Após o Divórcio Me Tornei Uma Bilionária Capítulo 52

Nas primeiras horas.
Charlotte foi levada para o hospital.
O diagnóstico inicial do médico foi: duas costelas quebradas, uma concussão
leve e vários ferimentos de tamanhos diferentes, mas felizmente nenhum dano
crítico.
Melvin estava sentado sozinho no banco do lado de fora da sala de cirurgia,
perdido em seus próprios pensamentos.
Após o acidente, ele pediu a Fred que notificasse a família Matthews.
Jamie e Katelyn, entretanto, não chegaram até o amanhecer.
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“Infelizmente, minha pobre filha. Por que isso deveria acontecer com ela!”
A voz chorosa de Katelyn podia ser ouvida à distância no corredor, ela não
derramou uma única lágrima, mas até parecia estar se regozijando com isso.
Pelo contrário, Jamie caminhou até Melvin com uma cara triste. Vendo a
expressão solene de Melvin, ele disse algumas palavras para confortar Melvin.
Melvin não respondeu ao consolo de Jamie, mas apenas disse educadamente:
“Tio, tia, por favor, sentem-se.”
Jamie não ficou satisfeito com sua resposta: “Sr. Freeman, estou perguntando
como pai. O que diabos aconteceu e como Lottie se machucou assim? Quem
fez isso?”
Não fazia muito tempo que sua filha mais velha se tornara um vegetal devido a
um acidente de carro, e agora Charlotte estava gravemente ferida. Alguém
estava indo contra sua família? Ou a sorte simplesmente não estava do lado
deles recentemente?
Melvin ficou em silêncio por alguns segundos antes de responder: “Mandei Fred
investigar.”
Jamie saw that he did not intend to continue with the conversation, and was too
embarrassed to say anything else, so he sat down on the bench beside to wait.
Within two minutes, the light above the operating room door went off.
The doctor came out and said that Charlotte’s surgery was successful. Except
that she couldn’t move around for a while, there were no major problems and she
could be transferred to a standard VIP ward.
The three people on the corridor followed to the ward to see Charlotte.
Charlotte just woke up, her whole body wrapped in thick gauze. She struggled to
open her swollen eyes, and she started crying as soon as she saw Melvin.
“Mel, if it wasn’t for you, I might have died. Luckily you came in time so I didn’t
get insulted by those bastards. Mel, I really can’t leave you. Just stay here with
me, okay?”
Charlotte tenderly took his hand. She never could have expected that she would
shoot herself in the foot in this matter.
Originally, she sent the text to Melvin to provoke him and let him know that Lyra
was a whore; in this way, all his attention would be back to her later.
How sarcastic that she had tasted her own medicine, while the text message
actually helped save her life.
Melvin sat down on the edge of her bed and gave a faint hmm.
Seeing his rather reserved attitude, Charlotte felt a bit distressed. “Mel, can’t you
say something to comfort me? Is it because I’m ugly now, you don’t love me
anymore?”
Before Melvin could answer, Jamie took the initiative, “Lottie, don’t be petulant.
How come Mr. Freeman doesn’t love you? Tell me who did this to you, and dad
will seek justice for you.”
“I…”
Charlotte seemed to have recalled some bad memories and started sobbing
again.
“I just remember Lyra called me and said she had something to talk to me. I took
a taxi from home to go over, but was knocked unconscious on the way. When I
woke up, I found myself in that cabin, so dark inside that I couldn’t see anything.
Then some men came and they started to beat me, saying that Lyra had hired
them and wanted to torture me to death…
“I was frightened. I was really scared…”
She curled up into a ball and started shaking as if the terrible memories had
caused her to react like this, looking very pitiful and helpless.
Jamie was enraged after hearing this and looked at Melvin.
“Mr. Freeman, you are Lottie’s fiancé. You won’t just sit back and do nothing
about this, right? That woman Lyra must be involved. Look at the way how she
bullied Lottie. She’s also provoking the Freeman family! You have to help Lottie!”
Jamie was cunning enough to suggest this.
Knowing that Lyra was obviously backed by Cody Carver, and the Matthews
family was not powerful enough to defy them, he could only pass the
responsibility to Melvin.
Melvin pursed his lips and his gaze was serious, “If Lottie really got set up by
someone, I’ll definitely help her, but on the premise that she can’t hide anything
from me, and she must tell me exactly what happened in details.”
Charlotte froze. The whole story was made up by her. The more she said, the
easier she would give herself away.
Melvin was so shrewd that any time she got a detail wrong, it would arouse his
suspicion.
She could only find a way to avoid his question for now, and later she would
discuss with Irene on the countermove.
Thinking of this, she clasped her head with her hands, her expression painful.
“My head hurts! I can’t think of anything…”
Jamie chimed in, “Lottie just woke up. It’s not good for her recovery to overuse
her brain now. Why don’t we leave first and let her get some rest.”
Melvin nodded, his face grim.
The group was just turning their heads to leave when the ward door suddenly
opened and two handsome, robust men entered.
The Matthews couple were bewildered to see the strange man who suddenly
barged in.
Two sturdy men stood on each side of the door, followed by Lyra, who walked in
on high heels, her red lips smiling enchantingly.
Seeing that it was her, Katelyn, who had been keeping silent behind Jamie, was
confused.
Didn’t she know there was a discussion going on here about dealing with her?
But she just swaggered into this place. How arrogant.
Katelyn was displeased by this attitude of hers, and she took the opportunity to
add fuel to the fire by whispering in Jamie’s ear, “Honey, look how haughty she is.
Is she here to see if your daughter is dead?”
Jamie’s face turned even more livid, “You came just in time. We’ll settle the score
here about how you had deliberately hurt my daughter!”
Even Melvin was just standing aside quietly, but his height made it difficult for
others to ignore his presence.
Lyra subconsciously glanced at him, but noticed that his gaze had been locked
on her since she came in, and his eyes were glinting with indefinable emotions.
She looked back at Jamie, her red lips curling up into a smile, “Mr. Matthews,
you’re right, I do have a score to settle with your daughter, but not the one you’re
talking about.”
“What do you mean?”
Charlotte had already lost out twice to Lyra, and seeing Lyra dare to barge into
her ward in front of everyone, she panicked and instantly cowered behind Jamie,
who was closest to her.
“Dad, help me. She’s trying to hurt me! She must be trying to hurt me. I’m afraid. I
don’t want to see her…”
She whined like she was emotionally devastated.
After all, she was his daughter. Jamie was a bit disgruntled seeing her being
bullied like this.
“This is a private ward. My daughter is emotionally unstable. Please get out.”
“No need to rush, sir. I’m just here to drop off some gifts.”
The smile on Lyra’s lips grew even wider as she gently clapped her hands.
A group of people came in and put up two large banners on the wall opposite
Charlotte’s hospital bed.
“These are my encouragement to Miss Matthews, and I wish Miss Matthews a
speedy recovery.”
She smiled, goodwill written all over her face, “As for Miss Matthews’ claim that I
had something to do with the incident, well, feel free to come to me with the
evidence. I’ll be waiting.”
As she finished, she did not want to stay a second longer, turned around and left
with the two bodyguards.
Melvin saw that she was leaving and followed out of the ward with a grim face.
At this moment, Charlotte, Katelyn and Jamie were all drawn to look at the
banners, none even paying attention to Melvin’s absence.
When she saw what was written on the banners, Charlotte was so infuriated that
she almost spit blood!