After arriving at the Orapolis General Hospital, the driver parked the car and Kendall immediately opened the door and got out of the vehicle.
"Young Mistress Kendall, do I need to wait for you?" Henry asked.
Kendall replied without thinking, "There's no need, so you can leave now."
Since her mother was hospitalized, she had to stay in the hospital to care for the older woman. In addition, Kendall had already asked Dylan for leave.
Hence, Henry hummed in response.
She turned around and walked toward the hospital while looking for her cell phone as she wanted to call Nelson. However, she was so distracted that she bumped into Frank Mendelson coming from the inpatient department.
He was surrounded by bodyguards with a cold expression and hurriedly walked as if he was busy.
Upon bumping into Frank, his bodyguards stepped forward and pushed Kendall away before he could react.
It was so sudden that Kendall lost her balance and fell down while frantically reaching out to grab a strap. As if she had found her lifeline, she tightly pulled at the strap.
She could finally regain her balance with the help of the strap, but by the time she came to her senses, she met a handsome but dark face.
She blinked.
Kendall felt familiar with the face and the alluring eyes, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before.
On the other hand, Frank was thoroughly irritated. The woman had tightly grabbed his necktie and almost strangled him in public.
However, when he saw the face of the woman before him, his expression changed. He quickly grabbed Kendall's collar and pulled her closer to stare at her.
Kendall was confused at that. "What's the matter?"
The man gave her a hard pinch on her cheek the next moment.
As she felt the pain, she raised her hand and slapped Frank's hand away. After that, she also pinched his face hard. How dare you pinch me! You're not Dylan, so you can't do this to me!
Frank whispered, "It's real; I'm not dreaming."
Dreaming? Kendall quickly stepped back and looked at Frank defensively, thereafter asking with caution, "What do you want?"
His gaze fell on her stomach.
A confused Kendall followed his gaze. Is there anything on my stomach? I'm not fat and don't have a pot belly. So, why is he looking at my stomach?
"Where's the baby?"
Baby?! Kendall was shocked to hear that. As she thought of a possibility, she looked at Frank in disbelief. He said that he's not dreaming and I'm real. Then, he looked at my stomach and asked about my baby. Is he the one that took my virginity in the past life?
"Kendall?"
Nelson just came out from the hospital to wait for Kendall. However, he didn't expect that she had already arrived.
"Nell."
When Kendall saw the person she regarded as her brother, she treated him as her savior. Then, she quickly walked past the group of people and ran to him
Nelson looked at his sister's pale face, then at Frank's group. "Kendall, what happened? Did they do something bad to you?"
He clenched his fists while asking her. If Kendall confirmed his suspicion, he would immediately head over to avenge his sister.
She took Nelson's arm to drag him away. Then, she responded, "I'm alright. They didn't do anything to me. It was me who walked too fast and bumped into them. I was panicked to see such a large group, that's all."
Nelson doubted it.
After all, Kendall was not a coward. She had learned taekwondo and sanda, so she could handle a few men together. She was daring as she knew martial arts, which was why it was impossible for her to be this scared after bumping into them.
"Nell, how's Mom? Where did she get hit?" Kendall changed the subject and did not allow him to ask further questions.
Her mind was a mess.
In the past life, she thought that the baby was Jackson's daughter. When she found out about the truth, the baby was dying. The both of them died without knowing who the baby's birth father was.
After rebirth, Kendall would still be in pain when she thought about her daughter. Her hatred against Kelly and Jackson only grew deeper. However, she knew that she couldn't rival them just yet. God knew how hard she endured and controlled her hatred.
Kendall never thought of finding the baby's birth father. It was because she was reborn.
In this life, she didn't walk into a trap and fell pregnant out of wedlock, so she could avoid the tragic death of the mother and daughter.
"Mom missed Kelly and secretly went into the city without telling us to meet with Kelly. However, Mom was unfamiliar with the city, so she lost her phone and got into a car accident. She is seriously injured. Fortunately, she went to the hospital and performed an operation in time. The doctor says she has passed the critical stage."
"She wants to meet Kelly?" Kendall was surprised at first but quickly calmed down.
Even though Kelly was not returning to the Woods Family, she couldn't erase the fact that she was the Woods Family's birth daughter.
It is understandable for my adoptive parents to want to meet their birth daughter. "If Mom wants to meet Kelly, she can just tell me. I can pick her up and let her meet Kelly daily. There's no need to be secretive."
After being silent for a while, Nelson said, "Mom doesn't want to disturb your life, and your birth mother doesn't want us to meet you often."
"Kelly is reluctant to see us too, so Mom decided to secretly meet her. However, she got hit by a car instead. Now, she is chanting Kelly's name while lying on the hospital bed. I couldn't bear to see that, so I sought Kelly out."
While walking, Kendall asked, "So, is Kelly in the ward now?"
In Kendall's opinion, Kelly would definitely visit her seriously injured biological mother despite not returning to the Woods Family.
"She doesn't want to meet us, so she definitely won't be in the ward," he mocked as it was obvious that he disliked Kelly.
He then told Kendall what happened when he met Kelly.
"She's so cruel!"
Kelly didn't even bother to meet her birth mother, even if her mother was in a car accident.
Recalling that Kendall's adoptive parents died under Kelly's trap in the previous life, she thought this was Kelly's true nature. She was willing to kill her adoptive parents, who never even mistreated her.
So, she wouldn't care about her birth mother whom she had never met.
"Kendall, please don't tell Mom about this when you visit her. You can tell her that Kelly is on a business trip, so she's not in Orapolis. I don't want her to be sad and delay her recovery," Nelson advised Kendall to tell a white lie.
And so, she obliged with sadness.
The woman she regarded as her own mother was despised by Kelly.
At that point, Kendall's resentment toward Kelly had deepened. When the siblings returned to the ward, they saw Kelly walking from the other side.
She also brought Cameron, who was holding a bouquet of flowers and a fruit basket too.
The fruit basket was heavy, so Cameron struggled to lift it. Despite that, Kelly didn't help and instead asked Cameron to walk with the bouquet and basket while following her.
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