It was only then that Henrick remembered Shandie was still on the floor, twitching non-stop.

He ordered the housekeepers to carry Shandie downstairs while he prepared to take Arielle along to the hospital.

"Dear! Please take me with you!" Cindy pleaded, tears flowing uncontrollably.

"Shannie is my… She’s one that I watched growing up.I can’t possibly stay at home!"

Despite how pitiful and terrified Cindy looked, Henrick steeled his heart against her.

"No! I want you to reflect on yourself! Can someone take Mrs.Southall back to her room? No one is to let her out without my orders!"

One of the housekeepers immediately nodded and dragged a crying Cindy away while Arielle accompanied Henrick into the ambulance.

"Dad, why don’t we let Aunt Cindy come along? I can see how close she is to Shandie.Leaving her at home will only worry her sick," Arielle softly pleaded.

Alas, Henrick refused to yield.He turned his gaze toward Arielle and sighed deeply.

"You silly child.Life overseas must have been tough, hasn’t it?"

"Not at all.Life was good," Arielle replied and meant every word of it.

She had had a wonderful life abroad, and it couldn’t have been any better.

However, Henrick thought his daughter was merely putting on a brave front and sighed again.

"You’re too naive.How will you survive here in Jadeborough? I’ll have to slowly teach you the ways so you won’t feel out of place."

"Thank you, Dad!"

"We’re family.You don’t have to thank me…"

Before long, the ambulance had arrived at the hospital.

Shandie was immediately wheeled into the emergency room because her heart had stopped beating.

Worried and anxious, Henrick and Arielle paced outside the emergency room as they waited.

the more worried

his biological daughters and were crucial to the

something had happened to Shandie, Henrick was

what felt like an eternity, the emergency room doors finally

walked out, Henrick hurriedly

"Doctor, how’s my daughter?"

venom is especially deadly.If you hadn’t sent her here in time, no one would have been able to save her! But, I

he asked, "What do you mean by that? We live in a manor on top of the hill.It’s

shook his

find any in the wild here.It had to

fell, finally understanding

this could have been an

"That’s very possible."

hard that his fingernails

hell wants to harm my

Arielle as a glint

to have noticed her father’s doubts and fumed with

our manor is pure evil! Dad, you

words from Arielle cleared whatever

girl who had only just arrived in Jadeborough couldn’t have carried out

the snake.I shouldn’t have suspected her! "Let’s

Dad, we have to investigate it thoroughly! The snake bit Shandie today, but what if it bit you tomorrow? Please get it checked out as soon as possible and bring the perpetrator to justice!" Arielle said

Henrick couldn’t agree more.

in, I’m not going to let them off easy! After ordering a couple of housekeepers to stay and look after Shandie,

Cindy was busy checking her phone while

the message that Shandie was safe

that relief didn’t

told that the release of the snake had been an attempt on Shandie’s life, Cindy seethed with

one of the housekeepers whispered outside the room, "Mrs.Southall,

had had enough of being confined to

get out, but Henrick had locked the

room, she decided to throw caution to the wind and broke the door lock with

just stepped into the

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