Elise reacted first.
She covered her face and curled up, tears in her big eyes as she looked at Geff, like a little rabbit that had been wronged.
Geff rushed over and pulled her into his arms, full of pain and care. Without waiting for her to explain, he spoke in anger, “Apologize to Elise! Now!”
The pain in my hand was nothing compared to the pain in my heart. My lips trembled as I stared at him. “Apologize? Geff, do you know where I have been these past days?”
A cold laugh came from above. “You hated Elise and jumped off the building on purpose to frame her. Then, your trick did not work, so now you are losing control?”
So he really wished I was dead.
Geff clearly did not want to talk anymore. He picked up Elise in his arms and turned to leave the room.
I collapsed onto the floor as memories rushed through my mind. Then my phone rang.
“Go to the hospital tomorrow to clear out your mother’s things. In the afternoon, my people will come to pick you up.”
My mother was the president of the Yarlington Group. When her career was rising, she fell in love with my poor father.
She should have lived a bright, beautiful life. But after my father cheated on her, she collapsed from the shock and had not woken up since.
I never expected that years later, her daughter would face the same thing.
“I understand.” After hanging up, I wiped my tears and looked at the empty doorway.
Whatever.
Once these two days were over, everything would finally end.
The next day, I went to the hospital as planned, but my mother was gone from her bed. All the medical machines in the room had been removed.
In panic, I heard nurses talking.
“Did you hear? Mr. Sincle’s wife is in danger. She needs a heart transplant right away. And she is pregnant too.”
A bad feeling hit me. I knew “Mr. Sincle” meant Geff.
My heart tightened.
After finally finding the room, through the glass I saw Elise crying in Geff’s arms, and my mother lying beside her with an oxygen mask.
My heart jumped. I pushed the door open hard.
Geff froze when he saw me, then gave orders to the people beside him.
“Elise’s surgery is about to start. Throw her out. I do not want anyone to disturb Elise.”
Hearing this, I was even more sure of my fear.
I struggled with all my strength, not letting those people touch me.
“Geff, you are really going to give my mother’s heart to her? You are shameless!”
“Tyara, you know Elise is pregnant, yet you kept provoking her again and again. Now that she is sick, are you very pleased?”
I stared at the man with bloodshot eyes, filled with rage and despair. “I did not provoke her. The kidnapping was her scheme. She was the one who pushed me down the stairs. She was the one who killed our child…”
“Enough!” Geff’s face twisted, the veins on his neck bulging. “You are still trying to argue at a time like this? Fine. Then let your useless mother pay for it! This heart is what you owe Elise!”
Suppressing the pain in my chest, I took out a document from my bag and threw it at Geff. If he refused to believe the child in my womb was his, he could not possibly deny the hospital report. Even though that child was already gone, I still looked at him with a final sliver of hope.
In the next instant, a furious slap landed on my face. “Tyara, just because Elise is my first love, you refuse to save her! You are just as vicious as your mother. No wonder your father cheated on her!”
I knelt on the floor, staring at him in a daze. For the first time, I felt that he was a complete stranger. Everything I had once told him in trust had now become ammunition for him to humiliate me and my parents.
Elise pretended to be sympathetic. “Geff, Tyara must be heartbroken about losing her mother. Let her see her mother one last time, okay? Just let her fulfill her duty as a daughter.”
I glared at Elise as if I could tear her apart with my eyes.
The next second, Geff spoke in a cold voice, “Hold her down. I want her to watch with her own eyes as her mother’s heart is cut out.”
“Geff, you will be punished for this!”
Before the shining knife even came down, it already felt like my own heart was being torn apart.
“No! Don’t touch her!” I rushed forward. The moment I hugged my mother, the falling knife cut a deep wound across my back.
I closed my eyes tightly, as if I could not feel any pain at all. “Please… she will die!”
