The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 426

Marian looked at Sophia, who seemed clueless about what she had said. She couldn't help but said with surprise. "You can't possibly be unaware? Brandon's father's stroke was caused by the anger Brandon elicited."

"Yoli!" Louis barked at her, cutting her off from saying more.

Off to the side, Renata, who had been somewhat dazed, also stepped in and give her a nudge, “Don't speak."

Marian, however, was already too incensed to care, shaking off Renata with a twist of her body and confronting Sophia directly:

"Let me tell you. I was there the day Brandon enraged his father enough to cause him cerebral hemorrhage-in his father's office. Brandon was fiercely defending you, forcibly taking back his father's shares and stripping him of his position. They had a blowout that day. It was a full-on screaming match, the kind that could split the heavens and shatter the earth, and it was all about you. Brandon stormed out, and the instant he slammed that door, his father hit the deck. I was the one who rushed him to the hospital; had we been even slightly later, his life would've been forfeit at his son's hands. Even now, he's lying in the hospital, teetering between life and death. Do you have any idea the pressure Brandon is under because of you? How can you have the gall to dump everything on him?"

Marian's roar woke Theresa, who was still sleeping in the room.

Rubbing her eyes, she looked around. Not seeing her mother, Theresa quickly rolled over to sit up, then slid out of bed with a 'whoosh', pulled open the door, and walked out. As soon as she entered the living room, she saw Marian, red-faced and berating Sophia, flanked by two others, seemingly ganging up on her mom.

Theresa's lip quivered. She couldn't see Sophia's face and had no idea how she was faring. With urgency, she spotted her mother's phone on a nearby table, snatched it up, unlocked it nimbly, then ran back to her room and dialed Brandon's number.

The phone was picked up after just one "beep".

"Hello?"

Brandon's familiar voice on the other end prompted Theresa to burst into tears, "Daddy, the woman who took Mommy's drawing is here picking on Mommy."

Brandon had just reached the hospital and was pushing open the ward door, paused mid-action, then softly comforted her, "Don't be scared, Theresa. Daddy's coming right back."

up, Theresa managed

to

"Okay."

flipped on the Sophia's door surveillance feed and instantly saw

looked aggressive on

Brandon's face turned stone-cold.

the ward. Though weak, it differed notably from the unstable condition Patricia

sitting up in bed, spooning porridge that Patricia was

Brandon asked.

today," Daniel said with a puzzled smile. Brandon's piercing

his probing eyes guiltily and

relief of his recovery. She was busy checking on his condition, calling for doctors, arranging meals-so overwhelmed that she forgot to

guilty complexion

from the bedside

stood to snatch the phone back, but her

of emotion, Brandon scrolled through her call logs and, unsurprisingly, found Marian's call

you to send me away?" he inquired, placing the phone

head hung low, was afraid to admit it, though

to deal with, but

Outside Sophia's place

filled with righteous indignation, but her defenses didn't crumble as Marian had hoped. After letting Marian finish her accusations, Sophia