Forbidden Passion

Chapter 594 Phoebe in His Memory

Theodore cracked his eyes open, locking onto James with a cold, ruthless stare. A weird smile crept across his face.

"You made me save her first. I did. Now you want me to clean up the mess? Mr. Fitzroy, do I look like I got nothing better to do?" James's face went pale, his lips quivering.

He begged, "Theodore, I know you hate me and Sophia. I know Phoebe's still in danger, but please, understand a father's heart. She's my only daughter left. Can you just go see her, just for a moment?"

Theodore looked away, like staring at James any longer would drag up bad memories. "Leave. I think I've repaid any debt I owed you."

James never thought Theodore would cut ties so cleanly. He looked at Theodore, shaking. "Theodore, Vanessa got kidnapped because of you. How can you just walk away?"

Grace came back with a lunchbox and caught James's accusation. She was instantly pissed and stormed over.

She yelled, "How can you be so demanding? Theodore didn't save Phoebe first; he dropped five billion dollars to save Vanessa. Now she's well-fed and recovering in the hospital, with all the bills covered by Theodore. What more do you want? Should Theodore be her servant to repay her debt for being kidnapped?"

James, usually a nice guy, had spoken out of line. He blushed at Grace's comeback.

James shot back, "Vanessa went through hell for no reason. Isn't it right for you to pay for her rescue? If Theodore hadn't pushed the kidnappers to the edge, they wouldn't have beaten her half to death."

Grace was fuming, pointing to the ICU. "The one beaten half to death is Phoebe. She's still in the ICU, unlike Vanessa, who's already up and causing trouble."

ghostly. "I'm not talking

behavior. No wonder Vanessa turned out to

What a messed-up family.

doctor. Theodore is not a doctor. Don't come to him for everything. He's busy and has no time for these trivial matters." Grace made a shooing gesture. "Please don't bother Theodore anymore." James's pleas got him nowhere. Thinking of Vanessa's situation, he

begging you. Just

cost Theodore

up but stood, his voice icy. "James, please have some self-respect. Don't exhaust the last bit of respect I

while, he stood

seeing James's gray hair and his kneeling for Vanessa made her

back, then at the closed ICU door, and that bit

lying in the ICU; she didn't

Seeing Theodore still guarding the ICU door, she walked over and sat beside him. "Still worried about her?" Theodore turned to look at Evelyn. She

had weathered a lot of storms in her

out for three days. I don't know when she'll wake up or if she'll even want to see me when she does,"

the Vanderbilt family. My paycheck barely covered sending two kids to school. During the school's anniversary, Phoebe got picked as the cheerleading captain but

"She never mentioned it at home, quietly collecting trash to sell at the recycling station. When I found out, I felt she had embarrassed me. Without asking why, I beat her and sternly told her not to collect trash again. She's so stubborn. Since I wouldn't let her sell trash, she used the money she had already earned to buy popsicles

say. She earned enough money to buy the uniform, but the teacher thought she was too tanned and didn't fit the school's image, so they gave the captain position to another girl. She came home and

Theodore's heart ached.

for it, while Donovan clearly tells me

on the brink of death, she would never have confessed her