“What are they doing here?” Zoey thought it was strange. Ever since Nabi Yan and her brother divorced, the elders of the two families hadn’t even had business dealings anymore. What was going on now?
Sea Gu shrugged as he handed her the spoon and carefully swung her bed up a bit, passing her a small pillow around her waist before saying, “I don’t know, your brother didn’t tell you. You’re not well now, so don’t worry so much.”
“Well, that too. You can leave when my brother comes over in a little while. Don’t delay, rest early today, you have to go to work early tomorrow morning.”
Sea Gu nodded his head and watched her bow her head to eat, he wanted to talk to her about Jerry Xiao just fainted, but in the end he didn’t say anything. She was hurt by him, and now she really wants to get rid of her relationship with him, so why should she bother?
When Zoey finished eating, Owen came over and told him to go home first, seeing that Sea Gu was also tired. Seeing that Sea Gu was also tired, he told him to go back first, Sea Gu thought that the company had a big project in the morning and could not be delayed, so he urged Zoey to say a few more words, before finally leaving with peace of mind.
Owen Baker puts the dishes away and absently looks down, his eyes caught by a flash of sparkle in the corner. Silently, he picks the ring up, glances at Zoey, and places it gently at the foot of her bed.
“Brother, take it away! It’s not mine.” Zoey doesn’t even look at it. The ring, which wouldn’t make her feel any sweeter, was just a constant reminder of how stupid she really was!
Owen Baker looked deeply at her calm almost abnormal face, before nodding slightly, silently put the ring away for her. Zoey closed her eyes, obviously do not care, but the heart can not help but hurt …
“Brother, I heard that Nabi Yan’s family went to our house, did something happen?” She tried to find a topic to make it more or less easy for her.
“In fact, they went to beg you. However, you weren’t well enough for me to stop you from the ward, so they had to go to the house instead.” Owen Baker was talking to Zoey as he carefully peeled her pineapple.
“Begging me? What happened?”
Owen Baker gave her a look, “In case you didn’t know. Nabi Yan was arrested by the police for murder this afternoon.”
“Huh?” Zoey covered her mouth in shock and looked at her brother incredulously, “How could she … murder? Kill who?”
“Kill the bald head. You should know about this bald head, I heard that when Nabi Yan set us both up, it was this bald head that helped her. The bald guy used the incident to coerce her into … “Owen Baker paused before saying, “Raping. Nabi lost her mind and killed him on the spot.”
Listening to Owen Baker talk about all this, Zoey just thought it was a mirage. She suspected and even confirmed that Nabi Yan had set herself and her brother up, but never expected her to kill anyone.
“In this prosecution case, her defense attorney wanted to use justifiable self-defense as a point of defense. It will still result in a prison sentence, but the judge will be more or less lenient. But if we prosecute her again on the framing, it might make the defense of this case worse. Their family is begging us not to add to her woes.”
Zoey didn’t respond, just looked at her brother, “What do you think, brother?”
Owen laughed and got up to soak the cut pineapple in salt water before sitting back down and looking at Zoey, “We’ll forget about it. Honestly, I didn’t want to forgive her, she’s the one who almost caused us to not even be brother and sister, and got me locked up in Arabia. But … well nothing happened between me and you, and besides, I got a surprise in Arabia. Let’s just forgive her together, let go of our obsessions, take a step back, and we’ll live a little more comfortably.”
Zoey smiled. She expected it to be like this. Her brother had never been the most generous man.
“Can I know what kind of surprise?”
“I have found someone who is very, very important to me. When we go to Arabia some day, I’ll bring you to meet him.”
“Is it a woman?” She smiled at Owen . He was glowing with happiness as he spoke of the man.
“Yes, it’s a woman, a very beautiful woman!”
Zoey’s smile deepened and her hand came out and shook Owen’s, “Brother, can you tell me about that night? I want to hear it properly.”
Owen Baker blushed slightly at the mention of that night and apologized, “I’m sorry, Zoey , that night … I almost …”
“Brother, it’s not like I want to hear you apologize.” Zoey said with a sigh of relief. For those in the past, knowing now that nothing had happened, it was long overdue. It could be listened to with ease.
Owen smiled easily before continuing, “I got a message from your number. I had to rush to the hotel only to see you …”
He spread his hands. “You know, you’re completely abnormal. But at the time, I wasn’t even paying attention to any of that, my mind was all blank, and I even shamelessly thought about just making it a mistake, and maybe, when I opened my eyes, you’d realize that you were in love with me, too.”
He let out a long breath, “Good thing, I held it together. Otherwise, you might have a few more slaps in my face right now.”
Zoey laughed, “You’re the one who totally misled me. If we didn’t have anything going on, why couldn’t you have been properly dressed? And … the whole picture totally looked like it happened, which made me really hate myself at the time and resent you.”
“You have absolutely no one to blame but yourself.” When the two of them talked about this, there was no longer any embarrassment, instead there was relief and relaxation. He spoiled her by pinching her bloodless face, “That night you really can toss and turn, gave you a cold soak in the middle of the night, and even if you didn’t behave, you also made my shirt and pants all soaked through. I gave you a cup of milk, but you poured it on my pants, so I slept in my pants, thank God! In the end, I had no choice but to wrap you up in the quilt to keep you from messing around.”
Zoey blushes so much that she could bleed, but she can’t help but ‘pfft’ and laugh when she realizes that’s what’s going on.
Owen Baker gazed deeply at her smiling face, only to feel that he was also infected by her smile, and stroked her forehead with some emotion, “Zoey , you’re the most beautiful when you’re smiling, smile like this more often in the future.”
Zoey nodded nicely, “Sure.”
For myself, for my brother, for my parents, for my children …
No matter what kind of wounds she’s suffered and what kind of falls she’s planted in love, life goes on. There was nothing left for her but to be strong.
…
When Mrs. Zhan hurried to the hospital, Jerry Xiao had not yet come out of the emergency room.
Upon hearing that she had just fainted in Zoey’s hospital room, Mrs. Zhan was not even steady on her feet, and she instantly collapsed at the door of the emergency room.
Zac White was one step faster than Afon and hurriedly held her, ”Auntie, calm down. I have already contacted the doctors in England, as long as we wait for him to wake up, he will be transferred to England immediately. There will definitely be no problem!”
“But … will he still wake up? I only have this one son …” Mrs. Zhan cried so much that her delicate makeup was all smudged, lying on Zac White’s shoulder and sobbing. Where is the previous delicate look, Zac White looked at the heart is also difficult. There is no mother under the sky who can deal with this scene calmly and gracefully, not to mention, the eldest son also died because of this condition.
I don’t know how long I cried, Mrs. Zhan suddenly straightened up, looked at the emergency room, and then turned around and walked away. Zac White rather felt suspicious and looked at Afon, who nodded and followed uneasily.
…
Zoey carried on as Owen Baker went back to bed and lay alone in the hospital room. In the quiet moments, she forced herself not to think too much about the Baker family, how they were doing, what was going on. She guessed it must be pretty bad, with her father missing for the past few days and Owen looking tired.
The stock fell into someone else’s hands, and now it is already back to the sky. She was not sure how Jerry Xiao was going to treat the Baker family, either by completely changing the Baker family group from the inside out and making the Baker family disappear completely, or by declaring bankruptcy on the grounds of the Baker family’s current income and expenditure situation.
She shuddered to think how much of a blow that had been to her father and mother, and what could be done about it now?
Just as she was thinking about it, Zoey only heard footsteps outside, walking briskly, as if they were coming towards her hospital room. She opened her eyes in disbelief, and sure enough …
The door to the hospital room was violently pushed open from the outside. The moment she saw the other person, Zoey’s heart choked. Is not … Jerry …
She suddenly did not dare to think down, just strong body, half sit up, all body pain like to crack, the wound is even more pulling pain. Before she had time to speak, she only felt that Mrs. Zhan briskly stepped to the edge of the bed, that footsteps are very fast, the soles of the feet like the wind. And that eyes, from the top down, towering down, but also with hatred – deeper hatred than before, like hate can not be Zoey eaten alive general.
Zoey subconsciously winced, and before her lips opened, she only saw the other party’s hand raised high. She subconsciously wanted to raise her hand to clasp it, but the injured her didn’t have the strength to lift it at all.
Only to hear a crisp “slap–” sound, the overbearing slap on Zoey’s face, Zoey only felt a dizziness, the mind is blank. Zoey only felt dizzy and her mind went blank. All that was left was the swollen half of her face, which was hot and painful.
Her eyelashes flapped, the tip of her nose was a little sore, but no tears fell. Mrs. Zhan’s heart-rending voice echoed in the ward, especially poignant.
“Now you’re satisfied aren’t you? It wasn’t enough to kill one of us, Chuck, but you have to come and hurt Jerry! What kind of demon are you to come to harm our family!!!” She sharply questioned, each word like a rigid cone, as if poking her eardrums and stabbing her brain nerves one at a time.
Her hand, all of a sudden, grasped the bed sheet underneath her, her heartache momentarily covered that pain on her face. Thinking of it, Jerry Xiao said those words – is it that if I die, you will feel better?
She raised her thin, pale face to look at Mrs. Zhan with red eyes, “Could it be that Jerry he … he …”
The latter, those cruel words, she couldn’t say at all. Only her lips, constantly trembling. As if those were horrible words, once they were said there was no room for redemption.
“You shut up!” Mrs. Zhan screamed in fear, the scathing eyes that seemed to penetrate into her body, “My son will be fine! Only you! Only people like you will be fine! To die, you will die first!”
Zoey’s eyelashes fluttered, but she didn’t utter any words of rebuttal, nor could she. She knew all too well the pain of losing a child.