Because of the hell that she went through when her blood was taken, Meredith fell asleep quickly laying her head next to Nia's bed.The next day, she woke up as usual at seven in the morning. She fed Nia some breakfast and accompanied Nia when she got her injection.Before she left, Meredith kissed Nia's forehead. "Have a good day, Nia. I'll come to see you in the evening.""Have a good day too, Mommy." Nia flashed her a big grin."Thank you, darling, I will."Meredith was working in the same hospital as Zade. By the time she reached her office, Zade had already bought her breakfast and left it on her desk."Merelyn, you look even worse than you did yesterday. Is the wound getting worse?""No, the wound is getting better."She did not tell Zade about what happened last night as she did not want him to worry.The emergency room was as busy as always. After a whole day of working even though she was sick and exhausted, Meredith rushed home to do laundry and have a shower.Upon
"Merelyn, I…""Just stop and follow me." Meredith dragged him off the stage, passed through the crowd, and headed toward backstage.The clueless customers saw how the both of them left the hall hand in hand and assumed that Meredith was simply shy from the sudden confession and started cheering for them.Once they reached backstage, Zade handed the bouquet to Meredith and beamed, "Merelyn, these are your favorite flowers, tulips. I…"Before Zade could finish his sentence, Meredith took the bouquet from his hand and put it aside. She then walked him toward the backdoor. "Zade Brooks, leave right now! Hurry up!""What's wrong? Why are you rushing me out? Zya told me that you only had two shows today…""I said leave, don't you hear me?!" Meredith sounded as if she was about to cry.Zade thought that Meredith was only acting this way simply because she could not reciprocate his feelings."Merelyn, it's okay if you can't accept me now. I'll wait until the day you're willing to accep
But tulips were poisonous!"No…" Shaking her head, Meredith added, "Sir, these flowers are poisonous, I can't eat them.""If you have the guts to receive this bouquet, shouldn't you have the guts to eat them too?" Plucking out a flower from the bouquet and handing it to her, Josiah added, "If you don't eat this, I'd have no choice but ask that lover boy of yours to eat it instead. After all, it's such a waste to throw away such pretty flowers."At the end of the day, Josiah did not believe her.Meredith knew that Josiah was a man of his word."Fine…I'll eat them!" Her fingers trembled as she took the flower from his hand and put them into her mouth.She did not dare to taste the flower. All she wanted was to get rid of the monster standing in front of her."Keep going." Josiah stuffed another flower into her mouth. "The next time you receive flowers from any man, you are to eat them all, do you hear me?"His voice was cold and harrowing.After eating two of the flowers, Meredi
At the sight of the spilled red wine on the floor, Miss Josie asked carefully, "Sir, did Merelyn do something that upset you? I'll apologize…""There's no need for that." Josiah interrupted her and ordered, "Have her serve more customers, and, starting from this moment, she is not allowed to leave the club until she clears her debt for this bottle of red wine."Josiah then walked toward the door."No!" Meredith ran toward him, grabbed the sleeves of his shirt, and begged, "Sir, I can't be locked up here! I…my family is in the hospital and I have to take care of her, please, I beg you…"Meredith was crying now.Puzzled, Josiah arched his brows. "Family? You still have family?"From what he knew, the Leightons had cut ties with her when he pressured them to do so three years ago."Yes…" Meredith sniffled."Tell me, who else do you have?""My…my mom." Wiping away the tears on her face with the back of her hand, she added, "My mom had not been well since she was kicked out from th
Did Miss Josie not guarantee her customers decent characters?"So are you drinking or not? I'll make a complaint to your boss if you don't!" The lady threatened.The man tried to stop her. "Come now, she's just a lady. She'll die from all this alcohol.""So what? If there comes a day where I end up being a hostess in such a pathetic place, I'd rather kill myself than embarrass myself."The lady's words pierced through Meredith's heart like sharp knives.If it was not for Nia, she too would have rather killed herself, just like that very year.But at this stage, other than putting up with the humiliation from others, what else could she do?Meredith wanted desperately to avoid more fury from Josiah, so she quickly plastered a smile on her face and said, "You're right, ma'am. I should drink this as a punishment."She then started chugging down the glasses of beer one by one.The liquid ran down her throat, burning her stomach. Her eyes turned red from the uncomfortable feeling.
"Miss, I'm waiting for my mom," Nia replied softly."Your mommy will be here in a bit. You should go in first.""What about my grandma?""Your grandma has returned home to rest," The nurse replied annoyedly.Nia had been staying in the hospital for a long time and her guardians were always late on paying the medical bills which caused an inconvenience for a lot of people in the hospital.If Alayna had not asked her for a favor to keep an eye on Nia, she would not even be bothered with this child."Don't make me repeat myself, child. If not, I'll kick you out of the hospital." The nurse threatened her and walked away.Nia was after all only a three-year-old kid. She was of course frightened by the threat.As soon as the nurse had left, Nia started looking for her mother. While walking around, Nia called out weakly, "Mommy, where are you? I'm scared…""Mommy…!"The doors of the lift opened and Nia stepped into the lift.Her small and frail body bumped against a pair of long l
Josiah quickly took his phone out. He scrolled to the bottom of his photo album on his phone and showed Nia a picture. "This Meredith?"Nia saw how Josiah had a photo of her mommy on his phone. She immediately laughed in delight, "And you say that you're not my daddy? Not only do you remember who mommy is, you still have a photo of her on your phone."Josiah's expressions turned even uglier. Was this child really that woman's daughter?The family that she meant was this child? Hmph! "Daddy, are you angry?" Nia asked confusedly. Josiah nodded. "Yes, I'm angry.""Why are you angry, daddy?" "If you call me daddy one more time, I'll break your neck."Nia was frightened half to death as she scrunched her neck. She looked at Josiah with fear in her eyes. Did her mommy not say that her daddy loved her a lot? Why did it not seem like it?The elevator has reached the ground floor. Josiah lifted Nia up with one hand and strode out of the elevator.Although it was a joyous thing
Meredith had too much a drink the night before. After a clash with the bodyguards by the entrance, she was taken back to the dorm by Zya. She immediately fell asleep.When she woke up, her head was in excruciating pain, as if someone just detonated a bomb in her. Her back hurt too. She staggered out of bed and stood up. She picked up her phone on the table and noticed that it ran out of batteries.After charging her phone. The first thing she did was call Alayna to ask about Nia.When she heard about Nia going missing, she was completely bewildered."Mom, what's going on? Why did Nia go missing?""It's all my fault! My fault!" Alayna was sobbing anxiously, "Last night, I thought you were going to reach the hospital soon, so I passed Nia to one of the nurses to look after. I didn't know that you would be staying at the dorm, so…""So, Nia spent the night alone at the hospital?""Edith, it's all my fault!""What's happening right now? Did you get the hospital to help look for her