"Hey, are you alright?"
Nicole was shocked, but she still asked on humanitarian grounds.
Zama was very weak. She lay on the table for a while before she gasped for breath. She said, "I'm fine.
I just don't have much time."
"What do you want me to do today?"
Nicole didn't know what other people would think. She really didn't want to sympathize with Zama, even
if Zama saved Samuel.
Seeing Nicole's vigilant eyes, Zama smiled, "You've always been on guard against me. Will you vent
your hatred for me only if I'm really dead?"
"I don't hate you, but I don't want to sympathize with you or forgive you. After all, I'm not the Virgin
Mary. I can't sympathize with you since you had hurt me. Although I'm not happy to see your ending, I
do vent my anger."
Nicole did not conceal her attitude towards Zama at all.
Zama felt very upset.
Nicole was her daughter-in-law, though she had always refused to admit it. But now, she was dying.
"You're right. I deserve it. I can't blame anyone but myself. However, Nicole, you still have to yield to
me."
"Why?"
"Don't you feel burning pain in your throat? Do you want to know why?"
What Zama said instantly made Nicole angry.
"Sure enough, you hurt me."
"Sort of. I am a ruthless woman. I have to keep a way open for retreat. I have to fulfill my wish even if
I'm dying."
Zama did not conceal her intentions at all. Nicole was so angry that she really wanted to hit Zama.
"I know what you're thinking. There's no point in hitting me now. You'll just let me die early. If I die, you
and Samuel will die with me."
"What did you say? He is your own son!"
Nicole never imagined that Zama would not change. Zama had been ruthless.
Nicole grabbed Zama's collar and wished she could kill Zama with a punch.
"My son? Has he ever seen me as his mother?" Zama said indifferently. "I'm dying, but he's still lying
there and can't come to see me one more time. He is not my son."
"You deserve it. If you weren't too ruthless, you wouldn't end up like that."
"Nicole, I treated you well during the first three years of your marriage, didn't I?"
Zama suddenly spoke.
Nicole sneered, "Your kindness to me is to conceal your evil. What's the point talking about it now?"
"There is no point. But in the first three years, I did want to be Samuel's mother. Regardless of that I
had been drugging you, I did treat you well, right?"
"Zama, what do you want to explain? No matter what you did or said, you can't deny that you are a
ruthless woman."
Nicole didn't know why Zama was so malicious. She just wanted to know how Samuel was.
"What exactly did you do to Samuel?"
Looking at Nicole's anxious looking, Zama suddenly smiled in relief.
"I have done too much evil in my life. Fortunately, the heavens have treated my son well and let him
meet you. Even though you have experienced so many things, you still treat him well. This is his
fortune. I did nothing to him. I just had a small request, so I drugged him. As long as you agree to my
request, I will cure him. Otherwise, if I die, no one will be able to cure him. You know that. "
"You are despicable! What exactly do you want?"
Nicole was frightened.
Zama forced a smiled, "I want to meet my grandchildren."
"Don't even think about it."
Nicole directly refused.
She was forced to let Zama meet Samuel. Zama could even hurt her son, so Nicole did not dare to let
Zama meet the children.
Moreover, Zama had no right to meet Lucas and Zoe.
Zama was not surprised by Nicole's rejection.
She reached out to brush her hair and said, "Then you'll bury me as well as Samuel."
"You..."
Nicole was once again threatened to the point of helplessness.
She had no choice, because Samuel was her soft spot.
She could ignore her own life, but she had to care about Samuel's life.
Nicole gritted her teeth and glared at Zama, but Zama did not compromise at all.
"I'm dying. I just want to see my grandchildren. Why can't agree to my small request? You are the
kindest, aren't you?"
"I won't show you my kindness. Besides, I don't know what you will do to them. Now you remember
that they are your grandchildren. But you didn't show any mercy when you hurt them. So how can I
believe you?"
"You don't have to bring them in front of me, just let me see them on a video call. Are you going to
refuse such a simple request?"
"Yes, I refuse!"
Nicole got up and left.
Zama was shocked that Nicole refused her. She was anxious and she wanted to stop Nicole. However,
blood rushed into her throat so she choked and coughed.
Nicole came out the prison. She trembled with anger.
When Nicole returned to the hotel, Gabrielle saw the former's sullen face. Gabrielle asked, "What's
wrong?"
"Zama's is too hateful. She actually harms Samuel again to threaten me."
"What?"
Gabrielle looked at Blair in shock.
Blair frowned and said, "I've checked all the prescriptions and the acupoints she needled. She didn't
have the chance to harm Samuel."
"She poisoned Samuel. Her poison is very powerful. Have you all forgotten? She is vicious. Samuel is
her own son. Why is she still so vicious even if she is dying?"
Nicole was furious.
Gabrielle patted her shoulder and said, "Don't be anxious. She must have a motive. What does she
want to do?"
"She wants to meet Lucas and Zoe."
"What?"
Blair frowned.
However, Gabrielle said in a low voice, "That's understandable. No matter how bad a person was, he
would like see her own relatives on his deathbed. Zama had never been with her relatives in her entire
life and had done so many harmful things. Now that she was about to die, it was normal for her to want
to see her children and grandchildren."
"But she shouldn't have threatened me with Samuel."
"Nicole, you've compromised, haven't you? Otherwise, you wouldn't be so angry. Actually, you're losing
nothing. After all, they are Zama's biological grandchildren."
Nicole was dumbfounded.
Yeah, she lost it from the start.
She could not afford to gamble.
She could not afford to bet on Samuel.
But being threatened upset her very much.
"Alright, since you've made your decision, go ahead. We don't know what Zama did to Samuel, but
none of us can afford to take this risk, right? Normally speaking, she won't do anything to Samuel now.
No one can read Zama's mind"
Nicole nodded and calmed down.
"I'll go contact Lucas and Zoe."
"OK."
When Nicole came to her room and took out her phone to make a video call with Lucas, she was a little
nervous. She didn't know how to tell the children about this.
Lucas immediately answered the phone.
"Mommy, you finally call me. I thought that you and Samuel forgot us since you were having fun."
Lucas teased Nicole.
Lucas was sitting on the hospital bed eating watermelon while Zoe was eating egg tarts. Joseph was
peeling lychees for Zoe.
The three children didn't get any worse because of Nicole and Samuel's departure.
"Mommy, when are you coming back?"
Zoe's mouth was full of egg tarts, but she was reluctant to put them down. She looked at Nicole and
asked, "Where's Daddy? I miss him. You came out for fun without me. I don't want to talk to you
anymore."
She pouted as if Nicole owed her a lot of money.
Nicole suddenly laughed.
She realized that no matter where she was or what she had experienced, as long as she saw the
children, she would be happy and able to deal with troubles.
"I apologize."
As soon as Nicole finished speaking, Lucas frowned.
"Mommy, your voice...."
"I can speak."
Joseph looked up at Nicole in surprise.
"Mommy?"
"Joseph, don't worry. I am fine."
What Nicole said moved Joseph and his eyes grew moist.
Joseph bit his lower lip and said nothing. Lucas smiled. Zoe looked at them in confusion and asked,
"What happened to you? Mommy, did you catch a cold? Why does your voice sound strange?"
"Yes, I got a cold. I'll be fine in a few days. Don't worry about me."
"I'm not worried about you. I want to see Daddy. Where's Daddy?"
Zoe pouted and asked to see Samuel.
Nicole felt upset again, but she smiled, "Your daddy is asleep. He's too tired. He'll make a video call
with you latter, OK"
"You say that every time you call me. Mommy, don't you want me to see Daddy?"
Zoe was very unhappy.
Nicole was nervous and she hurriedly said, "I want you see him. But he is too tired. Your daddy is really
sleeping. If you don't believe me, let me show you."
"I don't want to hear it. You're stopping me from seeing Daddy! You are bad! I don't like you anymore!"
After saying that, Zoe turned around and didn't want to talk with Nicole anymore. She seemed to be
very angry.
After hiding it for so long, Nicole never felt tired, but not she was upset because of what Zoe said. For
some reason, she shed tears. Although she tried her best to hold back her tears, Lucas and Joseph
saw them.
"Mommy, don't be sad. Zoe is still young and ignorant."
Joseph comforted Nicole. Lucas narrowed his eyes in confused.
Lucas thought, 'Mommy seemed to say that Daddy was in someone's house last time.'
'When did Samuel become so weak?'
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