Cornel Brown shook his head, “I don’t know, but when it comes down to it, you’re the only person I can turn to.”
“Sir Brown ……”
Elena Bush spoke, then shook her head again, her hands clasped together on the table, “Dad.”
Cornel Brown’s whole body stiffened and looked over at her in surprise.
Elena Bush hooked her lips, “Actually you could have tried to communicate with him properly yourself.”
“He won’t want to hear it from me.”
“How do you know if you haven’t tried?” She asked rhetorically.
Cornel Brown clenched his teeth wordlessly, his whole body tense.
Elena Bush took a deep breath, “Since you know exactly what Logan Brown is like, you should know that even if it were me, he might not listen to what I have to say, and I don’t want to force him.”
So instead of asking her to act as a go-between, it would be better for him to talk to Logan Brown himself and untie the knot between them.
Cornel Brown was silent, not answering.
Elena Bush gave him a serious look, “Dad, this is not something you can just ask someone to fix, even if I can get Logan Brown to let go of his prejudices, I can’t erase the damage that has been done.”
He should know this better than anyone.
Cornel Brown closed his eyes deeply, as if he was thinking about something.
“Dad, I know you have a desire to get Logan Brown to forgive you and for things to go back to normal between the two of you, but if you’re not willing to take that step, then there will never be anyone to help you, and no one can help you!”
Cornel Brown remained silent for a long time, without moving.
Elena Bush had said all that needed to be said and slowly got up, “If you really want to, then let’s get rid of your differences while Grandpa is still alive.”
“Wait!”
Elena Bush subconsciously stopped in her tracks, “Is there anything else?”
“Elena Bush ……”
“Hmm?”
She turned and met the deep eyes, “I’ve done so many things I shouldn’t have done, even my own son is resenting me for not wanting to forgive me, why are you still willing to call me ‘Dad’, don’t you, like, hate me?”
“Hate?”
Elena Bush lost her smile, “What is your definition of hate?”
Is it wanting revenge? Or do you want to make things worse for yourself too?
Cornel Brown didn’t understand her question, and as it happened she didn’t have to explain, she just shook her head at him, “Sometimes it’s better to be understanding than to hate someone, you live your whole life, so why make yourself too tired?”
“But I did ……”
“That’s all in the past, and besides, Edward Ford did no less than you did.”
And more importantly, she wasn’t in any position to blame him for what happened back then, he did it for the Browns, for the Brown Group, and for Logan Brown ……
So she couldn’t hate, and she didn’t want to.
Cornel Brown’s heart snapped, and he looked at the sincerity in Elena Bush’s face and the clarity in her eyes, and he was in a trance.
Shame followed, and he realised once and for all that he was no better than …… a woman.
And what he thought, and often did not think of everyone, never took precedence over himself.
Elena Bush smiled at his pensive look and said, “If you are willing to talk to Logan Brown with all your sincerity sometime, I am sure he will listen, after all, blood is thicker than love.”
Cornel Brown stirred and nodded subconsciously.
Elena Bush’s heart followed suit and she breathed a sigh of relief.
Later that night Logan Brown was asked out by Cornel Brown and when they returned again both had bruises on their faces.
Elena Bush didn’t ask what had happened, but she could vaguely sense the sudden change in the two men.
For example ……
The two began to talk normally.
Or maybe ……
The two would greet each other as a normal father and son, even if they just nodded to each other.
Harvey jumped into Logan Brown’s arms with a strange look on his face, “Daddy, are you making up with Grandpa?”
The man swept him off his feet, “Why would you say that?”
“Because I can feel it, you’re treating Grandpa differently.”
Logan Brown hooked his lips and then smiled, “Well, you’re right.”
“So are we going to be able to play with Grandpa from now on?” Harvey’s eyes lit up straight away.
That said, one eye always fell on George Brown in the hospital bed.
Harvey and Logan Brown’s voices were loud enough for George Brown to hear.
Now he could not resist the urge to get up from the bed.
Elena Bush was alarmed and rushed forward to hold his body so that he could sit against the bed.
“Logan ……”
“Grandpa?”
“Ahem!”
George Brown was about to speak when his breath rattled and he nearly choked. Elena Bush was busy smoothing his breath and pouring him another glass of warm water before he could suppress that breath.
“Was it true what Harvey just said?”
George Brown’s eyes were a little cloudy, as if he couldn’t see him clearly.
Logan Brown hugged Harvey a few inches closer and then didn’t deny it.
George Brown looked at him as if he was doing things by default, and the stone that had been weighing on his chest was then finally removed as it were!
“Good ……”
He nodded and laughed harshly, “Good, good!”
“Logan, thank you for still being willing to forgive him ……”
George Brown said, his words already strained, raising his hand to slowly wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Seeing this, Harvey immediately got out of Logan Brown’s arms and climbed onto the hospital bed to wipe George Brown’s tears.
“Don’t cry, Great-grandfather.”
“Okay, don’t cry.”
A smile soon returned to George Brown’s face.
He closed his eyes deeply and only opened them slowly after half a second, “Now …… I can finally go without any worries too.”
He could also go without worries ……
A sudden flash of bad feeling rose in Elena Bush’s heart as she looked at George Brown’s appearance.
He looked at George Brown’s face, which had been pale and bloodless, and saw that it was flushed as if nothing had happened.
George Brown said happily, “Elena, Logan, I suddenly feel better and more relaxed, go and get me something to eat, I want to eat the fried buns on the corner outside the Browns!”
“I’ll just call and have it delivered ……”
“What delivery, it’s not far, just a trip back over.”
George Brown mourned, “You guys won’t even buy me a meal anymore?”
Logan Brown immediately shook his head, looking at him hesitantly for a moment his expression finally loosened up a bit and nodded at him, “Wait for us then, we’ll be back soon.”
“Okay ……”
George Brown’s eyebrows were all smiles, “I’ll wait for you!”
Logan Brown got up in silence and strided out of the ward with Harvey in one arm and Elena Bush in the other.
Elena Bush subconsciously glanced behind her at George Brown, only to see him smiling and waving a hand at him.