Dr. Lowry was furious with her answer. He was about to argue with her when he heard a man speaking coyly, "Rebecca, Hayden would never joke around with another person's life, no matter how much he hates me. It'd be a horrible and inhumane thing to do. We should go to the hospital to take a look.
"It would be uncomfortable for me, but Hayden's issue is much more pressing than mine."
Rebecca immediately softened her tone to comfort Simon. "You're the one I'm most concerned about, Simon. Hayden spends his days creating trouble for us. Who knows what he's scheming right now?"
Every nurse who heard the conversation rolled their eyes, while all I felt was frustration. My mother-in-law had always taken good care of me since Rebecca and I got together, and I truly wanted her to be all right.
I was not interested in getting involved with her lovey-dovey relationship with Simon, and after a few rounds of argument, Rebecca finally agreed to come to the hospital.
Dr. Lowry was clearly relieved as he reminded her to hurry up, as there was still time to save her mother, but I knew that Dr. Lowry was too optimistic about this.
In my past lifetime, I was hopeful about Rebecca helping her mother because Simon's home was less than five minutes away from the hospital. However, 30 minutes had passed, and Rebecca was still nowhere to be seen.
Dr. Lowry called her in a panic, but Rebecca only sounded annoyed. "Simon doesn't feel well, and I'm bringing him some soup. It's just a little more than 10 minutes. Is this such an emergency? Aren't you a doctor? Don't you know that a patient comes first? Simon is sick!
"I've already given you a huge compromise by playing along with Hayden's act. You people need to know where to draw a line, and have some sense about what's more important!"
She hung up right after that.
Dr. Lowry tried to call her again, but Rebecca had blocked his number.
That was when we heard my mother-in-law howling in pain from the surgery room. Dr. Lowry came to an immediate decision. "We can't wait any longer. Let's have the surgery first and sign the document later!"
Everything happened just as it did in my past lifetime. My mother-in-law needed blood halfway through the surgery, and I started to break out in cold sweat from panicking. Fortunately, the community staff called, "We've managed to get in touch with a blood donor, Mr. Lane. He's on his way to the hospital right now."
I went downstairs right away to meet the donor. Rebecca and Simon entered the hospital at the same time I found the donor. Rebecca was quite annoyed when she arrived at the hospital, but she gave pause when she saw how pale I was.
Simon looked surprised. "It's one thing to curse Mrs. Chilton just to grab Rebecca's attention, but I can't believe you went as far as to waste a kind person's time, Hayden."
The man who was here to help frowned when he heard the conversation and looked like he wanted to yell at somebody. I knew none of them would listen to my explanation, so I showed them Jack's medical report that indicated my mother-in-law was in critical condition.
"I'm not lying. Your mother is seriously injured and needs blood!"
Simon took the document and glanced at it, only to shake his head confidently. "This is forged. I'm always at the hospital with a prescription, and I know everything here well. The stamp on this document isn't legitimate."
Rebecca frowned right away. "I can't believe you're using hospital resources just because you're jealous, Hayden. You're just a selfish, narcissistic bastard!"
I was in a fluster, and I pushed every piece of evidence I had into the blood donor's arms, pleading for him to judge the situation for himself. After that, I lowered my head to text my father-in-law about what just happened to get him to rush to the hospital to handle this.
However, Simon started putting on an act when I ignored him. "I'm sorry, Hayden. Don't be mad at me for telling the truth. I didn't want to ruin your plan, but it worries me that Rebecca thought something happened to her mother.
"I feel really bad about this. Ah, it hurts, Rebecca. I think I'm relapsing…"
Rebecca got even more enraged. She dashed toward me to grab my arm and pushed me hard to the ground. "You're a disgusting, malicious bastard, Hayden! How dare you curse my family just to grab my attention and agitate Simon! I want you to get on your knees to apologize to him! He wouldn't be here, suffering a relapse, if you weren't that desperate to have a woman with you."
