At that moment, a car pulled up outside the hospital.
Hope jumped out of the car first and tried to help Master Wright out, but was not strong enough. Fortunately, the driver quickly came around to this side and carried Master Wright with the help of Hope.
“Quick, get to the doctor on duty!” The driver instructed Hope as he ran down the hall.
Hope helped him push open the door and rushed to the duty room.
Today, after dinner, Master Wright always felt tightness in his chest, and even after taking his medicine, he did not feel better.
He refused to listen to Hope and the housekeeper’s advice to come to the hospital, but had to hold on, and at night he could not hold on, so he sent his driver to bring himself here, but he fainted halfway.
The situation is so urgent that Keira, who was woken up, wants to come with her, but they have no time to care.
Suddenly awakened in the middle of the night, the adults are panicked and busy, Keira confused know that something has happened, but the consciousness is still in a chaotic state, now forget why they are here, straight towards the dessert store…
In the hospital, the nurse on duty with the driver to look for Emma Rosy, but nowhere to be found, Hope with Master Wright in the emergency room waiting, suddenly found that Keira is not with her!
Charles Taylor took a deep breath and turned around to walk out of the bathroom.
The on-call room was still empty, Emma Rosy had gone somewhere, he was a little worried, so he looked down the corridor, but just pushed open the door of the emergency room across the street, but saw Master Wright lying on the hospital bed, eyes tightly closed, lips even mauve.
What’s going on, is Master Wright sick?
Looking around, no one was there, Charles Taylor rushed to call Emma Rosy, praying she hadn’t forgotten her cell phone.
The moment the call was answered, the heart finally fell to the ground.
“Emma, come on, Grandpa’s here!”
Half an hour later.
The medicine dripped slowly down the IV tube and flowed into the veins on the back of his dried out hand, his heart no longer tingled, and his breathing gradually eased, but his body still felt weak.
Master Wright tilted his head slightly, looking at the person standing by the bed.
Emma, Charles Taylor, just now dizzy with consciousness, seems to hear them both, but where is Hope?
The driver had carried him in, Hope had been holding his hand next to him, why was she gone now?
“… cough cough…”
Just opened his mouth and suddenly coughed violently, Emma Rosy rushed to help him smooth his breath, he shook his head and insisted, “Hope had the driver take her back?”
Hope?
Emma Rosy and Charles Taylor looked at each other, both full of dismay.
“You said Hope was here too?” Charles Taylor recalled blankly, “I only saw the Wright Family driver with the nurse, I didn’t see her, did you remember wrong?”
Master Wright had a heart attack, but his mind was not confused, he clearly remembered that Hope helped him to the car and stayed with him in the emergency room for a long time.
In that case, did Hope get lost?
“Mr. Taylor, Grandpa is not completely out of danger yet, I have to stay for observation, can you help me find Hope?” Emma Rosy guessed that Hope must be in the hospital.
Charles Taylor naturally agreed, and immediately went out to look for someone.
It was early in the morning. A few stores across the street, which are open 24 hours a day, there are faint figures walking around.
Knowing that the possibility is unlikely, Charles Taylor still take a chance to cross the road, push open the glass door of a supermarket.
Disappointed to come out, then went to the sweet store a few meters away.
“Hello, welcome.”
The soft-smiling female clerk greeted him and asked what he needed.
“Oh, I’m looking for someone…”
Before he finished his sentence, he suddenly found a small blob cowering in the sofa in the corner, not Hope, but…
“Keira ?!”
Charles Taylor opened his mouth incredulously, and then, two big confused eyes were revealed in the cotton coat.
Just ate the cake, the corners of her mouth are still stained with chocolate, and her voice seems to be tinged with the sweet stickiness of cream: “Uncle Blackface, you also come to eat cake ah?”
How could she be outside alone in the middle of the night? And eating cake?
Seeing Charles Taylor’s shocked and confused look at herself, the clerk waved her hand: “I don’t know what happened, at about two o’clock, this little girl knocked on the door outside and came in and wanted to eat the cake. I asked her where her family was, and she didn’t tell me, she ate and fell asleep there.”
After a pause, she asked, slightly helplessly, “You know her, right? Please send her home, such a young child, if she gets lost, her family should be very worried.”
The dessert store was across the street from the hospital, and after the initial surprise, Charles Taylor gradually guessed the cause and effect.
Keira must have come to the hospital with the Wright Family car, everyone was too busy taking care of Master Wright to take care of her, and she happened to be caught by the cake, so she ran into here alone.
As for Hope, it is likely that she was found lost in the middle of the day, so she is looking for her everywhere.
After thanking the clerk again and again and paying for the cake, Charles Taylor decided to send Keira back to Emma Rosy first, and then continue to look for Hope to avoid further complications.
When she learned that Keira had run off with a piece of cake, Emma Rosy turned pale and then felt a deep sense of fear.
“Keira Wright!” she chided through gritted teeth, “Do you know how dangerous it is for a small child to be out on the street, especially at night, do you want to kill your mother?
Keira was finally awakened by the scolding and saw her mother in such a state, and realized the seriousness of the situation, so she craned her neck and honestly admitted her mistake and swore she would never dare to do it again.
Charles Taylor has set out to find Hope, but no one expects They sisters to get lost, but Hope is much more mature than Keira, and will not wander off aimlessly.
Emma Rosy is concerned about Hope and doesn’t answer Keira’s question. She wipes her face and hands and sends her to the hospital room to be with Master Wright.
On the other hand, Charles Taylor had just left the hospital lobby when he saw a small, thin figure walking quickly towards him.
The closer the girl came, the more she resembled Emma Rosy’s description. Charles Taylor had heard about Hope, but had never seen her in person, so he took the liberty of stopping her.
“Little friend, are you Hope Smith?”
Hope paused in her steps and looked up at the strange uncle across the room.
“Alex Dad?!” Surprise erupted in her sleepy eyes: “Are you Keira’s Alex’s dad? You’ve come back to stay with mom and Keira after your surgery?”
Not expecting Hope to mistake him for Alex Brown, Charles Taylor looked slightly embarrassed and cleared his throat to explain, “No, I’m Uncle Taylor, Emma’s friend.”
Looking in through the window on the door, the little one who had promised to look after her great-grandfather was now lying on the edge of the bed, snoring with him.
Emma Rosy shook her head helplessly and went back to the duty room to change her clothes. It was almost time for her shift to change, so she had to get ready and wait for someone to arrive before she could go out to find Hope as soon as possible.
Unexpectedly, before her replacement intern arrived, Hope was brought back by Charles Taylor.
“Mom, Uncle Taylor said he found Keira, where is she?”
For a moment, Emma Rosy was both heartbroken and angry, “Put yourself in such a state, and still have the heart to care about others?!”
“I… thought Keira was lost.” Hope lowered her eyelashes, and defended herself without any courage.
Emma Rosy smiled, even more angry: “She is a child, but you are not? Neither one of you is a worrywart. I just scolded Keira, now I’ll scold you again. No matter what happens in the future, don’t run away alone, remember?”
Hope felt happy when her cheeks and hands were warmed by her mother, and her heart was warm.
“Okay, I won’t let you guys worry anymore.” She grinned, a rare silly smile.
Both sisters returned safely, and Master Wright was discharged home after two days of observation in the hospital, and everything seemed to be moving in a better direction.
Emma Rosy is still busy, but every day she takes time out from her busy schedule and secretly counts the days in her mind.
A week passed in her anticipation.
After receiving the flight information from Tina Everard the night before, she woke up early the next morning to ask for leave from her mentor, and then happily painted herself with light makeup and went through all the dresses in her closet, standing in front of the dressing mirror to try them on one by one.
After a long time of tossing and turning, she caught a glimpse of red.
She rarely wears brightly colored dresses, thinking they don’t match her temperament, but this red dress was a birthday gift from Alex Brown.
She wore a long silk dress in winter, with a pair of high heels to ensure a stunning effect, and only a light gray coat over it to protect her from the cold, but perhaps because she was so excited, she didn’t feel cold on the way.
When she arrived at the airport, the Brown family was already waiting outside the pick-up gate, of which she only recognized David Brown, the rest were probably distant relatives of the Brown family, whom she had never met.
But seeing these people from afar, she couldn’t help but have a few doubts in her mind.
When Alex Brown went abroad for treatment, the whole thing was kept secret and she only learned about it after she was pressed.
Why did the Brown family know about this now and came to the airport to greet them, not afraid that the reporters would find out and cause another storm?
Before she could come up with a reasonable explanation, the glass doors at the pick-up point opened and passengers came out one after another.
Her heart beat faster instantly, she hurriedly approached and searched the crowd for the figure she remembered, but unfortunately the passengers were almost gone and she still couldn’t find that person.
Was it not this flight?
She looked nervously at the Brown Family and was about to ask when she saw Tina Everard and Eric Chan, dressed in black coats, slowly walking towards her.
She quickly greeted them and couldn’t stop looking behind them, “Where’s Alex? Hasn’t he come out yet?”
The Brown Family, who had gathered one by one at a distance, were not as curious as she was, but were staring at Tina Everard’s hands.
As if realizing something, she dropped her eyes afterwards and saw the black ebony box and heard Tina Everard’s hoarse voice.
“He, has come out.”
In the center of the wooden box, Alex Brown’ gentle smile lost all its warmth in the black and white photo.
A heart sinks straight down, as if falling into a bottomless abyss, a dull pain in her temples, and countless black and white visions appear before her eyes!
“What… are you talking about?”
Emma Rosy figure shaking, eyes staring straight at the square wooden box, “What is this thing? Alex Where is he, didn’t you say you would bring him back, where is he? You tell me, where is he?”
Eric Chan raised his hand to help her, but he was shaken off.
“Say something! Where have you taken Alex Brown and why don’t you let him come back?”
“Miss Richard, you take it easy, Mr. Brown, he… failed the surgery, in the intensive care unit for a few days, really can’t hold on…” Eric Chan choked up several times, clenched his fists and spoke with difficulty: “He’s gone…”
Tears fought to come out first, Emma Rosy grunted and hissed, “Nonsense! You liars, Alex Brown can’t be dead! Think I’m going to believe you just because you’re holding an urn? He doesn’t want to see me, he doesn’t want to be with me anymore, that’s why he put on this show with you guys, right?”
No matter how much she argued, Tina Everard always stood still and watched her quietly.
When she was tired of making a scene, only then did she speak with an expressionless face, “People can’t come back from the dead, so I’m sorry.”
“I don’t believe that.”
She wiped away her tears and reached for the urn in Tina Everard’s arms, “I’m taking this home, no, I’m taking it to the hospital for a lab test to expose your lies!”
During the argument, the Brown Family woman next to her coldly reminded, “Alex is a Brown Family bloodline, you, an outsider, have no right to take his ashes.”
Emma Rosy turned her head and glared at the middle-aged woman who had spoken, and a stern look appeared in her eyes.
Eric Chan was afraid that the situation would become unmanageable, so he side-stepped between them and explained to Emma Rosy: “This is Mr. Brown’ distant aunt, Ms. Fiona Brown, who was entrusted by the elders of her family to assist Mr. Adams in handling Mr. Brown’ Afterlife.”
What’s the big deal about an aunt, she’s still Alex Brown’ wife!
Emma Rosy, as if she had not heard, still stubbornly went to grab the urn, but was unexpectedly pushed away.
Dylan Brown questioned, “My mother has just said that you are not a Brown Family member and have no business meddling in the internal affairs of our family!”
David Brown also said in a deep voice: “Dylan, your mother and I are still standing here, you have no right to speak, back off.”
“How can I…”
Dylan Brown’ branch of the family rarely interacted with David Brown and others, so they did not serve his discipline, and when Alex Brown’ parents were in trouble, their attitude of watching from across the river also displeased David Brown. Instead of a family, it would be more appropriate to say that they were barely together for the sake of the Alex Brown family business.
But Fiona Brown was smart enough to realize that a superficial unity must be better for her than a complete breakdown of relations, so she glanced at Dylan Brown and gestured for him to step back.
“Miss Richard, isn’t it?” Fiona Brown looked Emma Rosy up and down, and said in an overbearing manner, “Now that you have been divorced for many years, I’m afraid it doesn’t make sense to come back for Alex’s ashes.”
Emma Rosy looked at the ebony box and responded in a daze, “He loved me and I loved him.”
Fiona Brown sneered with disgust: “It seems you don’t understand polite communication, Emma Rosy, don’t think we don’t know that Alex was hurt because of you! You want him to die with no peace of mind?”
“Alex is the only bloodline of my brother, Miss Richard, you have no right to take him away. If you don’t want to be disqualified from attending the funeral, please leave as soon as possible.”
David Brown walked up to Tina Everard and gestured for her to hand over the urn.
Tina Everard looked at Emma Rosy, pursed her lips and hesitated, seemingly with some reluctance.
The atmosphere suddenly froze, and all eyes fell on Emma Rosy.
She slowly curved her lips, looked at the black and white photo of Everard, and said softly: “You love me, don’t you? It’s okay, wait patiently, we will see each other soon.”
With that, she reached out her hand to try to touch the warmth of the photo, but before her fingertips could touch it, it was knocked off by Dylan Brown who rushed over.
“Come on, don’t pretend to do this, my cousin can’t see a woman like you even if he’s alive!”
Dylan Brown’ contemptuous face was so disgusting that Tina Everard couldn’t help but sarcastically say, “The second before Alex passed away, he was still calling Emma Rosy’s name.
She swept her eyes across the group of Brown Family people and continued in a loud voice: “Take a step back, Emma Rosy, no matter what, had a daughter for Brown Family, that is the only bloodline of Alex Brown!”
In an instant, the Brown Family was silent as they considered what was best for them.
In the end, two factions emerged.
One of them proposed to bring Keira back to the Brown Family and inherit the Alex Brown family business, with the hidden intention of controlling the young girl who knew nothing about anything, and then taking control of the entire Alex Brown estate.
The other side questions the authenticity of Keira’s identity and wants to “eliminate” this rival from the source.
As They sides bickered, they forgot about Alex Brown’ ashes, and Emma Rosy took the opportunity to hold the wooden box and rub it lovingly over the photo for a long time before handing it to David Brown.
“Keira is Alex Brown’ daughter, but she is also a Wright Family member, and she is too young to be involved in your dark and treacherous competition for the inheritance. You may rest assured, gentlemen.”
With a contemptuous curl of her lips, she shook her head and left with a look of disappointment.
Tina Everard, seeing this, left with her, while Eric Chan, who had been hiding behind the crowd since earlier, was quietly texting and did not notice the situation on their side.
Outside the airport, the sky is full of snow.
Emma Rosy said in a muffled voice, “This winter, it’s so cold….”
Tina Everard looked at her sideways and seemed to sigh: “Before he left, he gave me some things that must be finished as soon as possible. Can you go home by yourself?”
One comes, naturally can go alone.
Emma Rosy waved and stepped down the steps into the snow and wind.
As the snow fell heavier and heavier, traffic on all sections of the city came to a standstill and many private cars had to take a detour, Charles Taylor was driving around the highway outside the airport when he spotted Emma Rosy tramping alone.
Emma Rosy was unaware of the car pulling up until the siren sounded and Eva Taylor, who had run down from the passenger side, grabbed her hand.
“Why are you wandering the streets when it’s so cold? Get up here!”
The warmth of the carriage added to the coldness in her heart. As the car continued to move forward, she huddled in the corner with her arms around her chest, staring blankly out the window at the cold world.
Seeing Emma Rosy’s lack of reaction, Eva Taylor looked through the rearview mirror and Charles Taylor, full of doubts.
Charles Taylor also found it strange that she was dressed so thinly in the windy and snowy weather, and still appeared near the airport, so he hinted to Eva Taylor to ask.
Eva Taylor tentatively asked, “Emma, grandpa’s body has recovered, right?” “Have Keira and Hope upset you lately?”