fantishu
Chapter 170
Chapter 170
Tracy seemed to feel that I was looking at her. And she also looked at me, "Why are you looking at me? The one inside is my mother!"
"So why did you insist on turning off the breathing machine hurriedly before?"
I exposed her without any hesitation.
Tracy's face was a little unnatural. After struggling for a while, she let out a long sigh and said, "Now the Archer's Group indeed can't make it. Ever since my mother got sick, those shareholders have been so frightened that they are in a mess. If I have money, I surely will pay for my mother's hospitalization fees. Our company is going to collapse. Those employees have been following us for more than ten years. If the company collapses, they surely won't even be able to support their families!"
I threw a sidelong glance at Tracy and said nothing.
She looked at me as well.
She seemed to be afraid that I wouldn't believe her. So she pulled her Hermes bag and said, "Do you see this? It's fake! I indeed sold the authentic one early!"
Then, she showed me some parts of her bag.
In fact, I didn't know much about such bags of a certain famous brand.
Thinking of the fact that Rosy sold her antique vase, I felt that Tracy wasn't lying at all.
I continued, "Are you in such a miserable situation?"
"Yeah! Do you think that it's easy to run a company? The policy changes day by day. And we have to deal with those officials..."
While waiting for Rosy, Tracy began to complain to me about how difficult it was to do business as if she were a dissatisfied woman.
I listened to her quietly.
And I couldn't help but wonder if it was the same for Patrick as well.
He had always been calm in front of me. And it seemed that he had never mentioned anything about the difficulties he had encountered in the business field.
In my eyes, his business surely went on smoothly.
When I got distracted, the lights in the emergency room went out.
When the door opened, a doctor pushed a stretcher out with an intravenous injection next to it. And a nurse by his side pushed a small stretcher where there was a breathing machine.
I caught up with them and asked, "How is my grandmother?"
The doctor looked at me and said, "We stabilized her situation for the time being. But whether she can make it this time or not depends on herself."
Following next to the stretcher, I held Rosy's hand and muttering, "Grandma, you have to hold on."
Tracy stood aside and said nothing.
That night, I went home.
But I had been ill at ease all the time.
In the middle of the night...
"I can stand behind you as if I were a shadow following the light in a daze..."
My cell phone rang. And I, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly became sobered as I had been in the daytime!
I grabbed my cell phone.
Although the number on my cell phone didn't indicate who the caller was, I recognized that it was the number of the hospital where Rosy was.
I picked up the phone, "Hello." And my heart was pounding.
At this time, a doctor's voice came over the phone, "Hello, this is the Second Hospital..." After the doctor introduced himself, he told me a lot of words in euphemistic and professional terms over the phone. Finally, he said, "But the patient still died at local time, 3:27:42 a.m. ..."
After that, I didn't hear what he was saying clearly.
I only felt that my ears were buzzing.
I, who couldn't think of anything, ran out of the door speedily,
However, it was midnight now. Whether I was waiting for a taxi there directly or using carhailing software, I couldn't get a car!
"What should I do?"
"What should I do?"
I looked at the call-hailing software showing that I had been waiting for more than ten minutes. Helplessly, I ran directly to the hospital.
The hospital where Rosy stayed was nearly ten kilometers away from the residential quarter where I lived.
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But I couldn't care that much at all!
I ran rampantly all the way. Because of my lack of exercise on usual days, I ran out of my strength after running for a while.
But the call- hailing software showed that nobody had accepted my order.
I tried my best to run.
It was so weird.
There wasn't even a single car on the road tonight.
The sky was dark where there weren't any stars or moon.
It was unknown as to how long I had been running. Finally, I saw two beams of light breaking through the dark streets and flying toward me!
"Stop! Stop!"
At that moment, I rushed straight to the front of the car without thinking!
It was so late at night. And the driver of the car didn't see me clearly before I could get close!
The harsh braking sound was particularly earpiercing in the quiet night.
But the car still didn't stop in success. "Bang!" It hit me, causing me to fly backward!
Fortunately, the driver stopped the car. I wasn't thrown backward far away because of the car's hitting.
A man got off the car quickly and asked, "Are you alright?"
Although I felt that my legs were somewhat in pain, I didn't have time to think about my matter at this time. I limped forward and said sadly, "Sir, please send me to the Second Hospital."
When I got close to the driver...
He shouted at me first, "Charlotte Archer?"
"Mr. Shelton?"
I never expected that I would meet Shelton tonight in such a big City Y.
He bent over to check on my legs and asked with more concern, "Are you okay? It's so late..."
"Can you send me to the Second Hospital?" I interrupted him, "Please!"
"Okay, get in the car."
Shelton didn't say much as he opened the door of the passenger's seat for me.
Sitting in the car, I said gratefully, "I indeed didn't expect to meet you here. I'm almost desperate."
Shelton explained to me, "Tonight, we rescued a child who had taken preservative by mistake. The parents were very anxious. So I stayed there to appease them. Just now, the child had come out of
the emergency room. And he was transferred to a ward. After that, I came back."
"Oh."
I nodded in a daze.
It was probably because I had been running for so long that I, who had been sad just now, was a little numb in my heart.
Shelton seemed to sense that I was not in a good mood. So he didn't continue to say anything further.
He didn't ask me why I was going to the Second Hospital.
When I got there, I thanked him and rushed to the hospital.
At this time, many people had been standing in the lobby of the hospital.
In addition to Jeremy, Gina, and Caroline, there were Tracy's husband, her son, and other members of the Archer Family.
Doctors and policemen were there as well.
Standing in the outer circle, I saw Tracy taking the lead and discussing something with the doctors.
I squeezed through the crowd and listened to their conversation carefully. Then I realized that Tracy was telling the doctors that Rosy's death was a medical accident caused by the hospital and that they had to pay for it.
Because of the police's mediation, they didn't quarrel loudly.
And they were just arguing with each other.
I looked around and saw a stretcher parked in the corridor at the corner. There was a person covered with a white cloth lying on it.
Everyone was quarreling about compensation. And none of them paid attention to Rosy's body put aside alone.
I walked over, stood between the doctors and Tracy, and said to her, "Grandma is dead! Why can't you think about taking care of her aftermath first? Why do you have to bother with the compensation at this time?"
After I said that, everyone looked at me.
Looking jaw-dropping, Tracy opened her eyes wide and said, "What are you talking about? Bothering with the compensation? Are you crazy? If we don't make it clear at this time, should we wait until my mother gets burned? Do you have any evidence at that time?"
"Hurry up and get out of the way. Don't make trouble here!"
Before I could finish my words, I was pushed aside by Tracy.
Looking up, I saw that everyone in the Archer Family around me was looking at me with different expressions. However, judging from their behaviors, I knew that they were all waiting for the hospital to make it up to them, hoping that they could get a share of the compensation.