The CEO's Wife Is Super Charming

Chapter 82: Chapter 81: The Choice

―――Early the next morning, South City.

A black car was still driving on the wide road. Along the way, Norman Bennett received numerous calls, but he didn’t answer any of them, eventually even turning off his phone.

Elliana Lyle didn’t have the heart to ask who it was; she just blankly stared out the car window in a daze.

From the rearview mirror, you could see several more cars, seemingly about to overtake them, and Norman Bennett uncharacteristically exceeded the speed limit.

Finally, with a screeching sound, the car stopped abruptly, forcibly halted by a vehicle blocking the way ahead.

A tall man in a suit with a buzz cut got out of the car, walking directly to the front of Norman Bennett’s vehicle. Elliana was so scared by the situation that she shrank back.

"Don’t worry, it’s okay," Norman Bennett reassured.

The window slowly rolled down to reveal a young man with an average appearance, marked by a prominent flesh-colored scar across one eye.

He bowed to Norman Bennett and then said respectfully, "Young Master! The Master says you should stay in North City. Please come back with us."

"Get lost." Norman Bennett’s eyes, as icy as ever, now glistened with a trace of fury, clearly irate.

The man outside the window, named Raymond Wood, is a reliable bodyguard of Norman Bennett’s father, Philip Bennett, also considered something of a lackey.

Hearing Norman Bennett’s anger, Raymond dared not confront him, instead keeping his head slightly bowed as he repeated, "Young Master, please return with me. It’s an order from the Master." Then he added, "Don’t worry, Young Master, I’ll make arrangements to send Miss Lyle back."

"There’s no need to try to pressure me with him, move aside!"

"Young Master! Please don’t make this difficult for us." Before Raymond could finish speaking, several of Norman Bennett’s bodyguards had already stepped out from the cars behind, numbering more than ten.

Raymond knew that if it came to a head-on confrontation with Norman Bennett’s men, they’d surely come out worse. After all, the current head matriarch is unable to have heirs, and the Bennetts would inevitably be Normans’s in the future.

After thinking it through, Raymond recognized the pros and cons, so he stepped back a bit and bowed to Norman Bennett, then returned to his car, driving away.

"Norman, was it Uncle asking you to go back?" As the car drove down the road, Elliana’s dazed almond eyes looked at the man.

"Mm! It’s nothing, don’t worry."

expression or emotion, yet

slightly and fell silent, gazing for a while at the man’s handsome profile, then absent-mindedly turned her eyes back

to follow Norman from behind but

time they reached the hospital, it was already

and the hospital entrance wasn’t as

only on getting inside to see her mother. Alas, her ankle, injured before, failed

her just in time, preventing

rush!" Norman gently picked her up, careful

had wheelchairs, and the man pushed her toward the ICU where Elliana’s mother was

Her mother’s room was empty, neither Mr. Lyle nor anyone else was

have time to care about that. What she didn’t know was that Mr. Lyle hadn’t

now. She could only look inside from the window’s glass, where a

will be fine." The man held her

finding herself praying: Nothing will happen... nothing will happen, please protect us,

...

―――Half an hour later.

patient suffered a brain hemorrhage. Resuscitation failed. She is declared dead.

wearing glasses, said guiltily

words utterly chilled Elliana’s already

with disbelief, and her

her effort was

wheelchair’s armrests, her voice becoming

Her lips were pale, her face

could not find words to say. Her

this? She would rather

them all away. His heart ached, yet he felt that perhaps crying would help her

the point of it all in

let Shane Southwell kill her mother. She would never again hear her mother call her

uttered that one word, holding all she wanted to say,

couldn’t accept it. Why... why did

flush purple from holding her breath, Norman hurriedly patted her

Elliana only felt her heart filled with thorns and a heavy stone crashing down, leaving her unable to breathe.

"Girl! Girl!"