"Stop laughing! She's your nurse? How dare her say those words? I was so wrong about her. What
was I thinking, wanting her to stay here?"
Edwin was infuriated.
Before Nicole could speak, Cara said, "What wanted to stay here? You crazy old man."
"Alright. Cara, he doesn't mean it. He just wants you to stay and take care of him as a nurse. You must
have misunderstood what he said."
Nicole immediately chimed in.
If she hadn't butted in, Edwin would have been more irritated because of what Cara would say.
Cara knew she had misunderstood, but she couldn't just apologize. "Mrs. Green, you are too
kindhearted. It is hard to say he meant it or not. You don't have to explain. He doesn't look like a good
guy at all."
Edwin really wanted to have his men throw this little girl out of the place.
Noticing that Edwin was really angry, Nicole uttered that, "Cara, stop talking nonsense. He is my
grandfather. I'm not kidding."
"Really?"
Cara was stunned at once.
"I didn't expect a grandfather would have his granddaughter back in this way."
"None of your business! I like it in this way."
Edwin acted like a child. He just turned around and said to the people beside him, "Tell that girl to sleep
on the floor at night. I don't like her." Then he went away.
Nicole laughed again, but Cara was not in that mood.
"Mrs. Green, please help me. I didn't know he was your grandfather. I thought he was just someone
you know."
"It's fine. I'll let you sleep on the bed."
Nicole held Cara's hand and followed behind Edwin.
Cara suddenly remembered something and asked Nicole, "Mrs. Green, if he is your grandfather, he
wouldn't treat Laurence like that. What if Laurence goes back and sends the wrong message?"
Nicole wanted to say that it was okay, but she thought of what Edwin said to her and said in a low
voice, "Although he is my grandfather, he is bad-tempered. He has confined my mother so that I could
persuade Samuel into doing something for him. You just stand by and watch. Don't get involved in this.
I am waiting for Samuel to come. I alone am no match for him."
"What?"
Cara was completely confused now.
What exactly was going on?
However, Nicole was composed, so Cara stopped asking questions. She followed behind Nicole with
caution.
Nicole took Cara to her mother's room, but the old man refused to let Cara in. He insisted that Cara
should sleep on the floor of the corridor outside.
Nicole felt that Edwin was so stubborn. She spent a long time in pacifying the irate old man. Then
Nicole arranged a guest room next to Audrey's for Cara.
Cara didn't dare to say anything anymore. She went in the room as Nicole had said to her. But she was
really nervous and kept vigilant, for she was afraid that Nicole would get hurt.
Yet Nicole did not care about that. Stepping into Audrey's room, she looked at the room layout and
decoration. She missed her mother all of a sudden.
On the bedside table, there's a photo of Audrey, in which, she looked young with a sweet smile. It
should be taken at school.
Nicole took the photo and watched at it for long. What Edwin had said kept haunting her.
He had said that Audrey was confined in a small town in Bordeaux, in Morgan's company. But why her?
Morgan had been treating Adela in the Miller's back then, but then was missing for no reason. Before
her disappearance, she had found Nicole and expressed that she wanted Nicole to accept the Miller's
requirements. "Who had asked her to say that to me? Laurel or Edwin?" Nicole thought.
Edwin had said that all these were a trap which could led to the person behind Laurel. However, it had
taken years for Laurel to set up this trap. It was hard to believe that Edwin had also waited for so many
years. Did he know all these? Had he stood by and done nothing for all these years?
Nicole found it mind-boggling.
Could she trust Edwin?
An old man who told her he was her grandfather the first time he met her?
Nicole did not know.
For the first time, she was confused. But she was not worried because she believed that Samuel would
come.
No matter who Edwin was and what was he up to, Samuel would come as soon as Laurence went
back.
Samuel was waiting in the hospital with great anxiety.
The plasma was sent in the theatre in bags, but the operation still was not over.
Samuel was shocked when Olivia called from the airport and asked him if Nicole was home.
Nicole had been missing Olivia so much. She should have gone to the airport. What's wrong? If she
was not there, was she at home? Was it because of the pregnancy that she acted cautiously?
Samuel called home, but no one answered. He called Laurence again, and the signal was blocked.
He somewhat felt worried.
Not until Samuel found Cara was out of touch, had he knew something happened to Nicole.
Nevertheless, he called Nicole on her phone. It was the same, no one answered. His face darkened.
How could there be someone provoked Samuel in the Seapolis City. He thought he might show too
much mercy to all these days.
Samuel called his people. All of a sudden, the city streets fell into the traffic congestion. All of the cars
and people came out.
When the nurse took another bag of plasma in the theatre, Samuel stopped her.
"Tell me what's going on. When will the operation end? You've already took dozens of bags of plasma
in. Don't tell me that Jacob lost all his blood. And I could tell that what you brought in were not of a
same type. At least three bags of the four were the same blood type. What do you take Jacob for?"
The nurse didn't expect Samuel to be that careful and didn't know how to answer.
"I..."
"You'd better tell me the truth. Otherwise I'll let all that blood you took in flow into your body."
The nurse was so scared that her face turned pale.
"Mr. Green, I just do as the doctor said. I don't know anything."
"Then let's go and see the doctor."
Nicole's disappearance irritated Samuel.
He grabbed the nurse's wrist and pulled her into the operating theatre.
When they came in, the doctor was holding his phone and scanning through the news. The other
nurses were also sitting there and playing with their mobile phones. Jacob, supposed to undergo an
operation, was lying on the bed with an oxygen tube inserted. His head had been bandaged.
When he saw all of this, Samuel went apes at once.
"You'd better tell me what's going on. Or I'll have your hospital shut down immediately!"
Confronting Samuel who was in fury, the doctor was so scared that his phone dropped from his hand.
"Mr. Green, we're just doing what we're told."
"Who told you to do this?"
Samuel looks horrible and all the nurses didn't dare to say a word.
"I can't say. Or I'll lose my job, Mr. Green," answered the doctor.
"It will be the same even if you don't tell me. I'll give you three seconds. If you don't say it to me, you
will be fired immediately!"
Up against the intimidating look of Samuel, the doctor trembled in fright.
"Mr. Green, I'm not someone influential. I'm just a doctor, I..."
"What happened to Jacob?"
Although he guessed that Jacob was fine, at this moment, Samuel still asked just in case.
The doctor said, "Mr. Brown is fine. He just has some injuries on his head and lost blood. There are no
other problems. He just needs to have a rest."
"Take care of him."
Then Samuel walked out of the room.
The doctor and the nurses were all scared to death. Though Samuel left, they were worried a lot about
whether they would be fired.
"Mr. Hunter, are we going to be alright?"
"Who knows? The director told us to do this. What else could we do? Life is hard. I'm just a doctor. We
should stay away from these influential people. It's too scary."
As the doctor mumbled, he still looked at Jacob's injuries with carefulness. Since the director didn't give
the next order, they didn't know if they should transfer Jacob to the ward.
After Samuel walked out of the operating theatre, he took out his phone and called Blair.
"Help me find out those who can order the director of the central hospital."
"What's the matter?"
Hearing Samuel's angry tone, Blair couldn't help but ask.
"Nicole is gone. Jacob just had a car accident. Bella and Cornell are released on bail. I don't think all
these are coincidental. Help me check on the person behind."
Samuel was sensitive, so he thought more than ordinary people.
After hanging up the phone, Blair started to search. It didn't took long to get the name list. However,
Blair hesitated to tell Samuel when she saw the name.
He called Samuel.
"What do you want me to do?"
"No mercy on him."
After Nicole had disappeared, Samuel felt so upset. No matter who he was, he wouldn't let him go.
However, Blair said with worries, "I'm afraid you can't do it to him."
"Stop beating around the bush and tell me who it is. I know what I'm going to do. If you are my friend,
don't stop me. I am a man, I should protect my wife."
Samuel was annoyed.
Blair understood why he was so angry. He sighed, "Edwin, he's in the military compound. He has
retired, but his students are still in the charge. As long as he gives the order, not to mention you, I'll
also be killed."
"Are you afraid? I won't tell him that you gave me the message."
"Naïve. Do you think Edwin is stupid? If it weren't me, who else would? Everyone knows I am your
friend. Samuel, don't be so impulsive. Before you move, have a second thought. Perhaps he has his
difficulties. Plus he is also Nicole's grandfather. I don't think he will hurt her. Maybe he just wants to see
his granddaughter."
Samuel sneered, "That's why he had the signal blocked? Well, I'll ask it myself."
Samuel hung up the phone and said to his men beside him, "Everyone, listen carefully. Get in the car
and head for military compound! Don't stop when you see the guards. Just barge in!"
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