Mackenzie’s maneuvering left Ellie struggling to respond. Seeing her silence,
Mackenzie smiled again. “You’re truly a loyalty and righteousness girl. Yosef should consider himself
lucky to have you as a friend. If possible, I’d like to be your friend too!”
“I won’t be friends with you,” Ellie responded instinctively. “You’re Yosef’s enemies and, therefore, my
enemies too!”
“Just because Queenie Banner died intentionally at Emmanuel’s hands, Yosef sees him as an enemy,
and you see us as enemies, too?” Mackenzie began another assault, forcefully questioning.
“That’s right!” Ellie pressed her lips tightly together, then used agitatedly, “Why is it that Emmanuel
can get away with murder, iming self-defense, but you all insist on sending Yosef to jail for
identally killing someone?”
“Ellie, you’re literate, right?” Mackenzie thought Ellie’s rebuke sounded rather ridiculous.
“Emmanuel acted in self-defense. Banner, along with others, came to kill him. He defended himself,
and Banner happened to throw herself at him. Yosef, on the other hand,mitted manughter by
ident. The nature of the two incidents ispletely different!”
“I don’t care!” Ellie covered her ears. “Justice and evil are just about power. If you want to ruin Yosef, I’ll
destroy you!”
Mackenzie didn’t continue to argue with her but followed her lead. “So, someone paid you to pretend to
be radiation victims of Hadley Factory to destroy our Terence Group?”
Ellie quickly shut her mouth, refusing to speak further.
Mackenzie continued, “Whether you speak or not doesn’t matter. So many people choose to believe
us; I’m sure they can tell me the truth. I’m talking to you to resolve our grievances. I don’t want to send
you to prison because you’ve only been deceived by bad people!”
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Ellie persisted, “Yosef isn’t a bad person, and neither are those who help him! You are the bad ones!”
Mackenzie had already gleaned the truth from her mouth, so there was no need to continue. She just
felt sorry. This girl was innocent and, at such a tender age, had been manipted by malicious
individuals.
Just then, Lexi approached her, urgently saying, “Ms. Quillen, there are many journalists outside. What
should we do?”
Mackenzie stopped talking to Ellie, nced at Emmanuel, who was still treating patients, and sighed
softly, “Let them in!”
This moment was bound toe sooner orter, anyway. They had won the race against time and
now had nothing to fear.
Soon, a group of well-equipped journalists arrived outside the ward.
“D*mn it!” Frederick cursed when he saw therge group. “We were blocked from entering yesterday,
and now they’re letting journalists in so easily?!”
Shane echoed. “I refuse to believe this isn’t deliberately arranged! It’s all meticulously nned to
destroy us!”
Mackenzie didn’tment but turned to Emmanuel. “There’s one patient left. Go treat her, and Lexi
and I will handle these journalists!”
“Alright.” Emmanuel nodded and approached Ellie.
“Stay back! I won’t ept treatment from you!” Ellie looked at Emmanuel, her filled eyes with more
hatred than when she faced Mackenzie. It was this demon who had killed
Yosef’s beloved. But Emmanuel’s gaze wasn’t as cold as imagined. Instead, it carried a hint of warmth.
“Your death serves no purpose anymore.”..
With just one sentence, Emmanuel crumbled Ellie’s defenses again. Yet, the young woman remained
defiant, even prepared for Emmanuel to force his treatment on her or ridicule her for not being a victim
of radiation sickness, but Emmanuel didn’t do anything. He just sat beside her and began telling her
Yosef’s story. Ellie instantly became interested,pletely absorbed.
Meanwhile, outside the ward, a battle without gunfire had already begun! All the journalists were eager
to shove their microphones into Mackenzie’s mouth.
“Ms. Quillen, how can your factory operate without meeting safety standards? How much money did
you spend on PR?”