In the world of the elite Hebert family, whispers abound about Elsa Hebert, their adopted daughter, harboring an unrequited love for Mr. Frank. To his disdain, Mr. Frank went as far as imprisoning her for five long years, shattered by her affection. When Mr. Frank finally tied the knot, it was expected that his bride would be someone else. Yet, to everyone's astonishment, the woman with a criminal past, Elsa Hebert, stood before him at the altar. Anticipating his cruel retaliation, onlookers eagerly awaited the humiliation of this audacious woman. But fate had other plans. On the fateful wedding day, the bride vanished into thin air, leaving Mr. Frank seething with anger. Determined to bring her back, he dispatched his men to retrieve her. When he captured Elsa, a storm raged in his eyes as he pinned her beneath him. His voice dripped with intensity as he posed the ultimate question, "Will you marry me or face the consequences?"
"Elsa Hebert, so what if you are the biological daughter of the Hebert family? Your mother has raised me since she was a child, and she has long regarded me as her biological daughter! She has even given me all the favors! This Everything in the future of the Hebert family is mine!"
"El, mom promises you, as long as you serve Manny in prison for seven years, mom will arrange for your adoptive father to live in the best ward immediately, and immediately find the most authoritative doctor in America to perform surgery on him, mom please, please good?"
"Elsa Hebert, you vicious woman! Why is it not you who is lying on the hospital bed now? Why is it not you who has become a vegetable? Why is it not you who is dying?!"
ăă......
In the dream, a white light suddenly appeared, and the mocking or disgusting gazes of those people shot at her like frosty swords.
A few seconds later, Elsa Hebert opened her eyes from the dream, cold sweat was already dripping on her forehead.
She had this dream again.
Taking a few deep breaths, she looked sideways out the window.
The iron fence separates the women's prison from the outside world. The night outside the window is already deep, and the autumn wind is bleak, making it somewhat deserted.
She's been locked up here for five full years, ever since she was forced to cover for Manny Hebert's hit-and-run-and-murder charge.
Five years ago, Miss Haley Evans, the fiancée of Mr. Frank of Bostonthe Frank family, had a car accident on the day of her engagement to Mr. Frank.
The perpetrators fled the scene, and Haley Evans was knocked into a vegetable state.
Eden Frank was furious and sent someone to investigate the matter thoroughly.
And all the spearheads that day were pointed at Elsa Hebert, the adopted daughter of the bumpkin brought back from the countryside by the Hebert family.
In fact, she explained that day.
But he didn't believe it.
Not only he doesn't believe it, everyone doesn't believe it.
Everyone in Boston knows that the bumpkin from the countryside, regardless of everyone's scorn and ridicule, has been sticking to Mr. Frank Lu for many years. Mr. Frank hates it very much, and he will not stop until he hastily announced his engagement.
She is vulgar and humble, and she is shameless. She's lying down, she's wishful thinking!
She's the one with the most reason to kill Haley Evans!
That day Eden Frank pinched her neck, his veins were throbbing, his eyes were dark like Shura from hell, and he said: "How many lives do you have to pay her back?!"
She trembled with fear, but said nothing.
Later Eden Frank personally sent her to prison.
Time flies, five years in a flash.
At this moment, an unbearable sound suddenly came from the cell.
Life in prison is not easy.
After staying here for a long time, these people will always feel lonely and lonely, and they will always find something to comfort themselves.
When she first came here, she would block her ears in fear.
By now, she has seen it all.
But soon.
She is leaving here.
ăă......
Two months later, early in the morning.
With a "bang", the gate of the iron fence was opened, and the serious voice of the prison guard came from behind--
"No. 113031, go forward, don't look back, after you go out, remember to be a good person."
It's sunny outside.
Elsa Hebert didn't look back, she sat on the side of the road and waited for a long time before getting into a car.
"Where are you going?" the driver asked.
"Boston First Hospital."
The driver glanced at her through the perspective mirror and passed the QR code, "Fifty."
Elsa Hebert glanced blankly.
After a while.
She handed over a crumpled fifty-dollar bill she was clutching tightly in her palm.
Forty minutes later, she got out of the car.
Boston No. 1 Hospital with dozens of floors stands majestically under the cover of the city. It has not been seen for five years, and it seems to be taller and more luxurious.
Elsa Hebert lowered her eyes and walked in.
Following her memory, she stood at the door of the dean's office and knocked on the door.
A voice came from inside the door: "Come in."
She walks in the door.
David Flinch raised his head and stared slightly when he saw her: "It's you?"
He looked at her inquiringly.
The woman in front of her was thin and thin, with no blood on her lips. The original oval face was thin, and the chin became pointed.
Five years, more than 1,800 days and nights.
Time is enough to smooth the edges and corners of a person, and she can no longer find the original tenderness and agility in her body.
The only constant is her eyes.
Dressed in a pure and charming charm, the tails of the eyes are coquettishly raised, bright and seductive.
Even though she is wearing such shabby clothes now, it can't hide half of the brilliance of those eyes.
Elsa Hebert walked up to him.
"Why did you come out?" After he finished speaking, he seemed to feel something was wrong again, and changed his words: "Sit down and talk."
Back then, because of that incident, when Eden Frank sent her in, the sentence was seven years, but now it is only about five years.
Elsa Hebert sat down and got straight to the point: "Doc. Flinch, I want to know about my father's condition."
David Flinch gets it.
Elsa Hebert wasn't originally named Gu.
It is said that she was brought from the countryside to the Hebert family by the Hebert family in Boston at the age of 13 and considered as an adopted daughter. She also has a father in the country named Carson Doyle.
After learning of Elsa Hebert's hit and run, he suffered a stroke because he couldn't bear the stimulus, and now he seems to be in his hospital.
He turned on the computer and opened the case: "Mr. Doyle had an operation here five years ago, and he is slowly recovering. Although he is still in a coma for a long time, his condition has basically stabilized."
The Hebert family is really good to this adopted daughter. She went to prison to embarrass the Hebert family and caused such a lot of trouble, and paid her father five years of hospitalization fees.
"Understood." Elsa Hebert stood up: "Thank you."
She turned and walked out the door.
Take the elevator and go up to the 26th floor.
In front of the door of the ward, she looked in through the glass window, and the old man inside the door had white hair and was lifeless.
he is old.
"Daddy's little El has grown taller again today, come, daddy hugs..."
"Dad found a job today. My little El is determined to be admitted to the Capital University of Music. From now on, Dad will work hard to save money to buy a piano for El, okay?"
"El don't cry, dad doesn't want El anymore, El is obedient, dad's little El must be well after he goes to the Hebert family, those are your biological parents, they will definitely treat El a thousand times better, in the future , El must speed up Lily's growth..."
Suddenly, her eye sockets became sore and swollen, and warm tears dripped down her palms.
it's a pity.
His daughter didn't live up to what he hoped.
She was going to disappoint him.
In the huge corridor, a ray of sunlight slanted in from the window and shone on her sickly pale face.
The sun was just right outside, but her hands and feet were cold.
I don't know how long it has been.
At the corner of the corridor, there was a sudden sound of footsteps, "Mr. Frank, the carnations are ready, are you going to leave now?"
"Hmm." A deep and familiar voice sounded from the corner of the corridor, Elsa Hebert's back stiffened, and fear and trembling could not be suppressed in her eyes.
She turned around in panic, and looked sideways at the source of the sound.
The leading man was wearing a black suit, his eyes were deep and narrow, his profile was as cold as a knife, and he was tall and tall.
In five years, the years have not left traces on his face, and his figure is even more mature and aloof than before.
Her body trembled violently, the fear engraved in her bones made her subconsciously run away!
But it was too late-
"Stop!" The voice of the order came from behind, with a strong coldness and oppression, and headed down!
Elsa Hebert froze in place, because she was too scared and nervous, her heart jumped into her throat instantly!
The man behind him gave a 'tsk' sound, and his tall and straight figure stepped forward step by step.
The footsteps were getting closer, and every sound was a heavy blow to her heart.
Elsa Hebert stood where she was, her face pale!
Eden Frank stopped three meters away.
He raised his exquisite chin slightly, squinted his eyes, and looked at her back with a scrutinizing gaze: "Miss, you look a little familiar."
"...Mister, you must have read it wrong." Elsa Hebert didn't turn her head, she clenched her palm tightly and said in a hoarse voice: "We haven't seen each other before, so how can we say we are familiar?"
"Really?" The deep voice sounded again, and the man took two steps forward.
The sound of footsteps clattered lightly in his ears.
Elsa Hebert's forehead was covered with cold sweat, she gritted her teeth, stepped away, and fled in embarrassment without hesitation!
Eden Frank licked his molars in displeasure, strode forward and grabbed her wrist, and brought it back: "Where do you want to go!"
While the world was spinning, Elsa Hebert hit the wall of the hospital with a "bang" on her back.
A light circle of light and warm color lightly sprinkled down from the top of the head, and the man stared at her with dark and deep eyebrows.
He covered half of her head, blocking most of the light.
His eyes were gloomy and hostile, just like back then.
Eden Frank lowered his eyes to see her face.
Her face became paler because of the fright, and her figure seemed to be thinner than before, but her pair of watery eyes were still so beautiful.
Beauty is too deceitful!
"Elsa Hebert, it really is you."
"Eden Frank." She met those dark eyes, trembling lips: "What do you want?"
The man sneered, and glanced up and down at her: "Who let you out?"
"It has nothing to do with you." Elsa Hebert clenched her back molars tightly: "Let go!"
Eden Frank tightened his big hand even harder, and repeated: "I'll ask you again, who dares to let you out before your sentence is over?!"
"Let go!" Elsa Hebert's face turned pale, and she fought back the pain: "Mr. Frank is a person with a fiancee, and he is not afraid of being ridiculed if he speaks out in public if he touches his hands in public?"
The man narrowed his eyes fiercely: "Five years in prison, you still haven't made any progress."
"Yeah." She growled, "Mr. Frank doesn't want a murderer to return to justice?!"
After the words fell, Eden Frank's eyebrows became even colder!
A few seconds later, he looked sideways at the secretary behind him, and his thin lips parted slightly, becoming more cold: "Go and investigate carefully, without my order, who would dare to let her out in advance!"
The secretary responded, "Yes!"
Elsa Hebert's face paled instantly.
"What?" He swept her face lightly and snorted, "Are you scared?"
"Afraid?" Elsa Hebert met those sinister eyes without showing any weakness, "If I was afraid of you, I wouldn't come back here again!"
where is this place?
It is the best private hospital in Boston.
Also the hospital where Haley Evans lay.
It was the place where he almost strangled her five years ago!
"Just don't be afraid." Eden Frank squinted his eyes, and the corners of his lips suddenly drew a cold arc. "It's too early to be afraid now."
Before she could react, the man's big hand suddenly grabbed her wrist and strode towards one direction.
"Let go... let go! What are you doing? Where are you taking me?! Let go!!"
Elsa Hebert was dragged forward by him.
At the corner behind, David Flinch, who was passing by here, looked at this scene with a pitiful expression, and did not step forward to stop it.
Eden Frank grabbed her by the wrist vigorously into the elevator.
until.
In front of the top VIP ward on the 28th floor, he directly threw her out.
Elsa Hebert knelt down in front of a hospital bed in inertia.
She raised her eyes hard.
On that hospital bed, a woman was lying quietly.
"El, today is my birthday, and this piano is a birthday present from Eden. Would you like to try it?"
"El, I know you like Eden, but Eden suddenly said today that he wants to get engaged to me. You know, I can't refuse. You will bless us, right?"
"This car is given to you. After El is admitted to university, he can go to and from school by himself!"
Many memories flooded my mind in an instant.
But she still bit her lip tightly and said nothing!
He looked down at her, as if overlooking an ant: "Five years in prison, have you repented? Huh?"
Elsa Hebert moved her fingertips with difficulty.
She used to be timid in front of him, and never dared to call out his name like this, but now, she called it many times as if she knew it by heart: "Eden Frank."
The corner of her lips was bleeding from her bite, and a miserable smile appeared on her face, "Why are you still so delusional? Are you talking about confession with a murderer?"
"You're looking for death!!" Eden Frank was furious, he bent down and grabbed her neck, his big hands tightened!
"Kill me...you...kill me now if you have the ability..." She looked at him sarcastically.
What is contained in those eyes is overwhelming despair and loneliness.
The man's big hands tightened tighter and tighter.
The air in her chest became thinner and thinner, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her lips suddenly, and she closed her eyes peacefully.
That smile was like a wisp of green smoke, illusory.
Eden Frank's heart was empty for no reason.
He let go of his hand suddenly, and patted her face: "Elsa Hebert."
She didn't move.
The man yelled again.
The woman underneath is like a motionless doll.
"Elsa Hebert!" He called her name: "Elsa Hebert! Get up for me! Don't pretend to be dead!"
There was a "bang".
The door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and David Flinch quickly leaned over to check: "She is in shock! She must be rescued immediately!"
Eden Frank's pupils shrank.
Only then did he realize that the originally pale face was now a decadent gray.
David Flinch waved, and a group of people walked in quickly.
He carried the woman on the ground onto the cart.
Then without even looking at Eden Frank, he turned around and went out the door.
ăă......
an hour later.
Elsa Hebert was placed in the general ward.
David Flinch checked her again before walking out of the ward.
Outside the door, Eden Frank was sitting on a bench in the corridor with a cigarette dangling from his fingertips.
The smoke shrouded his handsome face, making his expression even more difficult to distinguish.
Thinking of the inspection report he had just seen, David Flinch hesitated, and sat next to Eden Frank.
It was quiet on the promenade.
"How is she?" After a while, Eden Frank said indifferently.
David Flinch pursed his lips slightly, his face was a little stiff: "There are pinhole wounds all over her body, coupled with long-term lack of food and malnutrition, what you did just now almost killed her."
He didn't say it all.
The examination report also revealed that she had given birth to a child four years ago.
Because I didn't do a good confinement, I left very serious sequelae.
Four years ago... how old was she...
David Flinch closed his eyes hard.
At this moment, his hands were trembling faintly.
Which animal is it that can do it!
He tried his best to calm down his voice: "Mr. Frank, how can you say that girl has loved you with all her heart and soul for so many years, if you do this, will you..." Too cruel?
"She caused an accident and committed a crime, so she should be punished as she should be." The man cut off the cigarette in his hand: "She deserves all of this!"
David Flinch said nothing more.
He suddenly remembered that many years ago, when the girl looked back at Eden Frank, she always looked gentle and shy.
There seemed to be stars in those watery eyes.
And now, the girl whose eyes are full of stars when she smiles can never be found again.
It turns out that it only takes five short years to destroy a person.
He set his sights on Eden Frank's profile.
The man's jaw was sharp and smooth, and his side face was cold and indifferent, as if he was as cold and ruthless as ever.
The high gods.
No feelings.
David Flinch suddenly wanted to remind him: Mr. Frank, you must never regret it.
This game of chess has been decided.
There is no turning back.
At this moment, a mobile phone rang suddenly.
Eden Frank answered the phone, and there was a fiery voice from inside--
"Mr. Frank, it's bad! Little Bruce is crying and making a fuss for no reason, and he can't be coaxed! The old man wants you to come back quickly!"
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