The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 241

That day, Sawyer went straight to the hospital where Holbrook was staying.

He searched every corner of the VIP ward Holbrook used to occupy, but found no sign of him. In the end, Sawyer discovered Holbrook lying alone on a makeshift cot in a hallway of the general ward.

Holbrook looked utterly abandoned, stretched out on that narrow hospital bed in the corridor. He kept calling out for water, but none of the nurses bustling past paid him the slightest attention.

Sawyer's eyes burned with anger and something dangerously close to tears. Without thinking, he grabbed a male nurse by the collar and slammed him against the wall.

"Can't you see?" Sawyer ground out through clenched teeth. "My father's thirsty- he's been asking for water. Are you all deaf or just heartless?"

"You call yourself a nurse? Where's your sense of basic decency?" Sawyer's voice was shaking with fury. "What's your name and ID? I'm going to report you." He dug his phone out of his pocket and dialed the hospital director's number.

But no one picked up.

A sick realization crept over Sawyer's face; he could guess what was happening.

getting all high and mighty for? You still think you're Mr. Iverson?" He sneered, straightening his wrinkled uniform after shoving Sawyer's hand away. "Go ahead, try reporting me. See if the

he didn't waste any more words. He strode away, filled a cup with water from the

and hospital bills, and—still seething-arranged to transfer his

cot and set it up beside Holbrook's bed, settling in to stay

passed. Not a single member of the

ever, he longed for his grandchildren. But not

voice thin and weary when he turned to his son and asked, "Sawyer...

month ago, insisting he hire a nurse for their father and refusing to set foot there herself. Jeanette, timid as

did it hit Sawyer-what he'd thought was a happy family was, in reality, just a fractured

didn't even know how to answer his

his son's silence

some reason, his thoughts turned to

bring him vitamins and herbal supplements. Back when Sawyer was always at work, it was Citrine