I asked, "Shelton, what's wrong with you?"
"I sprained my foot." Shelton smiled with a bitter look on his face, "I wonder if there is any medicine for injuries from falls in your house."
There were only some adhesive bandages in my house as well as some medicine for curing headaches and flu.
I shook my head, "No. But I'll buy some for you."
Shelton refused, "I'll go buy it by myself. It's so late."
"But your feet..."
"It doesn't matter. I can walk by limping and hopping."
I couldn't be at ease about seeing Shelton limping to buy the medicine by himself.
Shelton wasn't resting assured about my going out alone at night either.
In the end, the two of us decided to go buy the medicine together.
There was a pharmacy running around the
clock outside the residential quarter.
He and I were walking in the residential quarter. A large part of the road in the residential quarter was covered with cobblestones. Although he walked with some difficulties, he kept a distance from me.
He was afraid that he would bump into me if he stumbled accidentally.
Seeing that he was walkling tremblingly, I went over to hold him.
Shelton looked at me gratefully and said, "Thank you."
The two of us went to the pharmacy to buy some medicine and then went back. As soon as we arrived at the gate of the residential quarter, we heard a scream from the distance!
"Help me. Help!"
The two of us stopped at the same time and looked over, only to see a woman with messy hair running madly toward the entrance of the residential quarter.
When she saw us, she seemed to see hope and ran faster.
As she ran, she continued shouting, "Help!"
Not far away, a few people in black clothes, who seemed to be bodyguards, were chasing after her.
The woman ran to the front of us and raised her head. Then I couldn't help but be stunned.
"Caroline Archer."
It turned out the woman was Caroline Archer!
Caroline was stunned at first when she glanced at me. Then she looked at Shelton beside me.
When she saw Shelton, she wasn't stunned. Instead, dilating her pupils, she seemed to have a frightened look on her face and looked directly at me.
She grabbed my pants ends and said in a pleading tone, "Charlotte, save me! Save me! They're going to kill my baby!"
Soon, several bodyguards caught up with Caroline and wanted to catch her!
Caroline almost crawled behind me, got up, and stood behind me. After that, she threatened them, "No, no! Let me tell you. I am carrying a child for the boss of Towering High Group. No matter who hired you, you won't get away with it after killing my child."
The bodyguards ignored her words and reached out, intending to arrest her!
Caroline grabbed me and begged me, "Charlotte! Charlotte! We are sisters. Please save me."
I said indifferently, "I'm just a wild dog raised
by the Archer Family. I don't deserve to be your sister."
I said indifferently.
Caroline was obviously stunned by what I had said.
Shelton, who was on the side, also looked at me with a complicated look in his eyes.
"Get out of my way. Or we won't be responsible for the accidental injury."
Seeing that we were at the gate of Uint No.1, City Y, the bodyguards dared not to act rashly.
But I didn't care about whether Caroline's child was dead or alive at all.
With a dodge, I exposed Caroline in front of the bodyguards!
It seemed that Caroline had been running all the way here for a long time. Before she could come to her senses, she stumbled and fell to the ground.
The bodyguards went forward to catch her!
She looked at me fiercely, "Charlotte Archer, you are a b*tch! You actually won't help me! Let me tell you. If my child can't be kept, I will turn your child into a malicious ghost, asking him to revenge on you!"
"Even if my child becomes a ghost, you are the one who he should revenge rather than me."
When I said this, I felt that my heart was bleeding.
My child, who had been dead, might be suffering like this.
The bodyguards grabbed Caroline and were about to leave with her. Shelton limped over and grabbed Caroline's arm, saying, "She is my nephew's wife soon. If you want to take her away, I have to ask for my nephew's opinion first."
Then, the staff of the hospital surely would treat her first.
In the end, Caroline got into the ambulance alone. However, it was clear that she didn't want to.
After all, Caroline had been taken care of attentively by her family ever since she was a child. Every time she had a headache or a fever, everyone in her family would attend to her dedicatedly.
Now she was so seriously injured. However, no one cared about her. And she had to go to the hospital alone by ambulance.
She certainly couldn't stand it.
To my surprise, Shelton had no intention of sending her to the hospital at all.
After sending Caroline away, I went back with Shelton.
On the way back, I couldn't help saying, "You saved her, I thought you would send her to the hospital."
Shelton shook his head, "After she reaches the hospital, Patrick surely will go there. It's not good for me to be there instead."
I nodded my head in a daze.
I couldn't help but feel that Shelton was thoughtful and considerate.
Shelton's words did make sense. Someone was going to kill the child in Caroline's belly. How could Patrick, her baby's father, not show up in the hospital?
Three days after that day...
After I went home at night and turned on the TV, I saw a piece of news.
The content of the news was about Archer's Group.
It was reported that there were a lot of loopholes in the funding of Archer's Group and that Archer's Group could be closed down at anytime.
After that, there were several videos showing that reporters went to the office of Archer's Group to do an interview and were stopped outside by the staff.
My heart thumped.
The next day, I arranged my schedule. As soon as I got off my work, I went to Rosy's house.
When I went in, I found that the number of servants at home was obviously much fewer than that I had been here last time.
It seemed that there were fewer things in the house.
When I looked around, I found that the blue-and-white porcelain vase with plum patterns, which was an antique placed beside the TV previously, was gone.
Rosy had attended the auction in person and purchased the plum vase.
She liked the plum vase so much that she had been treating it as if it were a treasure...
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