Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 750

How could he even describe that look?

It was indifferent. Alien.

She was looking at him as if he were an utterly insignificant stranger.

A sharp pang seized Silas's heart, followed by an uncharacteristic wave of panic.

He took a deep breath, finally forcing out a hoarse rasp. "Serena, I'm Silas..."

Before he could finish,

the girl turned her head, accepting a bite of food from Nicholas. She didn't spare him another glance.

The rest of Silas's words choked in his throat.

When he first heard the hospital was letting a twenty-year-old girl operate on his father, his fury was fueled by the fact that he didn't know she was his niece.

He hadn't known who was holding the scalpel.

He had judged her entirely by her age, assuming it was a sick joke.

But regardless of his reasons, the fact remained that he had doubted her, and now he was eating his words.

If his niece was treating him like garbage, he entirely deserved it.

Silas wasn't a man who made excuses. He stepped forward and bowed deeply to Serena. "Serena, thank you for saving my father. I sincerely apologize for doubting you."

His apology was crisp, decisive, and entirely devoid of ego.

That actually caught Serena's attention. She looked up, her bright eyes appraising him.

This Silas...

He didn't seem too bad.

Just as she was about to speak,

"Grandpa!"

Since she couldn't run, her only move was a preemptive strike. "Serena, you're a country bumpkin! How could you possibly know anything about medicine? Stop putting on this act! You think I don't know the truth? The ones who saved Grandpa were these legends my dad invited! This success has absolutely nothing to do with you!"

"Don't think stealing their credit erases the fact that you triggered his collapse! He's an old man, and the only reason he had to endure this torture today is because of you!"

If she could just muddy the waters—if she could make everyone believe Serena was the threat—no one would ever trace the collapse back to her.

She was completely prepared to die on this hill.

As long as Serena took the fall, she was untouchable!

Fueled by that desperate logic, she threw herself toward Silas, playing the sobbing victim. "Dad! She caused his collapse, and now she's standing here playing the hero! She's nothing but a bit—"

Smack!

Before the insult could fully leave her mouth, Silas backhanded her so viciously she shrieked in agony.

The sheer force of the blow split her lip, blood immediately welling at the corner of her mouth.

Clutching her rapidly swelling cheek, she stared up at Silas in absolute disbelief. "Dad..."