Filed to story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
Didn’t Nora quite like speaking ill of Cora with her?
What was wrong today?
Cora pushed the door of Flora’s ward, which was in a mess.
The vase was torn apart on the ground, and the flowers originally inserted in it were trampled to wilt.
Kettles, cups, and all kinds of toiletries used in the hospital were thrown on the ground, and even the nurses were frightened and hid away.
After Flora vented, she lay on the hospital bed panting, staring blankly at the roof.
Even when Cora entered the ward, she didn’t notice it.
The nurse was relieved to see Cora coming.
“You finally come. She stopped after taking a sedative just now.”
The nurse just now called Cora, saying that Flora was stimulated, smashed everything that could be smashed in the ward, and cried and screamed, which was scary.
Cora quickly smiled and said,
“Thank you. You should take a day off today. I’ll handle this.”
Flora had mental problems, and many nurses were unwilling to take this job of taking care of her.
Cora had made a lot of effort to recruit this nurse.
She was really worried that Flora would scare this nurse away.
“What’s wrong with your face?”
The nurse was about to leave, but after seeing Cora’s face, she couldn’t help asking.
It was only then that Cora remembered she had been slapped by Sara just now, and now half of her face still hurt, which probably looked horrible.
“It’s nothing. I just fell while walking.”
“Remember to get some ice cubes for a cold compress later. It must hurt a lot.”
After listening to the nurse, Cora went to see Flora again.
But Flora didn’t respond, as if she couldn’t hear or see.
Cora couldn’t help feeling a little sad. Even outsiders noticed her face, but Flora didn’t have any reaction.
But she still persuaded herself that Flora was ill, so she couldn’t be so fussy. If Flora wasn’t sick, Flora would definitely feel sorry for her.
After Cora comforted herself, she transferred 170 dollars to the nurse before the nurse left.
As soon as the nurse left, Cora began to clean the ward.
When the cleaning was almost done, she fetched another hot water basin and began wiping Flora’s body.
“Mom, are you in a bad mood today?”
While wiping Flora, Cora chatted with her.
When Cora’s father died, Flora often threw things like this.
At first, Cora was also quite scared, but then she gradually realized that fear was useless, so she gradually learned to help Flora clean up the mess and calm her emotions after she vented.
“What makes you unhappy? You can tell me. Don’t vent your anger on these things. It will not work except to make you more angry and hurt yourself.”
Her tone was soft, just like an adult coaxing a child.
In the past, Flora’s mood would soon be better after being comforted by her, but today…
After she said so much, Flora was still staring at the snow-white ceiling in a daze.
“Mom, although our life is still not as good as before, it is improving. You see, my brother has also found a way out. He told me two days ago that he integrated the remaining industries of our family and relocated the factory. If he made money, he would pay off the debts we owed and return to New York.
“After your second surgery, you should be able to leave the hospital. After Byron and I get married, I will take you over to live with us…”
Cora said a lot, but Flora didn’t seem to hear that, until Cora mentioned Byron…
“Break up with him.”
Flora was still looking at the ceiling but suddenly made a sound.
“What?”
Cora couldn’t figure out what Flora meant for a while.
This time, Flora’s eyes finally had focus.
She stared at Cora viciously and held her hand tightly.
“I told you to break up with him right now!”
“Why? I’ve already started discussing marriage with him, so why should I break up with him?”
Although
Cora was puzzled, she didn’t break away from Flora’s hand, fearing to agitate her again.
Flora sat up from the hospital bed and grabbed Cora’s shoulders, shaking her hard.
“You snatched him from someone else. How bold of you to talk about marriage with him! If I knew you would do such a shameless thing, I would have strangled you to death when you were born!”
“I didn’t snatch him from someone else, and he never belonged to anyone either.”
Cora tried to explain to Flora, but Flora seemed to be unable to listen as she was still screaming at the top of her lungs.
“You still want to lie to me at this point? I have repeatedly emphasized to you since you were a child that you can’t touch the things that don’t belong to you. Why are you still resorting to such lowly behavior as stealing other people’s things?
“Look at yourself. You’ve been slapped in the face, right? You deserve it! Who told you to be so cheap that you resort to stealing other people’s things? You deserve that slap!
“If it were me, I would definitely go beyond just slapping you. You scoundrel, why wasn’t it you who died at that time?”
Cora felt the pain on her cheek couldn’t compare to even the slightest bit of what she was suffering in her heart right now.
This was her mother. It was even more disheartening that she didn’t show any concern.
But why did she say that Cora deserved that kind of treatment? And why did she say those other vicious words?
Cora’s heart nearly went cold.
“Who told you this? Was it Dr. Yoris?”
Some time ago, Jane and Flora got very close, so it was hard for Cora not to suspect Jane.
But Flora’s movements stiffened momentarily before she said,
“It wasn’t her.”
“Not her? Then who was it?”
Once Cora knew who it was, she wanted to tear that person apart.
Flora said,
“There were a lot of rumors about it out there. How long do you think you can keep it from me?”
Then Flora added angrily,
“If you still want me as a mother, you must break up with him now.”
Sometimes Cora really thought it would be better if she didn’t have this kind of mother, and one of the occasions was when Flora cursed her like that just now.
But she no longer had a father, and she felt that such thoughts were too heartless, so she could only swallow up all the bitterness in her heart to explain,
“Mom, he’s really not engaged with Dr. Yoris. It’s merely people’s assumptions.”
“I don’t care about that. If you don’t break up with him, never call me your mom again, and don’t come to see me anymore!”
The more Flora talked, the more agitated she became that she even pushed Cora out of the ward.
Her strength when bursting out in anger was not small, and Cora was no match for her at all that it didn’t take long for her to be pushed out of the ward and locked outside the door.
At that moment, Cora especially felt powerless.
It was not easy for her to finally get closer to Byron and get the chance to spend the rest of her life with him.
If the people out there couldn’t stand her getting along with Byron, she wouldn’t care at all.
But why was even her own mother like this?
When Cora returned home that night, she did not tell Byron about those terrible things.
But Byron had noticed the red mark on her face, even though she had treated it with ice cubes until there was only a faded red mark left. If one didn’t look at it carefully, they wouldn’t be able to notice it.
“How did you get this?”
He grasped her chin, studying the red mark with his clear eyes, and his handsome eyebrows furrowed deeply.
The people he sent out would only stand guard around where Cora was and would only report when they noticed something wrong with her route, or if someone deliberately approached her.
But he didn’t receive such relevant reports today, so why did her face turn out like that?
Cora said,
“My mother was a bit unstable in the afternoon, so I calmed her down.”
Cora didn’t bother to mention Sara. After all, Cora would be the one to enact her own revenge.
Byron lowered his head and kissed her forehead.
“I’m sorry. I’ve been so busy these days that I didn’t have time to visit her in the hospital.”
Sunda Group’s branch office was about to be established in New York soon, so he was basically running back and forth between New York and Kinton.
And thus, he couldn’t visit Flora almost every lunch break as he did some time ago.
“I’ll visit her in the hospital once I’m done with all this work. By the way, her second surgery should be in a few days, right?”
Byron never thought Flora’s emotional disturbance would have anything to do with him. He just assumed he was too busy these days that he couldn’t help Cora share the responsibility to look after
Flora, so he hugged Cora with guilt in his heart.
Cora also took this opportunity to bury her face in his chest, hiding the helplessness and sadness that shouldn’t be on her face, before saying in a muffled voice,