Chapter 10: Chapter 10: Do I Really Have to Kneel Before You?

Perhaps it’s because the hospital was covered in Daisy’s blood that day, logically speaking, the two-week observation period was over, and Edward Stephens should have been discharged, yet his attending physician waved his hand and kept him for another two weeks.

Though he repeatedly stressed that the blood wasn’t his, when Lady Stephens gazed at him with tearful eyes, Edward could only curse Daisy as a nuisance in his heart and continue his hospital stay with a black cloud over his head.

Emily Ginger didn’t dare to confront Daisy head-on, so she spent her days sneaking into the hospital to bring Edward chicken soup. She, a rightful fiancée, had to act shadier than a mistress under Daisy’s domineering presence.

Daisy didn’t mind as long as she didn’t see Emily when she went to the hospital.

After work that day, Daisy went to a nearby florist to buy a bouquet of sunflowers and visit Edward, who had been hospitalized for almost a month.

She thought that after being in the hospital for so long, he must be bored out of his mind, and perhaps it was time for her to add some joy to his life. As she reached the door, Lady Stephens’s voice suddenly pierced through from inside the ward:

kneel for you to

to die, Mom doesn’t want

Edward, Mom is begging you, don’t let Mom’s heart ache like this! Seeing you in the hospital, seeing you bleed,

lowered her eyes, looking at the sunflowers cradled in her

Edward’s favorite flower, he had said he liked their vibrant life force, yet now to avoid being with her, he seemed to not even

heard from the room: "Mom! What are you doing?!

"Edward, please promise Mom!"

...

breath, planning to turn away, and as she

slightly widened eyes, the delicate

something for Edward, yet had unexpectedly

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