The Remorseful Brothers

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Chapter 220

The isle contained almost twenty pills, and Helen swallowed them all. White foar hubbled at her lips as a haze enveloped her senses. She duint know what to do. A sharp, excruciating pain shot through her nerves, her lips bit down hard. Pain, only pain. It hurts, the whimpered, her voice trembling, and boeaking into sobs.

Time dated by, her vision blurred, life unraveling like threads being pulled apart. Blood wouldn’t flow back, the agony persisting. For the first time in her life. Helen felt lost, unsure of what to do. She sat on the bed, lingering for a long while, feeling the warmth slowly slip away. As the starlit sky dazzled above, she tell a healache, a discomfort that was beyond words.

When she woke up again, she was in the hospital. As Helen slowly came to, she felt an uncomfortable dryness in her throat and her whole body was drained of energy. Staring at the white ceiling with a pale face, she noticed Selena sitting beside her.

“Why did you do such a foolish thing? Do you know how worried your brother and I are about you!” Selena’s eyes were slightly red as she raised her hand to top Helen, but seeing her lifeless face, she stopped.

Helen’s breath was weak; it was only after a day and a night of resuscitation that the doctors had managed to pull her back from the brink of death Her voice was hoarse as she said, “Worried about met Are you really concerncil for me, or are you just afraid there’ll be no one left to take the blame for Yvette if I diet Or is it something else?”

“Helen, how can you say that? Even if we ask you to take the fall for Yvette, it’s only because of the child she’s carrying–It’s the bloodline of the Flynn family. How could we let him be born in prison” Selena glanced at Helen with dissatisfaction and continued, “Resirles, even if you were lo end up in prison, your brother and I would figure out a way to get you our We’ve done it so nuny times before, and we can surely do it again” Helen scoffed bitterly, “In the end, it’s all for Yvette, isn’t it? Mom, am I not your child anymore? Was all the love and doting you gave me before just

nannies took good care of me. I vividly remember that one time at school I got bullied and came home crying, but all you cared about was playing cards and thought I was annoying. Helen’s eyes dimmed. She would always remember that afternoon, the lack of love and

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away, her tone growing cold, “Helen, you need to have a conscience. Since you were a kid, have you ever lacked anything others had? When

why should I absolutely won’t do it. You saved me once, but I can die a second time.” Helen’s eyes shone with determination for the first time. She was revolute, “I trust that Shuyan will soon uncover the truth–she’s already found Grady, and it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out. What then? How will

else. The moment you’re discharged, plead

to say anything else. Indeed, now she could decide nothing except her

is not your decision to make. Your brother and I have already decided. Even if you are sentenced,

laughed coldly. “Mom, you’re determined to protect

but this

mother’s words, an indescribable pain surged within her. They truly intended to disregard her life for Yvette and her unborn child. Clinging to a glimmer of hope, she asked, “What about Grandpa? What does he think?”

protective. But don’t forget, you’re not one of them, nor am I, or Yvette.

Selena let out a self–mocking laugh. “He said. ‘After all, it’s the Flynn’s bloodline; I

as well. Her gaze shifted past Selena to the door, where a mother was kneeling at the doctor’s feet, desperately pleading with a bleeding child in her arms: “Please, doctor, save my daughter. I can sell my kidney, my liver,

to make me take