Patrick was taken to the hospital late at night into the emergency room, and after two hours of first aid, the doctor came out.
“How is my father?”
Kevin asked nervously.
“Mr. Jones-Sharp had a myocardial infarction. The patient is now out of danger but will be in the ICU for some time. You can visit him, but be careful not to let him irritated.”
“Okay.”
Kevin nodded sorrowfully and went to his mother, who had already cried and her eyes were bloodshot and puffy, “Mom, it’s fine, don’t worry.”
He asked the driver to send his mother back to rest, and he stayed in the hospital. Late at night, he came to his father’s ward, touched his father’s haggard face, and sadly said, “I’m sorry dad. It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have made you angry. I’m not a good son. Even now I’m starting to hate myself …”
“Kevin…”
Patrick heard his son’s voice and suddenly woke up, “Don’t hate yourself. It’s all Dad’s fault. You’re a good son. But … I’m not a good father.”
“It’s my fault. I’m always so rebellious and do things that make you unhappy. I thought I’d feel better if I made you sad, but until this moment I realize that no matter what I do, it can’t alleviate the pain in my heart. I’m still so sad, Dad. I’m still so sad. My heart really aches … really aches …”
Kevin removed his disguise in front of his father and wailed. His heart really ached and no one could understand his bitterness.
“Son I’m sorry, I’m really sorry …” Patrick also shed tears. Seeing his son in such pain, his heart ached, “I’m the one who ruined you, your life, and the two heartbreaking love affairs. You must hate me. It’s fine. You just hate me. You can hate me …”
Kevin looked up and held his father’s hand, “I don’t hate you. I really don’t. You don’t need to blame yourself. Get well soon. Mom needs you, and I also need you.”.
He wanted to express his love for his father. When the words were on the tip of one’s tongue, he didn’t say it. Even if he didn’t say his own feelings for his father, his father would still understand because blood was thicker than water.
“It’s been a long time since we have been drinking and chatting together, and when I get well this time, we’ll definitely be down the hatch.”
“Fine.”
Kevin nodded heavily and buried his head in his father’s chest.
After a sleepless night, the next morning, Alvin came to the hospital and said with concern, “Mr. Jones-Sharp, go home and rest. You have been guarding for a whole night. I’ll stay here and take care of him.”
“Thanks, I will leave him to you. I gonna go back to the company.”
Alvin grabbed him and said, “Don’t you want to go home and rest?”
“I’m not tired.”
Kevin nodded at him and hurried to the office.
No matter what the reason was, he would go to the company today, because Bella would be leaving.
Standing in front of the window of the president’s office, he gazed condescendingly at the ground floor of the building when Bella and Quintin stood together, shaking hands with colleagues to say goodbye. He didn’t go downstairs to see them off because he didn’t like that kind of scene.
Bella looking up, seemingly on purpose, and met Kevin’s eyes unexpectedly for a moment, but their heart ached.
She and he were once again facing separation, and this time, it might be forever.
The car started, but he didn’t chase out while she didn’t stay, and they went out of each other’s world again as they did two years ago.
One month later.
Patrick’s condition was still on and off, and in order to facilitate treatment, he had been staying in the hospital.
This day, an unexpected visitor Celeste came to the ward, carried flowers and fruit, staring at the bed with a withered face of the man, and said, “Patrick, I came to see you.”
Patrick opened his eyes and asked weakly, “What are you doing here?”
“I’m here to see you.”
“You don’t need to come.”
Celeste’s face fell and she sat on the chair beside the bed, “Do you hate me that much?”
“I will never like a calculating woman like you until the day I die.”
The words hurt Celeste who was grieving for decades, and her face crumpled up as she said, “The calculating woman is Blanche, who stole you away from me by any means possible. Why can’t you see her true face until now?”
“She has never robbed what belongs to you because I belong to her. Celeste, you listen to me clearly. I have not loved you, not even for a minute.
Patrick’s words completely infuriated and hurt Celeste, who suddenly let out miserable laughter and said gloomily, “You haven’t loved me, right? Well, let me tell you one thing …”
She leaned close to Patrick’s ear and whispered something. When she finished, Patrick’s face suddenly turned pale, he covered his chest, and his fingers trembled as he pointed at Celest, “You … you …”.
Hahaha-!
Celeste once again let out a creepy laugh, turned around, and proudly left. They didn’t let her have it easy, and then no one should have it easy!
Patrick gradually calmed down and stared blankly at the ceiling like a living dead man. When cloudy tears fell down, he closed his eyes forever.
His eyes before death were so unwilling.
Kevin stood in front of the office window, a cup of warm coffee in his hand. His eyelids had been pounding today, and he was also inexplicably very uneasy, which made him unable to work, so he drank a cup of coffee to refresh himself because he might be too tired recently.
At this time, the office door was pushed open, and Alvin broke in and said sorrowfully, “Mr. Jones-Sharp, the master … passed away.”
Alvin cried out sadly.
The coffee cup in Kevin’s hand fell to the floor.
In the ward was a cry of grief. Blanche held her husband’s body and cried hard. She had been married to Patrick for more than three decades, so their feelings were deep marrow. Even when there were many people who didn’t understand them, they could still love each other through most of their lives, and now he so suddenly passed away, how could she live …
When Kevin arrived at the hospital, he knelt down in front of his father and cried out, grabbing the doctor by the collar and growling, “Why did my father die? Didn’t you say he was getting better? Why did he suddenly pass away?!!!”
“Mr. Jones-Sharp, please calm down. Patrick was suffering from acute myocardial infarction, and there is nothing we can do. We are really sorry.”
“I handed my father over to you guys to heal him, not for you to say sorry to me. Give my father back his life!!!”
Kevin broke down, and he could not accept the fact that his father had died at all.
“The old lady-”
Blanche eventually fainted due to excessive grief, and the originally dreary ward was filled with breathless sadness.
After leaving City B and returning to city F, Bella’s life became peaceful again. She worked from nine to five every day, and in addition, she dated Quintin.
Although she didn’t completely like him, she was at least ready to live with him. Quintin was the kind of man who didn’t give her pressure and she was very relaxed with him. She didn’t know whether such a man was suitable for her, but the aunt said that only such a man could live a stable life because the more a man could make you feel passionate, the less he was able to accompany you to the end.
The day after Quintin proposed to her, she received a phone call from Alice and learned the sad news that her father-in-law had died.
After receiving the call, she didn’t even have time to greet him and ran straight home from the office. Mika saw her sad, like out of her mind, so she was worried and asked, “what’s the matter?”
“Auntie, I’m going to go to B City.”
“To City B? What are you doing in B City again?”
“My father-in-law passed away. I have to go back to mourn for him.”
Mika glared in shock, and when she reacted, Bella was already out of the room with her luggage, she hurried after her, grabbed her niece’s hand, and said, “Don’t go back. Have you forgotten how that family treated you in the beginning? And you and Kevin are divorced!”
“Even if he and I are divorced, his father is still my father-in-law, and I must go back to him, both for sentiment and reason.”
Bella broke away from her aunt’s hand and ran out of the house without looking back.
On Patrick’s funeral day, it was very gloomy. Alice and Louis also attended the funeral. Blanche looked at her husband’s ashes crying sadly when Bella wearing a mourning dress walked into the mourning hall.
All the people who know her were surprised to see her and didn’t expect her to appear at this time. Alice informed her the news, so Alice was not surprised, but Louis beside her looked extremely shocked.
After lighting a stick of incense, Bella knelt down in front of her father-in-law’s portrait and kowtowed heavily three times. Then she came to her mother-in-law and hugged her in her arms and cried sorrowfully.
It was undeniable that except for that her father-in-law was sorry for her for the incident with Freya, but he loved her as his own daughter, which was why she had never held a grudge against him.
She was tearful and looked askance at Kevin, who must be so sad to have that expression, like a puppet without any feeling.
At this time, an unwelcome person walked in the door, Celeste, who dressed in black with a small white flower on her head, came to Patrick’s portrait, and was about to burn incense when Kevin snatched the incense from her hand and said with a gloomy face, “Get out!
Celeste looked ups coldly, “I’m here to mourn your father. What kind of attitude is that?”
“I’ll deal with you after my father’s funeral, and don’t think I don’t know that the last person my father saw before he died was you!”
“I am also saddened by my father’s death, but what does that have to do with me? I’ve known your father for decades. Is it wrong for me to visit him in the hospital when he’s sick?”
“Did you visit him? Do you swear you didn’t say anything to him?”
Kevin gnashed the teeth in anger and took a step forward, glaring at her fiercely.
Celeste calmly replied, “I didn’t. I just saw him sleeping, so I put down the basket of flowers and fruit and left. If you want to put the blame for your father’s death on me, you have to show evidence before you can do that. Otherwise so many guests are watching, will they think that your Jones-Sharp’s family is too impolite?”
“So what if they’re watching? Do you believe I’ll strangle you?”
Kevin grabbed Celeste’s neck.
“Let go of my mother!!!”
Louis was the first to rush up, raising his fist to smash Kevin, and they wrestled together.
“Stop it, all of you!
Bella rushed to them and yelled hysterically, “Today is to his rest in peace!. Do you want him never to be at peace?
Kevin wiped the bloodstains from the corners of his lips and said to Celeste gloomily, “You wait. I will definitely let blood will have blood!”
He angrily went out of the spiritual hall and Bella assisted to pick up his mother-in-law like a zombie and said, “Mom, let’s go, let’s see Dad off for the last time.”
The master was buried at last, and it was spotting with rain. After all the guests left one after another, Kevin knelt down to his father’s grave alone.
He took out a bottle of wine and two glasses and poured one for his father and one for himself.
“Dad, this is the promise we made before you were born, and although you went back on your word, I still want to live up to that promise.”
“Let’s drink. Let me drink with you today.”
Kevin drank the bitter liquor, tears running down from his eyes, “Dad, actually I’ve been wanting to say something to you until you were discharged from the hospital, but I didn’t think I’d wait for this day. I love you. I’ve never hated you. Do you hear my belated confession? I know you’ve been wanting to hear this for a long time, and it’s all my fault, and until now I finally say it …”
After she helped her mother-in-law into the car, she returned to the graveyard, stood far behind Kevin, watching him drink and chat with his father. At that moment, she suddenly felt that he was lonely. She sadly stepped forward quickly and suddenly stretched out her arms and hugged him from behind.
A long, long time ago, when he was sad, she hugged him like this, and silently hugging him was the best comfort for him …