Linda bombarded Derek Xie with questions in a calm, but firm voice. Her challenge reduced him to silence.
"I am asking you, Uncle. What's your answer? You went out to gamble when Lily came down with a high fever. My mom had no choice but to carry Lily and walked about 3 miles in the midnight until they reached emergency room in the hospital. On top of that, you kept avoiding us when my mom got sick and fainted. We needed 2000 to have her admitted to hospital and asked you for help. And what did you do at that time? You didn't answer our phone and didn't open your door when we knocked. How can you do this? How dare you stand in front of me and ask me to call you uncle?
"Linda... Stop it."
Donna Xie could not bear to see her brother reprimanded by Linda like this. So she asked Linda to stop.
Linda relaxed her grip on Derek Xie's collar and then he fell on his rear. Derek Xie was struck dumb for one minute before coming back to himself.
People always got irritated when their lies were exposed. And Derek Xie, being a total scum, was no exception.
"You have got some balls now, eh?
You married a rich guy and now thought I am beneath you, right?"
He glared at Linda balefully with shifty eyes and his saliva was splashing all over, all of which were disgusting to Linda.
"Bun, throw him out."
"My Lady. What you just said is to THROW him out, right?"
Answered Linda with a nod.
"Understood."
Rubbing her hands, Bun watched Derek Xie through the corners of her eyes. She kept looking around in the ward until she found two used rubber tubes of a life support machine in the trash bin. She picked them up and used them to tie up Derek Xie's hands and feet up.
"Let go of me! What you do is illegal! You son of a bitch!"
"Who?"
"You!"
While tying him up, Bun replied with a smile on her face and said, "Why don't you run away? That's all you got? Call me names? Say that again and I will beat the hell out of you."
Linda shook her head with a smile. Bun was like a mischievous child.
But trashing Derek was also exactly what Linda wanted.
Derek Xie tried to fight back. He thought there's no way that a strong man like himself would lose to a little girl.
But Bun was not a little girl. She had been in the armed police force for many years.
Seeing Derek Xie intended to fight back, Bun beat him up and then dragged him by his belt and threw him out of the ward.
Donna Xie was struck dumb by what she just saw and asked, "Linda... Why was the girl... so strong?
Linda smiled, "Mom, she's a well-trained soldier. It's natural that she is stronger than ordinary girls."
"My Lady, I'll wait you outside. Call me whenever you are in need."
Bun dragged Derek Xie outside and closed the door.
"Mom, what's Derek Xie doing here? How did him get into the hospital? "
Said Linda as she picked up an apple from a fruit basket on the table and started to peel it.
"The nurse told me that a man claiming to be my brother came to me with a basket. I guessed it's probably Derek and he wants to visit me. So I told the nurse to let him in."
Linda found the middle of the apple was rotten when she's halfway through peeling it. Linda tossed it into the trash bin in disgust.
"Well, I am glad Derek still care about me and visit me with the fruit basket."
Linda was speechless. She glanced at the fruit basker in which most of the fruits were stale. Donna Xie was as simple as a child.
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