Niamh and Kendrick could guess who was the person who had kidnapped Shirley, but they did not expect them to be so heinous.
“Do you know who did this?” Adam saw the light flashing across Niamh and Kendrick’s eyes.
When Niamh was about to say something, the door of the operating room opened.
Adam turned around and rushed over immediately. “Dr. Lewis, how’s the patient?”
The doctor shook his head with a heavy look on his face. “Dr. Brown, I did everything I could. Perhaps it’ll be better if you perform the surgery.”
After hearing this, Adam felt his heart turn ice-cold. It was as though it had been submerged in bone- chilling ice water, causing his entire body to freeze.
When Niamh heard this while standing at the side, she found the situation to be strange. She did not dare to believe that Shirley would die just like this. “Doctor, how’s the patient doing now?”
When the doctor saw that Niamh was with Adam, he explained in detail, “Judging from the current situation, she may end up losing her mobility and will have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. The wound on her face is also abnormally deep, so it can be said that she’ll be disfigured.”
Disability and disfigurement.
Niamh immediately recalled her own situation from back then.
She had been blind and also disfigured. It could be said that she had gone through the exact same thing as what Shirley was going through now.
“This is the patient’s current state. Perhaps she might improve after a recovery period, but it might take a very long time or even a lifetime.”
After Adam heard this, he nodded gently to show that he understood. “Thank you, Dr. Lewis.”
He turned around slowly, the back of his figure looking abnormally bleak.
“Evie, Kendrick, I’ll go stay with Adam.” After Cathy informed Niamh and Kendrick, she quickly followed Adam.
Niamh lifted her eyes to look into Kendrick’s eyes. There was a complicated look in both of their eyes.
Niamh did not know whether this encounter and ending were Shirley’s karma. If it was, then what about the things she had experienced before?
Cathy and Adam came to the garden below the hospital.
It was still snowing and a thick layer of snow had already piled up on the ground.
Adam stood amid the snow and the wind like a statue. He showed no emotions and was not speaking.
Cathy tried to get close to him. “Adam.”
She called out. She initially thought Adam would not pay attention to her, but he still turned his head.
“Cathy, it’s cold out here. You should go in first. Let me stay here for a while.”
“Adam, you were with me during the most torturous and coldest time of my life, so I’ll return the favor. I’ll be with you no matter what the circumstances are.”
Upon hearing this, Adam’s expression changed slightly.
He wanted to tell Shirley to leave again, but he felt that Cathy might not listen to him.
He smiled softly and walked forward slowly. The fluttering snow flew past his shoulders and landed on his hair.
“I really miss my childhood,” Adam lamented.
Cathy was touched by this sentence as well because she also missed her childhood.
She missed the year, the month, and the day when she first met Felipe at the beach.
Back then, their encounter had been so pure, but ultimately, he still could not escape what life had planned for him.
He was dead now.
They would never meet in this life again.
“She used to be a good sister and was amazing.” Adam reminisced sincerely. “She thought Mom and Dad only loved me and they neglected her because they wanted to care for me. However, she didn’t know that only one of us could study abroad in St. Piaf and our parents gave the chance to her. She thought they did this to abandon her.”
Adam furrowed his thick eyebrows in distress.
“I had given her the notebook. She wouldn’t have wasted time on insoluble problems if she had just read it. Why is she still so stubborn in going about things the wrong way?
“Back then, she said she wanted to be a great medical scientist like Mom and Dad, but now, she has become a witch who only knows how to harm people and use poison on them…
“How did things become like this?”
Adam lowered his eyelids in pain while sighing with melancholy.
Cathy placed her hand gently on Adam’s shoulder. “Sometimes, a misunderstanding or complication can cause someone to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way. They will only come to the realization after you solve the matter that gnaws at their mind.
“Adam, your sister will be very devastated after she wakes up and sees the condition she’s in. When that happens, you have to stay with her and care for her. I’m sure she’ll feel your sincerity.”
“I don’t know if her leg will recover, but I’m sure you have a way to heal her face, right?”
When Cathy asked this, her eyes were twinkling.
She believed that Adam had this ability.
After she asked that, both of them fell into a brief moment of silence.
Adam looked as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he lifted his head and looked at Cathy with a small smile on his handsome, flawless face.
“Thank you, Cathy.”
“If you thank me, you’re treating me as an outsider. Adam, you’re like my family member, so you don’t have to be courteous to me.”
Family member.
When those two words reached Adam’s ears, he felt happy yet disappointed at the same time.
However, he was feeling more delighted than anything.
After all, a family member went beyond a friend; it was a special presence.
Shirley was transferred to a private hospital ward.
After being unconscious for a day, she woke up in the middle of the night.
Despite feeling very weak when she lifted her hand, she still used all her might to touch her face.
The thick layer of bandages on her cheek proved that what had happened before was not a dream but reality. Her face had really been disfigured.
Shirley felt her heart turning cold, and when she was about to move, she suddenly realized that her legs were not responding to her. She wanted to move but could not. She had even lost all feelings in her legs.
‘How is this possible?’
Beads of cold sweat appeared on Shirley’s forehead. She tried to move again but she still could not move her legs.
In that instant, it was like a bolt from the blue and it struck her straight in the heart, splitting it into two.
She felt as if all of the blood in her body had been drained and her entire body was cold.
In addition to that, it felt as if the night sky outside the window had shrouded her. She felt that everything in front of her was black and icy.
While she was feeling distracted, Shirley saw a figure from the corner of her eyes. Then, she turned her head to see Adam sitting on the chair at the side of the bed with his eyes closed. He looked exhausted because his brows were still furrowed even when he had fallen asleep.
When Shirley thought about her current situation, she felt that this was oddly laughable.
At this moment, Shirley felt as if her heart had lost its normal rhythm. Soon after, her breathing started to become rapid.
She reflexively lifted her hand to press it against her heart, but she still could not soothe this uncontrollable feeling.
She knew very well that this was one of the symptoms when the poison flared up.
She did not forget how Kendrick had personally injected the poison into her veins that day.
Heh.
She chuckled coldly with self-mockery. This was karma.
This was karma, indeed.
Shirley gritted her teeth and gripped the blanket tightly. She looked at Adam who was sleeping soundly and slowly moved her upper body.
At this moment, she only wanted to leave. She would get out of here even if she crawled.
However, her lack of energy and the injuries she sustained after the accident would not allow her to do so. Plus, due to the poison in her body, she would have difficulties breathing. How could she crawl out of here?
However, Niamh was still determined. She endured the debilitating pain to try to move again, but her body tilted to one side and she lost her balance before falling straight to the hard floor.
However, at this moment, a pair of warm hands held her.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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