In the office, seeing that Ellsworth had given her everything he
could, even his overseas assets.
Harriet suddenly couldn’t figure him out.
He was clearly afraid she’d take his assets, but in the end, he
gave her so much.
Looking at the documents in her hand, the office, door was
suddenly knocked on: “Ms. Chavez, Mr. Zuniga and the others
are about to leave. Are you ready?”
Harriet quickly snapped out of her thoughts, put down the
documents, and looked up at the girl who had opened the door,
saying, “Yes, I’m coming downstairs now.”
With that, she locked the property deed and various documents
in her personal safe, shut down her computer, and went
downstairs with her phone and bag.
There was a system test in the afternoon, and they were all
going to the lab together.
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Meanwhile, at the Townsend Group.
In the office, after hearing the lawyer’s report that the property
deed and documents had been delivered to Harriet, Ellsworth
grabbed his car keys and phone and headed to a government
meeting.
A little after three in the afternoon, while the meeting was still
ongoing, Ellsworth’s phone, which was on the table, rang.
It was an unfamiliar number, but the last digits looked familiar-
he seemed to have seen Harriet answer this number at home
before.
Without thinking much, he picked up his phone and walked out
through the side door to take the call outside.
At the emergency exit in the stairwell, Ellsworth answered the
call.
On the other end, Jonas’s voice quickly came through: “Mr.
Townsend, I’m really sorry. While Harriet was helping move
things in the lab, she accidentally hurt her leg. We’re heading to
the hospital now. Mr. Townsend, do you have time to come to
the hospital?”
Harriet didn’t want him to make the call, saying it wasn’t a big
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deal, but Jonas felt her family should know about it.
So, he called Ellsworth.
Otherwise, he couldn’t possibly bother a man in his seventies.
With his left hand in his pocket and his right hand holding the
phone to his ear, Ellsworth frowned and asked, “Which hospital?
How is Harriet now?”
“Shoreworth Hospital.” As he spoke, Jonas added, “We’ll only
know the specifics after the hospital examination.”
“Alright, I got it.”
After hanging up, Ellsworth took the phone from his ear and
dialed Noel, telling him he had to leave early and asking him to
help pack up the meeting materials.
As soon as Noel got the call, he drove over right away.
Over twenty minutes later, a black Maybach stopped in the hospital’s open–air parking lot. As Ellsworth strode toward orthopedics, Harriet was already in the doctor’s office for a
consultation.
At that moment, she was sitting on a chair, with her right foot
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resting on another chair.
The top of her foot and her ankle were completely bruised and
swollen, and the swelling was severe, making it look painfully
uncomfortable.
Harriet’s brows were tightly furrowed, her lips bitten, with a fine
sheen of sweat on her forehead and neck, her hair damp with
sweat and sticking to her skin.
Her face was much paler than usual.
At this moment, the doctor was looking at the scans while
saying, “There are two bone cracks on the top of the foot. But
there’s a lot of bruising, and just anti–inflammatory injections
won’t help it dissipate quickly. You can go to Dr. Dudley to have
some of the blood let out, then get it bandaged.”
He added, “For injuries like this, aside from rest, there aren’t
really any special treatments.”
“Mr. Townsend.”
“Mr. Townsend.”
With both hands gripping just above her knees, Harriet heard Jonas and the others suddenly greet someone, and she
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immediately looked up.
Seeing Ellsworth suddenly appear before her, Harriet was taken
aback.
She froze on the spot.
She stared up at Ellsworth for quite a while before finally asking
in surprise, “Why did you come?”
Then, she quickly said to him, “I’m fine, you should go take care
of your work.”
In three years of marriage, whenever she had minor illnesses or
discomfort, she always drove herself to the hospital for
checkups.
Even last year when she had her appendix removed, or when
she picked up her depression medication, she never bothered
him.
She had long since stopped being used to disturbing him.
After all, in the three years since their marriage, she had
become even more independent than before.
Over these years, she had developed a stress response to
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Ellsworth.
Every time she took up his time or affected him, she would become very alert, react strongly, and instinctively distance
herself from him, trying not to disturb him.
She would do her best to avoid him, not see him, not disturb,
not delay.
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