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Chapter 171 The story behind it
Chapter 171 The story behind it
At the time, Allen had gone to buy Joey some soup and she was left alone in the ward. She lowered
her head and didn’t respond to Mr. Charles’s aggressive criticism.
Joey wasn't in the mood to explain to or argue with Mrs. Chares right now, because Ben Hawk’s threat
was hanging over her head like a sword of Damocles. She felt like she couldn't breathe.
Mrs. Charles was infuriated by Joey’s silence. She thought that Joey was deliberately playing dumb
with her. She was about to give her a good lecture when Chance walked into the room.
He had apparently heard Mrs. Charles’s lecture. He put his hands on Mrs. Charles’s shoulders
intimately and smiled, “Aunt Paige, pregnant women tend to be more emotional and their emotions will
directly affect the baby’s health. You’d better be nicer to Joey if you want your grandchild to be happy
and healthy. I guess Allen will be back soon. He’ll take it from here. Why don’t you go home and have a
rest?”
Mrs. Charles obviously liked Chance. Besides, she want your grandchild, she didn’t want her son to be
upset. She asked Joey to take care of the baby again and left the hospital.
“Thank you.”
Joey was greatly relieved when Mrs. Charles was gone. She looked up at Chance and thanked him
with a forced smile. But she frowned and asked, “why did you called her Aunt Paige?”
Charles sat down by her side and smiled, “Allen’s mother is my father’s sister, of the same parents. So
Allen is actually my elder cousin.”
Joey wasn’t very surprised. She should have known it. Both Chance’s family and Allen’s family were
very most prestigious families in the city. They were well matched indeed.”
“It seems you’re getting along very well.”
It could be seen from the short encounter between Mrs. Charles and Chance that Mrs. Charles liked
him and cared for him very much, totally unlike how she had treated Joey.
Chance nodded and said noncommittally, “MY mother injured her brain in an accident and became a ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .
vegetable when I was little. I was brought up by Aunt Paige. She’s been very nice to me.”
Joey was a little surprised, “How is your mother…”
“You're asking if she's still alive, right?”
Chance smiled faintly, “She is alive, but she’s been sleeping for the past twenty years, like a dead-alive
person.”
Chance was extremely calm, as if he was telling someone else's story. But Joey could tell from his eyes
that he was deeply sad and resentful.
She couldn’t help sighing. It seems that everyone had a story of his own.
“No wonder a rich kid like you decided to study medicine. I believed you did it for you mother. You must
really love her.”
Joey admired his decision.
She believed that Chance was an essentially a nice young man.
However, Chance suddenly looked up at her in amazement. He was excited to finally find someone
who could really understand him.
He had become a doctor for his vegetable mother.
Mrs. Charles had treated him very well these years, but she was just his aunt who had her own son
and daughter to take care of. He had to admit that Mrs. Charles loved him. But an aunt’s love was
nothing like a mother’s love. His mother had become a vegetable when he was four years old, but she
had loved him unconditionally and wholeheartedly when she could. Chance remembered how nice and
loving his mother had been to him. He had missed it even more as he grew older.
Unfortunately, his mother hadn't woken up after years of medical treatment. Chance had lost his faith in
those doctors and decided to study medicine himself. He even had established a large private hospital
on his own.
No one had known why he had done that. They had assumed that he was just a whimsical rich kid
playing around. It seemed that everyone else had forgotten his mother who had been lying in bed for
twenty years, including his aunt Mrs. Charles, his father Peter, Allen and Martin. He was the only one in
the world who still cared for his poor mother.
However, Joey had easily read his mind and understood his misery today.