Chapter 15 Elaine Stops Breathing
Skylar was shocked for a moment before letting out a scott. “You want to die, huh? Go ahead and try. The moment you die, I’ll havor your brother and grandmother join you in the grave as well.”
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Instead of backing away, he took a step closer to Elaine and said, “Can’t forget about that friend of yours from the orphand I’ll find them all and make them join you in the grave as well.
Life once.
Elaine pressed the knife tighter against her neck, retreating step by step until she was backed up against the window. Her eyes were red, but she was snilling: “Do whatever you want. I don’t care about my life anymore, let alone the lives of others. You can kill whoever you want and kill as many of them as you like.”
Skylar’s expression darkened. It was the first time Elaine had actually said something like that when it came to her friends and family. Back then, the mere mention of her family being implicated would be enough to make Elaine yield.
He frowned and said, “Put the knife down, Elaine. You know that I’m not the patient type.”
Elaine’s hand trembled uncontrollably as she kept her eyes fixed on him. “No way! I’m an orphan with no parents. I owe the Freys and Mrs. Frey Senior for raising me, but Skylar, I don’t owe you anything at all. You can’t just keep on bullying me like this. ”
Her grip on the knife slipped slightly from all the trembling, caushing the knife to graze her neck and start to draw blood
Skylar’s expression darkened. “I’m only saying it one more time–put the life down.”
Elaine seemed to have not heard a thing, or perhaps she could no longer feel my pain at that point. She just contlined talking as if she were muttering to herself, “I regret it. I regret ever leaving the orphanage with Mrs. Frey Senior and thinking that I had finally gotten myself aliome.
“I regret marrying you two years ago. I had thought that you had finally seen Thea for who she was and that you’d, at the very least, treat me well.”
She bit down on her lip to forcefully hold back her tears. “But you didn’t treat me well at all, Skylar. You treated me like a s
servant for three years, and now, three years later, you’re treating me like in your mortal enemy for no apparent reason.
The knite pressed deeper into her neck, and Skylar frowned even harder. For the first time in a very long while, he finally softened his tone at her. “It’s alright. We can talk after you put the knife down, olcay? We’re in a hospital. What you’re doing isn’t helping anyone. If anything happens, you’ll only be causing trouble for the doctors,”
Elaine’s grip on the knife loosened a little. Skyler immediately noticed that, and a cold glean flickered in his eyes. He figured that she realized that what she was doing would also cause trouble for her attending doctor, Marcus,
If Elaine were to actually an herself, Marcus would very likely be the one to bear the consequences.
Skylar forcefully calmed himself down and continued, “That’s enough. We can talk things through after you put the knife down. Stop making a scene.”
Just then, the door swung open, and Thea rushed in, looking fhistered. She ran up to Elaine as she shouted, “What are you doing, Ms. Shelton? Put the knife down! It’s dangerous!
Elaine, who had only just started to calm down, was triggered once more. She recalled all of the disgusting stall Thea had said to Elliott as well as Elliott pinning her down on the bed. She glared at Then and shouted, “Stay away! Don’t come near me?”
When Thea gut closer, Elaire lost control and pushed Thea away.
was not a particularly hard push as Elaine’s hands were burned and bandaged, but Thea still stappered back several steps and fell to the ground. Skylar immediately ignored Elaine, who still had the fruit knife to her neck, and bent down to help Then up. His expression darkened as he said, “Watch what you’re doing, Elaine!”
Elaine laughed out loud as she looked at the loving couple before her, “What, I’m in the wrong now? Skylar, can you seriously not see how badly burned my hands are? Do you not see just how thick the bandages are? Are you blind or something?”
Thea seemed to have realized that her actions were too obviously exaggerated. She leaned weakly against Skylat and whispered, “Skylar, it’s not Ms. Shelton’s fault. I just had a miscarriage, so I’m still not feeling all that well. I panicked and fell down on my own when I saw Elaine holding a knife.” Skylar’s expression grew cold. “Thea’s miscarriage was your fault, Elaine. And now, you have the nerve to say that she’s too weak?”
These anxiously pushed Skylar away and said, “Don’t say that, Skylar, Ms. Shelton, please put the knife down. It’s dangerous. I know that I’m the one causing trouble in your marriage. I promise that as long as you don’t hurt yourself, I’ll leave the country today.”
She reached out for the knife in Elaine’s hand as she spoke. “Give the knife to me, Ms. Shelton. Someone could get hurt.”
The ward descended into chaos as Thea tried to snatch the knife away from Elaine. Skylar’s expression darkened as he stepped forward to pull Thea away. “Stay out of this, Thea. If Haine wants to die, let her be just don’t get yourself lurt.”
The grabbed onto the blade, and blood began pouring from her hand. She inmediately let go of the knife and staggered backward as it she were about to
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Blood pushed out of her neck as she heard a loud roar around her mixed with Thea’s sobs and Skylar’s voice as he tried to comfort The Her chest suddenly twisted in pain, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood
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A doctor and nurse mushest over with a stretcher from across the hallway Elaine was then taken to the emergency room for rescue. As the team prepared fut enterprocy CPI, the adoctor timed to Shyla anulashed, “Does she have any pur existing conditions?1
Skylar was stomalling over his words a little “A hasart disease. Some sort of feralitary rape ”
He continued, “It was never so serious bedore.”
The doctor’s voice tuned grim. “What do youumem by that? Her breathing luas literally stopped and she’s vomiting Idood. Has she been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, or
The adoctor frowned. “It’s either yes of in, Wh you mean by you don’t think so? What’s your relationship to the patient?“
“L’in her husband,” Skylar teplied. But for the first thine ever, fun word felt extinely hollow to his heart.
The doctor gave him a look of disapproval. “Your wile’s in In a critical condition and you ca’t even know anything about her medical history? Whatevert. Visi just go and handle the payment, alright? We’ll be doing. The resunciation now.
Skylar got the buniccoud from Frank before heading downstairs to pay the hill for Haine, the then sat outside the emergency room, thinking about the munnt he touched Elaine and felt that she lead stopped lansiling
His palms would mist stop treindling, as he muriated to bluself helplessly,
about my own wile?”
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Elaine renamed insile the emergency room for a very long time. When she was wheeled back to her own hospital ward, she was still unconscious for to The effects of the mesthesia.
Skylar sat beside her bed and stared at her pale lace, unable to say a word.
Marcus entered the ward with some medication and asked coldly, “Sir, do you really still not know what kind of illness Elaluie has?”
