Chapter 328 Have You No Shame?
Chapter 328 Have You No Shame?
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Anneliese’s hands clenched the steering wheel, knuckles whitening, her vision blurred with fury. Melody. Lenora. She slammed the phone down and, trembling, redialed Jonathan. He picked up almost instantly. That low, controlled voice of his resonated through the car.
“Just woke up?” Her words caught in her throat, quivering and fragmented. “Jonathan… something’s happened to my grandmother. They just rushed her into surgery. You have to-” She faltered, needing him to reach out to Carter, who hadn’t been at the hospital since her grandmother’s condition had stabilized a few days back.
Jonathan could hear the fear rattling her voice. Through the line, she caught the scrape of a chair, then his steady footsteps, followed by that familiar, calm timbre. “Okay, I’ll get in touch with Carter right away. Are you behind the wheel?”
“Yeah,” she managed, her voice rough and parched. “Anne… slow down. Take a deep breath.” Even over the line, his voice carried a gentle authority that grounded her. Only then did it hit her–she’d been flying. The GPS had been screaming at her, but she hadn’t even noticed.
Her hands were locked onto the wheel so tightly her fingers ached, the tension threatening to snap her knuckles. She obeyed without thinking, easing off the accelerator, letting herself take deep, shaky breaths as she tried to calm the storm inside.
“Don’t panic. Your grandma’s tough–she’s got a lot of fight left. I’m on my way to the hospital too. Promise me you’ll keep it safe on the road, alright?” Her voice was still shaky. “I… I’ll be fine.” But hearing his steady, grounded tone slowly eased her racing heart. Just knowing he was coming gave her a strange sense of steadiness, like she could lean on him even from miles
away.
She reached the hospital first–but to her surprise, Carter had already beaten her there. She jumped out of her car, spotting him already sprinting toward the surgical wing. The sight of him gave her a tiny measure of relief.
As she reached the doors of the operating room, she froze at the scene: Bridgette tangled in a heated confrontation with Melody and Lenora. “You are not walking away! You made her collapse, and now you want to leave? Absolutely not!”
“Don’t touch me! Do you even know how much this dress costs? If you ruin it, can you even pay for it?” came the shout. “Step aside! She fainted on her own–we’re not at fault here. Stop pinning this on us!”
Melody and Lenora hadn’t anticipated Nishay would be so delicate. Now, the glaring emergency room lights made it clear–they knew they’d crossed a line. Both were frozen, looking for an escape, but the nurse wasn’t about to let them off the hook.
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Chapter 328 Have You No Shame?
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“Melody! Lenora! Have you no shame?” Anneliese’s fury boiled over. She clenched her fists, then lunged and planted a solid kick into Lenora’s knee. Lenora stumbled into Melody, and both tumbled to the floor. “Anneliese! How dare you kick me?”
Anneliese’s hand shot out, slapping Lenora across the face. “If anything happens to my grandmother, you’ll pay for it with your lives!” Her eyes blazed red, fixed on the two women like predatory flames, as if she could devour them whole.
Lenora faltered beneath the storm in Anneliese’s eyes, her bravado slipping for an instant. Fear flickered–quick, sharp–but pride forced her chin up. “What is wrong with you? Nishay’s collapse isn’t our doing. We heard she was here, came out of concern, exchanged a few words… that’s it. How could we possibly be blamed for her fainting?”
Melody stepped in, brushing the dust from her clothes as she tugged her daughter upright. Anger flashed across her face as she snapped, “If her heart gave out, that’s her destiny. Don’t drag us into it. We visited out of decency, and now you’re painting us as villains? Tell me- where’s the justice in that?”
Yet even as she spat the words, her eyes betrayed her, restless and evasive. She knew the truth of what she’d done. Moments earlier, she had whispered venom into Nishay’s ears–painting Anneliese’s past in the ugliest colors, reviving the nightmare from four years ago when thugs had dragged her into a dark alley. She had embellished the scandal until it sounded unspeakable.
Nishay’s face had drained of color, her hand clutching her chest as her breathing faltered. Then Melody had twisted the knife, claiming Anneliese lived without shame, tangled with men, already cast aside by Zacharias, and that Nishay ought to rein her in. All of it was a calculated strike to shatter Nishay’s fragile heart.
Nishay swung her hand at her, but Melody nimbly slipped aside. No one expected that simple dodge to send the woman pitching forward, tumbling right off the hospital bed and crashing onto the floor with a sickening thud. She lay there motionless. The sight sent a chill through Melody. She was already set on wringing compensation out of Anneliese.
For all her low opinion of Melody and Lenora, even her contempt hadn’t prepared Anneliese for cruelty this naked. This wasn’t mere lack of conscience–it was rot through to the bone. Rage surged hot and sharp. She lashed out, her palm cracking across Melody’s face.
“Have you forgotten, Melody? When Cedric ran someone down and the creditors swarmed your door, you dragged your children to us in tears. It was Grandma who emptied her savings to rescue your family from ruin. Without her, Zacharias and Lenora would’ve been pulled from school, and your precious household would’ve been rotting under a bridge. And this is how you show your gratitude?”
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