Without asking for leave, I rush out of the office, stop a car on the road, and head for the hospital.
I am so nervous and tears keep falling down for my face.
How could that happen?
I thought my mom was just bluffing me, but who knows, she actually jumped off from the balcony!
They live on the third floor. It’s not fatal, but my mother is still in coma. The doctor says the situation is
not optimistic.
I regret very much.
If I hadn't hung up, if I had brought the money back, this probably wouldn't have happened.
I rush to the ward and find my mother unconscious. My father sees me, he comes up and slaps me on
the face.
“If you weren't so heartless, your mother wouldn't jump off!”
My father's eyes are red with tears. He seems to have cried.
I cover my cheek and ask my father worriedly, “How's mom?”
“The doctors say there is congestion in her head and it is pressing on her main nerves. They can’t do
the operation. All we can do is resign herself to her fate. I'm also a doctor, and I know that means your
mother may never wake up! We've worked so hard to raise you up, and now you won’t give us a cent!”
My father says tremblingly. He is angry as well as being sad.
I want to explain and I know he won’t listen to me.
In their eyes, no matter what I did is wrong. But now, we have no time to talk about who is right and
who is wrong. I do have a responsibility for my mother’s coma.
“I am sorry father. I am sorry.”
I walk to the sickbed in tears. Even though she is in a coma, my mother still frowns.
Anyway, I shouldn't be so ruthless. If I could have the time back, I wouldn't refuse her.
It’s too late now.
I cry for a while, then I remember Frank Noyes’s problem.
“Where is Frank Noyes?”
“At home, I tied him up with a rope. He couldn’t run away. You stay here and watch your mother. I'll go
and see him.” My father sighs, his face haggard.
“I’ll go and see him.”
I suggest to my father and then walk out.
My mother's in a coma, and I can’t help here. But if my dad goes back and sees Frank Noyes like that,
he'll probably have a headache again.
I have a key for the apartment, so I open the door and go in.
There is a chair in the middle of the living room, but Frank Noyes isn't sitting there. The rope is untied
and thrown aside.
How did he untie the rope, and now where is he?
Suddenly, I hear a rummaging sound in the room and the murmur of curses.
It sounds like Frank Noyes.
When I enter the room, I see Frank Noyes turn the room upside down.
“Fuck! Where is the money?!”
Frank Noyes curses.
Within a few days, Frank Noyes has lost a lot of weight and his eyes have sunk in.
I suspect that he is still taking drugs these days. He must get the money from my parents by all kinds of
means. Now my parents have no money, and they come to me.
“Frank Noyes, are you crazy? Mom's in the hospital, and you're still going crazy!” I snap at him, feeling
chilled by his appearance.
As soon as he sees me, Frank Noyes rushes over and grabs me by the neck.
“Money! Give me money!”
He pinches me so hard that I almost pass out.
A drug addict is so terrible.
I remember I left my bag at the hospital and now I have no money. I paid the taxi with my phone.
“I…I don’t take…” I choke.
But Frank Noyes doesn’t believe me. He looks around, finds a knife, and puts it on my neck.
The cold blade presses against my neck, which makes my goose bumps grow.
It’s a real sharp knife!
“You have no money, what about Frances Louis? He has a lot of money! Tell him to send money. Now!
Or I'll stab you!”
He takes my phone and dials Frances Louis’s number.
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