Chapter 199: THE SITUATION BECOMES WORSE

"Did you plan all of this?" Without greeting first, Aileen immediately asked this.

"No greetings?" George rebuked Aileen for her impoliteness.

But who would care about politeness in a situation like this and knowing what George might do.

Aileen really couldn't understand what was going through George's head to resort to this crazy idea. Didn't he consider the possibility that his plan might fail and she would have ended up dead by now?!

"Don't waste my time," Aileen growled angrily, she put her palm in front of her mouth so her voice could be muffled a bit. "Answer my question! Were you the one who planned all of this?"

Silence…

For a moment George said nothing. But, then his voice answered Aileen's question briefly. "Yes. I did it."

That one word was enough to make Aileen experience a feeling of anger and disappointment as well as fear, mixed together at the same time, making her knees go numb. Her body trembled to hold back the overflowing emotions that were bubbling up inside her.

Even though she had expected this answer, it didn't mean that hearing it, would make her mood better or appease the anger that was running through her body, like a deadly disease.

"Why…?" Aileen's voice trembled as she asked.

"Why?" George repeated the same question. "You don't know why I did all this? Of course because of that bastard heir of the Gevano family! You think you can come up with a much more brilliant idea than this?"

"Why did you do that? Don't you realize what will happen if your plan goes wrong?" Aileen gritted her teeth hard, to hold back the tears of anger that threatened to flow down her cheeks.

"My plan didn't go wrong and you're still alive. You should be grateful for that!" After saying those hurtful words, George hung up the phone, leaving Aileen standing in the hospital hallway with emotions coursing through her body at an almost unstoppable speed.

"You're crazy…" Aileen hissed into the disconnected phone line. Her eyes gleamed with hatred for her own father.

Hadn't Aileen never made a fuss about the fact that George had abandoned her mother and herself? She even let George live quietly with his own family without saying a word about her true identity.

Aileen even followed all of George's plans and orders without as much as a question, until she had her own thoughts to save herself from George's clutches, because of his attitude that Aileen could no longer tolerate.

But what did George do to her?

Instead of thinking of other ways or discussing a way out that Aileen must face in order to trick Theodore again, George made his own decisions and almost harmed Aileen with his stupidity and impulsiveness!

And now he called herself without any guilt? He didn't even give a single sentence of explanation.

Well, although George have said she should be grateful to have survived the accident, but wasn't this all his own doing?! What should Aileen be grateful for?!

It was an attempted assassination! Indirectly George would not mind if she was injured.

At this point, Aileen finally realized something she had been trying not to think about, namely; George would not think twice about saving his position as well as himself.

Aileen's knuckles turned white as she gripped the phone so tightly. Her trembling body stood motionless in the slightly crowded hospital hallway.

It took Aileen quite a while to calm herself down and adjust her facial expressions so Theodore wouldn't place any deeper suspicion on her.

It was at this point that Aileen became increasingly determined to carry out her own plans. The plan concerning Aidan Smith. If this plan worked out, then she would be happy to destroy George as well.

Aileen was fed up with the way George treated her. Now, Hailee was no longer Aileen's main target, because George was at the top of the list of people she would knock onto the ground herself.

And Aileen would make sure that she would see that old man fall from his high horses.

"What is wrong?" Theodore's voice broke Aileen's thoughts. The woman seemed so lost in her own thoughts that she forgot about her surroundings and didn't notice that Theodore was standing beside her and watching her.

With a sharp intake of breath, Aileen immediately adjusted her facial expression and forced a smile to form on her lips.

"It's okay, I just feel a little dizzy, maybe because of the impact," Aileen said softly as she wrapped her arms around Theodore's arm. Her eyes then caught the plastic bag containing the drugs this man had just bought. "Can we go home now?"

Yes, Aileen wanted to go home and calm down, while recalculating the plans she had devised and how she could make good use of Aidan. Because this time, Aileen didn't want to see the old man endanger her life again.

Oh, George would never get the chance to do something like this again… Aileen would make sure of that.

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The sky outside still looked dark, even the moon could still be seen on the horizon line. There could already be seen a red tinge, indicating that the sun would soon rise. The air was still cold and wet from last night's rain, leaving water droplets on the leaves and branches of the trees.

It was so calm, but Hailee suddenly woke up as she felt a cramp in her right leg which made herself wince in pain, trying to grab her aching leg, but the more she moved, the more the pain became.

Ramon, being someone who slept very lightly , of course immediately opened his eyes when he heard Hailee's whimper.

Quickly, he sat down and examined his wife. "What is wrong?" He asked in a slightly worried tone, then he turned on the table lamp beside him, only to see Hailee's painful expression.

"My feet…" Hailee said quietly while pointing at her feet. "Cramp..."

Ramon then turned his attention to the part of the leg that Hailee was pointing at and examined it. When Ramon's hand touched it, Hailee immediately let out a muffled scream.

"It hurts," she whimpered.

"It's okay… hold on for a second," Ramon said in a soothing voice. Then, so shrewdly and skillfully, he massaged the pain away for her. It was as if he had done this many times before.

And indeed the results did not disappoint. In a short time, the pain that was making Hailee feel tormented slowly disappeared and she felt much better.

"Where did you learn this?" Hailee asked, pleased with the massage Ramon was giving to her. Now, even though the cramping was gone, Hailee didn't stop Ramon. She just rolled herself under the blanket and looked at her husband with sleepy eyes.

Yes, once the pain went away, sleepiness immediately came to her… and somehow, Hailee's sleeping time had been getting longer and longer lately.

"Lexus used to get cramps every time he learned to swim, so I often saw our swimming coach do this to him," Ramon said.

When the two were young, their mother and father called a swimming coach and it was then that it was discovered that Lexus often had cramps every time he swam, even though he had done the recommended warm-up.

"Oh, it's great that you can remember this just by looking at it," Hailee commented, but her eyes were closed from the unbearable drowsiness. She didn't even get to hear what Ramon's answer was after that because the dreamland had greeted her first.

Meanwhile, Ramon only realized that Hailee had fallen asleep after he told half of his childhood story when Lexus learned to swim.

With a blank stare and expressionless face, Ramon looked at the sleeping Hailee and stopped massaging her feet.

Then with a long and heavy sigh, he gently flicked Hailee's forehead, feeling a little amused, but also annoyed that Hailee had fallen asleep in the middle of the story.

"What should I do with you…?" Ramon said helplessly, then wrapped his wife's body in his arms to sleep.

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Hailee had just woken up when it was almost noon and she felt her stomach growling immediately, feeling very hungry.

"Ugh," Hailee complained as she felt unwell, as if she had just run from city A to city M in a race, or like she had just climbed a high mountain, which caused a day's rest to be insufficient.

She frowned because it was unusual for her to feel this way and waking up this late for several days in a row felt off as well.

Hailee then glanced at the empty spot next to her, and it was certain that Ramon had already gone to the office a few hours ago.

With unsteady steps and a sore head, Hailee then forced herself out of the bed, holding her forehead, thinking if she had a fever or something. But apparently her body wasn't hot, so it could be said that she was in good health, so why did Hailee feel otherwise?

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Another hit landed on Dillon's face as he tried to stand up and a kick hit him in the gut as he tried to dodge the three people who were ganging up on him.

In front of Dillon was Mr. Dawson, Giana's father, with a facial expression that indicated only one thing; wrath.

Meanwhile three people who were bigger and taller than Dillon, and at one glance one could tell that they were people who used to fight barehanded, stood around the battered Dillon. Blood was dripping from his nose and a cut wound was already on his forehead.