Chapter: 281

As she approached, the ominous red light outside the emergency room confirmed her fears.

“Doctor, wasn't my mother's condition stable? Her surgery was a success!"

"It's her heart. She's suffered another attack." The doctor handed her a form. “Sign this quickly. We'll do everything we can to save her."

Bethany's hand shook so violently she couldn't even scrawl her name properly.

Suddenly, a doctor burst out of the emergency room, declaring, “The patient isn't going to make it!"

Her hand froze above the critical condition notice, the signature incomplete.

The doctor quickly turned and rushed back into the emergency room.

Bethany, driven by instinct, tried to follow him but was stopped.

"I'm sorry, family members are not allowed inside the emergency room!"

“My mom is in there! You said she isn't going to make it. I need to see her!" Bethany pleaded.

"I'm sorry," was all the response she got as the doctor shut the door behind him.

Tears clouded Bethany's vision as she gazed at the bright red light above the emergency room door, its glow piercing.

Alone in the hallway, lined with sterile white walls, she noticed a man in a black suit standing some distance away. He was a stranger to her, yet he seemed to be a silent observer of the unfolding drama.

Suddenly, Maddie's previous warnings thundered in her mind.

It was her!

No, it was them!

Jonathan's father must be implicated as well.

If Maddie was behind her mother's accident, it surely was under Jonathan's father's orders. After all, Maddie and her mother had never gone beyond mere taunts and curses in all their years of conflict.

Bethany, her hands trembling, pulled out her phone to call Jonathan, but just then, the Lights in the emergency room flickered off.

As two doctors emerged, avoiding her gaze and sighing heavily, a chill ran down her spine.

“I'm sorry. We did everything we could," one of them said.

“What are you saying?" Bethany's voice broke, her mind refusing to accept the implications. She stepped forward, clutching at a doctor's sleeve desperately. "There has to be a way to save her. Just tell me which surgery to arrange. I'll spare no expense! She can be saved, can't she?"

"Please, try to remain calm."

"I can't calm down!" Bethany cried out, her slight frame shuddering as though she might crumble any second. "She was just fine in her room-how could she suddenly suffer a heart attack?"