Chapter 180: Return

Translator: Henyee Translations      Editor: Henyee Translations

The doctor’s expression was grave as his gaze swept over everyone present before he asked a question, “Who’s the family member of the patient?”

Taylor stepped forward.

He stared at the doctor’s face and asked, “How is my wife?”

Hearing this, the doctor turned toward him. “She’s not in critical condition now.”

Upon hearing this, Keira relaxed, but her hands unconsciously began to tremble.

“Dad!”

Suddenly, hearing Isla’s cry of alarm, Keira looked up just to discover that Taylor had collapsed onto the floor.

It seemed that he had been extremely tense, and having heard the doctor’s words, he completely relaxed.

While Isla and Jake tried to help him up, Taylor waved his hand. “I’m fine.”

His entire demeanor was like that of someone who had just taken a walk through hell, and now he finally resumed the comportment of the Olsen family’s head of the household.

He stayed seated on the floor and looked up at the doctor. His voice was still shaky, and he seemed somewhat frightened. “What happened to my wife? Why was she coughing up blood? Is it serious…”

“She was agitated, causing a sudden spike in blood pressure, which led to the rupture of a blood vessel and the vomiting of blood. You got her to the hospital in time, and there’s no major issue, but the patient will need to keep her emotions stable and avoid further stimulation in the future.”

After giving his instructions, the doctor turned and opened the door of the operating room, and a nurse wheeled out a stretcher.

Taylor immediately got up from the floor and approached the stretcher, holding Mrs. Olsen’s hand tightly.

Burying his head in Mrs. Olsen’s hospital bed, tears rolled down his cheeks; he exuded a sense of relief as though he had escaped death, “Shirley, you nearly scared me to death…”

“Just transfer her to a regular ward; the patient isn’t in danger anymore.”

After giving this instruction, the doctor and a crowd of people surrounded the stretcher, proceeding toward the regular ward.

Keira followed them from a distance, her eyes slightly red by now.

Once Mrs. Olsen had been wheeled into the ward, Isla and Jake finally turned their gaze sharply toward her.

Isla rushed over, accusing her, “Keira, how shameless can you be? You’ve harassed my mom to that point, so what are you doing here?!”

Keira didn’t speak.

But Lewis stood in front of her, his tone loaded with warning as he began, “Isla! ”

Just hearing her name made Isla shiver.

However, her gaze quickly fell upon Ellis, who was standing nearby, and she immediately said, “Uncle, even if you intend to discipline me according to family law today, I must say this! If it weren’t for her insisting on entering our house tonight and seeing my mom, how could my mom end up like this? This whole incident is because of her!”

Lewis frowned upon hearing this. “Shut up!”

Isla put on an aggrieved face, and as expected, in the next moment, Ellis interjected. “Lewis, you really can’t tell right from wrong, can you? Now I see how you abuse your power here. I never thought you could be such a person!”

Lewis looked at him coldly. “What kind of person I am is none of your business. ”

Ellis laughed derisively. “But if you try to bully the person I’m protecting, then it becomes my business! Lewis, you should know, not everyone here is easy to provoke!”

He pointed toward the ward, fuming, “I’ve seen everything tonight. From start to finish, it was Keira who insisted on entering to show Mrs. Olsen some damned photo, then her mom, that shameless mistress, barged in to provoke Mrs. Olsen. That’s why this happened! With me here, it’s not your place to bully the Olsen family!”

Only then did Lewis understand why Keira went to the Olsen house.

The Olsen family had always been an unspoken pain in Keira’s heart; she hardly ever visited unless necessary.

Today was supposed to be a visit to the Allen family to see a photo, but instead, she ended up taking the photo to the Olsen family… There must be something going on.

However, he didn’t ask right away but looked down at her and said, “Keira, you haven’t had dinner yet, have you? Let’s have something to eat.”

Keira nodded nonchalantly.

After descending the stairs, they found a random restaurant near the hospital.

Lewis ordered a portion of porridge for her and didn’t order anything else.

Keira stirred the porridge with a spoon, her eyes downcast the entire time, exuding an air of disappointment.

Lewis thought back to when he first met her. The girl with those cunning, pretty eyes called him husband, and how she appeared before him later with various identities, always with a hint of playfulness.

She was like a little sun, forcibly barging into his life.

When had he ever seen his little sun so downcast?

Lewis couldn’t help but ask, “What photo did you look at tonight?”

Only then did Keira realize that she had been clutching that old photo in her left hand the whole time. She looked up and handed the photo to Lewis.

Upon seeing the person in the photo, Lewis was also slightly taken aback, and after a moment of silence, he spoke. “Your mother, Poppy, I’ve already investigated her. She and your uncle Finley’s mother don’t look like this… so this must be your paternal grandmother.”

Keira kept her head down, silent.

Lewis then said, “Last time you found out you weren’t Taylor’s daughter, Poppy said she didn’t know who your father was either. Looking at the photo, this woman is dressed in luxury, and that’s Mr. Allen beside her, so she must be from Clance…”

He paused there, then suddenly asked, “Keira, who would’ve thought you turned out to be a lost heiress from a wealthy and noble family? If you get acknowledged and taken back, you won’t look down on the Horton family for being of inferior social status and not worthy of you, will you?”

Keira slowly lifted her head.

He spoke unhurriedly, and his tone had a lightness to it; his deep, magnetic voice calmed her unconsciously.

At last, reason began to return slowly.

Just as she was about to say something, a snicker from Ellis came from the side. “Pfff, Lewis, the powerful and influential in Clance, the families who could look down on you, are just our few great families. What a joke you’re making. Keira, as an illegitimate daughter, where could she get such a high-born background?”

They slowly turned their heads and saw Ellis lounging at a table next to theirs. “I’m familiar with everyone from Clance. Let me see the photo; I’m sure I’ll recognize the person.”

He was curious about which photo had caused such a big emotional fluctuation in Mrs. Olsen.

Upon hearing this, Lewis hesitated for a moment.

Ellis was born and raised in Clance; perhaps he would really recognize the person…

Lewis passed the photo to Ellis.

Before Ellis could look at it, he heard Keira ask, “Has Mrs. Olsen awoken?”

Ellis replied, “She should wake up soon. The doctor just said it would be about half an hour.”

No sooner had these words fallen than Keira stood up abruptly, her eyes regaining clarity, and her face shedding the weakness of moments before, as she said to Lewis, “Mr. Horton, Mrs. Olsen held onto my hand before she fainted, telling me not to go. She must have something to tell me; I want her to see me the moment she wakes up.”

Understanding her meaning, Lewis immediately said, “Okay, I’ll make the arrangements. ”

Keira no longer wished to eat and stood up to leave.

Lewis quickly followed after her.

Ellis frowned at the conversation between the two, then lowered his head to look at the photo in his hand….