Eudora was stunned, "But you haven't even had lunch yet..."
"I already prepared some for myself. Why? Do you want my lunch? No way! You can't have it. You should go back now! By the way, I'm fine with that nursing home you mentioned. I don't have to worry about it when it's my daughter who arranged it. Go ahead!"
Eudora was a little surprised. She thought that Gordon would reject her offer. She didn't expect him to agree to it just like that.
"Are you really fine about it?"
"Why not? I'm all alone here. Eudora, I trust you!"
Eudora felt a lump in her throat. It wasn't until now that she realized Gordon, who used to quarrel with her all the time, had aged significantly.
He had become an old man who was willing to trust his daughter.
"Okay!" Eudora nodded. "I'll make the necessary arrangements then."
"Go now!" Gordon smiled at her.
It was only when Eudora had left that Gordon finally turned and looked down at the kitten purring at his feet.
"I'm old now and I don't want to be a burden to my child. Eudora and the others have their own lives to deal with. I shouldn't make them worry! She didn't even tell me that Amos got injured. Isn't it because she doesn't want me worrying about her?"
Gordon seemed to have thought of something and sobbed.
He squatted down and his shoulders began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Kesha, you silly child. It's all my fault! If I had known that you would become like this, I would have paid more attention to you when you were young..."
As soon as Eudora returned to the hospital, she saw a few nurses gathering in front of the ward, each of them had a frustrated look on their faces.
There were so many of them and they kept nudging each other on the shoulder.
"You go! He hasn't seen you before, maybe he won't get mad."
"What? I heard that he doesn't like strangers. Why don't you go?"
"Are you guys done yet? Both of you should go together!"
"Why don't you go then?”
Eudora's heart trembled. She thought that something had happened to Amos, so she walked over to them hurriedly.
"What's wrong? Did something happen to my husband?"
When the head nurse saw Eudora, she almost cried on the spot.
"Miss George, thank goodness that you're finally back! Mr. Granger is angry!"
Eudora immediately heaved a sigh of relief. She thought that something bad had happened to Amos. It turned out that he was just angry.
However, she questioned, "Do you know why is he angry?"
"Well, we're not sure. It seems that he got angry after his assistant came earlier in the morning. He broke all the things in the ward! We couldn't stop him no matter how hard we tried. He's not letting us clean up the mess either..."
Eudora frowned. "I'll have a look."
The two nurses next to her, who was not in charge before, didn't know who Eudora was and called out to her hurriedly.
"Miss, be careful! The patient is terrifying! If you get hurt..."
The other nurse stopped her and said, "What do you know? Miss George, please don't mind them. They didn't mean to speak ill of Mr. Granger! Mr. Granger... is actually a nice person!"
Eudora smiled somewhat helplessly, "I get what you're trying to imply here. You don't need to speak for him. He does have a bad temper, but he's not a bad person. I'm sorry for the mess he made!"
After that, Eudora pushed the door open and went in.
The two nurses behind her still couldn't believe it. "Is she really going in alone? Will she be thrown out?"
"She's pregnant. It's too dangerous..."
The other nurse stared at them with disdain. They were too young to understand. When she was about to speak, a muffled sound came from the room.
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