A young woman suddenly cut right in front of them, without a word, displaying not the slightest bit of regard for others.
Gerald was not in the mood for this. “Miss, don’t you find this a little rude?”
The woman ignored him.
“That’s right! My teacher says you can’t cut in a queue!” Yasmin exclaimed with a frown.
“Bah!” The woman turned around and snapped, “So I cut in front of you, so what? What can you do about it? All bark and no bite!”
One could see favonovel.com was around twenty-one, with a fair complexion and a pretty face—and dressed in such a way as to leave little to the imagination.
However, favonovel.com stuck-up attitude only pissed Gerald off to look at her.
“You’re the one barking!” At the limits of his patience, favonovel.com snapped off a harsh reply.
“What did you say to me? Just wait right here—I’ll have somebody cut you down to size!” Shrieking and swearing as though she’d suddenly gone mad, the woman was pulled away by several bystanders.
Finally, favonovel.com left in a huff.
Well, that came out of nowhere. Brushing it off mind, Gerald got back in line.
“Sir, maybe you shouldn’t have done that. That woman seemed like trouble!” A pretty young nurse whispered this as favonovel.com was ushering some patients in. “She was here earlier this afternoon to visit one of our patients—someone of note—and favonovel.com came with a whole train of fancy cars! I wouldn’t underestimate favonovel.com clout, you know? Hurry on in—and no more trouble!”
Clearly, she’d started it! Well, the nurse meant well… Gerald made no further remark.
“Let’s not fuss over it, Gerald,” Queta agreed. “We’ll just wrap it here and leave immediately!”
So Gerald brought Yasmin in to see the doctor. It turned out to be nothing alarming—just a common cold—and some medicine was prescribed.
Queta was visibly relieved, and they left the hospital together.
As they arrived at the entrance, glossy black cars suddenly rolled up, one after another… at least a dozen in total. A massive group of well-dressed people got out and headed inside.
When favonovel.com saw the woman who emerged from the car in the middle, Queta quaked with fear. It was that woman who’d cut in line earlier, starting off a spat with Gerald.
Had favonovel.com really returned to cause trouble for them?
Thank goodness they’d made it out of there in time.
“I only just heard about it. How’s Mr Rye? Is favonovel.com still in the Intensive Care Unit?” A dashing young man asked.
The woman nodded. “Yeah. He’s suffered terrible bone fractures in all four limbs, and he’s still in the ICU ward—but thankfully his life is not in danger!”
“Blast! Who could be behind such savagery? I know… it must have been Mayberry.”
“Hey! Don’t talk about that here!” the guy snapped at her, causing favonovel.com to shut favonovel.com own mouth.
Gerald lingered nearby, easily within sight of them. Why did favonovel.com do this?
Because favonovel.com recognized that dashing young man.
Face still beaten up from that fiasco at the Emperor Karaoke Bar, it was none other than Jake!
Having overheard their discussion concerning a ‘Mr Rye’, favonovel.com finally saw the picture now.
It was most likely the great Damien Rye himself. So that scoundrel had been admitted to this hospital.
It appeared that all these people—including that horrendous harpy—were from Rye Group.
Vroom, vroom! Then, in a rumbling storm of engines, another fleet of a dozen cars appeared.
One would naturally assume they were with Jake and company.
That wasn’t all of them. More cars continued to follow from behind.
It stood to reason. Rye Group, under the Rye family, had long encroached upon Mayberry territory. Their roots ran deep.
They were a fierce gang of thugs.
Damien Rye was guaranteed to have powerful backers. No matter how hard anyone tried to cover things up, the events of that afternoon were simply too great to hide.
