Chapter 371
Chapter 371 That's Enough! This Is A Hospital!
Meanwhile, Nina was curled up on the hospital bed, sleeping. However, nightmares continually tormented her, which made her unable to rest.
The clarion ring of her phone woke her up from her nightmare.
She took a deep breath and saw that it was her mother calling her. Reflexively, she answered the call.
"Hello, Mom..." she said weakly.
Anna's harsh voice was heard over the phone. "You've finally answered the phone! Do you still remember that you have a mother? Where have you been for the past month and a half? You don't cback home, but you also don't call me. What's the point ofraising you, you ingrate? Have you been sleeping with another man? Get back hthis instant! The money that you gavethe last tis no more. Think of sway to getmore money!’
Nina was covered in a thick blanket, but she could not stop shivering.
The person on the other end of the call was her mother. After Nina went missing for a month and a half, all she got from her mother was insults and accusations instead of words of comfort.
When her mother finally contacted her, the first thing she asked for was money.
To other people, a mother's love might be the greatest in the world, but to her, it was nothing.
"I'm in the hospital now, Mom. I'm not feeling well. We can talk after I go back. Alright, bye..." Nina answered weakly and ended the call.
Then, she curled up on the bed like a discarded shrimp.
Silent tears slid down her pale cheeks, which made her look extremely pitiful.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"Ms. Langdon, you've just finished an operation, and you shouldn't be too emotional. If you bectoo sad, that might have long-term implications on your health, and that'll be hard to treat." The young nurse tried to comfort Nina while changing her drip bottle.
The wound on the stomach was painful, but the pain was nothing compared to the pain in her heart.
Nina shook her head gently and forcefully swallowed all her grievances.
Even a stranger would take pity on her, but her mother did not. That was a tragedy.
"Hello? Hello? You'd better get the money quickly so that I can bridge srelations for your brother. I need a lot of money..." When Anna heard the busy tone coming from the other end of the call, she realized that Nina had hung up, which made her even more furious than ever.
‘How dare that girl hang up on me! She needs to be taught a lesson!'
When Anna recalled what her daughter said to her, she frowned with suspicion. Her daughter had always been healthy, and she even rarely cdown with a cold. Why would she suddenly be in the hospital?
Anna immediately rushed to the hospital that Nina told her over the phone.
Of course, she was not going there to check on her daughter's health but instead to ask for more money.
Her friend's daughter was named Fifi. Fifi found a rich and influential sugar daddy who pampered her as long as she was obedient.
Fifi had heard about the situation with the Langdon family from her mother. She met up with Anna and told her that she had a way to save Jean. 1
Not only that, but she could also introduce Anna to that rich and influential man.
That man was not too powerful, but he had enough influence to sneak a minor criminal out of prison. He could bail Jean out if she could cough up three million dollars.
Anna was doubtful at first, but she was already friends with Fifi's mother for decades, and Fifi was very confident that she could manage to get Jean out of prison.
Fifi even said that they could sign a contract if Anna was concerned about the money. If the man could not bail Jean out, then he would return the three million dollars.
Impulsively, Anna agreed to it.
Even if they could not manage to save her son, the money would be returned to her.
Moreover, whenever she visited her son in prison, he would be bruised and battered.
Not only did her son's tall and strong body becthin and emaciated, but his body would also be full of injuries. Every visit would always end with her in tears.
Anna knew that her son was suffering in prison. She would have to save him no matter what!
She had gotten a check of two million dollars from her daughter, and she had eighty thousand dollars in savings. She needed another nine hundred and twenty thousand dollars. How was she, an unskilled housewife, ever going to get that much money?
Anna remembered that her daughter had easily gotten two million dollars the last time.
She thought that her kind and obedient daughter would give her the amount she wanted, as long as she asked for it.
Bianca returned to the hospital.
She accessed an ATM at a bank near the hospital and checked her account balance.
It was not much, probably about six months' worth of her salary.
T Corporation paid its employees well. Even new recruits in T Corporation were better paid than regular employees in other companies.
She had saved the money so that she could buy a new car, but the money had a more important use now.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmBianca withdrew the money in several batches.
She planned to give all the money to Nina.
The money might not compensate one-millionth of the trauma that Nina had been through, but Nina was not working now, and she needed money.
As Bianca walked along the corridor, she could hear Nina's cries and a woman cursing shrilly.
"With your good-for-nothing dad, do you think it's easy raising you? I've single-handedly provided for you and your brother for all your lives. Don't you know how hard it's been forall these years? Now that your brother is in trouble, what's wrong if I ask you to help? You're my daughter. If I don't ask you for money, who else should I ask?"
The woman's voice sounded familiar. Bianca recognized that it was Anna.
The realization startled her. She hastened her footsteps toward the hospital ward.
"That's enough, Mom! We're in a hospital now! I really don't have any money now, not a single cent. I've already given you all the money I have. What else do you wantto do? You always askfor money, and you've even asked for one million dollars this time. Do you think that I, a lowly wage-earner that's not even working now, have that much money? You seelying in the hospital bed, but you don't even askwhat's wrong! If you cant even show the least bit of concern to me, are you even my mother?"
Nina pressed on her stomach, trying to endure the pain. Tears fell freely from her face.
She was dressed in loose hospital clothes and her body was covered by a white blanket. Her wound on her abdomen was hidden from view, and what people could see were her frail body and pale face.
"How sick can you get?" Anna stood next to the bed and mercilessly poked Nina's forehead with her finger. "Stop pretending. You've been healthy since you were young. You don't even usually catch a cold. Cant you take saspirin if you're sick? Staying in the hospital is just a waste of money! Don't you know that the family needs a lot of money now?" "Madam, your daughter has just..." The nurse could not bear to see Nina tormented that way and tried to explain Nina's situation to Anna.
However, Anna immediately shut her up. "Shut your mouth! This is family business. You're only an outsider!"
Nina leaned languidly on the headboard. The pain in her abdomen was unbearable.
Her mother's heartlessness plunged her into despair.
When Bianca opened the door, she saw Nina's blank stare and silent tears, the young nurse who dared not make a sound, and Anna who was acting like a shrew.
Bianca was furious when she saw the scene!