As soon as Alfred said it, Vanessa completely got panicked.
"Lunatic! Annie is just a child. How can you try to hurt a child?"
Alfred laughed harshly on the phone as he finally got her sore point.
"Oh, I see, there are things you care in the world. Vanessa, you feel frightened and panicked now, but you know how painful I was yesterday and how much I hate you now? You ruined our love, and I will destroy you in turn. You drive me to this!"
Hearing this, Vanessa wept and pleaded.
"Alfred……please! You can torture me however you like, but don't hurt Annie, please! She's just an innocent child……even if you like me to die now, I can commit to suicide now, like jumping off the building or something, but don't hurt Annie. Moreover, she is a poor girl with ill health. Please……"
Vanessa choked with sobs on the phone, and the fear and despair in her voice couldn't be more obvious. Alfred finally felt his broken heart got consoled.
He felt jolly happy to make her miserable.
It seemed he found a way to vent the mock from other men and resentment of being cheated on. But it was far from enough. He wanted her to be worse.
"For Annie's sake, come to the apartment now."
There was nothing in his voice but hatred and hardness. If she went to the apartment, that man definitely would be hard on her.
However, Annie's safety was the most paramount, so she comprised helplessly.
"I'll come right away, just if you promise to leave Annie alone."
Vanessa responded, and then she came in the ward telling nursing assistant that she was leaving.
She couldn't tell Annie she was leaving because Annie fallen asleep. She only lay a kiss on Annie's forehead.
She immediately booked the ticket for D City.
In D City, Georgia woke finally.
Georgia looked around and found that she was in Robert's apartment. She had once been here, just on the same bed.
It was her first time when she met Robert, and by then, she was a croupier in the club.
She was pretty preoccupied now, with thoughts flooding in her mind, the memories of the past, the complicated relationship between her and Robert and the fact that Robert just saved her in the police station and how she relied on him then.
His mother intended to kill her, but he rushed to the police station and saved her.
She was not a fool, and she knew she should cut off her relation with Robert.
Otherwise, his mother would be more and more hostile to her.
Moreover, she was pregnant with Robert's child, which made her anxious and worried so much.
As she was in deep thought, the bedroom door opened, and Robert walked in.
"Why don't you call me while you wake?"
Robert walked towards her and gave her a glass of warm water.
It was indeed what she exactly wanted. She took the water and had a few sips, then looking at the man in front of her.
"Thank you for saving me."
Except expressing her gratitude, she didn't know what else she could say.
Robert sat beside her.
"Georgia, I get you out of trouble today, and perhaps I can help you the second or third time if the luck allows it, but it's impossible for me to spy on you and protect you the whole twenty-four hours every day. Remember what I said during the day? Tell me the truth, and I'll help you settle everything."
Georgia suddenly thought of those crazy things she did at the daytime, and she looked at him with helpless eyes.
"I've already told you everything, but you don't believe in my words. Why should I repeat it again?"
Robert tried to believe that she was innocent but he can't find evidence to prove it.
On one hand, he had no reason to stop her mother taking revenge on the killer who caused his sister's death, on the other hand, he wanted to protect this woman, but he can't help thinking his sister's bloody body.
"Georgia, suppose I believe in your words and we leave the past in the past, but for the right moment, how do you plan to get out of the trouble concerned with Chester Rogers' death? Now all evidences demonstrate that you're the murderer. You pushed Travis Armstrong to kill him. My mother will take advantage of this to defeat you until she sees you're put in jail with a death penalty waiting for you."
Georgia made no response.
Experiencing such a scary questioning during the day, she had perfectly understood his mother's resolution.
But she didn't know at all what happened to Chester Rogers since he got fainted. She didn't know how to help herself out.
"Robert, it can't be helped. Do you think there is a way I can save myself?"
"But I can help you."
Robert suddenly responded. Georgia stared at the man surprisingly and she didn't know how to answer it. But Robert continued.
"Come to stay with me, be my woman, and I will help you get rid of it."
As soon as he said it, Georgia couldn't resist sneering.
She thought it was ridiculous though vaguely conscious that this man may be interested in her.
But as he really spoke out this idea, Georgia just felt it was funny.
Had he forgotten what happened between them? Forgotten that his mother wanted to kill her?
"Robert, your mother now is itching to kill me and you also see me as the murderer who caused your sister's death in that car accident. And you also think that I tricked you with fake paternity test. Now you ask me to be your woman, are you crazy?"
"Georgia Lane!"
Robert yelled harshly.
"Why do I go crazy? Don't you know? If you hadn't approached me with purpose, if you hadn't interfere in my life, just hiding somewhere in the world after being released from jail, my mother and I wouldn't have been against you. You push me to this!"
Robert's voice got piercingly cold, which somewhat made her felt frightened.
The warmth and gratitude she had for him instantly disappeared. She replied to him coldly.
"I don't care whether you're into me or you've got any other plans, but I won't be your woman, and unwilling to be your woman. If you want to take revenge on me, do it. Do whatever you like. I won't be your woman!"
Her instant refusal made his face as cold as ice.
"Georgia Lane, I'm telling you, it's you that drive me crazy. If you don't say yes, don't blame me not remind you when irreparable things happen!"
Georgia thought the worst was no more than being put into jail.
However, even so, she can't promise to stay with him.
Carrying a baby, if she lived together with him, he would finally know it.
By then, everything would get more complicated.
If she got out of here today, she would scheme to solve the matter concerned with Chester Rogers' death later, but if she say yes to Robert now, she would have nowhere to escape for the rest of her life.
Saying yes meant she would be a doll in his hand, losing freedom forever.
"Whatever. Anyway, I've seen what you have done to me many times. Robert Simpson, do whatever you like, I wait for that!"
As Georgia finished it, the gloom in Robert's deep eyes was chilly.
The woman before him straightly looked into his eyes, with no warmth but only indifference and hatred, which upset him a lot.
However, he perfectly knew he was driven mad by her at the moment when he saw she was so close to death today.
Now that she refused his request, he would force her in other ways.
"Get out! You'll come back and beg me on your knees, I promise that."
Georgia stood up and walked outside without any hesitation.
Robert stood still, clenching his fits.
This woman didn't care for him, and hated him, then let it be.
At least, it was far better than her disappearing in the world, in his life.
He laughed at himself. Then he telephoned Jason and Jasper respectively.
"Let's go out and have a good drink."
Georgia came to the hospital after leaving Robert's house.
The doctor was angry at her sneaking out, even she kept apologizing, the doctor couldn't be mollified and asked her to have an examination.
And later, the doctor calm down.
"Fortunately, you're young enough to recover in a short time. If you like to sneak out of the hospital without doctor's permission, then get out of here right now! Never be my patient again!"
She looked at the doctor with surprise.
"Doctor, you mean I'm well and I can be discharged?"
The doctored nodded. He didn't want to have any more patients like her.
Every indicators in the examination showed that she was well, so he'd better permit her to leave hospital now in case he got into trouble when this woman ran into something.
Georgia also didn't consider too much and left the hospital. She took a whole day off in MU, of which she felt very guilty.
It would be great if she could go to work tomorrow.
Of course, except not going to work, there was another thing upset her.
It was the questioning in the police station. Selena Holland left halfway. But she thought Selena Holland was deliberately led away by someone.
With Robert's threatening words ringing in her ears, she was afraid that it would happen again, so she thought it necessary to tell Selena about this.
Maybe she knew how to deal with it.
Georgia telephoned her.
Selena just about came out of Mrs Phillips' ward. And a middle-aged woman ran to her nearly out of breath.
"I'm sorry, Miss Holland. Something happened in my family so I came back home today. I didn't expect Mrs Phillips' matter. I'm really sorry."
This woman was the carer Selena hired to look after Mrs Phillips, whose name was Samantha Moss.
"Mrs Moss, you thought I don't know where you go today? You're just in the neighborhood playing cards. You failed in your job. Now, you're fired, and I'll pay your salary into your account."
Mrs Moss suddenly felt ashamed when she was seen through.
"I'm so sorry, Miss Holland. Please give me one more chance. I really didn't mean to do that."
Miss Holland paid Mrs Moss a handsome salary to take care of Mrs Phillips. So Mrs Moss really didn't want to lose her job. She herself also can't figure out why she would play cards today, leaving Mrs Phillips alone at home.
Mrs Moss suddenly kneeled down before Selena.
"Miss Holland, I've never been out playing cards before. But this morning when I was out to get food materials for today, an acquaintance in the neighborhood persuaded and even forced me to play cards. Her speech was so persuasive and tempting that I almost lost my ability of thinking. I really didn't mean to."
Selena got fed up with her excuses, and when she was about to say something, there came a call from Georgia.
She felt something was wrong, she picked up the phone.
"Hello, Miss Lane. Why are you calling me? Have the questioning finished?"
It seemed that Selena had no idea about what happened during the questioning. Georgia collected her thought before she spoke.
"Miss Holland, after you left, I was forced to confess……"
Georgia told Selena the whole story and Selena's face darkened instantly.
It suddenly came to her mind that Mrs Moss just said someone tried hard to persuade her to play cards. As she was told that her granny had an accident, she was just about to start the questioning in the interrogation room, and then she rushed to the hospital, leaving Georgia and a man there. With all things connected, it looked like a trap schemed purposely. There was nothing but icy coldness in Selena's eyes.