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.

Henrick was the more worried of

Shandie were his biological daughters and were crucial to the future of

that something had happened to Shandie, Henrick was naturally scared to

felt like an eternity, the emergency room doors

out, Henrick hurriedly went up

"Doctor, how’s my daughter?"

need to be monitored for a few more days.This snake venom is especially deadly.If you hadn’t sent her here in time, no one would have been able to save her! But, I have to ask, how did she get bitten? This snake shouldn’t have appeared in

he asked, "What do you mean by that? We live in a

doctor shook his

belongs in the South, so you won’t be able to find any in the wild here.It had

understanding

this could have been an

"That’s very possible."

his fists so hard that his

hell wants to

instinctively fell on Arielle as a

to have noticed her father’s doubts and

Dad, you have to get to

cleared whatever suspicion Henrick had

girl who had only just

shouldn’t have suspected her! "Let’s go home first, Arielle.I have to investigate this

bit you tomorrow? Please get it checked out as soon as possible and bring the perpetrator to

Henrick couldn’t agree more.

After ordering a couple of housekeepers to

Cindy was busy checking

was safe and sound, she heaved a sigh of

relief didn’t last

the snake had been an

whispered outside the room, "Mrs.Southall, Mr.Southall is

had enough of being confined to her

out, but Henrick had locked the door

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

the house when they saw Cindy running down

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