There are so many things in the world that can make people unhappy – family, work, money…- but there has never been a moment like this one, when Emma Rosy felt a blanket of despair, as if she could anticipate no more happiness in her life to come.
“Alex Brown is dead.”
Her forehead rested against the car window, the coldness of the outside world colliding with the warmth of the car, almost making her shiver, but she was smiling, and under the shocked gaze of Charles Taylor and Eva Taylor, she murmured: “He abandoned me… I wanted to hate him, but there’s no reason to do that because he never made me a commitment in the first place.”
Her waiting, her efforts to make a living, her thoughts and hopes, were all just fooling herself.
After a long silence, the car pulled up outside the old Wright Family home.
No one moves, not even the lively Eva Taylor, who sits quietly where she is, her compassionate gaze falling on Emma Rosy, but unable to speak any words of comfort.
Finally, Emma Rosy broke the silence: “Don’t let Keira know.”
She didn’t have the courage to put her daughter through the same pain as she had.
But the change in her mood over the last week, and the way she “dressed up” before leaving the house this morning, had made Keira suspicious. Finding the adults gathered in the living room talking, Keira immediately dropped the toys she was holding and dashed over to them.
Looking around the living room, Keira couldn’t hide her disappointment, but then, with a hint of luck, she asked Emma Rosy, “Mom, where were you? Did… go on a date with someone?”
“No.”
Emma Rosy subconsciously denied, saw Keira stared at her red dress, heart stabbed, nearly fell into tears.
Fearing that she might not be able to hold it together, Eva Taylor tactfully intervened: “I had a date with your mother to go shopping, but the weather was so bad that I had to cancel it.”
Keira still seemed to have doubts and turned her head to Joe Wright: “But Joe’s dad said at breakfast that Auntie and Uncle Taylor would be coming over.”
The atmosphere in the living room was tense because Keira had so easily exposed the lie, and everyone tried to find an excuse, but couldn’t do anything about it.
The eyes returned to Emma Rosy’s face, and this time Keira asked with almost certainty, “Who did Mom go to see, Dad?”
“Your dad….”
Just when Emma Rosy couldn’t handle her daughter’s questioning gaze and was about to blurt out that Alex Brown had left, a call from the emergency department snapped back to her senses just in time.
A car accident on the city’s main road and a short-staffed hospital made her flee as if she’d been given a pardon.
The red skirt flashed outside the door, and Keira, knowing that the only person who would tell her the truth was gone, went back to her room, disoriented.
Hope had just helped her get through a game, and when she heard the door open, she joyfully held up her console in greeting, but before she could say anything, she was startled by her tear-streaked face.
“What’s wrong with you?”
“Daddy… Daddy seems to have had an accident!”
Keira jumped into Hope’s arms, not daring to cry out loud, but tears like broken beads rustling down: “Everyone is not telling me, but I can… feel it, Mom must be lying… she went to see Dad, Dad had an accident…”
She was emotional, some words incoherent, Hope listened for a long time, only gradually sorted out what happened.
Hope can understand Keira’s pain, but can not say whether her guesses are accurate, can only raise a hand on her back, patiently give her some unnecessary comfort.
In the study on the first floor, Master Wright and Joe Wright were also talking about Alex Brown.
Of course, the death of Alex Brown, the most painful people than Emma Rosy and Keira, others will only stand on the sidelines to lament. And after the emotions flowed, there was more to consider.
“According to Emma, relatives who formerly had little contact with Alex Brown have come from all over the world with an undisguised desire to divide up the estate; should we do something at a time like this?”
Joe Wright’s intentions coincide with those of Master Wright.
Instead of leaving Alex Brown’ company in the hands of those indifferent relatives, the Wright Family should take over and keep it going in a different way. Not to mention that the Brown Group was founded by Aarn Richard.
Master Wright sighed deeply, “According to your idea, secretly acquire the shares, but on the surface to make a quiet attitude to wait and see.”
“You do not worry.”
After the business talk, the study fell silent, and they looked out the window at the blanket of snow, with the same concern in mind.
A door away, Eva Taylor straightened up, nervously considering whether to tell her brother about the conversation she had just heard.
The Taylor Family and the Wright Family are good friends, but as her uncle once said, there are no friends forever in business. It would do them no harm to learn of the Wright Group’s plans and respond to them.
But the problem is, if the elder brother really competes with the Wright Group for shares, he will be hated by Emma, right?
What should we do?
Eva Taylor, who has never done anything bad, overhears the Wright Family’s conversation and gets tangled up in the doorway of the study, not realizing that she is a thief.
It was only when her mouth was covered by a large hand and quickly dragged into the empty room next to her that she panicked and tried to escape.
“Don’t make a sound, it’s me!”
Charles Taylor warned in a lowered voice, glancing around toward the door and asking with a frown, “What are you doing standing there, sneaking around?”
“Brother, I just accidentally heard… hear Joe and Grandpa…”
“Wait.”
Waiting for Eva Taylor to say what she overheard, Charles Taylor suddenly spoke to stop.
He was drinking tea in the living room when he saw that his sister, who had gone to look for Joe Wright, had not returned for half a day, so he got up to look for her, but he saw her lying outside the study door at the corner of the corridor and was listening intently.
He was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble, so he waited until his sister had finished listening and backed away before he went up and took the person away.
“Whatever you heard, forget it all, and don’t say anything to anyone, remember?” He warned in a deep voice.
Eva Taylor was stunned and blurted out, “What about you?”
“Not to say anything either.”
Seeing his grim expression, Eva Taylor finally understood that he was worried about her.
“If I tell you that what Grandpa and Joe are talking about has something to do with Alex Brown, don’t you want to know that too?” Eva Taylor asked tentatively.
She did not specify the acquisition of shares, Charles Taylor thought it was those of Alex Brown and Emma Rosy once, refused: “How to pursue Emma, I have my own plans, even if I keep waiting, I do not need other help.”
Now that Alex Brown is gone, after surviving the darkest and most painful times, Emma Rosy will always return to normal life, by then he no longer have competitors, a month or two can not move Emma Rosy, three years five years can always be.
Hospital.
After rescuing four injured people and assisting her mentor to complete two more surgeries, Emma Rosy’s heart felt as if she had been drained of the pain and suffering along with her physical strength.
Leaning against the windowsill at the end of the corridor, she silently prayed for the snow to stop soon. The excessive snow caused the roads to become slippery and icy, and then there would be a car accident with huge casualties like today.
Death is a painful but helpless thing.
The sound of chaotic footsteps and conversations filled the back of the room, and families who had been notified to come and see their loved ones lying in hospital beds or in the morgue cried out in pain.
–Thank you.
The low, husky, magnetic voice came into the ears, and the unhurried tone of voice was unusually clear in the noisy environment.
Before her brain realized what was happening, she had already turned around quickly and searched all the way in the direction of the voice’s source.
It was only two words, but the voice… she could almost confirm the voice, came from Alex Brown!
The duty room, the emergency room, the corner of the stairs, the payment office, the front desk, many unfamiliar faces slid past her eyes and collided with people countless times as she searched through the crowd.
The person sitting on it, though wearing a hat and with a thin face that didn’t match her memory, looked seven times like Alex Brown!
Heart shaking, she hurriedly rushed over –
But at that moment, a line of injured family members swarmed in through the door, instantly scattering her and the person in the wheelchair, watching the distance get farther and farther away until they disappeared at the end of her sight, she raised her hand and clutched her hair, thrashing around in the hall.
After searching in vain, she immediately called to confront Eric Chan.
“You guys really lied to me! Alex Brown is not dead, he has come back right?!”
“Mr. Brown…” Eric Chan clutched the phone unconsciously, his eyes rolling, and then said soothingly, “Miss Richard, Mr. Brown is seriously ill and passed away. I understand that you have suffered a great blow, but as Dr. Everard said, please feel sorry for your loss.”
How dare you lie to me now?
Emma Rosy was furious, but also kept an eye out, did not directly say that he saw someone similar to Alex Brown, but deliberately tricked Eric Chan: “Alex Brown is not dead at all, but disabled, and that’s why he did not dare to see me, and even directed himself to play this scene! ”
These words are all speculation, she pretended to be sure, but her voice could not stop trembling.
After a short silence, Eric Chan sighed: “Miss Richard, Mr. Brown can still stand before the operation, the operation failed and was admitted to the intensive care unit… then never stood up. I don’t know why you think this way, but even for the sake of Mr. Brown’ peace of mind in heaven, please don’t torture yourself anymore.”
Beep-beep-beep.
The phone was hung up and Emma Rosy walked stiffly into the elevator with a wooden face.
Top floor rooftop
She curled up in the corner, looking at the cold city beneath her feet, and finally let out a cry.
The iron door was opened and someone came to her side, draped a coat over her shoulders, and then gently touched the top of her head.
Could it be Alex Brown?
Well, even she couldn’t believe it.
Rubbing her tears dry in the crook of her arm, she lifted her head to meet the worried gaze cast by Kenny Clarke.
“You seem to be in a bad mood today, can you tell me what’s going on?” Kenny Clarke half-crouched down and asked softly.
“He’s dead…”
From Emma Rosy’s mouth to learn the news of Alex Brown’ death, like others, Kenny Clarke is also very shocked, but after seeing that Emma Rosy seems to have doubts about the matter, he offers to help.
“Recently the hospital is preparing to start talent exchange activities with top hospitals in many countries, I have come into contact with many foreign medical practitioners, which happens to include the hospital that operated on Mr. Brown, if…”
“Can you help me investigate? Find out what his surgery was all about and whether he would still be alive!”
Not waiting for Kenny Clarke to finish, Emma Rosy has excitedly stood up and pulled him up from the floor as well, the eyes that were covered with tears a second ago, have now been replaced by surprise.
Kenny Clarke naturally agreed, put his arm around her shoulders and let her lean into his arms, telling her silently: I’ll do anything as long as you’re happy.
The meaning of this hug is nothing more than comfort, but it falls into the eyes of onlookers, but it is completely different.
Not far away on the top floor of a tall building, the paparazzi who were tracking the star saw this scene and snickered as they recorded it in their cameras.
The rooftop in the wind and snow, men and women embracing each other intimately, white clothes flying with the wind, beautiful as a picture.
However, when the pair’s names were revealed as Kenny Clarke and Emma Rosy, the scene was no longer beautiful, but was instead branded as “cheating”.
When the paparazzi posted the photos on the Internet, the public opinion that had cooled down some time ago was revived. The hospital’s internal website even made headlines about the incident, and the head of the hospital was so disgraced that he ordered the IT staff to force the removal of the page, but unfortunately this was just a cover-up.
The next day at work, Emma Rosy did not even see her mentor, and was called into the conference room.
After looking at the photos, Emma Rosy suddenly understood. Although she found the situation ridiculous, she could only explain patiently for the sake of Kenny Clarke’s career.
“Recently something happened to me at home and I was very depressed, so I went to the rooftop to adjust, and Dr. Clarke happened to find me there and stayed to comfort me out of the same thing. The whole process took no more than ten minutes, and if I could find the person who posted the photo, I could confront him face to face.”
She was clear and unobtrusive in telling the cause and effect, but the hospital leaders were not moved at all.
The director of the human resources department was the first to reprimand: “The hospital will never interfere with your personal feelings, but it is your responsibility to make a big deal out of it and cause a lot of public opinion that will damage the hospital’s face!”
At that, Emma Rosy hurriedly explained, “This matter started because of me, indeed I should be responsible, Dr. Clarke is completely dragged by me, so please…”
“Kenny Clarke as one of the parties involved, accepting the investigation is inevitable, you can’t protect yourself, no need to plead for others.” Personnel director expressionlessly reminded.
Sure enough, just like last time, indiscriminately want to suspend Kenny Clarke?
Emma Rosy sneered, thinking, “Is this a hospital or a courtroom, not to mention that she and Kenny Clarke are not in love, and even if they are, what does it matter?
With her hands clenched into fists under her sleeves, she told herself that now was not the time to be angry, and that she had to think about Kenny Clarke even if she didn’t think about herself.
“Knock, knock, knock…”
There was a knock on the door and the director said in a deep voice, “Come in.”
Thinking it was Kenny Clarke, Emma Rosy turned her head and was about to make a wink for him to cooperate with her when she realized that the visitor was actually Charles Taylor.
“How did you…” Emma Rosy stared at him in shock until he came close and took her hand.
Subconsciously struggled, but was held tighter.
Charles Taylor smiled reassuringly at Emma Rosy, and then looked at the hospital leaders across the room: “Last night’s photos must have caused a lot of trouble for your hospital, but as Emma’s boyfriend, I fully believe that she has a clean relationship with that Dr. Clarke and is willing to make a clarification to the public, I hope you can deal with this matter in a fair manner, so as not to chill the hearts of your subordinates who are serious about their work.”
Early this morning, Charles Taylor, who had been working late into the night, was awakened by a phone call from his assistant, turned on his computer, learned of the rumored rooftop photo incident, and rushed to the hospital.
Emma Rosy’s character, he knows very well, and Alex Brown just died, Emma Rosy heart only left pain, it is impossible to be close to other men. But what he was sure of, the public did not have to believe.
When he arrived at the emergency room, the nurse on duty said that Emma Rosy had been called away by the head of the hospital, as well as Dr. Clarke, who was probably going to be investigated and questioned. In order to help Emma Rosy testify, he simply becomes her fake boyfriend, hoping to calm down the public opinion.
Charles Taylor is trying to help, which Emma Rosy understands, but thinks it will only backfire.
The fact that she and Kenny Clarke are hugging is undeniable, and no one will believe their explanation when the photos are in front of them, but if they bite the bullet, the heat will quickly die down.
But if a boyfriend pops up next to her, the situation will be similar to the last “love triangle”, and if someone brings Alex Brown and Joe Wright into the picture, the heat will continue to rise.
“Mr. Taylor, thank you for coming to my rescue, but this has nothing to do with you, please leave before causing unnecessary misunderstanding.”
Emma Rosy broke Charles Taylor’s grip and tried to push him out of the conference room, but Charles Taylor was too firm to listen to her.