Chapter 60


    Alissa was lying on a bed with tubes connected to her body. Bright red blood trickled through the tubes


    into a basin beside her, and the entire basin was filled with red liquid. Alissa''s face was the color of


    paper, and she looked like she was barely breathing. Beside her was a fat man who was recording a


    video. "Do you see this, Hugh? Do you like the present I gave you? All of this girl''s blood is about to


    leave her body. I wonder if you''ll lose your mind then! Hah!" Zachary let out augh.


    Greg wasn''t sure if Hugh would go crazy, but he knew that he was about to lose his mind. How dare


    this man subject my lovely, energetic daughter to bloodletting?! Greg charged forward and kicked


    Zachary''s chest before grabbing a vase beside him and shattering it. Then, he took one of the shards


    and stabbed it directly into one of Zachary''s main arteries in his neck. "W-Who are you?" Zachary cried.


    "Your grandfather!" Greg no longer cared about the man and tore off Alissa''s tubes before pressing his


    hands firmly on her wounds.


    "Wake up, Alissa! Daddy''s here to bring you home!" Greg was a seven-foot-tall man, but beads of tears


    were forming in his eyes right then. Alissa''s eyes were shut the whole time, and she didn''t respond to


    Greg at all. He could feel her skin turning eerily cold against his. "Daddy''s bringing you out, Alissa!


    Don''t worry!" He clutched onto his daughter as he felt a stinging pain in his heart.


    By the time he brought Alissa out, Abigail was hanging on for dear life. Her body was covered with


    blood, but the hatred in her eyes remained as strong as before. "Let''s go, Abigail! Greg noticed that his


    men had arrived, so he quickly grabbed Abigail''s hand.


    She spun around and froze when she saw her daughter''s lifeless body. "What happened to Alissa?"


    "We''ll talk after we leave this ce." Greg couldn''t bear to tell Abigail what had happened, and he was


    rather afraid to tell her as well. However, he knew that she would have to find out eventually. He just


    didn''t want her to find out about it right then. Abigail''s chest tightened when she saw blood slowly


    trickling down her daughter''s wrist. "Alissa''s blood…"


    She was a doctor, so she was well aware of certain signs and what they meant to the human body. Yet,


    she couldn''t bring herself to believe what was going on right then. All of a sudden, someone flung a


    knife in Abigail''s direction.


    Greg immediately sent a kick in that direction. His own men quickly caught up with him, and he shouted


    his orders to them. "I want you guys to destroy this ce! Kill all of them, except the man called


    Zachary! I want him to pay for doing this to my daughter!" Greg uttered in a cold tone.


    All of his men immediately charged into the building, while Greg brought Abigail and Alissa into the car


    and directly toward the hospital. Abigail clutched onto her daughter, and she felt as if her heart had


    been sliced open by a knife when she saw her daughter''s condition. Alissa looked like a lifeless rag


    doll. "I''m sorry, Alissa. This is all my fault." She held onto her daughter''s cold hand as she quickly made


    a call to Marona.


    "Hey. I need you to contact hospitals in Rorea that have Rh-negative blood, and I need everything that I


    can get. The more, the better." Alissa''s blood type was rare, and Abigail was worried that they wouldn''t


    be able to gather enough blood in time. Greg drove the car directly to the hospital, and he also got his


    connections to prepare and send all of the avable blood over to the hospital they were at. "Take mine


    for now," Greg said as they waited for the rest of the blood. "I have the same blood type as Alissa."


    Abigail stared at him hesitantly. "Alissa needs a lot of blood, and I''m afraid…"


    "It''s fine. Take mine. What matters now is that we save the kid." Greg''s words nearly triggered Abigail''s


    tears. "Okay!" She knew it was toote for anything else—what mattered then was to save Alissa. Both


    Greg and Alissa went into the operation theater together, and Abigail began to work on saving her


    daughter. Her heart felt like it was being torn apart as she stared at her daughter''s lifeless body. How


    could I be so innocent? How could I think that Hugh would be able to protect Alissa? He knew that his


    life would be threatened as long as he was in Rorea, so why didn''t he bring Alissa along when he left?


    Why didn''t he tell me to bring her away? Abigail felt a sudden resentment toward Hugh.


    She watched as Greg''s blood traveled through tubes into Alissa''s body. For some reason, she still


    couldn''t calm her racing heart down, even after she had already transferred 80 of blood. If they


    went on any longer, Greg''s life would be in danger. Abigail decided not to listen to Greg''s instructions—


    she tore the tubes away and stopped the transfusion.


    "There should be more blooding in from other hospitals. You shouldn''t push yourself any further.


    We have to leave this ce right after we save Alissa''s life, so I''ll need you to deal with a lot of things


    along the way. The best I can do now is to stabilize Alissa''s condition. Stop fighting with me, okay,


    Alissa?" Abigail sounded like she was tearing up.


    When Greg saw the state she was in, he couldn''t help but pat her on the shoulder. "It''s going to be fine.


    Don''t worry."


    "Okay." Abigail nodded as tears filled her eyes. While Abigail continued to save her child, Greg focused


    on gathering manpower and connections. After about one hour, Alissa''splexion finally regained its


    color, and her body temperature was also starting to go up a little. Only then did Abigail feel a little less


    worried.


    After Gregpleted his blood transfusion with Alissa, he immediately hopped onto a helicopter before


    bringing Alissa and Abigail back to Harrion. Abigail wanted to send Alissa to the hospital, but Greg


    exined that he had already prepared all of the best medical equipment over at Allie''s Garden. He felt


    that it was better to keep his daughter there. Abigail didn''t argue with him about that, and they both


    sent Alissa back to Allie''s Garden.


    When Valerie and Arianna saw Alissa, they were all extremely worried. "Is Alissa okay, Mommy?"


    "She''s fine. You should go and y on your own." Abigail patted Arianna on her head as she felt her


    tearsing once more. Ever since they were young, Alissa had barely gotten a cold, so Abigail had


    never imagined that Alissa would end up this close to death.


    After that, Alissa was sent to the ICU. Abigail stayed with Alissa the whole time while Valerie gazed at


    Greg worriedly. "Did our personal matters implicate the child?"


    "No. This was an ident, Mom. Don''t worry. I don''t care who messed with my daughter, but I''m going


    to make sure that he or she pays for this." A murderous re shed in Greg''s eyes.


    "That''s right. We have to capture the person who messed with my granddaughter." Although Valerie


    was generally a calm person, she spoke like a powerful woman of status at that moment. Arianna was


    as worried as everyone else, but she knew that she couldn''t disturb her mother right then. Abigail''s


    phone kept ringing, but no one had the heart to pay attention to it. When Arianna picked the phone up,


    she saw that it was a call from Hugh.


    "Papa!" Arianna cried.


    "Alissa?"


    "I''m Arianna."


    Arianna''s voice made Hugh extremely worried. "Where''s your mother, Arianna?"


    "Mommy''s saving Alissa. What happened to Alissa, Papa? Her face was really pale, and I don''t think


    I''ve ever seen her so weak in the past. Is she going to die?" Arianna had been trying her best to hold it


    in, but she started to cry after speaking to Hugh.


    Hugh despised himself right then. When he received the video from Zachary, he had nearly stopped


    breathing for a moment. He had never imagined that someone could bear to torture Alissa in that


    manner.


    At the same time, he knew that Abigail would certainly be furious this time. When he thought about


    that, he desperately wanted to buy a ne ticket back right now. However, he wasn''t free to leave just


    yet. "No. Alissa isn''t going to die!" Even though that was what he said, he didn''t fully believe his own


    words. Is it really okay for a young girl to bleed so much?


    Arianna finally stopped crying after hearing Hugh''s words. "Okay. I trust you, Papa. Alissa is going to


    be fine."


    When Hugh thought about how much Alissa and Arianna trusted him, he felt like ughtering himself. If


    it weren''t for the fact that Alissa had a fever before he left, he wouldn''t have left her with Fred. He


    wished he could turn back time whenever he thought about the decision he made. "Arianna, can you


    please tell me if anything happens to Alissa?" he asked.


    "Okay. But Papa, where are you? Wasn''t Alissa with you? How did this happen?" Arianna wasn''t


    scolding him, but purely asking him out of curiosity. However, her words seemed to burn in his ears. "I


    had some emergency to attend to, so I''m at a faraway ce. I can''t make it back in time now. Can you


    please let me know once her condition is stabilized?"


    "Sure." Before Arianna finished her words, someone called for Hugh on the other end of the line, and


    he immediately ended the call. Arianna felt rather annoyed when she realized that Hugh had ended her


    call. Is there something more important than Alissa? This was the first time Arianna had felt dissatisfied


    with Hugh.


    Meanwhile, Abigail kept an eye on Alissa and checked her vitals frequently. Greg knew that there was


    no point telling Abigail to take a rest, so he simply ordered someone to prepare food before sending it


    into the room. "You''re still injured, and you don''t want to get an infection. Who''s going to take care of


    Alissa then? You need to take care of yourself first. I know you''re not going to listen to what I say now,


    but I still hope—"


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    Abigail took the bowl from his hands and gulped it down before he could finish his sentence. She had


    drunk the soup so quickly that she didn''t even know what it tasted like. Greg let out a huge sigh before


    bringing the bowl out.


    "Why aren''t you angry at me? I was the one who didn''t take care of the kid, and I was the one who put


    her in danger. She nearly died because of me. Why aren''t you scolding me?" Abigail''s eyes were red,


    but she tried her best not to cry.


    Greg was aware that Abigail would me herself more than anyone for this incident. "Did you want this


    to happen?" he asked calmly.


    "Of course not!" she retorted.


    "Exactly. You didn''t want this to happen, so why should I me you for it? Among all of us, you''re the


    one hurting the most. Alissa is your child, and you would me yourself more than anyone for this.


    Throughout the years, you''ve been the only one carrying all these responsibilities. As a father, I haven''t


    done anything, so who am I to me you? If we were to put the me on anyone, it''d be me. I should


    have looked for you guys earlier. I was the one who didn''t give you guys a stable environment to live in


    —that''s the reason this happened to Alissa. How is this your fault?" he uttered.