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Winston opened his mouth but no words came to mind.
“We have a doctor.” Alyssa calmly stepped forward.
“I’ll operate on Jeremy.”
Everyone, including Jonah and Winston, were stunned to their core.
They knew Alyssa was skilled as a doctor. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have volunteered to work as one overseas.
But this was no mere skin-deep wound. This was cranial surgery!
“W-What did you say?” Javier stuttered, staring at Alyssa.
“You know how to perform brain surgery, Allison?” Newton asked, surprise lighting up his desperate eyes.
“Yes, Grandpa.” Alyssa did her best to smile, holding onto his hand.
“Please have faith in me. I’ll be sure to return your grandson to you alive and kicking.”
“What a bluff. What if you can’t save my brother?” Betty shot out.
This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to mock Alyssa, after all.
Alyssa’s gaze swept across Betty, eyes cold and frigid. “If anything happens, I’ll personally cut my own.
head off for you.”
That left everyone speechless.
Jonah huffed lightly, thinking to himself, “How bloody.”
Landon only came to know of Jeremy’s accident after he had been sent to the hospital.
“Something’s happened to your brother, so I’ll send you home first, Lauren.
“Why don’t you get some rest first? Don’t wait for me.” Landon said gently, wrapping Lauren up in a red cloak he had retrieved from Angelina.
He didn’t tell Lauren much about what had happened to Jeremy because he didn’t want her to worry.
“What happened to my brother?” Lauren asked.
She had always had a keen eye, so she was still able to tell that something serious had happened even though Landon tried to hide it.
“You have to tell me, Landon. Don’t hide the truth from me!”
“Go back home and get some sleep. I’ll tell you once you wake up.”
Landon wrapped an arm around Lauren’s waist and leaned in to kiss her. Angelina smiled lightly, looking away.
“Let’s go.” Landon held Lauren’s hand and walked into the house.
Their hearts intertwined, and their love for one another gushed out from their eyes.
Words weren’t needed to describe how lovely the two were being with one another.
All of a sudden, a familiar voice called out, “Landon!”
Landon swiftly turned to the source of the noise. With a frown, he asked, “Mom? What … are you doing here?”
Penelope was getting out of a car just a couple feet away, with Zoe following behind.
Dressed extravagantly, Zoe looked like some prissy princess beside Penelope. She was no longer the meek, tearful little girl she used to be in front of Landon.
When she saw Lauren, her gaze turned dark and hateful, as if she wanted nothing more than to lunge at
Lauren right now.
“Let me introduce you, Mom.” Zoe’s smile didn’t reach her eyes.
“This is Ms. Lauren Walsh from the Walsh family. She was my classmate in middle school. She’s now
Landon’s girlfriend. Hahaha… isn’t that such a coincidence?”
Lauren’s heart pricked painfully upon hearing the term ‘girlfriend’.
She looked down at her feet, face flushing red. Her low self-esteem hit her like a brick, making her pull her hand away from Landon’s grip.
But Landon held on tight, as if he were able to read her mind.
“Are you done, Zoe?” Landon said, a hint of anger in his tone.
Zoe grinned, using her mother as a defense. “Why so angry, Landon? Am I wrong?
“Or do you plan to keep Ms. Lauren out here to yourself forever because you don’t dare to take her home to face Mom?
“You know yourself that she’s nothing more than a mentally-ill little girl, that she’ll never be fit to become
Mrs. Harper, right?”
“Shut up, Zoe!” Landon roared, unable to stand his lover being insulted.
Behind him, Angelina’s hand balled into fists.
“Look at you.” Zoe snickered.
“Would you be so angry if I wasn’t right?”
“I have no time to argue with you.” Landon wasn’t going to yell at his sister in front of his mother.
He swallowed his anger and said sternly, “Lauren, let’s go.”
“Wait.”
This time, Penelope was the one who had spoken.
Landon stopped in his steps, his grip tightening around Lauren’s hand.
Penelope slowly walked up to the two of them, a faint smile on her lips. It was this smile that made
Landon relax his guard.
However, the moment Penelope went up to Lauren, her gaze suddenly grew frigid.
She raised her hand and slapped Lauren right across her cheek.
“Ow!” Lauren’s head flung to the side, her cheek stinging as tears welled in her eyes.
“What are you doing, Mom?” Shock flitted across Landon’s eyes as he glared at his mother, rage.
overwhelming his senses.
Angelina angrily gnawed on her lip. She couldn’t do anything inappropriate before Penelope since she was only a subordinate in the Harper household.
Penelope ignored her son and coldly glared at Lauren as the latter wept.
“Don’t think I’ll allow you to be with my son just because you’re from the Walsh family. Your sister is already crossed out in my books.
“What makes you think I would accept someone as mentally ill as you to become my son’s wife? Dream on!”
“Stop it! I won’t let you hurt Lauren!” Landon yelled, standing in front of Lauren defensively.
Rage and hatred burned in his eyes. His hands balled into tight fists, as if he might hurt Penelope at any moment.
“If… you still want me to call you mother!”
Zoe was shocked to silence.