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Chapter 1172
At the Topaz mansion…
Naomi was sitting in the study room with a jacket draped over her shoulder. She had only left a lamp on.
The lamp cast a halo of light around her and made her look ethereally beautiful.
She was working on her draft on a piece of paper. The sky was still dark and heavy outside while heavy
rain lashed against the windows. The pitter-patter sound was loud, but it did not seem to affect her.
At that moment, the phone downstairs rang, snapping Naomi back to reality. She put the pen down and
walked out of the study room. She then switched on the light in the corridor and went downstairs.
She did not know who would call them in
the middle of the night, but she had a feeling that it was her father.
When she reached the phone, she answered it with a smile on her face, “Dad However, the person from
the other side said something, and her smile froze.
At the hospital…
By the time Naomi and her caretaker, Mrs. Irving, arrived, there were two people outside of the
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtemergency room. When Mrs. Irving saw the face of the woman amongst the two people, her expression
changed.
The woman turned her head to look at Naomi. The latter was looking back at her as well. She had not
put on her sunglasses this time, but Naomi could recognize from her aura that she was the woman who
had come to look for her father that day.
She approached Naomi with a smile on her face. Unexpectedly. Mrs. Irving pulled Naomi over and
looked at the woman warily before she could say anything. “Mrs. Gosling, please stay away from Ms.
Topaz.”
Naomi was stunned and looked at Mrs. Irving in confusion.
The man in black beside Mrs. Gosling wanted to step forward, but she stopped him. She looked at Mrs.
Irving and said, “I didn’t expect that you’d still be working for Anthony after so many years. Could it be
that you take Anthony as your own son?”
Mrs. Irving’s face turned dark.
At that moment, the doctor came out of the operating room. “The patient needs blood infusions. Which
one of you has B-type blood?”
Me. I have B-type blood,” Naomi stepped forward. The doctor measured her for a while and asked, “You
are…”
“The patient is my father,” Naomi replied. The doctor nodded in assent. “Then please follow me.” “Wait,”
Mrs. Gosling suddenly said. Just when both of them turned their heads, she rolled up her sleeves and
said, “Take my blood. I have B-type blood too.”
Before Naomi could do or say anything. Mrs. Gosling left with the doctor. When she walked past Naomi,
she pitched her voice low and whispered, “This is what I can do for you.”
Naomi stood frozen stiff on the spot as she was overwhelmed by confusion.
Three hours later, the operation was done.
It was already 5:30 a.m. by the time Anthony came out of the operating room. Since the anesthesia had
not worn off, he had yet to regain his consciousness.
Naomi sat beside the sickbed to watch over her father. Mrs. Irving draped a blanket over her and said,
“Ms. Topaz, you should take some rest. You still have to go to work at nine tomorrow. I’ll take care of Mr.
Topaz.”
Naomi nodded. She lay down in the recliner chair but did not close her eyes.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Mrs. Irving, do you know Mrs. Gosling?”
Mrs. Irving was stunned and averted her gaze. “If you want to know about her, you can ask Mr. Topaz
when he wakes up later. He Il tell you everything.”
Naomi did not ask anything anymore.
It wasn’t until early in the morning that Naomi woke up from her nightmare. She turned her head to look
at her father in the hospital bed and breathed a sigh of relief when the electrocardiogram showed that
her father’s heart was still beating slowly.
Mrs. Irving came back with some breakfast. “Ms. Topaz, why don’t you sleep a little more?”
“I had a nightmare.” She took the blanket off her body and sat right up. “I can’t sleep.”
Mrs. Irving comforted her with a smile on her face. “Don’t worry. Mr. Topaz is a good man. I’m sure he’ll
be fine.”
At that moment, Naomi received a text message from Maisie. She asked her to take a day off and rest.
In the meantime, at the Blue Bay villa…
Nolan found out that Anthony had gotten into an accident last night and was hospitalized after a phone
call.
As Maisie helped him to put on his tie, she said, “I wonder how Mr. Topaz is doing.”
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