Chapter 657 - Alcohol Poisoning

"I'll finish this wine, but I don't need your money. I know you are mad today, but I really need money. I know you cannot understand all this and I am not asking you to understand me. Thank you, for helping me."

Della lifted her head stubbornly and looked at Raka boldly.

Her reaction instantly drew Nico's attention. He did not expect Della to be this strong, willing to accept Raka's challenge to drink a whole bottle of wine.

Raka sneered hearing that. He stretched out his hand to grab Della's chin. "You are a woman. Why do you need that much money…"

" I…" Della was in pain. She felt like her chin was going to break because of Raka. "I am sorry."

"That doesn't answer the question. You haven't told me why you need the money," Raka said.

"I just need it," Della said firmly.

Raka was disappointed because Della didn't want to answer him. He could see there was sadness on the girl's face and her eyes seemed to show great pain.

"I will drink it. Can you let me go after that?" Della asked.

Raka nodded.

"Raka..." Nico looked at the wine bottle. It was a fairly tough old wine, how could Della spend it alone?

"Can you be a witness? Raka is willing to let me go after I finish all this," Della said to Nico.

"Della, you don't have to finish the wine," said Nico.

Della then replied with a bitter smile on her face. "I have failed him. I do love money. I will always go wherever money leads me. Don't waste your time on me next time."

Hearing her words, Raka became even more angry. His eyes looked even darker. "You done talking? Should I pour the wine for you?"

Della's face looked a little pale as she heard that. She awkwardly opened the wine bottle and poured herself a glass. After taking a sip, she frowned deeply.

Raka was not interested in seeing this drama any further. He was about to get up and leave, but Della stopped him. "Don't go. I will finish it."

"You don't owe me anything. From now on, I will not interfere in your business anymore. Next time don't tell people that you ran away because of me," Raka intended to leave but Della blocked his path. "Don't go yet," she said.

"What do you want?" Raka lost his temper. He was so angry, but he slowly regained his composure as he didn't want to be rude to women.

He didn't want to play with them.

Della took the wine bottle and drank it straight from the bottle, without bothering to pour it into a glass. She chugged it all at once while holding her breath.

After she managed to drink a third of it, Della started to feel sick. Her stomach and throat felt uncomfortable, like they were burning.

"Go on. I will bury you when you die," Raka looked at her coldly.

At first, Nico didn't like Della. But he couldn't let a woman finish a bottle of wine alone.

He walked towards Raka and nudged the bottle in Della's hand. The bottle fell to the floor so that the contents spilled on the carpet.

Della immediately looked down and took the bottle back, seeing that the contents had run out. "I've finished it."

After that, she turned around and was about to leave.

She was in great pain because of the alcohol and could not walk upright, but she still forced herself to get out of the room.

When she was about to open the door, Della suddenly felt her vision darken and she fell to the floor.

Nico instinctively stretched out his hand and about to catch Della. But Raka moved faster and caught her. He caught a woman who seemed so strong and so brave a few minutes earlier, but then turned limp like a helpless doll in the next moment.

Della heard someone calling her name, but she couldn't open her eyes.

...

When she woke up, she saw that everything around her was completely white.

"Della, you finally woke up! I'll get the doctor," Tara said.

The girl laid on the hospital bed and blinked several times as her memory slowly returned. She just realized that she lost consciousness and woke up in a hospital.

She seemed to have remembered something and immediately jerked to a seat, lifting the blanket that covered her. She put her shoes back on and was about to leave, but her head felt dizzy so she leaned back against the bed.

The door to her room opened again. Tara came along with the doctor and the nurse.

After doing a basic examination on Della, the doctor said, "You have alcohol poisoning. Luckily you were delivered to the hospital on time. When you came earlier, you were already unconscious. You could've had trouble breathing if the case was severe. Next time don't drink too much."

Della nodded her head. "Thank you, doctor."

"Get some rest. You can be discharged from the hospital tomorrow," the doctor said before leaving the room.

After the doctor left, Della looked at Tara and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Why are you working at that bar? Was the salary that I gave not enough?" Tara's voice was cold.

"No, but I need a lot of money. So…" Before Della could finish her words, Tara's cell phone suddenly rang.

"I have to pick up this call," Tara came out of the room and answered the call from Nico.

"Tara, let me tell you some shocking news. It turns out that Della is not the adopted child of the Mawardi family. She is actually Salim's biological child. Dewi doesn't know about this…"

After that, Nico shared all the information he had gathered about Della.

From this, Tara finally knew why Della needed so much money. She was looking for money for the head of the orphanage where she used to be.

Tara immediately felt sorry for Della. Her life was so miserable. She had a complete douchebag as a father and a cruel adoptive mother.

Tara returned to the room and asked Della to stay for one day so that she would recover.

After Della agreed to it, Tara left her and went to the room where Anya was being treated.

Anya listened to Tara's story about Della and was immediately angry. "That insolent man…! Salim Mawardi is the worst man I have ever heard of!"

"So true. How could someone be so insolent?" Tara was angry too.

"Luckily, Mrs. Hana took Harris away from him," Anya sighed.

"Last night, Salim announced that Harris was his son and gave Harris a 30% stake in his company."

"Is it true that Mrs. Hana and Salim found the company? If this is true, it means that Harris deserves to get the shares. His father was too self-conscious. Luckily Harris doesn't take after him!" Anya said with a rage.

Aiden finally finished his job and looked away from his laptop. "Harris hasn't got the shares. The process will take time and there is still a possibility for Salim to change his mind…"

"Change his mind? What can we do to prevent him from changing his mind?"

"Urge him to immediately carry out the procedure for transferring shares as quickly as possible. If Dewi finds out that Della is actually Salim's daughter, she might try to stop the shares transfer," Aiden said, "I don't think Salim really wants to give his stake to Harris."

"Then what should we do? We have to do something for Harris. We can't let Mrs Hana suffer!" Anya said with a serious look.