She Became Glamorous After the Engagement Annulment - Part2

Chapter 370: She's Finally Awake

The thought had only just formed when she saw Joel’s legs give in and he fell onto one knee on the ground.

Tanya subconsciously took a few steps toward him. Then, she opened the door and rushed out.

She went over to Joel. The man, who likely heard her footsteps, turned to look at her. He was very pale, so he probably wasn’t putting up an act. His voice was also very soft, and he sounded a little aggrieved as he said, “I knew you wouldn’t ignore me, Tanya.”

“…”

For a moment, tears almost fell from Tanya’s eyes.

However, she held them back and looked around. “Where are your assistants? And your bodyguards?”

Joel seemed like he wanted to say something, but in the end, he merely said, “I don’t want to go to the hospital.” Then, his eyes closed and he fainted.

Tanya was dumbfounded.

There was a reason why Joel said that he didn’t want to go to the hospital. He had always refused to go even when they were still in school.

He had always toughed it out whenever he was sick, so he never went for checkups even when he had stomach problems.

What was he up to now, though? Was he staging an accident?

Tanya was so mad that she stretched out her foot, intending to give him a hard kick.

The bodyguard hiding in the distance wanted to rush forward but was stopped by Joel’s assistant.

The assistant said, “The gesture that Mr. Joel made before he fainted was telling us not to go over!”

The bodyguard retorted, “Even so, we can’t just watch as someone hits him!”

“She won’t.”

“What?”

The bodyguards looked over to see that Tanya’s foot had stopped less than an inch from him.

Tanya looked around hesitantly. She frowned and wondered out loud, “Did he really not bring his assistant with him?

“What incompetent bodyguards! What if he was sick elsewhere instead? What are you gonna do if that happens?”

Even though she was complaining, she nevertheless bent over and held the man up.

Just like that, the bodyguards in the distance watched as their master was dragged into the house while the woman stumbled and bumped him about.

The rough girl also kept on swearing as she moved…

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Nora slept right until the next day.

After making up for all her lost sleep, she got out of bed all refreshed and stretched. Then, she looked at her cell phone and noticed that Tanya had sent her several messages.

They seemed very urgent.

However, Tanya probably knew that she needed to make up for lost sleep, so she hadn’t called and disturbed her rest, no matter how anxious she was.

She picked up the phone and took a look. Their chat was still at the point when she got home the day before. At that time, when she saw the messages that Tanya had sent, she had replied: ‘I’m home now. You can send Pete back with Joel now.’

She had fallen into a deep sleep after that.

But why wasn’t Pete by her side when she woke up?

She looked at the chat again. Tanya had been sending her the same thing:

‘Are you awake?’

‘Are you awake?’

‘Are you awake?’

She had practically asked the same thing once every hour, which made that seven or eight times in total. It was enough to show how bad of a mental breakdown she was having.

Nora was rather hesitant. Pete was a very well-behaved boy. Surely he wasn’t that hard to take care of, was he?

While wondering about it, she replied: ‘I’m up.’

Tanya called the very next moment.

She picked it up. She’d only just said ‘hello’ when Tanya’s loud voice reached her through the phone. “My goodness, you slept for twelve hours again! Didn’t you wake up a little too late?!”

Nora rubbed her ears. “Yeah. What’s up?”

“Hurry up and come over to pick up your son.”

Nora uttered an ‘okay’. Then, she asked, “Is that it?”

Tanya paused and then quietly added, “And! Your! Elder! Brother! Too!”

She seemed to be gnashing her teeth in fury with every word she said, which went to show just how angry and resentful she was.

Did she say ‘elder brother’, though?

Nora didn’t realize what she was saying for a while there. She asked, “Which brother?”

“… How many elder brothers do you have?!”

Tanya practically roared the question.

Nora answered seriously, “If you try counting, there are six boys in the Smiths, so I have five older brothers and one younger brother. You’re talking about… Joel?”

“… Yes!!”

Nora was puzzled. “Didn’t he go over to pick up Pete for me? How did he end up staying there instead?”

“…”

The woman on the other end suppressed her anger and said, “You have half an hour. If you don’t come over in time, then this friendship is over!! Beep… beep… beep…”

Nora glanced at the phone in horror and raised her eyebrows.

Then, she slowly brushed her teeth and washed up. After she was done, she finally went out.

As soon as she went downstairs, Lucy saw her and said excitedly, “You’re finally awake, Ms. Nora!”

“What’s the matter?” asked Nora.

Lucy replied, “Your cousin is here!!”