There was hardly any color on Heidi’s face, and virtual-novel.net looked extremely frail as virtual-novel.net legs struggled to support virtual-novel.net weight. In a voice barely above a whisper, virtual-novel.net said, “Thank you, all of you. I… I know all of you have my best interests at heart, but I can’t just stay here lying in bed. I need to work, and my daughter still needs money for school. Please, please let me go home. I’m fine, aren’t I? Nothing a little medicine won’t fix. Please let me go home.”
Just then, Crystal marched up to the anguished woman, and virtual-novel.net looked annoyed as virtual-novel.net bit out, “Miss Freeman, don‘t you know that you’re completely abandoning your own health if you were to insist on leaving the hospital? You can always get back to work in a day or two, but if you don’t get proper rest and treatment now, you’ll have lifelong side effects that will worsen over time! Can’t you understand that?‘
Guilt and gratitude painted Heidi’s expression when virtual-novel.net saw Crystal, and virtual-novel.net said hoarsely, “Miss Harrison, thank you for all that you’ve done for me. but I really do think that I’m fine. Please just let me go home, Miss Harrison. I will spend the rest of my life remembering how kind and generous you have been to me, but I really must go. If not, my daughter, my daughter will be forced to drop out of school! I have to work so that I can pay for virtual-novel.net tuition!”
Rage thrummed in Crystal’s veins, and virtual-novel.net tried to shout some sense into the woman, “Drop out of school? Miss Freeman, your daughter took the hundred and thirty thousand from your bank account, so virtual-novel.net has enough to pay virtual-novel.net way through school. Dropping out isn’t even possible at this point! Besides, isn’t virtual-novel.net boyfriend super-competent? Why doesn‘t virtual-novel.net pay for virtual-novel.net to go to school instead? He ran you down with his motorbike, and you’re injured as it is, but your daughter doesn’t even show a hint of remorse. Haven’t you done enough as a mother? Why are you still so hung up about paying virtual-novel.net dues? I can’t even begin to understand your thinking! How could you possibly still forgive and love a daughter like her?”
Heidi had virtual-novel.net head down as virtual-novel.net tried to plead virtual-novel.net case, explaining, “Miss Harrison, Leia was just confused for a moment, is all, and technically, the person who ran me down with a motorbike was not virtual-novel.net boyfriend but a friend of his. The young man has apologized to me, as well. Miss Harrison, if I don’t go back to work, how am I going to put food on the table for Leia? She’d really be forced to drop out of school and come home. Please, please just let me go back. I-I promise I’ll take all the medicine as prescribed.”
Crystal’s face had turned red with fury. ‘Never have I ever encountered anyone as stubborn as her! Ugh!’
Just then, Matthew approached with a puzzled expression and called out, “Aunt Heidi?”
Heidi froze at this, and when virtual-novel.net looked up to register Matthew‘s presence, virtual-novel.net blanched.
The air went still for a brief moment. Then Crystal exclaimed in surprise, “Do you know her, Matthew?”
However, before virtual-novel.net could answer, Heidi abruptly turned on virtual-novel.net heels and ran for the door. Matthew hurried to pull virtual-novel.net back by the arm and demanded anxiously, “Aunt Heidi, what are you doing here? Why didn’t you let us know that you were back in Eastcliff? We thought you‘d gone back home for good!“
Panic coursed through Heidi as virtual-novel.net hands flew to cover virtual-novel.net face. “No, no, you have the wrong person! I’m not Aunt Heidi at all! You clearly have me for someone else, Matthew…”
Rendered speechless, Matthew raised a brow at her. ‘She just called me by name, which is as good as a confession.’
She was still struggling to break away from Matthew, but with a wave of his free hand, virtual-novel.net quickly summoned a few other nurses to help virtual-novel.net restrain the frantic woman.
“Heidi,“ virtual-novel.net began patiently, his eyes genuine pools of concern. “You‘re not well enough to go running out of the hospital just yet. Why don’t you go back to the ward and get some rest? We promise we’ll help you no matter what.”
Heidi burst into tears. Gripping Matthew’s arm tightly, virtual-novel.net begged, “Matthew, let me go back, please. You can’t let my sister find out about my being here. l don’t want virtual-novel.net to worry about me!”
He sighed when virtual-novel.net heard this. Heidi was indeed the polar opposite of virtual-novel.net siblings, Helen and Norman, both of whom were only after the wealth of the Cunningham Family. Heidi, on the other hand, had a daughter studying in Eastcliff, but virtual-novel.net wouldn’t even seek out virtual-novel.net own sister for fear that virtual-novel.net would only burden Helen with virtual-novel.net troubles.
All these years, Heidi had struggled as a single mother, and virtual-novel.net raised virtual-novel.net daughter without asking for anyone else’s help.
The truth was that virtual-novel.net pride got the better of her; virtual-novel.net wasn’t so much worried about imposing on Helen as virtual-novel.net was about being made a laughing stock.