What concerned Emma Rosy was that she had not informed her family beforehand.
Hope was smart enough to understand what she meant without Emma Rosy having to make it too clear, and promised to pay attention to communication with her parents in the future.
Emma Rosy put her hands on Hope’s shoulders and rubbed her forehead with relief: “I would be happier if keria was as well behaved as you are!”
The nurse brought over the discharge paperwork, and Emma Rosy helped Keira get changed and ready to go home.
Before leaving, Keira wiggled her fingers and suggested with anticipation, “The sun is shining today, let’s play outside for a while before we go back, okay?”
Emma Rosy didn’t even think about it and rejected it.
Since she learned that Keira’s condition had worsened, Emma Rosy pretended to be relaxed in front of the children, but her heart was always hanging high.
Hope understands Emma Rosy’s feelings, although she thinks she is a bit arbitrary, but also just sympathetic look at Keira, did not say anything more.
“What’s the difference between going home and staying in the hospital?” Keira muttered listlessly.
Emma Rosy let her complain and didn’t intend to pay any attention to it, but when she heard her say, “Am I so sick I’m going to die?” She felt a deep sting in her heart.
Playfulness is the nature of children, confining her to a small place, even if the decoration is more luxurious, there are more toys and snacks, how can she really happy?
To take a step back, if in the end there is really no way back, is it not too cruel that she is deprived of even a brief moment of happiness before then?
“Mom, I don’t want to be a patient.”
Seeing Keira’s flat mouth and teary-eyed plea, Emma Rosy couldn’t help but tilt her head and suppress her tears before forcing a smile on her face and taking her and Hope’s hands: “Okay. There’s been a lot going on lately, and you haven’t bought your seasonal clothes yet, so mom will act as your wallet and take you shopping!”
With the rapid economic development and high consumption levels in the imperial capital, shopping has become one of the main ways to relax after a busy life. Although it is a working day, the large shopping malls are full of people, a lively scene.
The third floor is the children’s clothing section, but when Keira enters the mall, she rushes into the snack section.
“Dried strawberries, chocolate, dried pork …”
Keira was so excited to walk through the shelves, but she was too short and had to wait for Emma Rosy and Hope, who were walking behind her, to help her with many things.
The packet of marshmallows above her head was so tempting that she couldn’t resist trying it on her tiptoes, but someone passed behind her and nearly knocked her over with a flip of her arm.
“Ouch, kids what’s wrong with you, it hurts me!” The woman turned around, rubbing her hand as she looked down at Keira.
Keira quietly touched the back, did not dare to respond, after seeing They people behind the approach before whispering: “Sorry auntie, but I also hurt, and … clearly you hit me.”
“What’s wrong Keira ?”
Hope ran over first, checked Keira to see if she was hurt, generally understood what had happened, and in the spirit of less conflict with people, helped apologize to the woman.
At this time Emma Rosy also approached, and seeing Hope shake her head, indicating that Keira was fine, she said gently, “Sorry, I should have watched my daughter to keep her from wandering off, Miss you …”
The words were not finished when they suddenly met the woman’s intrigued gaze.
Emma Rosy slightly raised his eyebrows, feeling that this person is very familiar, but for a while can not remember where to meet, until the woman spoke.
“Oh, I thought it was you, Richard, the great medical doctor!”
Linda Harrah.
Emma Rosy finally remembered the woman’s name, when she was released from prison and went back to college, Marisa Miller’s cousin Felicia Miller was Judi Dench’s arch rival, and later misunderstood William Hollander had a crush on her, so she targeted her, and Linda Harrah played with Felicia Miller, and was also very unfriendly to her.
Seeing that Linda Harrah’s strange face was no different from that of her college days, Emma Rosy did not want to argue with her, so she ignored her provocations and apologized again before asking her children to go for a walk across the street.
“Stop!” Linda Harrah walked around quickly, blocking their path and raising her arms in question, “You want to walk away after you hit someone? What, the Wright Family is superior and we commoners deserve to be bullied?”
With her family by her side, Keira stood up to her and confronted her: “You’re the one who should apologize for hitting me!”
“Little girl, what are you talking about?” Linda Harrah crossed her eyebrows and pointed at Keira to teach, not feeling that she had done wrong at all, but taking the opportunity to vent her disgust at Emma Rosy.
Seeing this, Emma Rosy hurriedly shielded the children behind her back and asked back with a sullen face, “So what do you want? If we need accountability, we can contact the mall security and transfer the surveillance to see what happened when it happened, if you want compensation, then go to the hospital to have your injuries examined and then call the police to deal with it.”
After several years of absence, Emma Rosy had changed her former image of peace and harmony, and instead of backing down, she argued her case with full force.
Linda Harrah was surprised and knew that she was in the wrong, so she deliberately changed the subject and said cynically, “I heard that you have climbed to the position of general manager of Wright Group, it’s different to be rich and powerful, you have more confidence in your words.”
She was obviously looking for a fight. Hope was worried that Emma Rosy was being bullied, so she tried to reason with her, but as soon as she called out “mom”, she was immediately caught.
“What did you call her?” Linda Harrah waved her finger between Hope and Miss Richard several times, as if she had found some shocking news: “Emma Rosy, when did you have another daughter, not your own?
She remembered the entertainment magazines exploded all kinds of luxury marriage, suddenly realized: “You were abandoned by the original boyfriend, transferred to marry which rich old man, into the door directly to do stepmother, right? Aigoo, really poor ah …”
Emma Rosy admired her imagination and didn’t want to waste time with her, but couldn’t bear to let Hope suffer, so she simply explained: “Both are my daughters, so if you have to worry about others, you might as well take care of yourself first.”
“It’s admirable to be a stepmother and still be so dedicated.” Linda Harrah’s face was full of contempt, and she continued to mock, “No wonder I haven’t seen you at any class reunions since graduation.
I thought Miss Richard was busy with her career, but now it seems that you have no face to see others, right?”
Linda Harrah stood in the middle of the road and stalked her, and the curious eyes of customers who passed by.
Emma Rosy herself did not care, but could not let an insignificant person spoil Hope and Keira’s good mood, and was about to order her to give way, when a tall figure suddenly came from the side, between They.
“This young lady, I am the ‘old man’ as you call me, any more questions, I can answer them for you.”
Charles Taylor raised his hand to look at his watch, and then looked up at Linda Harrah with a stern face: “Five minutes, let’s begin.”
Taylor Group President, often appear in major newspapers and magazines and economic news, even if you do not know his identity, you must be familiar with this face.
Linda Harrah was almost dumbfounded and then even more jealous of Emma Rosy’s good fortune.
She was a few years younger than Emma Rosy, and her figure and appearance were not bad at all, but she was not as good as others.
With a grunt of annoyance, she threw down the cart and walked away in a huff.
Charles Taylor showed up just in time to help Emma Rosy out, but his comment made Emma Rosy feel uncomfortable.
So when he offered to go shopping with the kids, Emma Rosy politely declined and lowered her voice to remind her, “We had a frank and open conversation last time, so please don’t talk about our relationship again to avoid misunderstanding.”
“Emma, I …”
Since Emma Rosy made it clear that he should give up, he was down for a few days, but never willing to give up.
At the same time, he understood that his continued offensive would only make Emma Rosy more repulsive and that he had to be softer so that she could not refuse and would not get bored.
So instead of continuing the conversation, he explained, “I’m sorry, but I had some business to talk to you about and I didn’t want to waste any time. If you don’t like it, I’ll take care of it next time.”
After all, Charles Taylor was kind enough to help, and now he was explaining and apologizing, which made Emma Rosy a little embarrassed, so she had to postpone her shopping plans for today and take the children back to the office.
In the office, the drawings for the latest phase of the project were spread out on the desk, and Charles Taylor picked up a pen and nodded at two of them.
“I still have reservations about the design of this place, but safety is more important.”
“The places you mentioned, I have already done the understanding, absolutely can guarantee the safety.” Seeing that Charles Taylor was still unsure, Emma Rosy dialed the internal line to her secretary: “Ask the designer to come over.”
Emma Rosy brought in the designer and had a brief meeting with Charles Taylor to confirm the safety of the building, and then discussed around certain data, and finally finished, it was almost lunch time.
“Do you want to go out to eat later?” Charles Taylor sorts out the drawings and sits back down.
The designer had already left, Emma Rosy no longer had to act like a general manager, leaned back into the sofa and waved her hand lazily: “Forget it, I’ll invite you to the staff restaurant to try the Wright Group’s back kitchen.”
Speaking of eating, she suddenly remembered that They children who were running around outside the office earlier had disappeared.
“Have you seen them?”
“Didn’t notice.” Charles Taylor got up and went to the door to look for them, guessing casually, “Maybe they were taken by the secretary to play.”
Anyway, it was her own company, and the security guards downstairs knew them, so they were not likely to get lost. Emma Rosy did not take it to heart and closed her eyes to rest: “It’s rare to relax, let them continue to play, and call back at dinner time.”
After a few moments, the secretary knocked on the door and entered, carrying two cups of coffee.
Seeing that she was not followed by the children, Emma Rosy slowly sat up from the sofa and wondered, “Where are Hope and Keira, they are not with you?”
The secretary looked bewildered: “I went to the finance office to call for the report earlier and didn’t meet They ladies.”
Although there was no danger in the company, children could easily get lost. Emma Rosy and Charles Taylor looked at each other and rushed out to look for them.
Tenth floor, sales department.
With huge glass windows surrounding the office, Keira and Hope watched the busy staff come and go, and soon became bored.
“It’s getting late, let’s go back, Mom will be worried.” Hope glanced at the display hanging above and spoke up again.
Keira puffed up her mouth and took Hope’s hand and shook it: “It’s no fun going back, just play a little longer.”
Hope can not help her, helplessly sigh: “Then Keira little princess still want to go to which floor ah? Or do you want to continue playing in the elevator?”
The little one shook her head again and again. The elevator was boring, and so was watching people work.
After a long time of consideration, she finally became happy: “Sister, let’s play hide-and-seek!”
Hope was dragged to a quiet place in the corridor and covered her eyes under her strong request.
“I’ll count to fifty, sister will run first, and when you count to one hundred, you will run again, whoever is found first will lose!
Keira’s flawed rules must have been learned from her kindergarten teacher, and she didn’t understand the rules of the game.
Hope saw her silly look through her fingers and couldn’t help but snicker. Seeing that the bathroom was just a few steps away, she decided to go solve her physical problems first and then come back to fool around with her.
“One, two, three …”
Before entering the door, the little one just counted to thirty, Hope darted into the cubicle, and then ran out in a hurry without washing her hands carefully.
But the place was empty, there was no Keira’s figure.
Hope’s heart suddenly rose to her throat, regretting that she had brought her sister out to play, she should have followed her every step of the way, how could she be assured that she was left alone?
“Keira , you are still here right? Don’t scare your sister, come out quickly …”
Hope was so worried that she panicked and went around the floor to look for someone, but instead of finding Keira, she accidentally bumped into some employee who came out of the office.
Both of them were stumbled by each other, and the employee seemed to be in a bad mood and cursed first: “You’re crazy! Don’t you have eyes? I’m so unlucky, everyone is pushing their work to me, I can hardly go to dinner, and then I meet a bad luck!”
Hope was in a hurry to find someone and the employee was in a hurry to go to dinner, both of them were fast and neither of them paid attention to the surrounding situation.
The employee opened her mouth and scolded, Hope naturally felt unfair, but at this time to find his sister is important, so did not bother with her, directly lifting steps to leave.
“Stop!” The employee called out to Hope in a bad mood, raised her hand and pushed her shoulder: “Are you deaf or blind, don’t you know that you hit someone? You have to apologize for making a mistake, you don’t even have this basic courtesy at a young age?”
Hope pursed her lips and looked at her, holding a fire in her chest.
Hope was mild-mannered, but she wouldn’t let anyone bully her. Knowing that she didn’t have the advantage in size, she took a step back to distance herself from the employee and reasoned patiently, “I’m in a hurry to find my sister, so please don’t get in my way. Just now we were both careless before we bumped into each other, I can apologize to you, and after apologizing, please move out of the way.”
After saying that, she bent down and bowed, “I’m sorry, auntie.”
The employee was tired and hungry after a busy morning, and was full of grievances with no place to vent them.
“I’ve seen a lot of bear kids like you, you just need to be beaten.”
Hope waved away her hand, her heart was a little afraid, but her expression was not the least bit weak: “Auntie, I have apologized according to your request, but you are aggressive, and repeatedly abused me, hit me, who is not tutored?”
“You … how dare you talk back?!”
The employee felt ashamed of herself, and she directly raised her hand and gave Hope a slap.
Hope was not prepared, was hit staggered a few steps, nearly fell to the ground, covering the numb and stinging half of the cheek, a time dazed.
She was too young to know how to deal with the situation in front of her, even if she was mature and understanding. The employee was so pleased with herself that she took out her cell phone and threatened to call security and throw her out.
Before the phone could be dialed, Emma Rosy’s secretary arrived ahead of her.
“Miss Hope?”
Seeing Hope’s eyes red and being lectured by the staff, the secretary hastened to protect Hope and asked in a deep voice: “This is Miss Richard’s daughter, why did you make her cry?”
Upon hearing Hope’s identity, the clerk turned pale with fear and stammered, “Miss Richard … which Miss Richard? Isn’t her daughter only five or six years old, how could …”
The secretary was sternly educating the staff when Emma Rosy and Charles Taylor, who were splitting up to find someone, happened to come to this floor and saw the situation and approached to ask about it.
“Hope, you and your sister …”
Noticing that Hope had been covering her cheeks with her hands, her eyes clouded with a layer of watery mist, as if she had just cried, Emma Rosy spoke with a pause, turned to pull her hand and said instead, “What’s wrong with your face, is it uncomfortable?”
As her hand was pulled away, five red fingerprints on her white cheek were nowhere to be seen.
“Who hit you?”