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She hugged a plushy tightly while murmuring, “Sorry, my baby. It’s all my fault. I failed to protect you. Don’t be afraid. I’ll be with you soon.”
After losing her baby, her mental health had deteriorated. Madison was like a pretty flower slowly wilting away. She gazed out into the night, thinking as long as she could leave her father that sum of money, then she could go and be with her baby.
Before dawn the next morning, Madison was already fully dressed as she looked down at her own smiling face in the photo they’d taken outside the City Hall after they registered their marriage.
In the blink of an eye, three years had passed since then.
She prepared a breakfast that was good for the stomach. Although she didn’t have much time left to live, she wanted to live longer to take care of her father.
As Madison was about to leave the house, she received a call from the hospital. “Ms. Evans, Mr. Evans had a heart attack. We’ve already sent him into the emergency ward.”
“I’ll be there right away!”
Madison rushed to the hospital, but the surgery was still ongoing. She waited outside the operating theater with her hands clasped.
She had already lost everything. Her only hope was for her father to live on in good health.
A nurse handed her a receipt. “Ms. Evans, this is the total bill for your father’s emergency treatment and surgery.”
Madison scanned through the details and found that the total bill amounted to more than 100 thousand. Jeff’s daily treatment expenses already cost 50 thousand dollars per month, and she only barely managed to make ends meet by working three jobs.
After paying off his hospitalization fees earlier, she only had five thousand dollars left in her card. How was she going to afford his surgery?
She had no choice but to call Hunter. He answered in a cold voice, “Where are you? I’ve already been waiting for 30 minutes.”
“Something urgent came up, and I can’t make it.”
“Madison, is this funny to you?” Hunter sneered in response. “I was thinking why you would change your mind all of a sudden. Do you take me for a fool, making up lies like this?”
He actually thought she was lying.
Madison explained, “I’m not lying. I was reluctant before this because I thought you must have had your reasons for treating me this way, but I see things clearly now.
“There’s no point to a marriage like this, so I’m getting this divorce willingly. I couldn’t make it because my father had a heart attack and had to undergo surgery—”
“Is he dead?” Hunter interrupted.
It sounded weird to Madison. Who even spoke like that?
“No. The doctors are treating him. Hunter, the surgery costs more than 100 thousand dollars. Can you give me that ten million? I promise I’ll get the divorce!”
He responded with a snort. “Madison, I hope you know that I, of all people, wish your father dead. I can give you the money, but only after we make the divorce official.”
The line went dead after that.
Madison’s face was filled with disbelief. She remembered that Hunter had treated Jeff with respect when they were still together. However, the hatred in his voice earlier did not sound like a joke at all.
Why did he want her father dead?
Everything made sense when she connected the dots with the Evans family going bankrupt two years ago.
How could there have been such a coincidence?
Hunter must have caused their bankruptcy, but how had her family offended him?
Madison had no time to dwell on it. The most urgent matter at hand was to gather 100 thousand dollars to pay her father’s medical bills.
The doors to the operating theater opened, and Madison quickly stepped forward. “Dr. Herbert, how is my father?”
“Don’t worry, Ms. Evans. Mr. Evans made it, but he’s still mentally fragile. Be careful not to trigger him in the meantime.”
“I understand,” Madison replied. “Thank you, Dr. Herbert.”
As Jeff was still unconscious, Madison asked the nurse, “My father was quite healthy. Why did he suddenly have a heart attack?”
The nurse answered hastily, “Mr. Evans has been in good spirits recently. He even said that he craved lamb shank.
“I thought that Al Palphino was just 15 minutes away, so I went to buy him mushroom soup. When I came back, he had already been sent to the emergency ward. It’s all my fault, Ms. Evans.”
“Did you see anyone before you left my dad?”
“No. Mr. Evans looked normal before I left. He even said that you like the carrot cake from Al Palphino and asked me to buy a slice. I never thought that this would happen …”
Madison felt that things weren’t that simple. After asking the nurse to take good care of her father, she rushed to the admission desk to check the visitor records.
“Ms. Evans, nobody came to visit Mr. Evans this morning,” the nurse working at the desk replied.
“Thank you.”
“By the way, have you cleared the bill for Mr. Evans?”
Madison did her best to hide her embarrassment as she replied, “I’ll pay immediately. I’m so sorry.”
She left the admission desk and took a taxi to the City Hall, but Hunter was nowhere to be seen when she got there.
Madison called him in a panic and said, “I’ve reached the City Hall. Where are you?”
“My office.”
“Hunter, can you come and settle the divorce procedures now?”
Hunter sniggered and said, “Which do you think is more important? The business deal worth hundreds of millions that I’m about to make, or you?”
“I can wait till you’re done. Hunter, I’m begging you. I need that money urgently for my father.”
“If he dies, I’ll pay for his funeral.” With that, he hung up.
When Madison called him again, she realized that he had switched his phone off. The heavy rain beat down on her, and she couldn’t breathe as she crouched under the bus stop sign.