“After the incident, Hope rushed down for the first time to check Daniel Lewis’ injuries.” Emma Rosy closed the computer: “Any more questions? If the school decides to call the police to deal with it, I will definitely cooperate fully.”
Zhao’s eyes looked back and forth between her and the computer in a panic, asking incredulously, “How did you get… school surveillance?”
After receiving the phone call that Hope had injured someone, Emma Rosy immediately guessed the reason, and when she departed for school, she instructed her secretary to communicate with the principal and transfer the surveillance video that recorded the whole incident to her computer.
Halfway through the journey, she had already watched this video.
“Not surprisingly, the principal should be in his office, waiting for us to finish dealing with this matter, and then listen to your report.” Emma Rosy raised her hand and looked at her wristwatch, “At this time, the assistant who came with me should also have collected the eyewitness dictation, do you want to listen to it now, or on the way to the hospital?”
In just half an hour, Zhao had been lecturing Hope in her office, not expecting Emma Rosy to have prepared sufficient evidence, and was immediately speechless.
Afterwards, Hope was sent back to her home by her assistant because she was in shock, while Emma Rosy went to the hospital with Ms. Zhao to find out the condition of Daniel Lewis’ injury.
Outside the ward, Daniel Lewis’ parents did not scold her as Emma Rosy had expected, but instead apologized to her repeatedly, saying they had not taught their child well.
“Daniel used to be a very obedient child, and it’s our… fault that we’re not qualified as parents to make him this kind of nature.” The boy’s mother took the Kleenex handed to her by Ms. Zhao to wipe her tears, the skin on the back of her hand was rough, apparently engaged in long-term physical work.
The boy’s father wore a suit, the most ordinary material, but his spirit was much better than the boy’s mother, saw her crying, did not say anything, still solemnly apologized for his son: “That boy bullied girls, not really a man. But this incident, the boy also received punishment, can you spare him this time?”
Emma Rosy nodded and graciously took out her bank card to pay for the boy’s medical expenses.
“No, no…” the boy’s mother hastily refused: “I really don’t have much money, but there is still Daniel his father. I’m very grateful that your daughter is willing to forgive Daniel after being wronged.”
Seeing their sincere attitude, Emma Rosy did not insist, but since she was here, she still wanted to see the boy.
When Emma Rosy entered the ward, the boy’s father had taken a phone call and left in a hurry.
She closed the door and turned around to see Daniel Lewis staring at her with bright eyes.
“Auntie, my parents are still out there, aren’t they?”
From the way Daniel Lewis’ parents get along, his family relationship seems to be a bit complicated, but as an outsider, Emma Rosy cannot speculate.
Seeing his eyes full of expectation, she could only answer truthfully: “Your mother is still here, your father just…”
Daniel Lewis quickly lowered his eyelids and said “Oh” in disappointment.
“He’s busy with work again, I know.”
Emma Rosy sat in the chair next to the bed, the disgust she felt at him for bullying Hope had somehow faded, but instead a feeling of pain came over her.
Even if he had done something wrong, he was still just a fifteen-year-old boy, and those mistakes were not irreparable.
“Daniel , can I call you that?” Emma Rosy smiled gently: “I just talked to your parents outside, this matter you and Hope are both responsible, so leave it to you to deal with, adults will not be involved, what do you think?”
Daniel Lewis froze and stared incredulously, “You don’t blame me?”
Emma Rosy tilted her head slightly, looking at him like he was a child: “Blame you for what? Bullying Hope again and again, making her cry on purpose? I said I’d leave it to you to sort it out.”
Daniel Lewis flattened back on the bed, but the rest of his eyes looked at Emma Rosy suspiciously, as if he thought she was joking.
Seeing his mistrust, Emma Rosy sighed and told him about Hope’s life.
Before this injury, Daniel Lewis also joked about Hope’s dead parents, but did not know the details. Learning that Hope had lost her parents at a young age and her grandmother when she was twelve, he especially wanted to slap himself.
“I… I didn’t know she would be so miserable, I’m sorry…”
He blamed himself, he wanted to apologize to Hope, but he had no face to see her, he opened and closed his lips, but finally did not say it.
It’s not too late, Emma Rosy looked at him with a smile and decided to bring Hope to the hospital sometime.
In fact, from the moment she pushed someone down the stairs, Hope regretted it, but when she heard that her mother wanted to take her to the hospital, she couldn’t help but hesitate.
She is not ashamed, but scared, and she is scared to meet Daniel Lewis. Keira, who is not afraid of anything, offers to go with her.
In the ward, Hope stood with her head hanging, her hands unconsciously twisting the hem of her shirt, two or three meters away from the bed, as if she would run away immediately if she saw something wrong.
Daniel Lewis, who was leaning against the bed, was also visibly nervous at the moment, his eyes darting around, pretending to glance at Hope without thinking, and then quickly moved away, as if he had done something bad for fear of being discovered.
Keira finally could not stand it: “Hey, you guys want to apologize or not?
At that, Daniel Lewis and Hope looked at each other and spoke in unison.
“Apologize…”
“I apologize…”
After an eerie pause, once again spoke together, “I’m sorry!”
After saying that there was another moment of silence, They pursed their lips and looked at each other, both could not help but smile.
Daniel Lewis also put aside his sensitive pride and took the initiative to explain to Hope that because his parents divorced a few years ago and each had a new life, the only way he could get their attention was to get into trouble and make mistakes, so he did those things on purpose.
Hope nodded tearfully, “I understand, it can’t be all your fault.”
Hope raised her lips and felt that the clouds outside the window looked so beautiful.
At that moment, a familiar figure flashed outside the half-opened door of the room.
Keira, sharp-eyed, shouted “Daddy” and pounced on her short legs to chase her out.
Emma Rosy followed as an afterthought, and before leaving the door, turned back uneasily.
“I’ll take care of Hope,” Daniel Lewis promised sincerely.
When Hope waved back, Emma Rosy quickly ran out the door.
At the corner of the corridor, Alex Brown was about to walk into the elevator when his thigh was suddenly hugged. When he looked down, the little one with a pillowy head was hanging on his lap like a wombat, a scene not unfamiliar to him.
The bottom of the heart suddenly flooded with softness, but deliberately cold, said: “Children, you have the wrong person.”
Keira tilted her head and stared at him, occasionally blinking, and then looked at Ivy Smith beside him, thinking that she had seen this aunt before and was a friend of her father’s. She was not mistaken.
“Daddy, don’t you want me anymore?” She didn’t understand why her dad disappeared for so long and came back and didn’t recognize her.
His daughter looked at himself with a pitiful look, Alex Brown slowly curled his fingers, almost unable to resist touching that soft cheek, when he heard footsteps at his side.
Putting back on his mask of indifference, he asked Ivy Smith sideways, “Do you know this child?”
Ivy Smith gazed at the approaching Emma Rosy, her smile meaningful: “It seems… is your rumored daughter.”
Knowing that she was trying to be weird, Alex Brown picked up Keira and asked her name as if she were a stranger meeting for the first time, asking if she had gotten separated from her parents.
“No! I’m here to find my dad….”
The person in front of her is clearly her father, but he won’t kiss her as dotingly as before.
Emma Rosy walked up to Alex Brown with a sullen face and held out her hand to him: “Give me back my daughter!”
Alex Brown frowned and tried to say something, but Emma Rosy didn’t give him a chance and reached out to grab the baby.
Keira was crying uncontrollably, afraid that she would never see her father again after this separation, so she wrapped her arms around his neck and refused to let go, no matter how much Emma Rosy tried to persuade and threaten her.
“All right!”
Alex Brown took a step back, couldn’t bear to let his daughter cry like this, so he had to ask with a stern face, “This child won’t go with you, what are you to her?”
He had just seen her in the square a few days ago, and now he didn’t recognize her?
Emma Rosy sneered: “I thought Mr. Brown just lost his memory, but I didn’t expect your memory to be diminished as well.
After the sarcasm, she said in a deep voice: “If you have poor acting skills, don’t act, you don’t need everyone to be tired with you!”
Alex Brown had expected her to be angry, but there was no turning back, so he had to keep playing.
“Ivy , what does the lady mean by her words?” He asked Ivy Smith in mock confusion.
The matter has come to this, Ivy Smith had to step in to solve the problem: “She is Keira’s mother is correct, return the child to her.”
“Oh, I’m sorry.” Alex Brown realized that he was holding Keira in his arms and should have given her back to Emma Rosy, but he felt a strong sense of reluctance.
Perhaps because he wanted to hold his daughter a little longer, he asked, “Miss, don’t you and Keira’s father live together, and Keira mistakes me for her father every time she sees me?”
Emma Rosy repeated the word “every time” and asked with a raised eyebrow, “It seems that Mr. Brown’ memory is not as bad as you make it out to be?
Alex Brown is thinking fast about how to retaliate, but Emma Rosy has already spoken first.
“Do you want to know why I don’t live with her father?”
The corners of her mouth dropped as she replied cruelly, “Because I didn’t love the man. Don’t love him, so can’t live together, got it?”
After that, without even giving Alex Brown a second glance, she forcefully took back the child and walked away.
If Alex Brown could have looked up at this moment, he would have found the vulnerability under her cold and hard disguise, as well as the determination of her sadness to the extreme, but unfortunately, her words have completely shattered the humble expectations buried deep in Alex Brown’ heart, and subsequently, even his body was crushed.
If Ivy Smith hadn’t been quick to hold him, he would have fallen to the ground.
The elevator door opened again, Eric Chan pushed the wheelchair out, was shocked to see the situation: “Mr. Brown , how do you…”
“Stop it, take it to the emergency room!”
Alex Brown leaned against the wall, his head hanging helplessly, like a puppet with malfunctioning parts…
After the engagement party, Joe Wright and Eva Taylor’s feelings better, always work-oriented Joe Wright, actually rare agreed to his girlfriend’s proposal, decided to take a vacation trip.
In this regard, Master Wright and Emma Rosy raised their hands in favor.
“Are you sure about your travel plans? Or are you planning a casual trip?” Emma Rosy conceals the return of Alex Brown and makes small talk with them in a casual manner.
Eva Taylor put her arm around Joe Wright and shook her head with a smile: “We’ve already agreed that I’ll just eat, drink and be merry, and he’ll take care of the rest.”
But after sending the young couple away, the burden on Emma Rosy’s shoulders becomes heavier. Master Wright has gradually withdrawn from the group in recent years, and although Joe Wright has put his affairs in order, there is no guarantee that something will not happen, so she must be ready to stand by at all times.
In addition, the Wright Group has been working with the Taylor Group on a museum project, and the design of one of the large scenes has been delayed.
The designer had changed a few times, but she felt something was missing, so Emma Rosy stayed late that night to try to draw the design herself.
In the late afternoon
Inside the open car door, a cane was stretched out first. Randall Harrah supported the cane and got out of the car with a slight struggle.
When he came to Alex Brown’ hospital room and saw that he was still sleeping, he called Ivy Smith into the hallway, lifted his chin toward it and asked, “Isn’t he being checked out, why is he staying? Which part has gone wrong again?”
Ivy Smith cleared her throat and explained, “He had some irritation earlier, and after the infusion, the doctor kept him in the hospital for observation.”
He nodded, then leaned against the windowsill, leaned his crutches against the wall, and took a picture out of his pocket.
Ivy Smith’s eyes followed his movements suspiciously, wondering what he was up to.
Once the photo was in front of her eyes, her mind became even stranger.
“This man…” looked familiar, and before she could search her memory for the man’s name, Randall Harrah had already given the answer.
“Paul Johnson, do you know him?”
The name matched the face in the photo, and Ivy Smith didn’t hide it: “Sort of. I’ve met him a few times, but I haven’t seen him in over two years.”
Randall Harrah took a deep breath and looked grave: “Do you know what he is?”
“He… seems to be very mysterious.”
And he seemed to have some interest in Alex Brown, other than that, she didn’t know much.
“Paul Johnson is Matthew Miller’s man and has assisted the Miller Family in assassinating Emma Rosy and the Wright Family people many times, and has even hurt Alex Brown.”
Randall Harrah handed the photo to Ivy Smith: “According to my informant’s investigation, the person who infiltrated Alex Brown’ hospital room after his surgery was most likely Paul Johnson.”
At that time, Alex Brown surgery was not completely successful, but there was still a chance to save, but one night there was a sudden accident, if not Ivy Smith inexplicably disturbed, went to visit, he might have died in the hospital room.
For the past two years, Ivy Smith has always been a life-saver, but if Paul Johnson had found Alex Brown’ room based on her whereabouts, she would have been an accomplice.
As Ivy Smith stared at the photo, Randall Harrah looked casually down the stairs, but his eyes fixed on a certain figure and his pupils suddenly tightened.
“Marisa Miller?”
In the hazy night, the person’s face was a little unclear, Randall Harrah exclaimed, immediately grabbed his cane and rushed to the elevator.
The evening breeze was still cool as summer approached, and Randall Harrah fought through the stinging pain at the joint between his prosthetic leg and his knee as he nervously searched the pedestrian traffic, but the figure had long since disappeared.
Ivy Smith chased after him and asked, unsure, “Who are you looking for? That man, the man behind Paul Johnson?”
In recent years, the Miller father-daughter relationship seems to be very stiff, Paul Johnson is working for whom, it is not really easy to say. In addition, the person who infiltrated the ward is not Paul Johnson, there is no evidence to determine, rashly tell Ivy Smith everything, he is afraid that will cause trouble.
After a moment of consideration, Randall Harrah only said cryptically, “Marisa Miller, that woman is likely to hurt Alex, so if she is around, be careful, and I will send her photo to you when we get back.”
Ivy Smith responded, frowning at the photo in her hand, her heart growing heavier and heavier.
Early the next morning.
She worked late until the early hours of the morning before resting at her desk, and while she was sleeping, she was suddenly awakened by a knock at the door.
It was not yet time to go to work, who was here so early?
Emma Rosy rubbed her eyes and sat up impatiently, speaking with a wake-up call: “Come in!”
The door opened and Charles Taylor appeared with breakfast in hand, frowning at her listless appearance.
“Stayed up late again? It’s not good for your health, what can’t you leave for today, if you’re really in a hurry, just ask me for help.”