Chapter 16
Category:
Romance
Author:
JillianWords:482Update time:25/05/26 20:00:46
In the hallway outside the emergency room, Russell Huynh glared at me angrily.
"You're the only one who actually believed it was just a stomach problem!"
"He had a heart condition, that's how his mother died!"
Heart disease... I felt a sudden tightening in my chest.
It wasn't stomach problems. The medication he was taking wasn't for his stomach. He had been lying to me...
And I didn't even notice...
"Brooks, do you really wish he would die? If he dies, everything will be yours."
"What did you say?"
"Alden left a will. After he dies, all of his property will go to you!"
I sat there in a daze, Russell's every word cutting through my heart like a dull knife.
"He never thought about fighting you for the inheritance. He started his business in his junior year of college, made his first fortune, spent three million on diamonds to buy you this necklace—he was a bigger fool than anyone I've ever seen!"
"Because the surgery was risky, he was afraid he wouldn't get to see you. So for these years, he's been taking medication just to hold on."
"He's gone abroad secretly countless times in the past five years, just to buy your paintings."
"You've tormented him to this point, are you happy?"
I couldn't hold it anymore, and I covered my face, crying uncontrollably.
Alden... Alden, you lied to me for so long...