Chapter 13 He'll Live

• "You'll see that I'm innocent, Abel!"
• "Get out!"
• The guards dragged her downstairs like a felon on death row while Alana smirked in satisfaction.
• Emergency services quickly arrived on the scene. The paramedics performed CPR on the comatose Oscar before he was whisked away to the hospital.
• Emmeline, meanwhile, was placed at a temporary detention center.
• Not long after, Benjamin arrived, accompanied by the police chief.
• She was then brought into the chief's office.
• After the door shut behind them, police chief Derrick Campbell uncuffed her.
• "Lady, can you not screw with the Rykers? How am I going to hold them off?"
• "I told them I wasn't the culprit." She drank some tea. "I already guessed who did it."
• "There are no surveillance cameras in the bedroom," Derrick said. "You also left your fingerprints on the scene. Your guesses don't matter."
• "What's so hard about it?" She crossed her legs. "Send me back to the detention center. They'll come begging soon enough."
• "I know you're little miss amazing but," Derrick continued with a grimace, "I don't see how the Rykers are going to be the ones to beg you. All I know is that they're seeking legal advice to charge you with murder and make sure you get the death penalty!"
• "I told you I was going back to the detention center." She rolled her eyes. "Are you going to keep rambling?"
• "Are you being sulky right now?" He was immediately apprehensive. "I know you're amazing but can you not mess with me all the time?!"
• "Do I look like such a petty person?" Her eyelashes fluttered against her cheek. "I said I'm going back to the detention center. Do you understand me?"
• "Mr. Benjamin?" Derrick shot Benjamin a look as if to beg for help.
• "Just listen to her." He waved him off. "You worry too much."
• "Fine." Derrick finally nodded. "I'll take you there and let them know to treat you well. You'll be living more comfortably than in a hotel!"
• "What's most important here," Emmeline suddenly said. "...is to keep watch of my sons and make sure they don't slip up."
• "Everything has been arranged," Benjamin assured. "You have nothing to worry about!"
• "Good." She nodded in satisfaction and then held out both her hands to the police chief.
• "What is it, Boss?"
• "Cuff me!" She was annoyed. "Why do you keep asking nonsensical questions? Do you want the Rykers to know everything about me?"
• "Sorry." He immediately settled the cuffs back on her.
• ~
• Oscar was admitted to the ICU and was resuscitated, but his internal organs continued to bleed due to lack of oxygen.
• The hospital tried everything with little success.
• It was already the next morning.
• "Emmeline!" Abel's face was dark as he spat through gritted teeth. "I'll see you pay with your life!"
• "Yeah," Alana said. "How can that woman be so horrible to lay a hand on an old man?"
• "But what was her motive for attacking Grandad?" Adrien had also rushed over in the middle of the night.
• "Are you trying to absolve her of her crimes, Adrien?" She smiled mirthlessly. "That woman harmed Grandad because she wants Abel to marry her instead of Wonder Doctor!"
• "But Emmeline couldn't possibly be with Abel!" Adrien denied. "She birthed my sons. The one to marry her would be me!"
• "I say she's a bearer of bad luck." Alana gnashed her teeth together. "You'd better not marry her. She's just going to plague her partners with her bad luck!"
• "She's right." Abel frowned. "I was kind enough to allow her to stay. To think he would harm Grandad!"
• "Mommy isn't a bad person!" Chlid-like voices could be heard coming from the elevator. It was Helios, Endymion, and Hesperus.
• "Helios!" Abel shouted. "Who allowed you to come here?!"
• "Mr. Butler said something happened last night," Endymion answered. "So, we came!"
• "Mommy can't be the killer," Hesperus cried out. "It's a mistake!"
• "What do you brats know?" Alana cut in, furious. "Everyone witnessed Emmeline suffocating Granddad with the towel!"
• "Ms. Lane!" Adrien said coldly. "What right do you have to yell at my children?"
• Abel felt an indescribable emotion surface in him as he watched his brother gather the triplets into his arms.
• "Mr. Adrien! Mr. Abel!" The dean hurried over. "Mr. Oscar is not doing well. Please ask Wonder Doctor for help."
• A furrow formed between Abel's brows. He had long expected it to be that way.
• Both Father and Uncle Landen were at Melvania. He had to be the one to take charge of the matter.
• He indeed needed Wonder Doctor's help.
• "Luca." He called for his assistant. "Contact Mr. Benjamin."
• Benjamin was concurrently giving Emmeline a massage in "solitary" confinement when his phone rang.
• Emmeline grinned. "There it is!"
• He answered the call and hung up after exchanging a few words. "You were right, Ms. Emmeline!"
• "I told you so," she said, popping an orange into her mouth. "He was hanging by a thread last night. He's more dead than alive in the hospital right now. They still need me!"
• "Just tell me how I can get back to them, will you?"
• "Tell them you can't get into contact with me!"
• "...Is Mr. Oscar going to make it?"
• "He'll live!"
• "Hell yeah!" Benjamin called Luca back.
• Abel was far from pleased when he heard how he couldn't get in touch with Wonder Doctor.
• What was he supposed to do now?
• Alana couldn't help but smile smugly.
• Emmeline was done for. Wonder Doctor was gone. The only woman Abel can marry now is me!
• "Keep trying to contact her. I will have Wonder Doctor here even if I have to dig three feet into the ground and fork out five million for a consultation!"
• By the time the call was made, it was already midnight.
• Benjamin finally sighed on the eleventh call.
• "What did Wonder Doctor say?" Abel asked in trepidation.
• "Wonder Doctor is upset over a small matter."
• "A small matter?" He raised a brow. "Leave it to me. I'll arrange for someone to take care of it."
• "That would be for the better. Wonder Doctor ran into three little boys crying at the hospital entrance today."
• "..." Abel's heart nearly stopped. "What do the boys look like?"