Tracy seemed to feel that I was looking at her. And she also looked at me, "Why are you looking at me? The one inside is my mother!"
"So why did you insist on turning off the breathing machine hurriedly before?"
I exposed her without any hesitation.
Tracy's face was a little unnatural. After struggling for a while, she let out a long sigh and said, "Now the Archer's Group indeed can't make it. Ever since my mother got sick, those shareholders have been so frightened that they are in a mess. If I have money, I surely will pay for my mother's hospitalization fees. Our company is going to collapse. Those employees have been following us for more than ten years. If the company collapses, they surely won't even be able to support their families!"
I threw a sidelong glance at Tracy and said nothing.
She looked at me as well.
She seemed to be afraid that I wouldn't believe her. So she pulled her Hermes bag and said, "Do you see this? It's fake! I indeed sold the authentic one early!"
Then, she showed me some parts of her bag.
In fact, I didn't know much about such bags of a certain famous brand.
Thinking of the fact that Rosy sold her antique vase, I felt that Tracy wasn't lying at all.
I continued, "Are you in such a miserable situation?"
"Yeah! Do you think that it's easy to run a company? The policy changes day by day. And we have to deal with those officials..."
While waiting for Rosy, Tracy began to complain to me about how difficult it was to do business as if she were a dissatisfied woman.
I listened to her quietly.
And I couldn't help but wonder if it was the same for Patrick as well.
He had always been calm in front of me. And it seemed that he had never mentioned anything about the difficulties he had encountered in the business field.
In my eyes, his business surely went on smoothly.
When I got distracted, the lights in the emergency room went out.
When the door opened, a doctor pushed a stretcher out with an intravenous injection next to it. And a nurse by his side pushed a small stretcher where there was a breathing machine.
I caught up with them and asked, "How is my grandmother?"
The doctor looked at me and said, "We stabilized her situation for the time being. But whether she can make it this time or not depends on herself."
Following next to the stretcher, I held Rosy's hand and muttering, "Grandma, you have to hold on."
Tracy stood aside and said nothing.
That night, I went home.
But I had been ill at ease all the time.
In the middle of the night...
"I can stand behind you as if I were a shadow following the light in a daze..."
My cell phone rang. And I, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly became sobered as I had been in the daytime!
I grabbed my cell phone.
Although the number on my cell phone didn't indicate who the caller was, I recognized that it was the number of the hospital where Rosy was.
I picked up the phone, "Hello." And my heart was pounding.
At this time, a doctor's voice came over the phone, "Hello, this is the Second Hospital..." After the doctor introduced himself, he told me a lot of words in euphemistic and professional terms over the phone. Finally, he said, "But the patient still died at local time, 3:27:42 a.m. ..."
After that, I didn't hear what he was saying clearly.
I only felt that my ears were buzzing.
I, who couldn't think of anything, ran out of the door speedily,
However, it was midnight now. Whether I was waiting for a taxi there directly or using carhailing software, I couldn't get a car!
"What should I do?"
"What should I do?"
I looked at the call-hailing software showing that I had been waiting for more than ten minutes. Helplessly, I ran directly to the hospital.
The hospital where Rosy stayed was nearly ten kilometers away from the residential quarter where I lived.
If I ran there, I probably would break my legs.
But I couldn't care that much at all!
I ran rampantly all the way. Because of my lack of exercise on usual days, I ran out of my strength after running for a while.
But the call- hailing software showed that nobody had accepted my order.
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