Nicole actually saw Melissa here!
After what happened to Elvis, she did not recall Melissa at all, nor did she think about where Melissa
had been taken by Elvis and what the consequences would be. Now that she had met her in the
hospital, she was a little curious.
"What are you doing here?"
Nicole directly walked over and asked.
When Melissa saw Nicole, she was a little mad.
"What did you do to Elvis?"
It seemed as if Nicole had cursed her whole family. Her voice was filled with resentment.
The way that Melissa defended Elvis like this made Nicole feel as if she was his biological daughter.
Nicole found this incredibly unfair.
"He has no one to blame for. It's for everyone's good that he cannot harm others any more. He
deserves it."
"Nicole, don't be too complacent! Without Samuel's protection and the Don family's support, you are
nobody."
Melissa said angrily, "If you grew up in an orphanage like me, eating the leftover food of others and
sleeping under the overpass, I don't believe you would have the dignity and elegance as you have
now."
After saying that, Melissa ruthlessly hit Nicole and left.
Nicole almost fell, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she followed Melissa into the hospital.
Melissa walked into a ward.
Nicole suddenly had a bad feeling and followed her in.
She saw Mrs. Bush lying in bed, taking an intravenous drip and kept coughing, while Mr. Bush was
sitting by her, with profuse white hair on his temples. It seemed that he had aged significantly.
"Mom and Dad, I'm back."
Melissa walked over, took out two mangoes from her pocket and handed over.
"I only bought two for Mom because I want them to be fresh. Try them."
Melissa said as she handed the two mangoes to Mrs. Bush.
Mrs. Bush was very happy. She smiled and said, "What a thoughtful girl. You don't have to buy me
mangoes. I have no appetite now. Hurry up and eat them. I know you like mangoes."
As she spoke, she stuffed the mango into Melissa's hands.
Melissa shook her head and said, "I have plenty of opportunities to eat mangoes since I'm still young.
You go ahead. When you finished with the drip, Dad and I will take you away. I've put our house on
sale online. If there's any news, the estate agent will call me. We can still live a good life in a smaller
city. Don't worry, you are my biological parents. Although you lost me when I was young, I will not leave
you behind."
Hearing these words from outside, Nicole was stunned.
Were they leaving the Seapolis City?
Why didn't she know about this?
Moreover, when she was imprisoned by Elvis, did they know about her situation?
Nicole frowned slightly. After thinking for a moment, she knocked on the door and walked in.
"Mom and Dad, what's wrong with you? Why don't you tell me that you are in hospital?"
Nicole's sudden appearance surprised Mr. and Mrs. Bush.
"Nicole? What are you doing here?"
Mr. Bush's expression was somewhat evasive, while Mrs. Bush directly turned around and avoided any
eye contact with Nicole.
"Mom, are you sick?"
Nicole wanted to move forward, but she was stopped by Melissa.
"What are you doing here? Don't pretend to care as if you have nothing to do with it. If it wasn't for you,
would Samuel do this to us?"
"What do you mean? What does it have to do with Samuel?"
Nicole was completely confused.
Mr. Bush hurriedly said, "It's no big deal. We're discussing about moving to a smaller city. The pace of
life there is slower and it is more suitable for retirement. Now that you have Samuel protecting you and
the Don family supporting you, we have nothing to worry about you. Sometimes, it makes you feel
awkward with us around. Why don't we just leave?"
"Dad, what do you mean? When do I feel awkward with you around? What did Samuel say?"
Nicole seemed to understand what Mr. Bush was implying.
What did they mean by saying Nicole was protected by Samuel and Supported by the Don family?
Wasn't it implying that Samuel and the Don family forced them to leave the Seapolis City?
But why did Samuel do it?
Nicole didn't understand.
Melissa snorted coldly again and even pushed Nicole away.
"Stop pretending to be innocent here. Samuel asked us to move away and didn't allow us to see you
again. Otherwise, why would they move to another city at such age? Nicole, you are really a cold-
blooded person. This is how you pay them back for raising you up, isn't it?"
Nicole simply ignored Melissa's accusations. She looked at her mother and asked word by word,
"Mom, Samuel is not an unreasonable man. You should know that he took care of you for five years
even when I was separated from him because of a misunderstanding, right? I'm wondering what
disgusting things you did behind my back, making such a noble son-in-law ask you to leave the
Seapolis City."
Hearing these words, Mr. and Mrs. Bush immediately turned pale.
Meanwhile, Melissa pulled Nicole aside angrily.
"Nicole, what do you mean? You are the ones who bullied us. We're just ordinary people. We don't
have the power to fight against you so we leave. What's the point of coming here to humiliate your
parents? You're such an ungrateful daughter. What exactly do you want from them?"
"Shut up! I'm not talking to you!"
Nicole couldn't bear Melissa's words any more, but her parents still did not say a word. Obviously, they
agreed with what Melissa said.
Being their daughter for so many years, she used to be grateful to them. But now, their behavior
seemed to put a knife deep into Nicole's chest with blood dripping all over.
She knew how much Samuel cared for her, and she also knew that Samuel would not easily hurt the
person she cared about, unless it was the person who hurt her at first.
Nicole was wondering what Mr. and Mrs. Bush done behind her back to make Samuel do such things.
Mrs. Bush was even more afraid to look at Nicole.
Mr. Bush wanted to say something, but in the end, he chose not to.
"Why don't you answer me? Am I still your daughter? Are you going to leave without telling me
anything now? If I'm not here today, will you just leave me a note like last time? Or will you leave
without even a note?"
Melissa was instantly enraged by Nicole's aggressive attitude.
"Why do we have to tell you? Who are you? If you truly care about mom and dad, you won't let Samuel
drive them away. Nicole, I just want to marry a decent man from upper class of the Seapolis City. You
owe me it. Did I do anything wrong? Do you have to let your husband drive you parents away?"
"Tell me the truth. What exactly happened?"
Nicole suddenly turned around and looked straight at Melissa. The persistence and firmness in her
eyes touched Mr. Bush.
"Let it go. What's done is done. It's no big deal. Samuel is not driving us away. It's just we are suffering
here and we need some air outside the city."
"Suffering? Dad, who made you feel suffered? Me or Samuel?"
Nicole felt sad about this word.
Suffering?
Samuel treated them as his biological parents. How was it even possible for them to feel suffered here?
"Nicole, just let it go. Like your father said, it's no big deal for us to leave. Now Melissa is back. Things
are awkward between us. You have your own family and a good life. We don't have to worry about you
anymore. There is little time for us and we owe Melissa too much. So we plan to travel around with her
as compensation. Just leave it."
Mrs. Bush finally said something, but her words made Nicole even sadder.
"Are you going to abandon me?"
She suddenly felt abandoned.
Although Audrey was her biological mother, she had been raised in the Bush family for so many years.
Furthermore, they treated her very well. Who would expect that the loving ones ended up like this?
She felt she was thrown away like a rag.
It was a terrible feeling. Nicole felt a poignant pain inside.
Mrs. Bush didn't dare to look into her eyes. She bit her lips and said, "Yes, we don't need you anymore.
If we had known that you weren't our biological daughter, we wouldn't have tried so hard to look after
you for so many years. Things would be easier if our biological daughter was gone. Now that we find
our biological daughter, but we are unable to do anything for her because it took us a lifetime of effort
and money to raise you up. Originally, we wanted you to help Melissa, but you didn't do anything about
it. Now, you're the richest woman in the Seapolis City. We can't afford to offend you but we can choose
to leave. If you really treat us as you parents, you won't ignore Melissa, and you won't watch her
struggle at the bottom class of the city and do nothing. Contrary to the generosity to an orphan like
Olivia, you did nothing for Melissa. Do you really think you treated us well? Now you stand here and
accuse us for abandoning you. Nicole, isn't it because you abandoned us in the first place?"
Nicole simply couldn't believe she heard these words from Mrs. Bush's mouth.
The mom, who loved her so much and used to look after her in the mid-night with fever herself, was
gone forever.
Did it really matter whether she was their biological daughter?
Since when did she not care about Melissa? Even if she didn't like how Melissa was, she still cared
about her. Other than using herself to exchange with Elvis for Melissa, what else had she done wrong?
Nicole was hurt, but she sensitively sensed that perhaps it was because she did not exchange herself
with Elvis for Melissa that Mr. and Mrs. Bush were so angry with her.
She suddenly felt it hilarious, ironic and yet so hurtful.
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