After divorce I am a billionaire novel Chapter 52

In the small hours.

Charlotte was taken to the hospital.

The doctor's initial diagnosis was: two broken ribs, a mild concussion, and numerous wounds of different sizes, but fortunately no critical damage.

Melvin sat alone on the bench outside the operating room, lost in his own thoughts.

After the accident, he asked Fred to notify the Matthews family.

Jamie and Katelyn, however, didn't arrive until dawn.

"Alas, my poor daughter. Why should this happen to her!"

Katelyn's crying voice could be heard from a distance in the corridor, she didn't shed a single drop of tear, but even seemed to be gloating about it.

On the contrary, Jamie walked up to Melvin with a sad face. Seeing Melvin's solemn expression, he said a few words to comfort Melvin.

Melvin didn't respond to Jamie's comforting, but just politely said, "Uncle, Aunt, please have a seat."

Jamie was not satisfied with his reply, "Mr. Freeman, I'm asking you as a father. What on earth happened, and how did Lottie get hurt like this? Who did this?"

It hadn't been long since his oldest daughter became a vegetable from a car incident, and now Charlotte was severely injured. Was someone going against his family? Or luck was simply not on their side recently?

Melvin was silent for a few seconds before answering, "I've sent Fred to investigate."

Jamie saw that he did not intend to continue with the conversation, and was too embarrassed to say anything else, so he sat down on the bench beside to wait.

Within two minutes, the light above the operating room door went off.

The doctor came out and said that Charlotte's surgery was successful. Except that she couldn't move around for a while, there were no major problems and she could be transferred to a standard VIP ward.

The three people on the corridor followed to the ward to see Charlotte.

Charlotte just woke up, her whole body wrapped in thick gauze. She struggled to open her swollen eyes, and she started crying as soon as she saw Melvin.

"Mel, if it wasn't for you, I might have died. Luckily you came in time so I didn't get insulted by those bastards. Mel, I really can't leave you. Just stay here with me, okay?"

Charlotte tenderly took his hand. She never could have expected that she would shoot herself in the foot in this matter.

Originally, she sent the text to Melvin to provoke him and let him know that Lyra was a whore; in this way, all his attention would be back to her later.

How sarcastic that she had tasted her own medicine, while the text message actually helped save her life.

Melvin sat down on the edge of her bed and gave a faint hmm.

Seeing his rather reserved attitude, Charlotte felt a bit distressed. "Mel, can't you say something to comfort me? Is it because I'm ugly now, you don't love me anymore?"

Before Melvin could answer, Jamie took the initiative, "Lottie, don't be petulant. How come Mr. Freeman doesn't love you? Tell me who did this to you, and dad will seek justice for you."

"I..."

Charlotte seemed to have recalled some bad memories and started sobbing again.

"I just remember Lyra called me and said she had something to talk to me. I took a taxi from home to go over, but was knocked unconscious on the way. When I woke up, I found myself in that cabin, so dark inside that I couldn't see anything. Then some men came and they started to beat me, saying that Lyra had hired them and wanted to torture me to death...

"I was frightened. I was really scared..."

She curled up into a ball and started shaking as if the terrible memories had caused her to react like this, looking very pitiful and helpless.

Jamie was enraged after hearing this and looked at Melvin.

"Mr. Freeman, you are Lottie's fiancé. You won't just sit back and do nothing about this, right? That woman Lyra must be involved. Look at the way how she bullied Lottie. She's also provoking the Freeman family! You have to help Lottie!"

Jamie was cunning enough to suggest this.

Knowing that Lyra was obviously backed by Cody Carver, and the Matthews family was not powerful enough to defy them, he could only pass the responsibility to Melvin.