True Love Waits

Chapter 310 The Old Son Of A Bitch

James was pleased to see her capitulate. "Don't make trouble. Remember, Carlos isn't around to protect you. Killing you and your baby would be like squashing ants underfoot," he continued threatening her. Debbie cursed through gritted teeth, "You bastard!"

Now that he had gotten what he wanted, James was as happy as a clam. He didn't react to her cursing. He even said, "When you wake up, you can see him one last time," as if he were merciful.

Debbie closed her eyes, ignoring him. He didn't mind and left the room with his minions before Debbie fell into a dreamless sleep.

When Debbie woke up, she found out that she was in a room next to the ICU. She changed into scrubs and a mask, then dragged herself into the ICU weakly.

A nurse followed her inside, watching her like a hawk. The moment Debbie saw Carlos, grief overwhelmed her.

She grabbed his hand tightly. "Old man, it's me, your wife. Wake up! Look at me. Look at me."

His hand felt icy cold, like he truly was dead. Debbie put it to her lips with trembling hands and kissed it gently. "Old man, I miss you so much. I'm worried about you. Open your eyes and look at me, all right?" But Carlos didn't respond at all. He was indeed as quiet as a dead man.

Just when Debbie felt his forehead, the nurse reminded her, "Your minute is up, miss. Please leave."

'My... minute?' Debbie realized that she had traded her marriage for a single minute with Carlos. "Can you give me a few more minutes? I need more time,"

Debbie pleaded.

However, the nurse wouldn't budge on this. She shooed Debbie out of the ward.

Once she stepped out of the ICU, Debbie sat on the bench dejectedly. Till now, she still couldn't believe Carlos was gone. It had to be a trick. James was behind it.

But it still didn't feel real. Debbie left the hospital temporarily. She borrowed a phone and called Jared.

had gotten blind stinking drunk and was crashing at a friend's place. His phone was dead. When Debbie called, he had just gotten

unplugged his phone and called Damon immediately. "Damon, is

the military and they couldn't get a hold of him. Curtis and Colleen were on their way home, returning

for anything. Narrowly avoiding being hit, he rounded the last corner for the hospital. When he saw Debbie, she was crouching in a corner, dejected, as if her wits had left

wasn't around last night. I was

up dully and walked over to the

"No

in the car, she asked,

I did. He said... Carlos' mom confirmed

lower lip and remained silent. On the way to

eat first. They got some nice spicy takeout. Afterwards, they drove

car came to the entrance to the manor, three security guards stepped in the way, blocking the car from going any further. Debbie rolled the car window down and said,

She had never met any one of this new batch. One of them seemed a bit embarrassed when he said,

"James was pretty thorough!

to get my

immediately, "Miss Nian, your things are already packed up. I'll

inside the manor. In a couple minutes, he walked

was bought with Mr. Huo's money,

smiled bitterly. "Okay,

the wheel and cursed,

he heard that, he was so angry that he had wanted to drive back and find James and have him killed. But Debbie

the same story at East City Villa. The security

quite ruthless,' she thought. Jared pulled

we do

had been in a situation like this. She didn't know what to do either. "I don't care about all this. I just want to know if Carlos