Let Me Go, Mr. Harvey

Elva stopped crying, eyes taken over by despair. After a while, she asked with a trembling voice,

“Is that what you think of me after all these years?

A wimp who can’t do anything but cry?”

“Isn’t that an accepted fact?”

Lorenzo asked.

“How much do you think your 20% of shares would worth the price if I hadn’t developed the Chante Group into such a tremendous group today?

You don’t deserve those shares at all!”

Elva’s jaw dropped as she listened. She was unable to speak for a long time.

Greyson disliked his parents because of what happened to Angela, and he felt nothing but annoyed as the two argued. Now he was lying on the hospital bed, watching them coldly.

And Luna, as the daughter-in-law, felt she was in no position to interver at this time. The ward was instantly so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.

At that moment, somebody sneered suddenly.

It was Angela. She adjusted her sitting position and said to Lorenzo,

“You’ve talked so much downright nonsense, and failed to make a single point.”

You should reflect on and ask yourself… you had taken over the company only because my grandparents died in a car accident. Otherwise, how could a poor man like you, who had to be funded by Grandma for college tuition and living expenses, become a boss?”

“You… you shut up!”

Lorenzo hated it when people brought out his past as a poor boy. Now he was covering his chest, panting and pointing to Angela, “You…”

BANG

At that moment, the door was pushed open from outside and James walked in.

He skimmed Angela first and saw she was fine. Then he withdrew his gaze. His handsome face became slightly sunken as he interrupted Lorenzo, “Mr. and Mrs. Chante, please excuse us for a second.”

When James looked over, Angela avoided eye contact with him, and when he moved his gaze away, she didn’t look at him either. She lowered her eyes and didn’t know where she should be looking at.

Lorenzo said, “James, you…”NôvelDrama.Org: text © owner.

He had barely opened his mouth before he was once again interrupted by James coolly, “Please show yourself out, immediately.”

“We will, if you insist.”

Lorenzo’s face still looked upset, but he had regained his usual refined demeanor, “It’s about that piece of land in G City, I want to talk to you.”

James frowned slightly as he fixed his eyes on Angela once more.

She didn’t look at him because she was lowering her head down. He could only see her side, which looked even thinner than before.

His heart ached slightly and his adam apple rolled. Then he pulled the door open and went out.

Lorenzo had been looking for James recently, but every time, he would be told that “He is not in”, or “He is in a meeting, and this is not the proper time”, “He is very busy today and didn’t have the time to me you”. Lorenzo had gone there for eight or nine times but did not see James, so he knew that James was avoiding him.

Seeing James answering him, Lorenzo looked so happy. He immediately stepped over and followed him.

Elva wanted to chase him, but she stopped only after a few steps. Then she lowered her head and wiped her tears.

“Angela, you just coughed, how do you feel now?

Just tell us if you don’t feel right, and let Elva call the doctor!”

The ward was finally quiet, and Greyson asked again. He looked so worried.

Elva wiped her tears and looked up in fear. Then she replied, “Angela, are you mad because I fought with your father…?”

“No.” Angela frowned and interrupted her in a cold voice. Then she turned to Luna and Greyson with a mild expression. She said, “Don’t worry about me, I’m fine.”

Seeing how close Angela was to Greyson and Luna and how distant she was to her, and coupled with the poking words Lorenzo said today, Elva was momentarily saddened and her body stumbled a few times.

“Mom…”

Luna saw her and rushed forward to help her.

Elva leaned on her and looked at Angela with a tearful glint, “Angela, are you blaming me for not speaking up for you two years ago?”

Angela lowered her eyes, trying not to look at her in the eyes.

When she was manipulated and sent to prison two years ago, she only felt aggrieved. She felt deeply the pain of being betrayed by Jessica; she had never resented her mom and dad.

What disappointed her was the way her mom and dad treated her after she got out of jail… she felt it so sarcastic every time she thought of it.

“Back then… you ran Jessica over with a car! What did you expect me to say after you did that?”

Elva’s heart was aching and she argued, “I felt as helpless as you when I saw you end up in prison!”

She didn’t know what exactly the feeling was called. It might be “uncomfortable”.

Angela frowned and said with a tightly clenched fist.

“Stop it.”

She had already saw Elva thought after she had been nearly dead for several times.

Elva’s eyes were swollen like two walnuts. When she saw Angela’s attitude toward her, she felt sadder and continued, “You said you have such a good relationship with Jessica, how could you… drive a car over her… just because James likes her?”

“Why did you want to kill her?”

Luna tried to stop her when she heard it, but it was too late –

“I… said…” Angela wass muttering.

At this moment, her blood was steaming and boiling with fury. Angela stood up and squeezed a few words out of her teeth, “Shut up!

Don’t trust her!

Don’t trust her!!!

Don’t trust her!!!”

Angela walked up to Elva with her eyes red. Every cell in her body tensed up as she screamed, “How many times have I told you that I didn’t do it? I didn’t do it! I didn’t do it!!! Why don’t you believe me?!!”

She pointed at herself and asked.

“I’m your daughter! Why do you trust Jessica instead of me?”

Elva took two steps back, looking at Angela’s twisted face, and then she said nervously.

“I…”

“Just because I’m usually too ‘naughty’ and not as ‘well-behaved and obedient’ as Jessica?

Huh?”

As Angela stepped closer, tears emerged from the corners of her eyes. She tried not to let it rolled down and said, “Since you think I’m not a good person, that I’m inferior to Jessica in every way, then you should pretend I was never born as well!”

She yelled and felt her throat tightened. Then she took a deep shaky breath and continued, “I’m already done with the Chante family, so why do you have to come and annoy me?

Does taunting me make you happy?”

Elva’s lips trembled slightly. Her tears streamed down as soon as she opened her moouth, “I…”

“Get out!”

Angela shouted. She covered her mouth as she coughed. Then she pointed at the doorway.

Elva stood still, tears kept flowing down her face. She looked at Angela desperately, sad and surprised. She opened her mouth several times, but not a single word came out.

Luna was standing by. She wanted to stop the two but she didn’t know what to say.

Greyson looked at the ceiling in a daze, not knowing what was in his mind.

“Well.”

Angela snorted coldly, “Fine, I’ll go out if you don’t!”

She got out of bed. And without her shoes on, she tumbled out the door with a bumpy right leg.

Greyson turned over when he heard the door open. Then he glanced coldly at Elva and frowned, trying to get up.

“Just stay put before you can walk on your own. I’ll follow her over there and check it out!”

Luna went over and pressed him down. Then she said to Elva, “I’ll go check on her”. Hurriedly, she chased after Angela and ran out of the door.