Hector took Lucy to the front of the car.
Seeing that Lucy looked distressed and did not say a word, he grabbed her by her shoulders.
"Lucy, you don’t have t o take her words seriously."
"But isn’t she your grandmother? But why..."
Hector took a deep breath, turned around, and leaned against the car door.
"My family’s affairs are very complicated.I didn’t think so before this because I’m a boy, and my grandmother favors sons over daughters and pampered me a lot.
"She had never taught me what's right and what’s wrong.She would do anything for me as long as I wanted that thing, no matter whether it was right or wrong.So much so that I thought she could save me even if I were to get into any huge trouble.
At noon, Heidi called her son and grandson several times, but the phone calls did not get through.
She panicked and hurried out of the ward.
As she was passing by the stairwell, she suddenly heard someone's voice, took a few steps backward, looked into the stairwell, and saw the two relatives standing in the corridor, chatting.
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