Chapter 8 Out of Choice


    “Alicia Cornell, don’t you ever pretend to be kind in front of me! You’ve disgusted me!” I stared at Alicia


    in superiority and said frigidly. Alicia copsed onto the ground and looked at me with teary eyes, as if I


    had pushed her hard just now. Yet the fact was I had not even touched her. “Sis, you---” Her tears


    flowed down and she cried while covering her face.


    Marlon held her up and protected her from his back. He then red at me in disgust. “Rachael, I can’t


    believe that not only you’re shameless, you’ve actually debased your own sister like that!” One knife


    stabbed into my heart followed by the other and the pain was excruciating. Yet I lifted my head and


    smiled at him. “Marlon Redford, you’re a bastard. You’re an unwitty blind person!”


    “Rachael, you truly disgust me!” He carried Alicia, turned around and left. The disgusted look he shot


    me the moment he turned had pierced my heart, leaving holes on it. Alicia put her arms around


    Marlon’s neck and her face which was right over Marlon’s shoulder no longer had a single tear. She


    was curving her lips and smiling at me with delight andcence. I smiled too. I smiled hard while


    leaning against the icy wall, until they got into the car and the car sped away in the dark. I closed my


    eyes gently. Mommy, I feel painful, and tired!


    I did not find a hotel to rest but standing with my back against the wall for the whole night silently. I did


    not want to find a hotel because my economic status forbade me to do so. Since graduating, what was


    left for me was only the one thousand yuan I saved from doing part-time jobs back then. Therefore I


    had to spend every penny carefully.


    My mobile phone rang all of a sudden. It was Billie. I quickly picked up the call. Billie would not call me


    for nothing, and now that she had called me, it must have concerned little David. “What’s wrong? Billie.”


    “Miss, little David is having a high fever, and he’s in aa. But mistress forbids me to go out, and it’s


    obvious she doesn’t want me to get a doctor for little David. Please hurry back and take him secretly to


    the hospital!” She lowered her voice and sounded really anxious. “I’ll be right back!” After hanging up


    the call, I no longer had any other mood and immediately hurried back to the Cornell’s house.


    Little David had passed out from the fever. I did not want to let Shania knew that I had returned and


    dyed the time for me to take little David to the doctor, therefore I sneaked into the house, carried


    little David and wanted to sneak back out. “Why are youing back, you bitch!” As I was going to


    leave with little David who was almost unconscious, I encountered Shania by ident. I wanted to


    seek for a doctor as fast as possible; therefore I ignored her and wanted to leave. Yet Shania blocked


    my way and showed that she did not want me to get treatment for little David at all. She even wanted to


    grab little David away from me. “Bitch, let me tell you, I would definitely not let you take this little


    bastard to the doctor. It’s best that he dies from illness!”


    “Get off!” I pushed her and she fell onto the ground. Alicia who saw that quickly held her up and


    questioned me in rage, “Rachael! How dare you push my mom!” She extended her hands and wanted


    to push me too, even wanted to fight with me. Alicia was too alike to her mother, and it could say that


    she had surpassed her mother. She was way more unreasonable than a shrew and when she acted,


    she looked way purer than a water lily. She hadpletely exposed her shrew side when Marlon was


    not present at the moment.


    “I said get off!” Little David was in my arms like a fragile thing. His fever did not go down, his face


    flushed and his lips were pale. Yet the two people in front of me were even crueler than any predator


    that they wanted to kill such a young child. I was burning with rage and I had the urge to tear those two


    into pieces. Yet since I was still carrying little David and I was afraid that I would drop him, I did not


    dare to make big movements.


    Alicia scratched and beat me. I was nearly always at a disadvantageous position dodging her attack,


    and my body was full of scratches. Suddenly, Alicia fell down before me and I did not have the time to


    react. I thought she must have tripped over something that she identally fell down. “Alice! Are you


    alright?” Marlon held her up and asked with care. Alicia shook her head with teary eyes and tugged his


    sleeve in fear. She half hid behind him and choked. “I, I think sis is just still being angry due to what


    happenedst night, please don’t me her!”


    I finally realized what happened at the moment. Alicia saw Marloning over, and that was why she


    suddenly fell down. But I had to say she really had good acting skills. The show was indeed amazing


    when Shania further varnished the truth and embellished the whole story at the side. I had the urge to


    towards me,nding a hard p on my face. My face was burning from the pain and his strength was


    so great that my face contorted from the impact.


    My heartbeat had stopped for a moment. I slowly lifted my head and looked at Marlon. He was looking


    at me too, coldly with disgust. “Rachael, Alicia is your sister, how could you be that vicious?” I stared at


    him and smiled at length. I was vicious? My body was full of scratches left by Alicia. The scratches


    were not visible inside my sleeves, but my arms which were exposed outside were all red. Yet the man


    before me, the man whom I had loved deeply for four years had used me for being vicious, and


    imed that his fiancé was the one with the heart of gold.


    “Marlon Redford, you’ve really disappointed me!” I stared at him and said that. My heart was bleeding


    at that time. A puncture was left on it and blood was gushing out. I held little David tight in my arms and


    without giving Marlon another nce left the spot. My arms were burning and my legs hurt from the


    kicks received from Alicia when she was wearing high-heels shoes. Yet carrying little David, I forced my


    back straight and walked out of the Cornell’s house.


    Marlon’s hand froze in the air. His ck eyes were still deep and obscure. Yet there seemed to be an


    indiscernible change in his usual expressionless face. “Marlon, Alicia’s knees are scraped!” Shania


    said. Marlon only then turned around. Alicia was covering her knees and staring at him with teary eyes.


    The summer sunlight shone on me, but I was feeling so cold that even my heart was shivering. I felt so


    cold that I could only hug little David tighter. “David, I won’t let anything happen to you! I won’t!” My


    eyes went sore, my soul was screaming. I was on the edge of having a mental breakdown and I did not


    want that to happen. My heart ached but I did not want to cry at all. None of what happened to me


    deserved my tears. Why should I cry? Not to mention little David still needed my care. I could not cry.


    Yet my face was wet.


    “What kind of parent are you? The kid’s already having a high fever and you only bring him here now?


    You’re gonna regret if something goes wrong to the kid’s brain afterwards!” After checking little David,


    the doctor scolded me right on my face. I did not utter a word while carrying little David. I was not a


    good sister, and it was me being useless that made little David suffered as I did. “And you’re still crying.


    How could you take care of a child like this?” The doctor became impatient and other patients who


    were waiting at the surrounding all looked at me with surprise. Some of them consoled me. “Don’t


    worry, it’s only a fever. He’ll recover after some drip-feeding and medication. You don’t have to cry.”


    “Yeah, it’s not a serious matter!”


    I shook my head profusely and forcibly wiped my tears away. “I’m not crying.” I was not crying. There


    was nothing to cry for. My only thought at the moment was to take good care of little David and made


    him healthy again. “Hurry up and pay the bill!” The doctor handed me the bill and I quickly went to the


    counter.


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    “It’s three hundred and sixty yuan in total.”


    “Three hundred and sixty?” I was startled. I used to be reluctant to go to the hospital whenever I was


    sick. Having not gone to the hospital for a long time, I did not expect the fee to be that expensive.


    “Hurry up!” The nurse urged with impatience. “Oh, okay!” I touched the only one thousand yuan I had


    left in my pocket and gritted my teeth, wanting to take it out and hand it to the nurse. Yet suddenly, a


    stack of cash was ced in front of me. As I lifted my head feeling baffled, I saw Marlon showing up


    beside me not knowing when.