Elisa was almost about to fall to the floor when she fell into a strong, warm, and familiar embrace instead.
"Are you alright?"
Elisa nodded. She had no energy to struggle.
"Let's get your wounds dealt with."
Gareth's voice rang above her head. Elisa nodded. She didn't have any strength to speak.
Gareth carried Elisa and was about to leave.
Jocelyn stopped them.
"You can't leave. How is Will? I will never let you go if anything happens to him. Get down! You can't leave if you don't explain things to me."
She wanted to grab Elisa as she spoke, but Gareth avoided her.
He tilted his head, and the security guards at the side immediately understood what he meant. They held Jocelyn back at each side.
Jocelyn couldn't break free, so she started hurling abuse.
"I knew you were incompetent and making a fool of yourself. Even if you wanted to play pretend, why did it have to be at the price of a life?! I'll watch how you explain it if the Darcey family finds out. And Gareth…"
Gareth had walked far away while carrying Elisa. Jocelyn's voice vanished before it reached him.
Jocelyn continued to berate them. Just as the bodyguards were about to throw her out of the hospital, Will was wheeled out.
The doctor who had asked Jocelyn to sign her name was excited. "The operation was successful! The patient kept his leg, but he's still in critical condition. He has to be observed in the ICU for some time."
Jocelyn's suspended heart calmed down.
She completely forgot that the credit went to Elisa. She also forgot how she had just berated Elisa.
She just felt that Elisa was lucky and wasn't very skillful.
Therefore, when Marsha, Will's mom, heard the news and rushed to the hospital, Jocelyn exaggerated the events. "Mrs. Darcey, Will got into an accident because he was driving Elisa. He was severely injured because he was protecting Elisa all the way!"
Malice streaked across Jocelyn's eyes when she mentioned Elisa.
She had tried her best, and their parents had tried to play matchmaker between her and Will at all costs. Still, he had never spent time with Jocelyn or treated her like how he treated Elisa.
Therefore, Jocelyn was jealous.
She was so envious that she wanted to be the one Will had protected in the accident.
The accident Will and Elisa were in was classified as a major accident, so the media reported it.
Hence, Elisa was cursed at and trended on Twitter.
With such major news where her son was the victim, Mrs. Darcey had naturally heard about it. She didn't need Jocelyn to inform her about it.
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