Bruce struggled with his wheelchair and called out Chloe's name.
Chloe was ready to head home with Bryan in tow but turned around anxiously at the sound of her name.
Seeing his face splattered with bruises, she sucked in a cold breath.
"Who is he?" Bryan frowned and looked at Bruce.
Chloe hurriedly tugged at his sleeve to leave.
"What's wrong, Chloe? Who is he? Why does he know you?"
Chloe grew uneasy, her heart raced in her chest trying to think of an excuse to feed Bryan.
"Bryan dear, have you forgotten? News about us has splattered across the newspapers! Everyone in Johannes City knows us!"
Bryan still had his head turned towards Bruce.
Because Bruce was struggling fervently in the wheelchair, even urging the pushers to push him faster to catch up with Chloe.
Somehow, Bryan felt there was something weird about the man littered with injuries.
But he couldn't place his finger on the exact reason why.
He didn't know this man at all, and his bruise-littered faces didn't seem familiar.
Chloe knew Bryan was starting to grow suspicious, and said in a panic, "Bryan, I'm pregnant now, nothing can happen to me! Not everyone who knows me has pure intentions, we should leave immediately!"
After news spread that Chloe was a man-snatcher, even going so far as getting pregnant with her sister's fiance's child, the internet was awash with angry citizens seeking her out to teach this shameless lady a lesson. Of course, many threats to take physical action were made.
Bryan was worried a similar incident would occur and hurriedly left the hospital with Chloe in tow.
Chloe sat in the car, feeling panicked and uneasy, her palms drenched in a cold sweat.
"Uhm, Bryan dear... send me home please, I left something at home and would like to collect it."
Bryan drove Chloe home, intending to accompany her into the house and later send her back to the Dawson home.
"Don’t you have a meeting later? You should leave now! Go to work! I'll get the driver to send me home."
Bryan glanced down at his watch.
"Alright, be careful." "Ok, I will."
Her mother was shocked to see her home.
"You just got married, why are you home?"
"Where's Daddy? Is he home?"
"He's in the office. What’s wrong? You look terrible.” Nicole asked her worriedly.
Chloe tugged her mother into her room, and locked the door behind them, whispering in her ear, "I ran into Bruce Walker! He's staying in the hospital! He was beaten up so badly, his face was littered with bruises and his leg wrapped up in plaster!”
"What? You met him at the hospital? Where did he get the money to stay in such an expensive hospital?" Nicole turned pale.
Chloe shook her head, "I have no idea!"
"Mom, he was beaten up so badly! He even shouted out my name! I hate him!"
"Why wasn't he beaten to death? If he died, our worries would be over once and for all!"
Nicole pondered the issue for a moment and told her daughter the whole story.
"What? You hired someone to beat him up?"
Nicole nodded, "I didn't dare take his life! If anything happened, even I wouldn't be able to save us!"
Chloe and her mother were almost hysterical with panic.
"I thought he would die from his injuries once he was beaten up and didn’t have the money to seek treatment. Who knew he could pay to be hospitalized!" Nicole said furiously.
"Mom, we have to think of a way to get rid of him!"
Chloe frowned in thought, and suddenly a lightbulb lit up in her eyes.
"Mom, many issues of medical malpractice occur in the hospital every year, why can’t it happen to him?"
Nicole was shocked, she never expected her daughter t o suggest murdering her own father.
But after thinking about it, now this was the only way t o save them.
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