“It’s your good fortune that I’ve taken a liking to you!” Joan thundered.
Joan couldn’t help but roll his eyes dramatically.
Good fortune?
More like bad luck!
He had no patience left to waste on this idiotic woman in front of him.
“Get the hell out of here right now!”
Joan jumped to her feet and began stripping off her skirt.
“I’m not leaving. I just don’t believe it, you can’t possibly remain indifferent to this gorgeous body of mine!”
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Alana returned with the breakfast she had bought and saw Miranda standing outside the hospital room where Stephan had just been.
She was straining to hear, her ear pressed against the door, as if listening for any sound from inside.
She was even muttering to herself.
“Daughter, hang in there! Go get that man!”
Alana sensed something was off and couldn’t help but walk over. “Auntie, shouldn’t you be watching Grandma? What are you doing here?”
Upon seeing Alana return, Miranda instantly straightened her back and blocked the doorway.
“Alana, don’t go in!”
Alana felt like laughing. “My boyfriend is resting inside. Why can’t I go in?”
Miranda retorted defiantly, “You just can’t go in, period!”
Alana couldn’t help but push Miranda. “Move out of the way!”
Miranda was plump and round, with the strength of an ox, and to her surprise, Alana couldn’t budge her.
Miranda said fiercely, “I won’t let you! My daughter’s in there, doing naughty things with your boyfriend. Don’t go in and ruin their fun!”
“What?” Alana quickly caught on. Her eyes widened in disbelief as she asked, “Your daughter is in there seducing my boyfriend?”
Miranda glared back, denying it. “What do you mean, ‘seducing your boyfriend’? It’s your boyfriend who has his eye on my daughter...he’s the one who asked her to go in and keep him company!”
Alana shook her head. “That’s impossible. My boyfriend would never do something like that!”
Miranda snorted derisively. “What man doesn’t have an affair?”
“Besides, you’re just boyfriend and girlfriend...not husband and wife. Why stop him from finding a better woman?”
Alana refused to believe it. “Move aside. Let me in!”
Miranda said, “There’s no way I’m moving out of the way and letting you ruin their fun!”
“If you know what’s good for you, you’d better break up with him right now!”
Alana laughed in exasperation, “You two...you and your daughter, are completely crazy!”
Miranda said shamelessly, “Hmph, as long as my daughter and I can live a good life, I don’t care about you!”
Alana felt a surge of anxiety; she had no idea what was going on between Stephan and Joan inside.
She never would have imagined that Miranda and Joan could be so shameless.
Knowing full well that Stephan was her boyfriend, they still went so far as to try to snatch him away, what’s the difference between this and some ancient tyrant snatching a beauty off the street?!
It was utterly shameful!
How could she have such disgusting relatives?
Just then, Joan’s heart-wrenching scream echoed from inside the room.
“Ah!”
Miranda gasped, “Oh my God, why is my daughter screaming so loudly?”
“Did that man take my daughter’s virginity? That’s so crude! If that’s the case, I’ll make him take full responsibility for my daughter!”
“Alana, you mustn’t go in and interrupt their fun!”
Little did she know, her daughter was being beaten up inside.
Alana was frantic with worry and wanted to rush in, but Miranda held her back with all her might, not letting her get even an inch closer.
Suddenly, the hospital room door flew open, and a bulky figure was simply tossed out. Like a piece of ragged cloth, she was tossed right at Alana and Miranda’s feet.
Miranda looked down and only then realized that this swollen, pale, shapeless mass was actually her daughter, Joan.
Seeing Joan’s bruised and swollen face and her barely covered body, she was terrified.
Instantly, she took off her own coat and covered Joan with it.
Joan buried her face in Miranda’s arms, sobbing uncontrollably, utterly heartbroken.
Miranda immediately looked up and saw the man standing at the door. She snapped at him, “You bastard, what have you done to my daughter?!”
Stephan cracked his knuckles. He never hit women, but today, a conceited, self-absorbed, and shameless woman had made him break that rule.
He simply couldn’t hold back, his hands were itching to strike!
He glanced at Miranda with a blank expression. “Ask your daughter yourself what she just did to me.”
A flicker of guilt crossed Miranda’s eyes, but it vanished just as quickly.
“What... what could my daughter possibly have done to you? It must be you who did something to my daughter, and stripped her of her skirt! Have you no shame?”
“Let me tell you this: if you did something like that to my daughter, I’m definitely calling the police, and I’ll make sure they punish you severely!”
“Of course, if you want me not to call the police, that’s fine, but then you have to take responsibility for my daughter and marry her!”
Instead of getting angry, Stephan smiled. “Are you sure it was me who did this, and not your daughter shamelessly seducing me? If that’s the case, then go ahead and call the police.”
“Anyway, there are security cameras in the ward. When the police arrive and review the footage, they’ll see the entire sequence of events, how your daughter just stripped off her own clothes in the ward and tried to sexually harass me.”
Upon hearing this, Miranda instantly lost her nerve.
She hadn’t even considered the possibility of security cameras in the ward.
If things were really as that man said, wouldn’t calling the police make her look like a thief crying “catch the thief”?
After all, she knew exactly what kind of ulterior motives her daughter had when she went into that man’s room just a moment ago.
Miranda couldn’t help but exchange a glance with Joan in her arms. Seeing the
panic and fear in Joan’s eyes, she confirmed her suspicions.
Upon hearing this, Alana also pieced together the sequence of events.
Her face turned an unusually pale shade, and she immediately walked over to Stephan, grabbed his hand, and asked with concern. “Stephan, are you okay? Did Joan bother you?”
Stephan immediately wrapped his arm around Alana and said with a feigned air of innocence, “Darling, you know I was asleep just now and didn’t feel a thing. She barged in while I was resting and tried to seduce me.”
“I treated her with every courtesy and respect, considering she’s your cousin, but I never expected her to try to take off her skirt and throw herself at me.”
“She should take a good, hard look at herself. A woman like her...so brazen and shameless, climbing the social ladder by any means necessary, how could I possibly be interested in her?”
“So I didn’t even touch her, I just kicked her right out the door. You have to believe me!”
When the man finished speaking, a hint of grievance seemed to linger in his deep voice. It successfully made Alana feel both pity for him and a surge of anger, compelling her to want to stand up for him.
He’d traveled all this way to come home with her to visit her grandmother and had helped her so much, yet she’d let him suffer this injustice... it was simply unforgivable!
“Mm-hmm, I believe you!”
She patted Stephan on the back, then glared at Miranda and Joan. “Joan, you’ve gone too far! Don’t you have a boyfriend of your own? How dare you shamelessly flirt with my boyfriend? No matter what, I’m calling the police to report you for sexually harassing my boyfriend!”
Stephan curved his lips, unable to help but relish the feeling of being protected by Alana.
As soon as Miranda and Joan heard that Alana was determined to call the police, their faces instantly turned pale.
Miranda immediately said, “Don’t call the police! I was just joking!”
Joan also pleaded anxiously, “Exactly, cousin! We’re all family, there’s no need to make a big deal out of this!”
Alana trembled with rage as she pointed at Joan and demanded, “So, you really went into the hospital room just now and seduced my boyfriend? And you even... you even took off your own clothes...”
Joan felt guilty; the ward was under surveillance, so there was no point in denying it now.
After all, she really had done that.
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