“Oh, don’t make it seem like we won’t see each other anymore. Didn’t you agree to continue treating Shea? You even accepted three hundred million from my uncle,” Cole insinuated.
“Cole, once I have enough money, maybe there is no need to care about your abilities… so long as you listen to me.” Zoe looked at him seductively.
“Dr. Sanford, what… do you mean… by telling me all this?” Cole could not hold himself back for much longer.
“It’s exactly what you think it means!” Zoe pulled him by the collar to the bed and turned off the lights!
Two days later, the paternity test center made a call to Rosalie informing her that the results were out.
Rosalie had not seen the results, but her blood pressure had already increased. Initially, she had wanted to collect the results herself, but she felt too dizzy to do so.
After taking her medication, she ordered the driver to go collect the result.
After the driver left, Rosalie started talking excitedly to her servants.
“I did not get them to tell me the results on the phone because I want to see the results for myself!” said Rosalie radiantly. “I had a dream last night about the results! It was the result that I wanted! Hahaha!”
The servants laughed together with her.
At that moment, Cole came downstairs and asked, “Grandma, what’s the good news? Why are you so happy!”
Rosalie smiled and said, “Good news indeed! But I can’t tell you right now! I will only announce it later!”
“Oh, how secretive. I’ll head back to bed then. Call me later!”
“Okay!”
About an hour later, the driver returned with the results. The results were encased in an envelope.
Rosalie opened the envelope and retrieved the results with trembling hands! As she pulled out the document, she remembered that she did not have her glasses, so she immediately went back to her room.
She was eager to put her glasses on so she could read the results in detail!
After seeing the results, she was seized with excitement! Her face was distorted with happiness.
“I have- a grandson. Elyette- has an heir. Hayden is Elyette’s son. I knew he must be Elyette’s son. He looked exactly like Elyette when Elyette was young. How could he not be Elyette’s son! Averie has hidden it well!”
Rosalie muttered to herself. She quickly picked up her phone, browsed through her contacts, and made a call!
Half an hour later, Elyette received a call from his brother, Henry.
“Elyette! Come to the hospital now! Mother fell! She’s not doing well!”
Elyette gripped his phone tightly. He strode out of the office and walked toward the elevator.
Chad noticed his darkened expression, and the alarm in him went off. What had happened?
“Mr. Foster, do you want to push back your meetings?”
“Let the vice president do it. Send the meeting notes to me,” Elyette said before entering his private elevator.
The doors of the elevator slowly slid shut.
Chad had a bad feeling. Elyette rarely looked anxious while he was in the office.
At the hospital, Rosalie was pushed into the emergency room. When Elyette arrived, the emergency room door was still shut.
“What happened?” Elyette looked at Henry with a dark expression.
“I was not at home then. Cole said he heard Mother yell out, so he came out of the room to have a look, and he saw Mother rolling down the stairs.”
Elyette furrowed his brows tightly. “She fell from the upper floor? What was she doing there?”
Rosalie was quite old. She was no longer steady on her feet, so she normally stayed on the ground floor.
Henry looked like he was in pain. “I don’t know either! I was not at home then. Although Mother doesn’t stay on the upper floor, she can’t stay still and usually likes to walk around the house.”
“How about the nanny? Didn’t the nanny look after her?” Elyette’s voice rose a few octaves. He asked his question coldly.
Rosalie has high blood pressure, and she could not afford to take the fall.
“I rushed to the hospital when I received Cole’s call. I didn’t have time to ask all those questions!” Henry’s eyes reddened. “Cole, come and speak to your uncle!”
Cole’s eyes were a little reddened. He looked like he had just cried.
“Uncle Elyette, I was sleeping at home. When I heard Grandma yell, I rushed out of the room and saw her on the floor. The nanny was frightened to death, and she was crying by the side. I barely had time to ask the nanny anything, I just dialed the emergency number—”
Cole’s body was stiff. He clenched his fists tightly.
Cole raised his hand and wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes. “I’ll go right now and see what happened.”
After Cole left, Henry stood outside the emergency room, anxiously waiting. Elyette stood on the other side. His body was stiff, and his heart was cold.
He recalled the last time he had seen his mother. It seemed that it was when Zoe had had a miscarriage. Back then, they talked once. He said he would find another doctor to treat Shea.
Rosalie was happy then. She said that she would not force him and Zoe to be together. She was always like that. She might seem domineering, but she always gave in to him.
Elyette was not used to expressing his feelings, so he rarely said sweet things to her, but that did not mean that he did not love her.
His mother was the person that treated him the best. As a mother, there might be some things that she did not do well, but her son, Elyette, was worse than her.
Like a premonition, he was suddenly overcome with a sense of dread and disappointment. These terrifying emotions were like a virus, slowly spreading throughout his entire body, suffocating him.
After a while, the doors of the emergency room opened. The doctor and nurses came out.
“The patient’s heart stopped beating half an hour ago. We tried to resuscitate her, but we failed. We’re sorry.”
Instantly, Henry and his wife’s cries could be heard in the corridors.
Elyette walked into the emergency room with heavy steps.
His mother was pale. Her eyes were wide open. It looked like she did not have a peaceful death.
Elyette reached his hand out, wanting to shut his mother’s eyes, but no matter how he tried, he could not shut her eyes.
He grabbed his mother’s cold hands. He swallowed. His voice was hoarse. “Mother, did you want to tell me something?” There was no response.
“If there is a next life, I hope that you will never see Shea or I. We have made things difficult for you.”
Still no response.
There was nothing left in death. All the memories, hatred, desire, and reluctance vanished when the heart fell silent.
No one would force him to get married and have children in the future. No one would miss him or worry whether he was eating enough or staying warm enough, or whether his work was tiring him or not.
A moment later, Cole rushed into the hospital.
When he heard of his grandmother’s death, he instantly lost it and sobbed!
“How could Grandma die just like that! Yesterday, she was nagging me to get a girlfriend!” wailed Cole. He took Rosalie’s phone.
“I spoke to Grandma’s nanny. She said that before Grandma fell, she was on a call, so I brought her phone over.”
Elyette accepted the phone with reddened eyes. He turned on the phone and pulled up the call history.
On the screen, a familiar name suddenly appeared. It was as if someone had choked him!
Averie Tate!
The last call his mother had made was to Averie Tate. Why had his mother talked to Averie? It showed that the call lasted for five minutes.
What were they talking about? What did they have to say for their conversation to last five whole minutes?
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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