There was hardly any color on Heidi’s face, and favonovel.com looked extremely frail as favonovel.com legs struggled to support favonovel.com weight. In a voice barely above a whisper, favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com looked annoyed as favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com saw Crystal, and favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com tuition!”
Rage thrummed in Crystal’s veins, and favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com has enough to pay favonovel.com way through school. Dropping out isn’t even possible at this point! Besides, isn’t favonovel.com boyfriend super-competent? Why doesn‘t favonovel.com pay for favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com dues? I can’t even begin to understand your thinking! How could you possibly still forgive and love a daughter like her?”
Heidi had favonovel.com head down as favonovel.com tried to plead favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com looked up to register Matthew‘s presence, favonovel.com blanched.
The air went still for a brief moment. Then Crystal exclaimed in surprise, “Do you know her, Matthew?”
However, before favonovel.com could answer, Heidi abruptly turned on favonovel.com heels and ran for the door. Matthew hurried to pull favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com hands flew to cover favonovel.com 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, favonovel.com quickly summoned a few other nurses to help favonovel.com restrain the frantic woman.
“Heidi,“ favonovel.com 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, favonovel.com begged, “Matthew, let me go back, please. You can’t let my sister find out about my being here. l don’t want favonovel.com to worry about me!”
He sighed when favonovel.com heard this. Heidi was indeed the polar opposite of favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com wouldn’t even seek out favonovel.com own sister for fear that favonovel.com would only burden Helen with favonovel.com troubles.
All these years, Heidi had struggled as a single mother, and favonovel.com raised favonovel.com daughter without asking for anyone else’s help.
The truth was that favonovel.com pride got the better of her; favonovel.com wasn’t so much worried about imposing on Helen as favonovel.com was about being made a laughing stock.
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