James continued to tease Stan.
"The chicken blood was fresh and it was quite difficult to get my hands on it. Don't you see how shocked the cops were when they saw you? They looked so sure you wouldn't make it."
"You're the one who won't make it! If I knew I'd be given this crap once I came back, I wouldn't have bothered!" Stan snapped as he strode off toward the shower in his ward.
Thank goodness there was one in his room—he could not stand the stink latching onto his body!
James smiled and left before returning with a medical record.
Stan was done with his shower then, drying his hair and watching James. "What's that you're holding?"
James passed it to him. "Take a look. It's your medical record."
Stan shot James a look. "Why do I have a bad feeling about this?"
"Your feeling is wrong. You get to enjoy yourself fully the next few days," James sat by his bed and rested his legs on them.
Stan nervously opened the medical record, to find the terms: rib fracture, kidney bleeding, cartilage dislocation, ankle sprain…
Frowning, he asked, "Are you people messing with me?!"
He felt repulsed just from looking!
"We can't get him locked up if it's not serious," James said, walking up to Stan and clapping him on the shoulder. "Just live it for the next few days, and it's a nice dinner for me when you're done. You deserve it."
While Stan was left speechless, James continued, "Oh, and don't leave the hospital. Stay inside your ward and leave the rest to me."
Stan nodded. "Fine."
With that, James left the ward.
…
Over at the detention center, Neil was shouting the instant he saw Stan's 'case file'!
"He set me up! I never hit him that hard. It was staged!"
"This medical record is from the hospital. How did he stage that?" the officer interrogating him asked.
Neil was stumped and he soon became quiet.
Still, an idea struck him and he came to a realization.
It was payback for suing Irene and stubbornly keeping the case!
"May I contact my family?" he asked.
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