Chapter 274
What gives you the right?”
“Because…” Robert said, “I can throw you out of here right now.”
“If you’ve got the guts, let’s take this outside!
Don’t do it in here!”
Cedrick also grabbed Robert’s wrist and started twisting it, trying to drag him out of the room.
Lucille watched them coldly. “Cedrick, haven’t you had enough?”
Cedrick didn’t let go. Instead, his brow furrowed as he asked Lucille, “Lucille, why are you always taking his side?
We’ve known each other for twelve years. How many days have you known him?
A week?
Or a month?
And you’re already taking his side in everything?
Do you even know him?
Is he reliable?
You trust him just like that?”
Lucille looked at him coolly. “So what?
Should I also compare with Maricela to see which of us has known you longer?”
The name “Maricela” hit Cedrick like a blow. His mind went blank, flashing back to the scene at Maricela’s house this morning. He couldn’t help but take a step back, looking completely defeated.
“Cedrick, just leave. I don’t want to see a dirty person, and I won’t allow a dirty person to touch Grandma.”
She said all of this in a very, very quiet voice, afraid that Grandma would hear and be upset.
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A very quiet voice, yet speaking very decisive words. To Cedrick, they were extremely heartless.
words.
“Lucille, you…” The rest of his words were stuck in his throat, unable to come out. “A dirty person” was the most painful accusation to him. “You…”
He kept saying “you” for a while, but couldn’t bring himself to ask the words, “You know everything?“…
He couldn’t ask…
“Cedrick, please leave.”
Robert stood in front of him, his posture making it clear he was determined to make him leave.
Cedrick glanced at Lucille, and in that look, it seemed all he saw was disgust.
Something inside him collapsed. He took a deep breath and finally walked out of the hospital
room.
Robert closed the door.
Lucille sat back down beside Grandma, as if nothing had happened, as if a certain someone had never been there. She held Grandma’s hand and asked softly, “Grandma, is there anything you’d like to eat?
Some soup to drink?”
The doctor just said she can slowly try to have some liquids after she wakes up.
Grandma shook her head, just holding Lucille’s hand without speaking, and then fell back into a deep sleep.
“This won’t do, she still needs to eat. I’ll have Edwin get something to eat and bring it over.”
After saying that, Robert called Edwin.
“Cook?”
Edwin himself had only just arrived in the country and was still a long–term hotel guest. “Are there any dietary restrictions?”
He could only ask the hotel chef to make it.
“None of that random seasoning from outside. The simplest cooking method, the best ingredients, nothing too rich. Make a pot of soup. And don’t let the chef get creative, you watch him
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personally.”
Robert instructed.
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After speaking, just like Lucille, he returned to the old woman’s side. His grandmother had fallen asleep again, without even getting a look at her grandson, without even knowing who he was…
Hmm, after she gets out of the hospital, we’ll need a place to live. He could stay in hotels year- round, but his grandmother can’t. It looks like I’ll have to ask Edwin to find a house. Even though we might only stay for a month or so, we still need to buy a property, a comfortable one.
He thought of Cedrick again, knowing that Lucille must have a house from Cedrick in her name.
But that was out of the question. How could he possibly live in a house that Cedrick bought
Cedrick’s company.
The morning meeting had dragged on for a full four hours, well past lunchtime, and the conference room suddenly fell silent.
The attendees looked at each other.