Violet cried silently for several minutes before her emotions turned better.
She didn't get up from Stanley's arms and leaned against Stanley's chest with her eyes closed as she
spoke, "I knew that Eason might die in just a few days, but I didn't expect that when this moment
actually came, I would still be shocked."
"I know." Stanley patted her back and nodded.
Violet coughed twice and added, "I obviously also prepared myself mentally a long time ago that even if
Eason died, I wouldn't feel sad for him, nor would I cry for him, but when he really died, I was still sad
and still cried."
"Because he's your father, you still care about him in your heart, you have hate for him in your heart,
but in the same way, you also have love." Stanley looked down at her and said softly.
Violet smiled to herself, "Yes, it's just that this love, which is usually covered up by hatred, is why I can't
see or feel it, but now that Eason is dead. With his death, my hatred for him has completely dissipated,
and that love, which was suppressed by hatred, has finally surged up."
How could she not love Eason?
That was her real dad, even if his dad was nowhere near as good to her and Steven as Phoebe.
But in the light of the past twenty years, Eason had cared for her and Steven, too, and she could not
erase this.
"Do you want to take a nap?" Stanley asked.
Violet took a deep breath and nodded, "Okay, wake me up when you get to the hospital."
Eason had died, bringing her no less impact than when her mother had died, but no less.
She needed a good conditioning session.
Stanley nodded, "Good."
Violet curled up on the passenger side, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
But really, it was better to say she was sleeping than faking it, and her fluttering eyelashes showed that
she wasn't asleep at all, and couldn't sleep.
Eason died, she was not cold-hearted to the extent that she did not care.
Stanley knew this and didn't bother her, driving his car quietly.
He drove slowly, what was supposed to be an hour's drive took him two hours to get to the hospital.
Stanley woke Violet up.
Violet opened her eyes, "We arrived?"
"Yes." Stanley nodded.
Violet stopped talking again, silently opened the car door, got out, and walked into the hospital.
When she came outside Eason's ward, Steven was sitting in the corridor, holding something in his
hand.
Hearing footsteps, Steven lifted his head, his eyes still red, "Sister, Stanley."
Violet nodded in response, then walked to the door of the ward to look inside.
The inside had been cleaned and the beds were empty.
Steven stood beside her and said, "After I called you, the hospital took him to the morgue."
Violet nodded, not surprised by the result.
She guessed it.
Patients who die in the hospital cannot be kept in the ward for long and must be moved to the mortuary
as soon as possible.
So after seeing the ward being cleaned, she already guessed where Eason was.
"Before he died, did he say anything?" Stanley asked, leaning against the wall and looking sideways at
Steven.
Steven nodded, "Yes, he said, he wanted us to bury him next to mom."
"What?" Violet wrinkled her eyebrows, "Want to be buried next to mom? Dream it, does he still want to
redeem himself in death?"
Stanley felt that Eason was a bit shameless.
Steven, however, shook his head, "No, that's not what he meant, he was saying that he wanted to
make amends to mom, and by burying him next to her, he could make amends to her all the time."
"Hmph, I think that's just his way of saying it, he's just afraid that I won't do what he says, so he's
saying that on purpose." Violet gave a cold snort
Steven looked at her, "Then sis, should we do as he says or not?"
Violet was silent.
Stanley stuck his hand in his pants pocket, "Do as he says."
Violet looked up at him.
So did Steven.
Stanley hooked his lips and smiled, "Doesn't he want to make amends? Just let him do it, and I think
my mother-in-law would love to fix him."
At that, Violet was amused, "You're right, then do as he says, and let mom bully him every day from
now on."
"Okay." Steven smiled.
Violet asked again, "Other than that, what else did he say?"
Steven nodded, "He said that the thing he regretted the most was not hearing us call him dad, and not
hearing Arya and Calvin call him grandpa."
Violet tugged at the corner of her mouth, "And?"
"No more, but he gave me this." Steven held out what he had just fondled, a watch.
"What did he give you the watch for?" Violet asked, puzzled.
Stanley's gaze fell on the watch, "It's an antique mechanical watch."
Steven nodded, "Seven years ago, a few months before we were kicked out of the family by him, on
my birthday, I asked him for a watch like this, and because it was expensive, he didn't say yes, but I
didn't expect that he had just given it to me now."
The birthday present after seven years surprised him and left him with mixed feelings at the same time.
He was surprised that after seven years, Eason still remembered it.
Didn't Eason hate him and his sister so much? Why did he even buy it and give it to him?
Stanley took the watch in Steven's hand and looked at it carefully, "It's not a new watch, it's been
bought for some time. A person of Eason's age was not suitable for this kind of watch, so this watch
was bought for you."
Steven took the watch, "That's right, he said that he bought this watch a few months ago, when he saw
it by chance, he had always wanted to give it to me, but couldn't find the opportunity, so he kept it until
now, and he even apologized to me."
"What did he apologize for?" Violet asked.
Steven looked at her and said, "Eason said that when you went to the family seven years ago and
asked him for my operation fee, he didn't mean not to give it, but he simply didn't know. Talia didn't tell
him, if he knew, he would have given it, even if he didn't like our siblings at that time, but our siblings
were his children after all, so he couldn't just watch me die on the operating table without an operation
fee. ."
"......" Violet didn't speak anymore.
This apology from Eason really shook her.
She thought that he could really be so stone-hearted that he wouldn't pay for the surgery and could
watch Steven die.
But she didn't realize that Eason turned out not to know it......
Violet sighed, "What was it like when he died, painful?"
Steven smiled, "No, he's happy."
"Happy?" Stanley raised an eyebrow.
Steven nodded, "In fact, Eason has been very happy today, especially after seeing in the live broadcast
that Talia was sentenced, he laughed loudly, for this reason, he had me bought him a bottle of wine and
he drank a glass of wine as a celebration, and ......"
"And what?" Violet asked again.
"And, he told me to contact the police and had a phone call with Talia. I don't know what they said on
the phone, but it was pretty long, and after that, Eason had another drink and said he wanted to take a
nap, so he let me go out, and it wasn't until an hour later that the nurse checked on him and realized he
wasn't breathing, but he was smiling, so I don't think he was in pain." Steven replied.
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