Chapter 1611 An Outsider


    Sheryl was impressed to find Melissa speaking in a more civilized manner. ''Wow, she seems to be a


    changed woman now who has learned to speak without cursing!'' Sheryl thought to herself. She studied


    Melissa for a while as if she had developed apletely new impression of her. Then she said,


    "Haven''t you ever given a thought to your own problems? It seems like, ever since you came out of


    prison, Charles has gotten into endless trouble. These weird things that Charles would never have


    imagined in his wildest dreams have turned into daily events for him! Haven''t you ever reflected on


    your role in it?"


    When Sheryl was living in Dream Garden, she would be more careful when she spoke with Melissa,


    because Melissa was Charles'' mother and they lived under the same roof. However, after she moved


    out of Dream Garden, Sheryl had shunned all of her former courtesy. Melissa had done a lot of things


    that Sheryl couldn''t forgive. Melissa never acted like a real mother-inw and had left no stone


    unturned to make Sheryl feel harassed. Hence, Sheryl had no respect left for Melissa in her heart. She


    no longer wanted to tolerate Melissa'' humiliating words or pretend to be a good daughter-inw.


    Melissa hadn''t expected Sheryl to point out her problems so tantly. Hence she was at once


    dumbfounded.


    At that point, Le stepped in to support Melissa. "Sheryl, what are you talking about? How can you be


    so rude to talk like this to your own mother-inw? Aunt Melissa is Charles'' mother. Hasn''t anyone


    taught you to be polite to your mother-inw?"


    At first, Sheryl did not want to meddle with Le. But since she had invited her attention by supporting


    Melissa, Sheryl couldn''t let her go so easily. "Le? Who do you think you are here? I''m speaking to my


    own mother-inw. Why on earth is an outsider judging our rtionship in our own family?"


    Le was rendered speechless. Initially, she fumbled as she tried to find words but became quiet after


    a while. Upon seeing Sheryl retaliate against her ally, Melissa lost her temper and reprimanded in a


    loud voice, "Sheryl! Stop it now! You are so mean! If anything happens to Charles, I will not spare you!"


    Her voice was trembling with anger; however, she knew that she couldn''t argue with Sheryl because


    Sheryl was being very logical. Hence, she immediately left the hall with Le after issuing her threat to


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    Sheryl.


    Melissa believed that she was just too tired to argue with Sheryl. However, she didn''t want to admit that


    it was out of fear of losing face.


    After they left, Sheryl slowly turned and walked towards Charles'' room. She stopped at the ss


    barrier from where the visitors could see Charles. As she looked through the ss, she could see


    Charles sleeping peacefully with all of his life support system and monitors hard at work.


    The sharpness of her tongue and presence of mind that she had exhibited not so long ago in front of


    Melissa and Le just disappeared into thin air the moment her eyes fell on Charles lying in his hospital


    bed. Tears welled up in her eyes, and she med herself even harder than what Melissa did. She


    could only me herself and no one else for Charles having ended up in the hospital. At least, it was


    partially her fault.


    However, she knew that she couldn''t just break down at the moment. She had to stay strong and face


    everything on her own since Charles was not there for her. She bit her lips, trying to gather all her


    strength to hang in there. She managed a smile and said in a low voice towards the ss door,


    "Charles, please wake up. If you don''t wake up so soon, I might find myself another man. I know how


    jealous you would be if that happened. For sure you won''t want to watch me go into another man''s


    arms, will you? So if you don''t want me to go, then you''d better wake up as soon as possible. Then you


    can punch that man in the face, and we can get back together like nothing ever happened between us.


    Like how we used to be. Charles, what do you think of that?"


    Sheryl said a lot of things. Some of her words were not logical, and she didn''t even know what she was


    talking about. However, she just wanted to speak to Charles more and more at that point, hoping that


    Charles could wake up soon.


    "Sher, I thought you were gone," Cassie interrupted Sheryl as she came to Charles'' room and found


    Sheryl.


    Cassie was on her rounds for the night shift, so she had looked for Sheryl in her room, but she didn''t


    find her there. Before I went home, I had told Cassie that Sheryl would be staying in the hospital


    overnight, hence Cassie became confused when she didn''t find Sheryl in her room. After pondering


    over the matter for a while, she assumed that Sheryl might be with Charles, so she came here to find


    her.


    Sheryl secretly wiped away her tears and turned around to Cassie. "You''re on a night shift today?"


    "Yes, I am," Cassie answered briefly and turned her head to watch Charles. For a while, Cassie


    remained silent and watched Charles just as Sheryl was doing. She marked the sadness in Sheryl''s


    eyes. Instinctively, sheforted Sheryl in a low voice, "Sher, don''t worry. We''ve handled simr


    patients like this before. Our hospital is good at it. Most of them woke up eventually. It''s just a matter of


    time, but we don''t give up on waking them up. So, Sher, don''t worry. Mr. Lu will wake up one day."


    Sheryl believed what Cassie said because she knew that Charles would fulfill all the promises he


    made, especially the promises he made to her.


    "Yes, I know. I just...I just feel so worried to see him like this," Sheryl said with a lot of pain in her voice.


    As she moved her eyes over all of the tubes attached to Charles'' body, it seemed as if she could feel


    Charles'' pain. These tubes ran all over his body, and Sheryl couldn''t even begin to imagine how


    agonizing that had to be.


    They silently stayed there for a while. After that Cassie returned to her duties and Sheryl went to sleep


    in her own room.


    It waste that night; almost everyone was asleep at Dream Garden. However, someone just couldn''t


    go to sleep that night. It was none other than Le.


    Le could not keep her two eyelids together for a single minute that night. Although she had stayed


    with Melissa for the whole day and Melissa had even defended her in front of Sheryl, she felt highly


    insulted by Sheryl''s words.


    She felt as if every word uttered by Sheryl was hammering inside her head. The entire conversation


    she had with Sheryl kept ying in her mind over and over again. However, she could not retaliate by


    talking to Melissa at the moment. She could only endure it silently because she hadn''t gotten what she


    wanted yet.


    No matter how much Le tried to look at therger picture, Sheryl''s words kept haunting her. She felt


    ustrophobic and oppressed despite all of theforts from Melissa.


    She felt a strong urge to speak to someone and take action against Sheryl. At that moment, she could


    think of only one person. Hence, she reached out for her phone and called Holley.


    Holley, however, was in a noisy bar with some friends. She didn''t even hear the phone ringing amid the


    loud music.


    Le desperately called her several times, but Holley just didn''t pick up the phone. After several


    attempts, Le finally gave up.


    As Le stared at the nk screen, she was fuming in anger. She flung the phone to the floor and hit


    her pillow in anger, before trying again to sleep.


    However, she wasn''t the only person who couldn''t sleep that night.


    Rachel unintentionally woke up in the middle of the night. She realized that the downstairs light was on,


    and Bernard was still awake. She went downstairs and found that Bernard was sitting on the couch


    alone. She was worried that something might have happened because she had never seen Bernard


    that way before.


    She approached him slowly and asked, "Bernard, what happened? Why are you not asleep? What are


    you doing sitting on the couch in the middle of the night?" Rachel approached Bernard as she spoke


    and rested her head on his arms.


    Bernard was so lost in his thoughts that he didn''t notice Rachel at first. When her presence brought him


    back from his reverie, he smiled at her and said, "It''s nothing. I just wanted to smoke. Why are you up?"


    Rachel smiled back sweetly and said, "I wanted some water. I was thirsty."


    Although both of them knew from the start that they had only gotten together to stay warm and avoid


    being lonely, Bernard felt that he wouldn''t be able to stay without Rachel after being with her for such a


    long time. He even thought that he loved Rachel so much that he would even risk his life for her.


    After Rachel made sure that Bernard was not feeling troubled as such, she felt relieved. She got up


    and drank some water before going upstairs to hit the sack, leaving Bernard all by himself.


    Bernard saw Rachel off but remained silent. The moment Rachel disappeared out of his sight, the


    smile on his face suddenly disappeared.


    Just a day before, Bernard happened to meet up with Tom again.


    Bernard was shopping when Tom found him, and he hadn''t expected Tom to appear in front of him all


    of a sudden.


    "Tom! Howe you are here?" Bernard said as he saw Tom. Then, Bernard looked around nervously,


    trying to see if there were any other people around them. A momentter, he gathered all his strength


    and staying calm he managed to look back at Tom.


    A smile slowly appeared on Tom''s face. He studied Bernard all over and sneered, "I had thought that


    you must have forgotten that I still exist in this world."


    "Oh, that''s impossible, Tom. Don''t make fun of me. I will never forget you. How dare I forget you?"


    Bernard remarked nervously. Bernard knew that Tom must havee to look for him because of Ferry.


    ''I haven''tpleted the task Tom assigned to me. He asked me to kill Ferry, but I have not been able


    to do it yet. It''s been a long time, and I have not made any progress towards it. He must be losing his


    patience, '' Bernard thought to himself.


    "Oh, really? But your actions betray your words, Bernard. If you haven''t dared to forget me, then why


    on earth is Ferry still hale and healthy?" Tom said provocatively. Then he suddenly stepped closer to


    Bernard after he finished speaking.


    He looked straight into Bernard''s eyes with a cold and threatening re.


    Bernard could feel Tom''s eyes piercing into his own eyes. He couldn''t help but feel nervous and


    terrified, like a deer caught in the headlights.


    After he managed to calm himself down in front of Tom, he responded slowly, "Don''t worry, Tom. I will


    I''ve been gathering all the information about Ferry, so that I can create a foolproof n to kill him. I


    need to be careful about it so that I don''t miss the target.


    I want him dead in only one attempt."


    Luckily for Bernard, Tom was apparently in a good mood that day, so he bought Bernard''s exnation.


    He patted Bernard on the shoulder and smiled. "I know you and what you can do. You willplete the


    task for me, won''t you?"