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

how I’ve treated you” “Yeah, your so–called care was just making sure the maids and 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 respect, the feelings of loss and

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have you ever lacked anything others had? When you said you were bullied, I went to school with you the next day

fall. But why should I absolutely won’t do it. You saved me once, but I can die a second time.”

need to worry about anything else. The moment you’re discharged, plead guilty. That’s what you

hoarse and weak. After speaking so much in one breath, she barely had the strength to say anything else. Indeed, now she could decide nothing except her own life and death. She

your decision to make. Your brother and I have already decided. Even if you

“Mom, you’re determined to protect Yvette, aren’t

you want, but this

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?” In her memory, he had always been upright and principled, with a clear sense of right and wrong. He would never let her take the

cold, distant gaze that Helen had never seen before–it was chilling “Helen, you really don’t understand your grandfather. When it comes to people he likes, he can be fair and even protective. But don’t forget, you’re

a self–mocking laugh. “He said. ‘After all, it’s the Flynn’s bloodline; I will take good care

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:

saying is just to make me take the