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

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

to Shandie, Henrick

eternity, the emergency

soon as the doctor walked out, Henrick hurriedly went up to

"Doctor, how’s my daughter?"

a few more days.This snake venom is especially deadly.If you hadn’t sent her here in time, no one would

do you mean by that? We live in a manor on top of the hill.It’s common for snakes to

doctor shook his head

to find any in the wild here.It had to have come from there.I think

face fell, finally understanding

could have been

"That’s very possible."

fists so hard that his fingernails

wants

gaze instinctively fell on Arielle as a glint

her

our manor is pure evil! Dad, you

those words from Arielle cleared whatever suspicion

just arrived in Jadeborough couldn’t have carried out such a

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

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 with a stern

Henrick couldn’t agree more.

a couple of housekeepers to stay and look after Shandie, Henrick and Arielle left the hospital for the manor, ready to get

manor, Cindy was busy checking her phone

that Shandie was safe and sound, she heaved a

that relief

had been an attempt on Shandie’s life, Cindy seethed with

whispered outside the

had enough of being confined

get out, but Henrick

pacing about in the room, she decided to throw caution to the wind and broke the door lock

into the house when they saw Cindy running down

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