Love Is Bad, By All Means
Chapter 13 Why Should I Help You

Her mother was lying in sickbed calmly. Aspirator was attached to her mouth with regular sound from the device. Her father was on the sickbed nearby, grey-haired, deeper wrinkles on his face. Obviously, he suffered a lot. "Mom? Mom? Look at me!"

Emma rushed over to kneel on the floor, in panic. She touched her hands gently. How much she wanted to see her loving face then, but she couldn't.

She was crying like hell but her mother had no reaction. Why was it so unfair to her? Why was she deprived with all the valuable things of her life? "Dang..."

A man with a big belly walked in the door. he was in doctor clothes and cast a glance at Emma squatting at the sickbed, and then he coughed unintentionally and walked in with journals in his arms. "Are you the family member?"

His serious tone made her raise up her head.

"Yes, I am."

She wiped away the tears, replied softly.

"Their condition was not optimistic since they were hospitalized. Your father got a cerebral hemorrhage due to fatigue, while your mother got myocardial infarction. Both are not optimistic. I don't know why you showed up only now. You should settle the bill first. The surgery and nursing fee are half million in total."

Emma took the bill the doctor handed over and frowned her eyebrows. The number on the bill made her heart tightened.

She didn't have much savings. She couldn't even afford one third of the bill then.

"Doctor, can I pay it in a couple of days? I am ..."

"Miss, this is the stipulation in the hospital. I cannot help you. If you don't pay by tomorrow, your parents would be expelled. You have to decide on your own!"

The doctor turned to leave the ward afterwards.

Emma held the paper and didn't know whom she can turn to for help.

The phone in her hand was buzzing with the monitor on. It showed it was the assistant Stefan from the company.

"Stefan, what happened?"

Emma answered the call immediately in the corridor with the ward door closed.

"Miss, something big happened. The company was about to be purchased, so that I was handling with the accounting outside recent days, but I found out the fund shortage for several days. Now we cannot pay to the shareholders. I think the money was transferred during the chaos recently."

Stefan talked in a rush, which didn't sound like joking at all.

Emma, holding the phone, thought to herself that the fourth one who knew in and out about the company account was her step-month, Jenifer, besides her parents and herself. She must have done it out of bad intention if she did the transfer. Could it be that she knew my father was undependable?

"Don't panic! I'll handle it."

She hung up. Suddenly she knew whom she could go to for paying the medical fee.

Jenifer was in red silk night dress, a beautiful contrast to her fair skin, and the curly hair was naturally down near her eyes.

She was sitting in the couch in the house, doing manicure carefully, with the beautiful rich feet on the table and polish in her hands.

Some soap opera about family issues was streaming on TV, volume up. She looked enjoying, carefree without worries. "Ding-dong..."

The doorbell rang

"Madam, Ms. Keller is here!"

The helper opened the door and handed her over a pair of slippery.

Jenifer pretended not to hear anything, continuing nail polishing. "Why do you come?"

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A pair of white slippery stopped in front of her, she asked grudgingly.

"Aunt, I am here to discuss with you about my father's illness!"

Emma carried herself cautiously. After all, she came to her step-mother for help, humbly.

"Humm? How come there was still anything to do with me about that old man!"

Jenifer sneered, and put down the polish bottle, fanning her feet with her hands to make them dry quickly.

"Don't you feel it's too cold-hearted for you to say so? We took you and your sister in when you were penniless. Now we are in difficult situation, how can you be so merciless to say so?"

Emma was angry, so that her voice raised up, even louder than the voice on TV.

Jenifer looked up at her sharply, quietly but smiling in satisfaction.

"I am here for help. At present we must pay the medical fee, but I can't pay such a big amount of fee right now."

Emma felt ashamed and handed over the wrinkled paper to her step-mother.

"Emma, I have always taken you as my own daughter. I knew your father helped me and my sister, but I can't do much about the medical fee either. You father was very strict on my spending. I have just limited cash flow, about 10, 000 to 20, 000, do you want to see me and my daughter to starve?"

Jenifer put down the paper, feeling wronged. She didn't care about what Emma said at all.

At that moment, Sherry came back, in white dress. She was exhausted and put away her LV purse randomly.