Chapter 208 RELATIVES 2
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That was why she had blamed her niece in the first place. She needed to remove attention from herself in any way possible.
"We're here for Gabriel Sui," she said to the receptionist, who nodded immediately and led her to the General's room. When Kate and her family reached the glass-walled room where the General was being treated, they were greeted three men in black attire. Inside the room was Anna and her Aunt Grace and one more guard at a corner.
Kate frowned almost immediately. She knew who's responsible for these. That boy Noah Declan is really biting more than he can chew. She gritted her teeth in anger as she twisted the door nob.
Anna and Grace had cried been silently for hours until they couldn't cry anymore. Vincent had suddenly turned so sick seeing his once best friend in that condition and couldn't stay longer. Noah had to carry him to his doctor, leaving his wife in the care of her aunt and his guards. He had positioned them in the General's room too for protection.
Kate's eyes narrowed as she observed the scene. Noah has only complicated things even more. She forced herself to wear a mask of concern as she entered the room.
He had no idea who had tried to kill the man. But he's sure whoever it is will be back for a second time so he needed to protect the man at all cost.
As if noticing their presence, Anna who was seating next to her aunt rose as she saw them walk in. Grace who noticed her neice standing looked up, her eyes red and swollen from crying.
She frowned when she saw Kate. Of course there was no atom of tears or pain on her face. Kate could fool everyone on earth but not her. She knew her sister too well to be fooled.
She just hoped what she thought about isn't the truth. She would fight Kate to the end of the world if she finds out she has a hand in her father's accident. It is so unlike the general to just fall, especially since they had renovated their mansion and changed the tiles from the slippery ones to the normal ones.
"Father," Kate said, ignoring Grace and Anna as she rushed to her father's side. Nari followed suit, hurrying to her grandfather's bedside.
"Oh father." Kate said her voice trembling as she finally forced tears out of her eyes. She wanted to know his condition, to know what to do with him. She wiped her tears from her eyes as she held the generals hands. Deep down she felt so bad for killing her father, but she quickly brushed the feelings off.
If he hadn't been a pain in the ass and had complied with both she and her daughters demand, things wouldn't have gotten this far. All she wanted was for him to disown Anna fully and remove her name from his will, but he didn't do any of that.
Even after claiming he had disowned Anna, she was still his favorite. He still continued to love her. Kate could count the number of times the general wanted to apologize to his granddaughter for everything he's done.
She couldn't forget how he cried himself when Anna had that accident. He prayed all day and asked his assistant to give him update of her health. Kate was sure her father would have died if Anna had not survived. If that had happened, it would have been double victory for her, killing the neice who has refused to die and a father who does not care about her.
The dinner party had been the final straw. He had announced he had forgiven the Declans and wanted peace with them. She would never allow that to happen. She will never let anyone know the general had changed his mind.
"It's okay Kate, I don't think your father needs all these cry at the moment." Martha said to her neice patting her back. She ignored Grace and Anna who sat next to the general like plague.
"Where is the doctor, we need to know what happened to him." Douglas said.
"He's in coma. The doctor said he's stable for now but his condition is still critical, we'll be lucky if he makes it through the day." Anna said. That is why she had been crying, Noah didn't hide anything from her. He had told her everything about her grandfather, and how disabled he would be even if he made it alive.
"Are you both happy now?" Kate snapped, her voice full of venom as she turned to Anna and Grace, who were standing by the door.
Anna's eyes widened in shock, her face pale. "Happy? How could you say that, Aunt Kate? We didn't want this to happen!"
"Well, you brought this on Father. You have no right to be here, Anna, not after everything you've done," Kate accused, her voice dripping with venom.
Grace frowned at her sister's words, her frustration mounting. "Kate, you're accusing your neice of something we had nothing to do with."
"You both caused this Grace. If you hadn't done what you did, father wouldn't be in this situation. Father was heartbroken, he cried every day, and his health was deteriorating before my eyes" Kate insisted, her voice rising.
"Can you listen to yourself, Kate?" Grace shot back, her voice trembling with fury. "We weren't even in the mansion when the accident happened to him. Since you act like you're the only one who cared about him, where were you when it happened?"
Kate's mouth twitched, her anger barely contained. Grace's words were hitting too close to home, turning the tables on her in a way she hadn't expected.
"You can't speak? Then I'll tell everyone. You were out partying with your daughter when Father was fighting for his life. The doctor said he didn't fall, he was hit in the head by an object and was left untreated for hours before the butler called him," Grace declared, her voice steady and loud.
