Chapter 65 A Stranger’s Mercy
Marilyn sobbed, “Mr. Elliot, Ms. Bennett is dying, please come…
Recalling his and Willow’s injuries, Elliot’s temper flared.
Haven’t been good enough to her? What more does she want Threatening Dad with a knife, bashing Willow with an ashtray, she’s out of control. If I don’t stop her, she’ll go too far
Coldly, he replied, “Her life or death means nothing to me,” and hung up, resolute.
Marilyn stood helpless in the corridor.
She turned to Felix, pleading. “Sir, please help my Ms. Bennett.”
With over a decade in the Bennett household, she could tell this man held power. A single word from him could save them. She looked at him like a lifeline.
The doctor pressed, “She’s critical, any delay could kill her. Where’s the family? Sign now!”
Felix’s brow creased slightly. Glancing at the peony on his chest and thinking of “National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance,” he told the doctor, “I’ll sign.”
The doctor sized him up, tall, poised, radiating innate authority. In the sterile corridor, he shone like a beacon.
“Your relation to the patient?”
Felix hesitated, they were near–strangers.
To hasten things, Marilyn blurted, “He’s her fiancé
She shot him a desperate, hopeful look.
He met her gaze briefly, then signed the consent form with a fluid stroke.
Once the doctor entered the operating room, Marilyn thanked Felix profusely, tears in her eyes. “Sir. thank heaven for you! Without you, Ms. Bennett was done for!”
Felix remained stoic, sitting on a bench with crossed legs.
The surgery stretched on, dawn breaking, yet the operating room doors stayed shut.
His phone rang, slicing through the tense silence.
He opened his eyes, unfazed by the sleepless night, still exuding elegance, and answered, “Grandma.”
Kate’s voice bubbled with joy. “You rascal, when did you snag a granddaughter–in–law without telling me?”
Granddaughter–in–law? He was baffled.
Assuming she was nudging him toward marriage again, he said, “Grandma, anything else?”
“Can’t I just call my grandson?” she asked.
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“No, he replied.
Finished
“Fine, fine. Don’t scare her off with that frosty attitude. Tell me where you are, I’ll come see her myself. I feed to meet her to rest easy,” she said.
“Grandma, if there’s nothing else, I’m hanging up.” Unwilling to dive into this now, he ended the call.
At the Brooker family estate in Balewood, the white–haired Kate sighed at the dead line.
“That boy’s icy streak, who’d he get it from? Rumors call him a playboy, but I wish he were, at least it’d prove he’s got some charm.
She thought to herself, nearing thirty, no girlfriend, no dates, I even wondered if he liked men. I’ve worried myself sick over his marriage. Now there’s hope. I’ve got to keep tabs or his coldness will chase her off.”
Anna, listening to her ramble, smiled. “Madam Kate, how’d you hear Mr. Felix’s got a girlfriend?”
Kate opened Josh’s chat, beaming. “Josh sent this last night, I saw it this morning. Anna, come take a look at
her.
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