“Come on, let’s get to work.”
Marvin heard Credence through the surveillance video. He kicked Jonathan, who was still chattering away. He quickly switched off the surveillance footage then pocketed his phone. An intense killing intent was rising from his heart. His veins started to bulge from his temples.
Leilani had fooled them for the past three months. Based on how well he knew Credence when he decided to make a move, then he was definitely going to make Leilani suffer a life worse than death.
Jonathan couldn’t keep up with Marvin’s pace. So he decided to stay in place, raised his eyes and smiled. “Marv, I’ll leave the matter of knocking Leilani out to you. I think I’ll stay out of this one.”
“F*ck off!”
Marvin was pissed. He had no desire to talk to that idiot anymore. He walked out with a straight face into the VIP ward next door. He and Credence shared a knowing look. He swiftly spun over to Leilani’s back, raised his arm, and gave her a solid chop on the neck.
She gasped. “Ah… ”
Leilani was looking down at Dorothy, who was on the hospital bed and was muttering insincere words of concern. Suddenly, she was struck on the neck. After letting out a gasp, she gently dropped to the ground and fainted.
Credence looked down and glanced at the now unconscious Leilani. Credence sneered. “Marvin, drag her over to the laboratory and get started on a blood test. We will talk more after we get the results.”
“Alright.”
Marvin nodded, bent down, and grabbed Leilani’s collar. He easily dragged her out of the ward like an eagle with its prey. He proceeded into the elevator with Jonathan, who had been waiting in the corridor. They then made their way to the laboratory on the second floor.
They had arranged for a doctor to be there.
Dorothy, who was still unconscious on the hospital bed, was completely unaware of everything that took place.
It had been over 12 hours since she fell unconscious. Her eyes were still closed and her face was still pale. There were no signs of her waking up anytime soon.
Credence’s eyelids twitched. He rolled the wheels of his wheelchair and moved closer to the bed. He poured himself a glass of water but didn’t drink it. Instead, he picked up a spoon, scooped up some water, and slowly brought it over to Dorothy’s lips. He gently opened her tightly pursed lips and fed her some water.
However, Dorothy was still unconscious, and couldn’t swallow. The water in her mouth gradually flowed out from the corners of her lips.
When he caught a glimpse of the water leaking out from the corners of her lips, Credence realized that this wasn’t an effective way to feed her.
He calmly pursed his lips and took a sip of water. He inched closer towards Dorothy’s lips and using his tongue, pried her lips open. He then slowly fed the water down into her throat.
He proceeded to feed Dorothy a few more mouthfuls of water. He kept doing this until some color had returned to her dry lips.
Credence placed the cup back on the bedside table and rested his slender fingers on her soft lips. The slightly rough calluses on his thumb gently caressed her lips. “Honey, can you please wake up? Belle needs you, your child needs you, and I… need you too!”
His gloomy voice was a mix of guilt and unexplainable remorse. His soft voice echoed in the air throughout the quiet ward.
However, after waiting for a long time, he still didn’t get a reply from her. The only sound he heard was the low rustling sound of wind coming through the gap from the window.
Marvin and Jonathan pushed the door open and entered the room with the test reports in hand. Seeing Credence bent down with his head resting on Dorothy’s pale hands, the two of them looked at each other in shock.
Marvin moved first and handed the report over. “Credence, the results are in. As expected, Leilani’s blood doesn’t match with Dorothy’s, which means that they aren’t related, Leilani isn’t her biological mother.”
“No wonder I felt that something was wrong with that old hag. Sure enough, she has nothing to do with Dorothy.”
Jonathan narrowed his eyes and nodded. He watched Credence slowly raise his head and open his eyes. Suddenly, he began laughing. “So, a low-class, low-grade celebrity dares to scheme against me. That’s just great!”
A loud bang rang out!
Credence withdrew his hand that was holding onto Dorothy. He clenched his iron-hard fists and slammed them on the sturdy mahogany table with all his strength. This caused the bottles and cans on top of it to clatter about loudly.
Suddenly Marvin and Jonathan heard a cracking sound.
The two men turned and saw Credence, who was still in his wheelchair, envelop himself with a murderous aura. He was gripping tightly onto the armrests of his wheelchair with both of his hands. With a sudden forceful exertion, he cracked the wooden armrests and ripped them off the wheelchair.
This proved how fierce and domineering he was right now. Right now, he was furious.
Jonathan didn’t dare to provoke Credence right now. He hid behind Marvin and gave him a nudge. He whispered. “Marv, here’s an opportunity for you to use those awesome skills of yours. After you!”
Seeing how timid and afraid he was, Marvin didn’t bother to argue with Jonathan. He ran over to Credence and quickly held up his wheelchair that was about to collapse. He glanced at his blank face. He was scared and quickly comforted him. “Credence now isn’t the time to deal with Leilani. We should focus on finding Dorothy’s biological mother. We need to find as many of Dorothy’s relatives as possible.”
“After that, we’ll bring them over to the hospital to get tested to see if they are a match for Belle’s bone marrow. The more people we find, the better our chances of treating Belle.”
“Credence, Dorothy hasn’t woken up yet. It’s not because of her poor health, it’s because she can’t bear the thought of losing Belle. She doesn’t want to wake up, she wants to escape from the pain. If we can find a match and tell her the good news, she’ll wake up in no time.”
He had to admit that Marvin’s words reached his heart.
Credence quickly ran through his memories. He suddenly remembered the last time Leilani came to donate blood for Dorothy, she had brought Ysabelle along. There was a bag of blood that matched Dorothy’s blood, and another that didn’t.
Now that they had proof that Leilani’s blood wasn’t a match, this meant that Ysabelle’s was.
Credence immediately turned around, and his eyes were shining with hope. “Thank you, Marvin. I know what to do. If my guess is correct, Jeremy’s mother, Ysabelle, and Yezoo are probably Dorothy’s biological parents.”
As for Jeremy, the evil man who wanted to kill him was very likely Dorothy’s brother.
What a strange and unpredictable world this was!
However, this was not the time to lament.
Marvin and Jonathan had been mentally preparing for this. After listening to Credence, both of them weren’t surprised. “D*mn, Credence, if that’s the truth, does this mean Jeremy is your brother-in-law? Haha, he’ll want to kill you all over again for hooking up with her sister. I can’t want to see the look on his face when he hears the news!”
Credence was suppressing the wave of emotions within him. He took a cigarette from the cigarette case on the bedside table with his slender fingers. But when he held the cigarette between his fingers, he thought about Dorothy’s condition. He decided not to light it up or smoke at all. Instead, he crushed it with his strong grip.
He frowned and threw the crushed cigarette into the trash can. He tapped his fingers on the bedside table before speaking. “Jonathan, find a nurse to keep an eye on Leilani. Marvin and I will carry on with the next part of our plan.”