Chapter 52
Raymond looked at Cassandra in panic, as if he wanted to find a trace of lying in her tone and gaze. However, Cassandra’s eyes were calm and honest.
‘It’s impossible. Mom and Jace wouldn’t do that to me. She must be lying!” he thought.
“Do you think I will believe you?”
Cassandra shrugged and said, “Believe it or not, you can ask the doctor who admitted you that night. He was probably pissed off with Jace.”
Cassandra was about to leave. Hugo was still waiting for her outside.
Raymond hurriedly grabbed Cassandra and said, “Speak clearly!”
“Ah!” he screamed in pain as Cassandra broke his only intact left arm. “Cassandra, you bitch! Let go of me!”
Raymond’s screams drew the attention of the students about to go for meals.
“If you can’t put your arms where they should be, I don’t mind helping you!”
He kept going there to cause trouble for her. She had to take action. Otherwise, he would treat her as a pushover.
“If your mouth continues to spout nonsense, I can rinse it for you free of charge. So that’s the Yates family’s so–called upbringing all along. I really couldn’t appreciate it!”
She let go of Raymond’s arm, which had been broken by her.
“H–How dare you break my arm!”
He exclaimed inwardly, ‘It hurts! Is my left arm broken, too? No! It’s impossible! How strong can Cassandra be? She can’t possibly hurt my left arm! But I can’t lift my arm. It hurts so much!”
“Cassandra, you’re so cruel! How could
you break my arm!”
“I can be crueler. If you continue to harass me, I don’t mind breaking your legs and leaving you in bed for the rest of your life!”
She continued, “Instead of making trouble for your savior here, why don’t you go back and ask Yulissa why she left you without looking back and took her time to bring your two brothers to find you at three o’clock in the morning? What’s the use?”
“The doctor could have saved your arm, but Mom is so self–righteous that she thinks Jace is a miracle doctor who can cure you even with a delay. And now, you can only bear
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the consequences yourself. Look, do they feel guilty?”
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“Mom only cares about taking Yulissa to socialize and have fun. She can take care of her mood, but she won’t take care of you. You are their youngest son. They won’t spend 1.76 billion dollars on medicine or 4 billion dollars on a miracle doctor for you. How pathetic you are!”
Cassandra’s tone was full of ridicule and contempt.
After Raymond heard her words, his face turned pale, and he stepped back.
Meanwhile, Yulissa came out and happened to see that scene.
“Ray, what’s wrong with you? Are you all right?” She quickly supported Raymond.
“Well, don’t touch his arm. If he is injured again, he will really become disabled,” Cassandra reminded sarcastically.
However, Yulissa didn’t believe her and grabbed Raymond’s hanging left arm directly.
“Ah!” Raymond fainted from the pain. Before he fainted, he only thought, ‘My arm is really disabled. My dream…‘
Cassandra watched all that and snorted coldly. Then, she turned around and went to the school gate to get her lunch.
She thought, ‘What is that called? A wicked person will be harassed by another of like ilk. Even if I don’t punish him, someone else will! His arms were destroyed by the people closest to him! His expression must be interesting when he wakes up. What a pity! I won’t get to see it.’
In the afternoon, Yulissa asked for leave.
Because Raymond fainted on campus, she sent him to the hospital. At that moment, she couldn’t leave. She had made Benjamin and Leonardo angry and could anger Raymond even more.
When Miranda and Jasper came, Raymond’s broken arm had been connected. However, due to a second injury, the bone was broken and inserted into the flesh. It took the doctor a lot of effort to realign the bones and fit the plaster cast.
From then on, Raymond wouldn’t be able to move his left arm for at least three months.
When Raymond woke up, they were all there. Yulissa pretended to blame herself, saying, “Ray, I’m sorry. It was all my fault. If it wasn’t for Cassandra’s hatred of me…”
“Shut up!” Raymond shouted. He didn’t want to hear it.
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“Ray…” Yulissa thought. What’s going on? Why did Ray treat me like that? Did Cassandra say something to him?”
Raymond looked at Miranda and Jasper with mockery in his heart. He subconsciously felt that Cassandra was telling the truth because he knew how proud Jasper and
Miranda were.
“Jace. I want to ask you why I would miss the best treatment timing when my right , arm’s injury was not serious at that time?”
Jasper was stunned, with panic in his eyes. When Raymond looked at Miranda, he also noticed her eyes were evasive.
Raymond thought. ‘Heh… It seems to be true. Because of their self–righteousness, my arm missed the best time for treatment. Now, my left arm was also broken because of a second injury caused by Yulissa. I’m a useless person now! What an irony!‘
“When you asked the doctor to wait, have you ever considered that I couldn’t wait? Why can’t you buy 100 pills or the medicines sold at a public auction? After all, you were unwilling to spend the money, weren’t you?”
“You are willing to buy something worth 200 million dollars for Yulissa, but you won’t buy me medicine. It is my arm. If I am not treated, it will be wasted forever. Have you ever considered that?”
Only then did Raymond realize that it was not the most despairing thing to lose his arm but to have it destroyed at the hands of his family.
“Ray, did Cassandra tell you something? You have to believe us. We won’t harm you…” Yulissa quickly explained and blamed Cassandra for Raymond’s abnormality.
Raymond looked at her sternly and said, “And you! When you helped me, Cassandra reminded you not to touch my arm, or it will be injured again. Why did you pull my arm? Are you guys trying to ruin me?”
At the age of 20 years old, it was the time when a.man was young and vigorous. However, his right arm was disabled, and his left arm could not move for three months. He would have problems eating, sleeping, and bathing.
He exclaimed inwardly, ‘Why did they do this to me? Why?‘
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