CHAPTER 45: CHAPTER 45: HE IS A GOOD SAMARITAN

Ethan Grant drove Serena Sullivan back to "Willow Yarrow," and Serena looked at him, puzzled. Wasn’t she supposed to go to The Grant Corporation?

She had only taken half a day off.

"Today is just for reporting in. Didn’t they tell you?" Ethan knew what she was going to ask and countered first.

"I don’t have to go, right?"

Serena asked again, surprised. No company she knew of would let you report for just half a day on your first day of work. This was the first she’d heard of it.

"Everyone’s gone, so why would you go!"

Ethan meant that, aside from Zoe Quinn, he had let the other three designers go home.

Serena remembered Zoe Quinn in the hospital.

Zoe Quinn’s injuries were so severe that there was no way she would want to go to The Grant Corporation now.

When Ethan doted on someone, he was meticulous and attentive. Naturally, he would let others go home to rest for Zoe Quinn.

"Oh."

The passenger door opened, and Ethan came over and lifted her up.

A lot more composed than the first time, and he carefully placed her in the wheelchair.

Ethan pushed Serena to the elevator door, turned, and walked away.

The reflection on the elevator door showed his straight and tall back. In Serena’s sight, he walked farther and farther away, making her feel out of reach. The door opened, Serena smiled slightly, and pushed the wheelchair inside.

Sometimes, the decisions made in a moment of heat must be paid for in heartache.

Her return to marry Ethan Grant was such a decision.

The servant came out to push Serena back to the bedroom, then left, leaving her alone and lost in the room.

A text message snapped Serena out of her distant thoughts; she lowered her head and noticed the name displayed above, so alarmed that she flung the phone to the ground.

She bent down repeatedly to pick it up, as the phone had fallen far away, she exerted too much force when her hand touched the ground, causing her whole body to fall sideways out of the wheelchair.

"Auntie!"

Serena called out several times, hoping the servant would come in and help her up.

Instead, the noise outside quieted down with her shouts, and in her heart, Serena was clearer than ever. She pursed her lips in a mocking smile, stopped calling out, picked up the phone herself, and climbed back onto the bed.

She remembered when she’d first learned her legs were ruined, she was in agony, sitting at the hospital window day by day.

Finn Chandler and Anna were afraid she’d jump out of a window to end her life, so they took turns accompanying her.

In fact, the hospital room was on the second floor; jumping wouldn’t be fatal.

What was ridiculous was that she didn’t even have the ability to climb to the window, making jumping a luxury.

Eventually, she got used to it and no longer relied on others when she fell, slowly dragging those legs back into the wheelchair, although sometimes the wheelchair couldn’t bear her weight, tipping backward or sideways, leaving her badly injured.

The text was from "Ethan Grant," strictly speaking from his old number.

Serena tapped it open and heard a recording from Ethan of the dispute in the restroom with Zoe Quinn yesterday.

When she dialed that number, the person on the other end had recorded it for her.

"Thank you!"

She sent back two words and then changed the name "Ethan Grant" on her phone to "Kindhearted Person."

The owner of the number had changed four years ago, yet she kept this number with a shred of hope, storing it under his name.

"If you need help, contact me anytime."

The phone displayed another message from "Kindhearted Person," naturally leading Serena to believe that the person felt sympathy and pity after overhearing the restroom incident, probably thinking she might need his evidence one day.

"Okay."

Serena accepted his offer without hesitation; there were still many kind people in this world.