I smiled wryly. “I’ll be graduating with my
master’s degree next year. I’m confident that I
can find a good job and take care of Grandma.
Hailey, I’m not going to marry him. If you don’t
want to give up the opportunity, why don’t you
just marry Mr. Van Derlyn yourself?”
“Are you trying to make things difficult for me?”
Hailey looked at me with teary eyes. “You know
I’ve been with Alex for almost a year. How can I
betray Alex just to be with Xavier? Mrs. Van
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Derlyn agreed to give us three more days to
consider. Riley, just give in to Mr. Van Derlyn,
otherwise, we can’t just take the money and
reject the man. It’ll seem like we’re disgusted by
Mrs. Van Derlyn’s son. It’ll be so embarrassing,
right?”
I clicked my tongue in annoyance: as if she
wasn’t the one who dumped that sucker in the
past life.
But no sooner had I kicked Hailey out of my
room than Grandma had an accident.
She suddenly fainted while closing up her
wonton stand at night. When she was taken to
the hospital, her condition was critical.
The doctor said it was a stroke caused by a
severe allergic reaction, along with
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complications from her long–term diabetes. But
they couldn’t figure out what had caused the
allergic reaction.
And when Grandma was taken to the hospital, Hailey was with her.
Only Hailey knew what she had eaten…
