Chapter 5
I looked up and saw Fred and the other two.
Catherine was arm in arm with Fred in an unusually intimate way, while Fred’s child was smiling as they touched Catherine’s face.
They said it was a cold, but in reality it was just a little chill. There was barely any problem at all.
When she saw me looking over, Catherine quickly let go of Fred’s arm. That caused a flash of gloom to pass through Fred’s eyes.
“Albert, what are you doing at the hospital? Where’s Angel?”
I held back my anger and said coldly:
“Why am I here? Because Angel was sent into the ER!”
Catherine’s face instantly went pale, and her whole body was trembling. She asked anxiously:
“What happened? Why was Angel sent to the ER? Wasn’t she fine before?”
My gaze turned sharply toward Fred, who was standing off to the side.
Just now, I had been thinking about what the doctor said. Why did they say Angel had already been lactose intolerant for six or seven hours?
But now I seemed to understand. Six hours ago, Angel was taken away by Fred!
Then everything lined up!
Fred also flashed with panic. He forced out a smile and said:
“Catherine, look, Angel is only one year old. Even if she’s lactose intolerant, how much time has even passed?”
“How could she possibly have been sent to the ER? At most, she just needs some medicine.”
“Albert, if you’re going to make up a lie, at least make it sound more believable.”
Hearing Fred’s words, Catherine, who had been anxious a moment ago, suddenly relaxed. When she looked at me again, her face was full of disappointment.
“Albert, I don’t know how you’ve become like this.”
“To make up this kind of lie just to scare me? Do you hate Fred’s child that much? Do you disrespect my wishes that much?”
As she spoke, she looked around and, not seeing Angel anywhere, anger rose in her voice.
“Where’s Angel? Because you were throwing a tantrum with me, did you leave Angel alone at home?”
“Don’t you know she’s only one year old?”
Fred took Catherine’s hand and spoke softly:
“Catherine, calm down. The doctor said our child caught a chill. We should hurry back. Let’s not stay in a crowded place like this.”
Catherine looked at me with anger all over her face.
“Get back home right now. If anything happens to Angel while she’s alone at home, we might as well not stay together anymore.”
As she spoke, Fred tried to pull Catherine away from there.
But how could I let Fred get away that easily? I grabbed his wrist.
“You’re not allowed to leave. I think you’re deliberately trying to harm Angel!”
Seeing this, Catherine shouted:
“Albert, what the hell is wrong with you now? Threatening me with Angel won’t work, so now you’re just laying hands on people?”
“I’m warning you, let go of Fred right now!”
Seeing that I still wouldn’t let go, she slapped me across the face.
“Do you have to make me divorce you before you’re satisfied?”
The slap was hard. Blood even seeped out of the corner of my mouth.
But I just licked the blood off my lip and used my other hand to call the police.
Seeing the blood at the corner of my mouth, Catherine panicked a little too and hurriedly explained:
“I didn’t mean to hit that hard! And this is your fault too. Who told you to treat Fred like that?”
“Besides, Fred has been so good to Angel. How could he possibly harm her?”
“Stop framing Fred here!”
I laughed in anger, my eyes growing even colder as I looked at Catherine.
“Framing him? Then tell me why Angel was left alone in a pitch-black storage room.”
“Tell me, was that Fred’s doing?”
“Now Angel has been sent to the ER. Do you know what the doctor said?”
“He said Angel had already been lactose intolerant for six or seven hours, and it only got this serious because it was left untreated until now.”
“Six or seven hours ago was when you handed Angel over to Fred, and you still say I’m framing him?”
Hearing me say that, Catherine froze for a second, then got even angrier.
“Stop talking nonsense here! I know Fred better than you do!”
“Albert, I never expected you to be this shameless. Just to frame Fred, you actually cursed our daughter!”
“Angel is your biological child!”
My anger only grew stronger, and I said in a voice cold as ice:
“So you do know Angel is our biological daughter?”
“Then where were you when Angel got sick this whole past year? Where were you when she wanted her mother?”
As I said that, I got even angrier:
“Now Angel has lactose intolerance. This is life-threatening.”
“I called you, and you were still comforting some other kid? Telling me not to bother you!”
“Someone like you still deserves to be Angel’s mother?”
Catherine was stung hard by my words, and she snapped back furiously:
“Are you ever going to stop? I’m Angel’s real mother. Wouldn’t I know how healthy she is?”
“Albert, you really disgust me. Just so I’d leave Fred’s child and come home, you made up such a disgusting lie.”
“If you keep making a scene like this, then there’s no point in us staying together. Let’s divorce!”
With rage all over my face, I slammed the divorce agreement I had already prepared right onto Catherine’s face.
“Catherine, you don’t need to say it. I already prepared it!”
“Don’t you want to raise Fred’s child?”
“Then go ahead and become his child’s mother for real. From now on, Angel and I will have nothing to do with you ever again!”
Catherine’s face instantly went pale, but then she shouted at me with a red face:
“Albert, you really think you’ve achieved something, don’t you? Just because of this one little thing, you really want to divorce me?”
“Fine, then let’s divorce. Anyone who backs out is a bastard!”
My gaze grew even colder as I shouted with all the anger in my chest:
“Catherine, say that again?”
“You call this a little thing? Because of Fred, Angel is already almost dead!”
Catherine was so angry her hair almost stood on end. She shouted even louder:
“Albert, enough! How long are you going to keep acting?”
A nurse on duty shouted at us because of all the noise:
“Quiet! You’re the father. Don’t you know you’re supposed to stay quiet while someone is being treated?”
Catherine suddenly felt a wave of unease. She hurriedly asked:
“Nurse, whose child is in the ER?”