Love Is Gone ( Nora Smith)

Nora frowned.

Before she could answer, a gentle but anxious voice reached them.

"Are you trying to drive me to my grave, Henry?"

On the hospital bed, a gentle middle-aged woman wearing a hospital gown struggled to get out of the bed.

Her hair was all shaved, and she looked frighteningly skinny due to her illness.Her cheeks were sunken, but it nevertheless couldn’t hide her gentle personality.

She was Irene Smith, her aunt.

Nora took a couple of quick steps forward and sat on the edge of the bed.She held her hand and greeted, "Aunt Irene."

Irene looked at Nora up and down for a moment.Then, her eyes turned red.

"You look so much like your mom after you’ve slimmed down, Nora." Her voice trembled as she spoke.

"You've had such a hard time outside all these years."

During the five years when she lived abroad, Henry had never given her a single cent.

It was instead her aunt who always sent her some money as living expenses.

Although it wasn’t much, it was her way of showing her kindness.

Nora’s heart was warmed.

At this point, her stepmother, Wendy, said, "Nora, your aunt has been pretty nice to you ever since you were a child, right? She's sick now, and you're the only one that can cure her! You won’t watch her die, will you?"

Nora frowned.

A brain tumor...

She casually tugged off the medical report and CT scan next to her and started to read them seriously.

A naggy Wendy said, "Your aunt's operation is too difficult, Nora.A moment of carelessness and she'll suffer brain damage, so no one in the hospital wants to do it.Dr.Larson, the head of the Department of Neurology in this hospital, is Angela’s professor at the School of Medicine in her college.If she begs him to do it, maybe he’d be willing to take the risk and give it a go."

Wendy sighed at this point before continuing.

"But now, Anthony’s saying that without the company, he’ll never get engaged to your sister.Your sister is terribly upset and in a bad mood.You can’t possibly ask someone for help in such a gloomy manner, right? So, as long as you give your sister the company, we'll let Angela beg Dr.Larson for help.Whether your aunt’s operation goes through or not completely depends on you now."

for sabotaging her marriage proposal, seducing Anthony out of spite, and for

a family.What are you saying all these for?

joint act, Nora finished reading her

so the slightest carelessness would lead to mistakes and cause her aunt to die

on a surgery like this even in New York, let alone

aside from

yelled angrily after

that Nora’s mother left for her.How can the two

right, Irene.What do you mean by she left it for Nora? Henry and Nora’s mother were husband and wife at that time.That's

shameless...!" Irene looked at

to their nonsense, Nora.My illness is incurable.Even if you sign the agreement and have them perform surgery on me, there’s a 90% chance that itl] fail anyway.Hurry and

you again when I have

the medical record and turned and walked out.Her aunt was in serious condition, and it indeed didn’t brook any

was important now was to contact the hospital and borrow their

and Wendy didn’t expect that she would just up and leave like

the ward in the blink of an

total ingrate.Your kindness toward her was all

Wendy also spoke sarcastically.

she didn’t even want

bit her lip with her

a doctor had nothing to do with Nora from the

the top-floor presidential suite

finish your homework from noon, Pete? This section is completely blank! How are we supposed to proceed with the afternoon syllabus if you do that?

looked at the assignment that obviously hadn’t been given to him at noon and was already beyond his syllabus.He didn’t

tutor curled

me for? I heard that your father completed all these lessons effortlessly when he was your age.Don’t you even know

the word ‘mom’ that Pete

was taut as he picked

workbook.He already knew how to solve these problems

mom wasn’t stupid! But as soon as he finished answering it, the tutor said, "It’s

the problem-solving process? I’ve already told you

even necessary for such a simple

his hand, took the ruler, and struck his palm hard

pain made Pete’s eyes widen, yet he pressed his lips together tightly and refused to

attending the class seriously.Now, your punishment is to attend class

hours until