Carter was about to speak with Jeremy when he heard the sudden scream from the maid upstairs.
Just as he turned around, he also heard a loud crash coming from the stairs as if something heavy was rolling down the stairs.
When he lifted his eyes to look closer, he saw that it was Shirley who was falling down the stairs with her wheelchair, and he was stunned.
“Shirley! ” Panicking, Carter rushed over to Shirley who had tumbled down the stairs.
Camille hurried over as well.
Madeline and Jeremy were surprised too. Despite all of the despicable acts Shirley had committed, they did not look coldly from the sidelines.
The maid on the first floor stood as still as a statue as she watched Shirley fell the whole way down the stairs.
Carter had repeatedly told her to properly watch over Shirley, but now that Shirley had fallen down the stairs along with her wheelchair, the maid was
worried that she, too, would soon suffer.
Shirley fell the entire way down to the ground floor. When she lost her balance, the wheelchair ran over her. She felt pain but she did not care anymore.
Carter ran to the bottom of the stairs and squatted down to carry Shirley.
The fall and stumble from the first floor had given Shirley some flesh wounds, but her head suffered the most grievous injury as it had crashed against the metal railing of the stairs.
Carter picked Shirley up, getting ready to run to the hospital.
When Shirley, whose eyes were half-closed from the pain, saw Carter’s panicked countenance, crystal
-clear tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.
“You don’t have to send me to the hospital,” Shirley said with a smile.
Carter stopped abruptly in his tracks. He felt a hot, sticky liquid on the palm of his hand.
As he wondered what it was, Camille suddenly screamed, “Her lower body’s bleeding! Send her to the hospital! Hurry!”
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