Chapter 227 Conspiracies in the Living Room
Kenneth couldn’t stand to see Willow cry; his stern gaze immediately warned Elaine, “Elaine, you can’t just throw around accusations like that. This concerns Willow’s innocence, and I truly believe Willow would never do such a thing.”
“Her innocence is valid, but Lauren’s isn’t?” Elaine snapped back furiously.
If she could stand, she would have already slapped Kenneth.
Her face was furious, her eyes filled with resentment. “Want to know why Willow pushed me down the stairs? Because Willow and David, those despicable beings, plotted to harm Lauren. Whether Lauren lived or died, they planned to rush her to the hospital, declare her brain dead immediately, transplant her kidneys into Willow, and donate her other organs, even using. Lauren’s body for anatomical study. I overheard their plot, so they wanted to silence me by killing me and pinning the murder on Lauren.”
Elaine spat out the truth of five years ago at Kenneth in one breath.
Perhaps
because she was so enraged, she began to breathe heavily after her outburst, her face flushed with anger.
Kenneth felt as if struck by lightning upon hearing this. The truth was too horrendous, completely overturning his understanding.
In his more than twenty years of life, he had never encountered such ruthless people.
He shook his head, his face a picture of disbelief. “Impossible, you’re talking nonsense. Even if Willow and Mr. David wanted to harm Lauren, the hospital wouldn’t cooperate with them.”
Seizing on a perceived flaw in Elaine’s story, Kenneth’s eyes suddenly lit up.
“Right! The hospital wouldn’t cooperate. Obviously, you’re making this up. In my view, you’ve been vegetative for five years and your brain isn’t right. It was clearly Lauren who hurt you, but you’re confused and think it was Willow.”
After saying this, he turned to his parents, Brendan and Brielle, “Mom, dad, don’t get caught up in Elaine’s nonsense. It’s clearly a misunderstanding. Let’s take Elaine home. Making a scene like this in someone else’s house, what kind of image…”
Before he could finish, Brielle forcefully shook off his hand and then slapped Kenneth across the face.
“How could I have given birth to such a fool who can’t tell right from wrong?” Brielle said with deep pain and exasperation.
Kenneth slowly turned his head, now askew, his eyes bloodshot and red. “The hospital wouldn’t cooperate with Willow and Mr. David in harming someone. Why won’t you see the obvious flaw here?”
At this, he fiercely turned to Lauren, who had been sitting on the couch, watching indifferently, and said through clenched teeth, “Are you satisfied with turning me against my own family?”
Lauren had long known Kenneth’s foolishness.
Indeed, foolish people can sometimes be more detestable than malicious ones. She had tried to explain, but Kenneth wouldn’t listen; Elaine testified, and he still harbored doubts.
His attitude of believing he was the only sober person in a room full of drunks was absurd to Lauren, and she couldn’t help but laugh out loud, her laughter filled with scorn.
“Since you say the hospital wouldn’t cooperate with Willow and David in harming someone, let me bring out proof to show you why the hospital would indeed be complicit.”
With that, Lauren pulled open a drawer in the coffee table and took out a document. She slowly stood up, limping, and walked towards Kenneth.
As Lauren approached, Kenneth’s heart began to beat wildly.
Lauren’s gaze was too firm, her demeanor too composed, and Kenneth felt an ominous premonition.
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quietly,
“Take a look, and you’ll understand why the hospital would cooperate.”
Finished
Kenneth instinctively avoided Lauren’s gaze, feigning composure to mask his inner turmoil, and scoffed, “Fine, I’ll look. I want to see what cards you’re playing.”
He quickly snatched the document from Lauren’s hands and began flipping through it.
As he read, his hands started to tremble uncontrollably, and his breathing became more rapid.
It turned out that the director of Hoverdale People First Hospital was David’s other woman and also Willow’s biological mother. No wonder Willow and David were so sure the hospital would cooperate with them.
Willow, standing beside Kenneth, could see everything clearly as Kenneth flipped through the documents.
In that instant, her pupils dilated rapidly, filled with terror.
