By the time Luna and Joshua arrived at the ICU, the situation almost went out of hand. Doctors, nurses, and security guards surrounded the man.
He was no other than Malcolm, who had just left after failing to accomplish his mission, with a camera at hand as the guards apprehended him.
He gripped the camera tightly with both hands. "I won't allow anyone to take away the memory card in this camera! It has my daughter's photos in it! I need to protect it!
"Joshua and Luna stole the moments I could've spent with my daughter. They won't even let me visit her after the surgery!
"My daughter would've never fallen ill if it weren't for them! Why can't I even take a few pictures of my daughter? You're all bandits-a bunch of crooks!"
Luna's eyebrows furrowed tightly. This was the first time she truly understood when people confounded black and white. The only reason Riley was in such a bad state was that Malcolm had handed her over to Sirius to protect himself.
How could he cry wolf when he was the wolf himself? How could he have accused her and Joshua to be responsible for making Riley so sick that she had to undergo surgery? Furthermore, when did they ever stop him from visiting Riley? Did he not see Riley once before she was admitted to the hospital?
Malcolm was there when she and Joshua brought Riley back home from Sirius, yet he was a complete coward. He hid behind Samuel's back the whole time and did not even dare make a sound, all in fear that Joshua or Jim wanted to settle the score with him.
What kind of nonsense was he talking about, disallowing him to visit Riley? Riley had been staying in Joshua's house the whole time, and they never locked her up or prevented anyone from visiting her.
It was all Malcolm; he had never visited her even once!
The only time he wanted to visit Riley was when she underwent surgery in the operating theater, and visiting Riley was not even his real motive. Putting up a show in the ICU department was the second time!
"That's enough!" As Luna felt plagued with indignance at the injustice, Joshua furrowed his eyebrows :b-
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