Aiden Finnegan's Medical Odyssey novel Chapter 15

When Aiden returned home, he saw Angelina and Linda on the couch, but the latter was watching TV while the former looked a little worried.

Is she worried about me? he wondered as a small smile appeared on his lips.

Right after he walked through the doors, relief washed over Angelina's worried-looking face, but Linda sprang to her feet, berating, "Just look at what you've done! You caused such a mess just because you bought a piece of junk!"

"Mom, stop it!" Angelina interjected with a frown, but it disappeared when she turned to Aiden. "What happened after you went to the Thatchers'?" she asked calmly.

"I cured Old Mr. Thatcher!" Aiden replied.

Angelina immediately became angry. "Did you swindle others again?"

"Swindle? Is that all I'm capable of in your eyes?" he asked flatly.

When Linda saw that Angelina was mad, she immediately swooped in and said disdainfully, "What disease can a useless bum like you cure? Didn't you just go there to swindle them and make off with their money? But I'm telling you, you're the one who wanted to go by yourself. So, don't throw us under the bus with you if they come seeking us later!"

"Aren't you the one who threw the vase?" Aiden swiveled his head and sneered, "If you hadn't thrown out the vase, why would I end up going to the Thatchers'?"

"How dare you talk back at me, you useless trash!" When he mentioned that she was the one who started all this, embarrassment washed over her, and she huffed, "What have you done since you moved in three years ago? I have absolutely no idea what's on your mind, and I would have just disappeared from here if I were you! I really wonder what you told Ronald back then that he allowed you to marry Angelina, and now, my daughter is suffering because of you!"

Within seconds she had hurled a bunch of insults at him.

"Is that why you tried time and time again to have us divorced?" he sneered. "I can't believe that a mother wants her daughter to divorce so badly!"

"That's enough! Stop arguing, both of you!" Angelina said sharply, and not another peep came from them.

"What are you holding in your hand?" she asked, seeing the medical license in his hand.

However, he didn't answer her and merely retorted, "How does this concern you? Am I not just a useless bum in your eyes?"

Then, he ignored the women and went upstairs without another word. Angelina furrowed her brows tightly as she couldn't remember him speaking in this manner to her before, and Linda took the opportunity to snarl, "I told you that a useless bum would stay a useless bum! Do you expect him to make a name for himself one day? Dream on! I don't know how he could still remain in this house so shamelessly!"

In front of his bedroom door, Aiden heard every word she said, and a fire of fury ignited in his heart. In the last three years, his own mother-in-law had never liked him. Not only did she always blame and scold him for things he didn't do, but she also kept devising ways to have Angelina divorce him.

Meanwhile, Angelina was snapped out of her daze by Linda's words.

"Mom, you're the one who started everything by going into his room without permission and even throwing away his stuff! We're lucky that everything is okay now because he settled the matter. But you could at least show a modicum of gratefulness!" she pointed out with displeasure.

"Grateful? Why should I be grateful to him? If he hadn't bought that junk, none of this would have happened!" Linda snapped.

Angelina didn't want to continue arguing with Linda anymore; she had asked for a day's leave because of this, and it would leave another hold on her for Kevin as the company was swamped.

While she was thinking about this, her cell phone started ringing, and it turned out to be a call from the company asking her to attend a meeting.

She took a glance at the tightly shut door and shook her head before turning around to leave for work.

At the company conference room, she saw that it was already filled with people and wondered, What the hell was going on?

When everyone had gathered, Mason cleared his throat and began, "I requested everyone's presence here today because of the contract with Avirax Medicare. As you all know, we're a company that distributes beauty products and herbs. If we succeed in signing a contract with Avirax to be their supplier, we'll definitely make it to the top ten biggest companies in Keyland in the next three years! I'll promote anyone courageous enough to take this project and strike the deal to the head of a new department!"

"A new department? When did we establish a new department?"

When Kevin caught his father looking in his direction, he quickly looked the other way and thought, Only an idiot will sign up for such a tough job!

When Angelina heard his suggestion, she felt her anger at him flare up as she maintained her composure. Whenever there's something to gain, he'll fight tooth and nail to get it, but he'll toss it at me whenever there's a difficult situation.