Chapter 516 Put the Blame on Catherine
Catherine was still playing a game online with Ronin and a few others when she got the news.
She threw down the gamepad and rushed to the hospital as soon as possible.
Outside the operating room, Audrey, Liana, and Rachael had already arrived. They all stood at the door of the operating room with a solemn expression.
Catherine walked from the intersection toward the depths of the corridor. Her pace was slow. She looked so calm that one could not tell what mood she was in.
Her footsteps echoed, and everyone turned around.
Seeing Catherine appear, Rachael’s eyes were immediately filled with anger.
She sprinted forward and rushed toward Catherine.
Audrey’s movements were faster. She stepped in front of Catherine quickly, separating Catherine and Rachael.
Seeing Audrey in front of Catherine, Rachael stopped in her tracks.
She looked at Audrey with a fierce look in her eyes and snarled, “You’re still defending Catherine. If it weren’t for her, how could your Dad be lying inside the operating room now? He’s almost dead.”
After yelling at Audrey, Rachael snapped her head back up to glare at Catherine.
“You jinx, you are really a jinx and a disaster to us. We haven’t had a good time since the moment you came back. Your Dad is almost killed by you now!”
These words were even more vicious than curses, and even Audrey could not bear to listen to them.
This was not something a mother should say at all.
When Audrey was about to stop Rachael, she heard Catherine, who was behind her, snort coldly and say mockingly, “Didn’t you break off all relations with me since I was a kid?
“What? It’s on me now?”
Catherine’s sarcasm infuriated Rachael so much that she gasped for breath. Rachael’s face flushed, and she could barely speak.
Liana was on the side, rushing up to appease Rachael.
“Mom, don’t be angry. It’s not worth getting angry for such people!”
After saying that, Liana turned her gaze at Catherine angrily.
“How cold-blooded are you? The one lying inside the operating room in resuscitation is our father, and you have the mood to argue with our mother here now. Do you still have some conscience?”
Audrey felt that her mother, Rachael, should not talk like that. However, considering that Rachael was worried about their father, Audrey did not want Catherine to start a conflict with their mother at this time.
“Kathy, why don’t we just forget about it? Let’s go out and rest for a while!”
Catherine ignored Audrey’s persuasion as her gaze fell faintly on Liana.
When Catherine and Liana’s eyes met, Liana averted her eyes subconsciously.
She did not dare to look into Catherine’s eyes.
“Cold-blooded? Haha, it’s so funny. What qualifications do you have to say the word ‘cold-blooded’ to me?”
She thought in her heart, “If Liana were me back then, would she still be as calm as she is now?
“Never advise others to be kind if one has not experienced the pain of others!”
Her mockery made Liana unable to answer.
The atmosphere was at once in an awkward state. It was as if everything was on the verge of exploding.
The opening of the operating room door broke the awkward scene at hand.
The crowd rushed over to the operating room. The attending doctor had just finished his surgery and did not even have time to take off his gloves before they surrounded him.
“Doctor, how is my husband’s condition?”
The doctor had served the Swanns for many years and was Vicente’s exclusive doctor. So, he naturally knew Rachael.
“Mrs. Swann, Mr. Swann’s condition is not optimistic. Although the congestion in his brain has been cleared, his brain has been deprived of oxygen for too long. Even if he wakes up, it may cause great after-effects. You have to be psychologically prepared!”
Upon hearing the doctor’s words, Rachael fell to the ground instantly, with no light in her eyes.
She relied on the Swanns and her husband for her entire life.
Now, the assets of the Swanns were in Catherine’s hands, and her husband was seriously ill. What hope did she have?
Liana froze when she heard the news.
But her freeze was different from Rachael’s, which Catherine noticed.
It was a while before they finally reacted to the news.
Rachael and Liana once again pointed the finger at Catherine. Ignoring her image of being a noble and gentle lady, Rachael cried and cursed on the side.
Liana, on the other side, stood up and accused Catherine directly.
“You are the main culprit who causes Dad in trouble. If you hadn’t taken the Swann Corporation, how could Dad have fainted?”
After Rachael and Korbin were kicked out of the Swanns’, Catherine had been secretly observing their movements.
Catherine knew they were not homeless but moved to a property in Liana’s name.
That house was not big, but it was more than 1,000 square feet, which was completely more than enough for a family of three.
In Casier, where every inch of land was expensive, many people had not had the chance to live in such a house yet!
After leaving the Swanns’, Korbin had been actively contacting his old friends to find ways to make a comeback.
He seemed even more motivated than he was working at the Swann Corporation. Would someone like that experience a cerebral hemorrhage because of anger?
Catherine thought she really needed to think about the story behind the scenes!
Catherine looked at Liana calmly, with an imperceptible coldness in her eyes.
“Liana, are you sure I pissed him off?”
A flash of panic flashed in Liana’s eyes, but it quickly disappeared. It was a panic that was very hard to detect.
Liana regained her composure at once and looked at Catherine with her neck craned. Her attitude was more dominant than just now.
“Of course, he was pissed off by you. Is there anyone else in the world who drives her parents out of their house and even seizes her parents’ company? Dad is sick because of this. What other excuses do you have?”
Catherine shrugged her shoulders in an indifferent manner. “Anything you say!
She mentally muttered. “You all know what the truth is.”
Liana was secretly relieved to see that Catherine did not dwell on the topic.
Because of Korbin’s condition, Rachael was particularly unhappy with Catherine.
Considering Catherine’s emotions, Audrey decided to take her away first.
After leaving the door, Audrey tried to put in good words for Rachael and Liana.
“Kathy, don’t take Mom’s words to heart. Now that Dad is sick, it’s normal for her to feel bad and say harsh words to you!”
Catherine naturally would not take those to heart. After all, they were not even strangers to her. How could they hurt her with their words?
She glanced at Audrey coldly and said faintly, “You really haven’t learned your lesson at all!”
Hearing this, Audrey instantly froze in place.
Catherine lifted her foot to leave. If Audrey had not called, she would not have come to the hospital at all.
Audrey came back to her senses long after Catherine left.
She understood the meaning of Catherine’s words. She knew that since their father kidnapped her for profit to threaten Catherine, she should have given up on them.
But she and Catherine were different, after all.
Even though their parents had not favored her since she was a child, she was still a child who had grown up beside their parents. How could it be so easy to forget their decades of feelings?
Thinking of their parents’ current situation, Audrey went to settle the medical bill.
Only then did she leave following the direction Catherine had gone.
This was probably all she could do for their parents.
