The nurse nodded with a smile, “Yes, now Mr. Brooks is awake and told you to make sure you wait for him to come out.”
“I’ll wait, I’ll wait, I’ll wait for him to come out.” Nellie nodded with tears in her eyes.
After hours of torturous waiting, she finally felt relieved.
All the Brooks family members present were relieved by this.
Only Nancy’s gaze was always on Nellie, full of indignance.
Soon, Barney was wheeled out of the operating theatre and he immediately had to go to a sterile ward, so the Brooks family was stopped by the medical staff before they could even go up to him.
It said that Barney was very weak at this time and that it would probably be a week before he could see them.
Only Nellie was called over.
“You go in first, I will wait for you outside.” Looking at the man’s pale and frail face, Nellie said in a heartfelt tone.
And Barney handed her a box.
Nellie took it.
Barney spoke weakly, “Where is my porridge?”
Nellie, “Your diet needs special care now, when you are discharged from the hospital, I will make it for you everyday, okay?”
“You didn’t make it for me?”
“I did, but you can’t eat it.”
“Give it to them.” Barney said insistently, allowing Nellie to give the porridge she had brought to the medical assistant.
Nellie could only give the porridge to the medical assistant.
Barney was quickly pushed away and the group followed him to the door of the ward and was not allowed to enter.
When Miriam heard that the operation was successful, she was now relieved in her heart that the next step would basically be fine as long as she followed what the hospital said.
An operation after all these years finally had been done.
She asked the old lady and the others go back first.
“Nancy, go back too.”
After all the people were accounted for, seeing that Nancy was still waiting in place, Miriam stepped forward and said in a light tone.
When Nancy was told to go back, she immediately shook her head, “No, mum, I’m not going back, I’m going to wait here for my brother to come out.”
“What are you waiting for? Your sister-in-law is here, you go back.”
Nancy, “…”
Sister-in-law?
So she was acknowledging Nellie as her daughter-in-law?
No, how is this possible?
“Mom…” Nancy looked at Miriam in disbelief.
Earlier Nellie backtracked and made the whole Brooks family in and out a joke, she clearly hated Nellie.
Why now?
“Get your ass back right now.”
Miriam did not explain to Nancy.
Nancy looked at Miriam’s cold face and the anger she aimed at her. Had she said something wrong?
Before, she was really disgusted with Nellie, so why now?
Nancy looked at Miriam with a face full of aggression, not knowing exactly what she was doing wrong.
Nellie didn’t understand what Miriam meant.
Miriam obviously didn’t want to talk to Nancy that much, and her lack of explanation ended up infuriating Nancy, who ran out of the hospital in tears.
When Miriam and Nellie were the only two left in the corridor, Nellie’s gaze was tinged with even more disbelief.
Miriam looked at her, her face no longer as serious and cold as when she was with Nancy, she said gently, “It’s okay to leave him to you, right?”
Nellie, “No problem, I just don’t quite get it.”
When she came to Yupto, she had thought that everyone in the Brooks family would hate her, especially Miriam, who would definitely not let her go.
Yet Miriam sighed, “Nancy has been spoiled by me over the years, and I am somewhat responsible for that.”
That was not what Nellie didn’t understand.
She had met Nancy before.
As Miriam said, she had been spoiled over the years, and her personality, in many cases, was very unpleasant.
What she didn’t know was that the reason of the fact that Miriam had been so critical of her before was because of Nancy.
Now, with a sigh, she said, “After going through this operation on Barney, I understand the truth that there is no big deal for people except life and death.”
Nellie, “…”
Nothing important but life and death?
So she had changed her mind about Nellie because of Barney’s feelings for her?
Was it because of Barney that she accept Nellie?
Without waiting for Nellie to speak, Miriam continued, “Take care of Andre as soon as possible.”
“Okay.”
Nellie nodded.
Tears, again, rushed to her eyes.
She didn’t expect that after all she had been through, the people around Barney would still accept her so unconditionally.
She was, well, moved.
It was the first time in all the years since she lost my mother that she felt included.
Miriam left, leaving Nellie alone. Nellie stood outside Barney’s ward and looked in through the glass.
Barney had just finished his surgery and spent a lot of time sleeping, but knowing that Nellie was waiting for him, he often woke up to look at her and smile.
Nellie felt a sense of satisfaction in her heart.
Her phone vibrated.
It was Andre calling, Nellie hung up without thinking, she had nothing more to say to Andre now.
Yet Andre sent her a direct geo-location.
Nellie was shocked to see that, so when Andre’s call came in again, she answered it.
“What do you want?” Her tone was cold, devoid of its usual warmth.
On this side of the phone, Andre stood in front of the hospital. The weather in Yupto was not quite the same as in Shirling, over here, it was hot.
Andre had just gotten out of the car less than five minutes ago and his forehead was covered in sweat.
However, under such a hot sun, listening to Nellie’s icy voice, he felt like he was frozen.
“He’s had a successful operation, hasn’t he?”
“What’s it to you?”
“…” Has this woman forgotten that she is his wife or not.
It’s a good thing he didn’t strangle her when she was openly with another man, and now he’s asking what is with him?
Andre’s anger was held back.
Ruthlessly, he said to Nellie on the other side of the phone, “What’s it with me? Nellie, do you want me to remind you of what our relationship is now?”
“It’s about to be over.”
Andre was pissed off to hear that.
His breath was sharply unsteady at the moment.
Nellie, “Bye.”
“How dare you?” As soon as Andre heard Nellie was about to hang up the phone, he spoke again, his tone all threatening and harsh.
Nellie’s anger was burned up, “What do you want?”
“It’s time for you to come home with me, Nellie, don’t let me remind you twice, and don’t piss me off, or neither you nor Barney will be able to afford it.”
After the dangerous warning, Andre simply hung up the phone.
Nellie listened to the ‘beep’ sound coming from the phone and was so angry that she almost dropped the phone.
She tried hard to hold it back, but she couldn’t suppress the anger in her heart.
He was now, pushing her.
The more she thought about it, the more she couldn’t suppress the anger in her heart.
Finally, she called her lawyer, Blake, who picked up, “Miss James.”
“I want the relationship with him to end immediately, what’s the best way to do that?”
“If he agrees, it can be done in a day, otherwise, the matter will be very troublesome.”