If trying to save someone urgently has to be considered a crime, then I admit that I am a criminal.
Save someone urgently?
Amelia Cobb has already cursed Christopher Robinson and his ancestors in her heart.
“If Mr.
Robinson’s urgency to save someone is like this, then I’m afraid I can’t agree.”
“Boss,” Juliet Walker enters the room just at this moment, pushing the door open.
As soon as she enters, she feels that the atmosphere in the room is not right.
She takes two steps back, intending to leave.
“Secretary Walker, just speak up.”
Amelia calls out to her, stopping her from leaving.
Not letting her leave, Amelia takes away her chance by directly forcing her into the cradle.
Juliet’s footsteps pause, and William Cobb glances over at her.
She looks at Christopher, her eyes full of hesitation and anxiety.
“President Robinson, the driver…
was one of our company’s employees.”
Amelia laughs.
Originally half-lying on the bed, she sits up straight, staring at Christopher, ready to start a war of words.
“Go to the police and tell them.
Let them handle it.”
“Yes,” Juliet immediately answers and then turns and leaves.
Amelia’s words are stuck in her throat, unable to come out.
Seeing their back-and-forth, Amelia doesn’t have a chance to speak up.
“Mr.
Robinson–, ” Amelia’s voice is slightly raised, her eyes filled with fury as she looks at Christopher.
Christopher seems not to see it, turning to look at William: “I’m sorry for what happened, Mr.
Cobb.
If you don’t mind, I will take Miss Cobb to Orchard Garden to recuperate.
After some time, she will surely return.”
“I’ll ask Amelia for her opinion,” William hesitates to make a decision.
After all, his wife and child take up a large part of his life.
Ask Amelia for her opinion?
No, no, no, no.
Amelia will not agree.
Taking advantage of the situation, Christopher has his own aims today.
“I’ve been engaged to Amelia for a long time but haven’t had any real contact.
Since the Cobb family wants to form a marriage alliance, we should show some attitude.
Don’t you think so, Mr.
Cobb?”
Christopher’s words are relatively mild.
But this mildness, along with the punctuation marks, carries a hint of threat.
Christopher is seen by the Cobb family members as a godlike figure.
Controlling the power of life and death over the family.
William has no power to fight back against Christopher’s threats.
If the Cobb family wants to form a marriage alliance, we should show some attitude.
This sentence, if said in ordinary times, should be said by someone else, because someone as high-ranking as Christopher would not stoop so low to threaten anyone.
But today– is an exception.
Oddly, he sees a long-lost uncertainty in Amelia.
In Christopher’s nature, anything uncertain is a threat.
Threatening items must either be dealt with or controlled.
Obviously, Amelia is the latter.
Christopher wants to keep her close and under control.
Amelia is shocked.
In her years as a negotiator, she has seen too many instances of flesh-and-blood deals.
Dickering over prices in front of the person involved, treating people like items.
Those accessories, in their eyes, have no emotions and should not exist in this world.
She has always believed that she would always be the dominant party.
Never to be the fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others.
But today– everything has changed.
She feels like an emotionless object, while the two men in front of her discuss matters.
“Both of you have made your positions clear for your own interests, so is there really any need for me, the sacrificial lamb, to exist?”
Amelia’s gaze on William is full of murderous intent, yes, murderous intent.
William thought he saw it wrong, but when he looked carefully again, he realized he was right.
“Amelia–,” William’s voice carries a hint of helplessness.
“I’ve said what I have to say, I’ll be waiting for Miss Cobb at Orchard Garden,” Christopher clearly does not want to get involved in the argument between father and daughter.
As he opens the door to leave, he sees Juliet frowning deeply.
Her face is full of anxiety.
Amelia watches Christopher leave the ward, her anger finding nowhere to vent, and can only watch him go.
The ward falls silent.
Amelia stares at William without speaking.
William?
He uses silence to face everything.
“I want to be alone,” Amelia speaks out after a long silence.
“Amelia, if I could, I would wish for other choices too.
Once you stand in my position, you’ll know that there are many things I have no reason to refuse.”
William does care for Amelia; if he didn’t, he wouldn’t say this.
But the more so, the more heartbreaking it is.
Stand in his position?
Standing in his position, Amelia still couldn’t understand.
Any normal person would not send their daughter into a marriage alliance, let alone knowingly send her to the tiger’s mouth.
Amelia feels like she’s fucked.
The romance novels she read during her studies were full of beautiful, idyllic scenes.
But in her life, in addition to leveling up and fighting monsters, she encounters idiots.
“Really, romance novels are killing people,”
Not long after William leaves, the door to the ward is pushed open again.
Old Mr.
Cobb is also in this hospital.
When Sophia Cobb and Linda Kent hear the news, they hurry over without stopping.
The moment they see Amelia lying on the bed, they feel a rush of joy and excitement.
“Is this the turning of the tide?
The wicked will be punished by the wicked?” Sophia looks at Amelia with cold derision.
Amelia, who has been resting with her eyes closed to adjust her emotions, slowly opens her eyes, “Yeah, the tide has turned.
Today, a bunch of idiots came to my house.”
Sophia chokes, “You—–”
“What about me?
You’re trying to argue like a normal person when you can’t even speak properly?
If you’re a parrot, don’t pretend to be human.”
“Amelia, even in this state, you’re still arrogant?
With your parents gone, who will protect you?” Linda has long been displeased with Amelia, but she never dared to offend the main branch of the family because Alex Cobb still relies on William.
Today, finally, there’s an opportunity.
Of course, she won’t let it go easily.
“Want to take action?” Amelia can see Linda’s intentions at a glance.
She hooks up a smile at the corner of her lips: “You believe it or not?
If you dare to touch me, the one lying here will definitely be you.”
Amelia lifts the blanket, sits up on the bed, pulls the needle out of her hand without hesitation, steps barefoot onto the ground, and walks toward Linda step by step.
Her face, akin to the King of Hell, makes Linda flustered.
“Amelia—-,” Kallie Rayno just had an argument with William and came in to see such a scene.
“Linda, are you ever satisfied?”
“Kallie, your daughter has just angered Old Mr.
Cobb into the hospital.
Isn’t this retribution?”
“I think you’re just like a bored dog.
If you can’t find my second uncle’s mistress, you start to bother us.
If my second aunt needs help, just tell me, maybe I’ll take pity on you,” Jaso Cobb enters from outside and suddenly pushes Linda away.
With a bang– Linda slams into the door.