the emergency room.
Fortunately, neither kid got hurt. Simona was frightened, nestling in Coral’s arms, trembling.
When seeing the man approaching from the corridor, Simona, who had been suppressing her emotion, burst into tears. The quiet waiting area suddenly was fulfilled with her cry. Cormac held her in his arms, pressing her head and comforting her in a soft tone, “Don’t be afraid, Simona. Daddy is here.” While he spoke, he looked at the bodyguard next to them sharply. “Where is she?” “Missus is in the lounge. The doctor has checked her up. She’s fine. However…”
Upon hearing it, Cormac felt a bit relaxed. Putting on his arm on Samuel’s shoulder, he gave his ever-calm son an embrace.
He felt extremely fortunate — they were all fine.
He said in a hoarse tone, “Come on. Let’s go to check on your Mommy.”
Samuel didn’t move with reddish eyes. “Grandma is still in there. I’ll wait for her.”
Cormac frowned deeply. He didn’t know that Victoria was there as well.
He looked over at the bodyguards who were standing against the wall as if he was asking what happened exactly.
One of them lowered his head, “Today Mrs. Mendelsohn and Missus went out with the children. We drove three vehicles. They were sitting in the minivan in the middle. We four were with them. When we were passing FX road, the accident happened. There were too many people from the other party, and they had planned ahead. While we were entangled by them, they took the chance to take Mrs. Mendelsohn away. When stopping them, we didn’t notice that Missus was held hostage. For her safety, Mrs. Mendelsohn agreed to go with them, but they didn’t release Missus… “They drove away from the scene. Jack and I went to chase them. Later the car had an accident. When we arrived, Missus had fainted, and Mrs. Mendelsohn…”
The bodyguard bent down his head more. When they rescued Victoria from the car, she was soaking in blood. Her back was badly mutilated. She was almost dying…
Cormac squinted at him, his relaxing face turning livid. Then his face was tightened abnormally as if he was suppressing his extreme anger. He felt so difficult to breathe, and his eyes were burning. He stared daggers at that bodyguard. “Go on!”
The bodyguard shivered, trembling all over.
Right then, the light above the door of the surgery turned from green to red suddenly. The door was slid open. A doctor in a blue surgical gown came out. He took off his mask and bowed at the family who was waiting. “I’m sorry, but we’ve tried our best. When the patient was sent here, she had stopped breathing already. We have taken a series of measures for heart resuscitation but failed to save her. She was too seriously injured. I’m sorry for your loss.”
Jayden, who had just arrived at the door of the surgery room, listened to the doctor and shook. Kevin helped him up to avoid him from falling.
Samuel held Cormac’s leg, sobbing in a low voice. His shoulders kept heaving up and down, trembling all over. He understood what the doctor had said.
He was so sad because he had understood those words.
Cormac also tightened his body. He even forgot that Samuel was still holding his leg. He rushed to the doctor, grabbed his collar, and said with bloodshot eyes. “Repeat what you said just now!” Boyce helped up Samuel, who almost fell, and passed him to Coral. He walked over and said, “Cormac, calm down.”
The doctor’s face paled in fear. He tried to remain calm. Every time, when he announced the death of a patient, he could always encounter the patient’s family who might lose his or her mind.
“We have tried our best,” the doctor uttered some words.
Cormac didn’t release his grasp on the doctor, but instead, it was more and more tightened. Blue veins popped out on the back of his hand and his eyes were fully bloodshot. “I’m ordering you to rescue her!” “Please calm down. You’ll frighten Simona. Right now we must look into the matter and find out the manipulator.” Boyce grabbed his hand.
Cormac gradually looked over at him.
Boyce continued, “Would it be useful if you killed the doctor?”
“Daddy.” Simona wrapped her arms around his neck and sobbing in low voice. “I’m scared. Daddy, don’t be angry, OK?”
Cormac closed his eyes. His tightened outline of the chin emanated the arctic coldness.
“Daddy.” He heard the child’s hoarse and trembling voice. Her face rubbed against his neck. “I’m scared.”
In silence, he gradually released his hand, patting his daughter on her back. “Don’t be afraid.”
Boyce immediately asked the doctor to leave.
He tried to hold Simona from Cormac’s arm. “Next, we may have a lot of work to do. I’ll send the children back home and let the bodyguards and Coral take care of them.” Simona didn’t want to let go. She wanted her Daddy.
“Simona, good girl. Daddy still needs to deal with a lot of things. He’ll go back to accompany you after things are done.” Simona’s eyes and nose were reddened because of her weep. She asked in a hoarse voice, “Daddy, will you come back to accompany me soon?”
When she asked, she kept sobbing.
Cormac answered extremely hoarsely, “I will.”
Upon hearing her father’s promise, Simona finally let go of him. Boyce held her to the bodyguards and ordered solemnly, “Make sure to take good care of them.”
Since such kind of thing happened, the bodyguards couldn’t help blaming themselves. “Yes, Mr. Shawn. We will.”
After the children were sent back to the villa and Coral would take care of them, Boyce didn’t rest assured at all. He called Armand and asked him to go to the villa as well.
He couldn’t tell Armand exactly what had happened, so he just briefed Armand about the situation. “I’m still worried. Please go take care of them.”
Armand asked him to relax and agreed, so Boyce hung up the phone.
Victoria’s dead body hadn’t been sent to the mortuary yet. It was still in the ward for the time being.
The body was covered with a white cloth. Jayden was half-kneeling next to the bed, grabbing her cold hand.
How he wished to warm up her cold body.
He shed tears in silence.
“You’ve promised to accompany me to the end. How could you dump me and leave me so suddenly? You even didn’t say farewell to me…”
The man’s voice was lowered to the extreme, sobbing of grief.
Kevin was standing next to him, also weeping.
“She suffered from a hard lot.”
Cormac was standing at the door. Without entering the ward, he lowered his head. His emotion was hidden behind the hair on his forehead.
“I remember when she was twenty, something happened to our family. Our parents passed away and I was put in jail. She was alone, searching for help, aiming to rescue me…” Kevin sobbed.
“I didn’t know at that time until months later. To rescue me from the jail, she had a deal with a woman named Jolene Harris. She gave Victoria a huge amount of money to pay the debt we owned so that I didn’t need to go into jail. Then, my sister left White City with Jolene Harris.
“The woman named Jolene Harris didn’t love her husband and had a secret lover. However, she felt sorry for her husband, so she sent Victoria to her husband, hoping that they could fall in love with each other… Later, Victoria was pregnant. Jolene Harris said she would give the child a decent identity, so she announced that she was pregnant to the public.
“As soon as the baby was born, Jolene Harris started to raise him in the name of her own son. Unfortunately, Jeffery Harris found the relationship between Jayden and Victoria. He thought it was Victoria who had seduced Jayden during Jolene Harris’s pregnancy… At that time, Terrell Harris was still in his position, quite powerful. Jeffery Harris had nothing to fear, so he kidnapped Victoria and forced her to call Jayden, telling him that she wanted to break up with him. Victoria wasn’t willing to do that. Jeffrey Harris heard that she used to have a beloved man before, so he also kidnapped Nathan White, threatening Victoria with him…
“She couldn’t do anything but call Jayden, telling him that she was still in love with Nathan and she wanted to leave. In fact, she didn’t leave town. She was locked up by Jeffery Harris. He locked her up for six years…
“It was Jolene Harris who found that she hadn’t left with Nathan White, but was locked up by Jeffery Harris. Hence, Jolene Harris forced her brother to release Victoria. At that time, it was already six years later Jeffery Harris believed that since Victoria and Jayden had been separated for so many years, so they shouldn’t love each other. Besides, the son of Jolene Harris and Jayden had grown up, so he agreed to let go of her…
“It was six years, over two thousand days and nights. When she was locked up, she had just given birth to the baby. At that time, she was also injured so she couldn’t give birth again. Moreover, she suffered from a mental disorder. She didn’t get better until one year later.
“Later, to stay by her son’s side, she married Jayden. However, Jeffery Harris didn’t agree. He threatened her to exchange her marriage with her family’s ancestral craft. I don’t know how that Jolene Harris died.”
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.