Chapter 76 Love Means Nothing Here
But to Elsie’s surprise, Paul actually avoided her gaze and did not speak up for her.
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Jensen had never liked her family background to begin with, and here she was deliberately calling him ‘Dad‘? Was she asking for trouble?
Seeing that even Paul would not defend her, Elsie wiped away her tears and fled the hospital room, looking utterly wronged.
Jensen watched her leave with a look of utter contempt in his eyes. Then he turned back to look at his disappointing son, his voice cold as ice. “If you’re just playing around with her, fine. But if you’re serious, don’t blame me for cutting all father–son ties.”
Paul looked at him in shock. Cut ties? How?
Jensen sneered, “I’m still young, I can have another son.”
Paul’s face went pale.
Jensen continued, “If you still want to stay in your grandfather’s good graces, then go bring the Powell family a real ally.”
Paul knew full well that his father looked down on Elsie’s humble background, but still he said, “I can’t betray Elsie.”
Hearing this, Jensen’s gaze turned sharp. He grabbed Paul by the collar and growled, “Your grandfather has already arranged for Wyatt to marry Yunice. That’s our only chance to catch up to them! And what will marrying Elsie get you, apart from a flock of freeloading relatives?”
Then, he pressed down hard on Paul’s injured leg.
Paul cried out in agony. But Jensen didn’t show the slightest bit of mercy. “If you don’t get your act together, the pain will only get worse.”
The veins on Paul’s forehead bulged from the pain. He could not even find the strength to argue.
After leaving the room, Jensen ordered the bodyguards outside, “No more painkillers for him.”
“Yes, sir!” The bodyguards replied in unison.
Inside, Paul lay drenched in cold sweat, slumped on the bed. Maybe the pain had numbed him, or maybe he was just delirious, but his mind began to wander.
Who did Father say Wyatt was going to marry?
The pain was unbearable that he had not caught the name clearly.
Clutching his injured leg, Paul gritted his teeth. Jensen was truly ruthless. The wound was already bleeding again.
Frustrated and furious, he called for a doctor for Elsie, but no one c
Jensen clearly intended to grind him down.
After half an hour of shouting, Paul finally gave in, slumping against the headboard.
Unable to sleep from the pain, his mind wandered again… To Elsie and to Yunice.
Elsie had said injuries just needed to be endured, but that was not true.
Back in middle school, he had fractured a bone playing basketball. Yunice had made him a crude–looking herbal plaster. It was ugly and old–fashioned, but it worked better than any medicine from the hospital. It had not hurt at all.
Paul glanced at the door. Yunice was in this hospital too… Why had she not come to see him?
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Chapter 76 Love Means Nothing Here
Meanwhile, Wyatt was changing his bandages in another room, while Yunice was wandering the hallway outside.
From a distance, the voices of Owen and Elsie approached,
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Owen was saying, “The Saunders family does have a formula for pain relief, but only Yunice knows how to make it.”
Elsie added anxiously, “Maybe we should call the police, find Yunice, and get her to treat Paul. That is the priority right now…”
Owen waved her off. “Forget it. She probably heard about your engagement and deliberately hid herself, thinking it would make us anxious. If we ignore her, she’ll come crawling back in a few days.”
Elsie sighed, “If only I could make that pain–relieving medicine… I’d definitely give the formula to you. It’d be such a boost for your hospital!”
Her words sparked a thought in Owen.
A technical monopoly was the ultimate advantage for any company. So far, no hospital had managed to develop a painkiller without side effects.
Yunice clearly had such an effective formula; why was she not helping his hospital get through its current crisis?
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