“Did you call her?”Jessica glanced at Marlin. She looked very unhappy.
“I didn’t.”
Marlin shook his head.
He looked at me and said, “June, why are you here?”
“Me?”I looked at them indifferently and said, “I’m here for the same purpose as you!”
It seemed that they all wanted to keep it from me.
“You…”
Marlin looked at me and was upset.
He seemed to want to get rid of me.
At this time, a doctor came up with a folder. He saw us and said, “here you are. I’m going to announce it.”
Marlin and Jessica took a look at me. They were dissatisfied, but the doctor was here.
The doctor opened the folder and simply read Sherry’s admission time, coma time and some data.
Finally, he announced Sherry’s brain death.
The doctor looked at us and said, “please go back and discuss when to turn off the ventilator.”
If they turned off the ventilator, Sherry would die.
“I don’t agree!”
I firmly disagreed!
Daniell just died. Now if Sherry died, I couldn’t accept the loss of two important people.
Jessica took a look at me.”This is Carter Family. You don’t belong to Carter Family. You can’t decide it.”
“If they turn off the ventilator, grandma will die!”
I looked at Jessica.
“Mom died a long time ago. Only her organs are still running! She is already a vegetable. Do you know what a vegetable means?”Jessica said.
The doctor watched us quarrel and said, “be quiet.”Then he left.
He must have seen it many times.
I knew what a vegetable meant, but I didn’t want to do it, “but there are a lot of news reports that the vegetative people wake up after many years of coma.”
“News?”Jessica immediately laughed, “don’t you think it’s ridiculous? If it’s not rare, can it be news?”
She said and looked at Marlin.”Don’t you speak? You know what Carter Family is like now. Mom costs tens of thousands of dollars a day. How long can we last?”
“But we can’t turn off the machine today.”
Marlin said after a long silence.
He seemed to have made up his mind.
But it couldn’t change the ruthlessness of what he said.
“We have to turn off the machine this month, or I won’t pay!”
Jessica put her hands around her chest and looked firm.
Marlin looked sad.”Let’s go back and discuss it.”
They couldn’t discuss it in front of me because I would stop them.
Molly watched them fight and said, “Auntie, Dad, we can’t turn off the ventilator now. If grandma can really wake up, don’t you regret it?”
Her words surprised me.
But I wasn’t surprised after thinking for a while.
I didn’t know what she was thinking, but she had been pretending to be kind.
Marlin looked at her and was a little impatient.”If it was before, it doesn’t matter. Now you should know something about our family.”
“You can make Sean pay. He has a lot of money anyway.”
Jessica satirized her.
When it came to Sean, Molly was embarrassed, “I’ll tell him about it. But I don’t think it’s good. After all, it’s our family’s business.”
“Forget it. Let him invest his money in Carter Family. Now Carter family needs money. Don’t owe him.”
Jessica said.
She took it for granted.
I was angry.
She didn’t care about Sherry’s life at all.
“I’ll find a way to pay.”
I couldn’t get them to turn off Sherry’s ventilator.
All three of them looked at me.
Jessica laughed sarcastically, “Okay, June. I’ll wait for you to pay.”
With that, she left.
Marlin took a look at me and left.
All of a sudden, only Molly and I were left.
I wanted to leave, but I heard Molly behind me say, “I’d better ask Mr. Jessop for some money.”
I stopped.
I looked at her and asked, “don’t you have any money?”
Molly looked embarrassed and shook her head.”No, I checked my bank records recently. In recent years, Mr. Jessop has transferred money to me every month. The credit card I used was also from Mr. Jessop.”
“…”
Sean was cunning.
He fed Molly when he was with me.
I was very angry.
I squinted at Molly.”You have your own hands and feet. Why don’t you go out and make money?”
“I…”Molly said awkwardly, “I can’t do anything. You did some of my college work for me. I don’t get enough for a month to buy a dress.”
She was right. She couldn’t do anything. She couldn’t make any money.
“So you’re going to be fed by Sean? What if one day he doesn’t feed you?”
“Mr. Jessop will not.”
“Why?”
I didn’t understand why Molly said so firmly.
I never understood them.
“I…”Molly gave me a look. Her eyes were a little complicated. She hesitated for a long time before she said, “anyway, he will give me money.”
“What do you love, his money or him?”
I wanted to ask her that question a long time ago.
But I had a bad relationship with Molly before, so I didn’t have a chance to ask her.
“Both.”
Molly’s answer surprised me.
She said that and left.
She didn’t ask me to keep her secret. It seemed that this didn’t matter to her.
She believed that Sean loved her anyway.
I didn’t know if Molly really lost her memory.
Instead of going home after I left the hospital, I went to the real estate agency. I wanted to know how much my house was worth now.
The estate agent told me it was worth 14 million dollars, but they didn’t promise to sell it immediately.
I was going to the final in two days and I didn’t know how long I would be back.
If they sold my house, I couldn’t come back.
I didn’t want to leave the money entirely to a real estate agent.
I went home and found Jessica’s contact information. Instead of calling her, I added her as a friend first.
I sent her a video of her phone call that I recorded at the hospital before Sherry had surgery.