Stop Panicking! Miss Jacobs will Not Look Back!-Chapter 289: Mrs. Sinclair Truly Excels at Raising Daughters
However, Juliana didn’t give Florence any chance to react. She grabbed her collar and dragged her into the empty hospital room next to them under the watchful eyes of everyone.
The door slammed shut with a "bang."
Mrs. Sinclair wanted to step forward, but Elias Langley stood in front of her.
"Elias..." Mrs. Sinclair frowned tightly.
Elias Langley remained calm, "Let them have a private conversation."
Seeing his intention to side with Juliana, Mrs. Sinclair nervously clenched her fingers...
Inside the room, Florence was so intimidated by Juliana’s sudden aggression that she lost all her confidence.
She forced herself to remain calm, "I just saved your friend, you owe me..."
Slap! 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
Before she could finish her sentence, another slap landed on her face.
"A weasel paying New Year’s greetings to a chicken, should I thank you?" Juliana said coldly.
Florence was bewildered.
Could it be that Juliana had figured something out?
Even Caleb Shaw hadn’t noticed, how could she know?
With this thought, she regained some confidence and said with grievance, "Caleb was there, he didn’t say anything..."
Juliana gave her another slap, "I’m not here to reason with you!"
Her unpredictable behavior left Florence too scared to retaliate and she trembled as she said, "My mom is right outside, Elias is too, and you’re still daring to hit me?"
Juliana laughed fiercely, "If I dared to drag you in front of them, I don’t care what others think!"
Florence was rendered speechless by her imposing manner.
Juliana looked down at her, "Listen up, from here on out, if Summer Shaw’s condition fluctuates for any reason, I’m holding you responsible!"
Florence seemed out of options, only tremblingly saying, "You... you can’t falsely accuse the innocent."
"You’re innocent?"
Juliana’s lips curled into a mocking smile.
"You used Isabelle as a pawn, and I used her too. Now that pawn is in prison, don’t you see that’s my warning to you?"
Florence’s face turned pale instantly.
Looking at Juliana’s cold gaze, fear gripped her for the first time.
She lowered her head, her voice weak, "Isabelle got where she is because of her bad character, she brought it on herself. I’m not like her."
Juliana laughed without warmth,
"You’re just a little smarter than her, you know to use a brush to clean toilets."
With that, she opened the door and walked out.
Mrs. Sinclair’s worried gaze fell into the room, only to see Florence standing up shakily from the ground, her face full of red marks.
She called out feeling sorry for her, "Florence," then turned to Juliana, her tone full of reproach.
"How could you hit her like that!"
Juliana paused, turning her gaze towards her, her eyes full of distant frost.
"You feel sorry for your precious foster daughter being hit?"
Mrs. Sinclair was taken aback by her words.
Juliana raised an eyebrow and continued, "When Isabelle was causing trouble for me, why didn’t I hear you say a just word? It seems Mrs. Sinclair is quite adept at teaching daughters, each of your foster daughters turned out so ’excellent’."
Susan could not stand it any longer, stepping forward to defend Mrs. Sinclair, "How presumptuous of you as a junior to rebuke an elder like this?"
Juliana gave her a light glance and sarcastically laughed.
"Now that I think about it, it’s lucky the Sinclair Family’s precious daughter didn’t grow up by Mrs. Sinclair’s side. Otherwise, she’d have learned the same crooked ways, wouldn’t that be disgraceful."
"You’re too much!"
Susan couldn’t tolerate it any longer.
But as soon as she raised her hand, Elias Langley stepped forward and embraced Juliana.
"Mrs. Sinclair, I need to return to the ward, excuse us."
With that, he began to walk away with Juliana.
Juliana didn’t resist this time, instead supporting him.
Seeing the thin sweat on his forehead, she knew he was holding up with effort.
"Does it hurt?" she asked while helping him back to the ward.
Elias Langley laughed, "If my wife feels sorry for me, it doesn’t hurt anymore."
"You’re just being a pain," Juliana said, holding back a smile.
Watching them leave, tears welled in Florence’s eyes as she clung to her mother’s arm.
"Mom, I didn’t..."
Mrs. Sinclair wiped her tears without saying anything more about accountability, just spoke with concern, "Let’s have a doctor take a look at you."
Florence was secretly amazed, no one intended to seek justice for her, nor did her mother retort despite being insulted like that.
Who exactly is Juliana?
Florence’s gaze subtly darkened, and she meekly nodded.
The mother and daughter headed towards the doctor’s office.
On the way, they passed Caleb Shaw.
Caleb gave Florence a sharp look, "I’ll remember you."
Although he didn’t notice any foul play by Florence during the emergency treatment for Summer Shaw, Caleb just believed Juliana.
If Juliana decided Florence was problematic, she must be involved somehow.
Florence was startled, and under his hostile gaze, she hurriedly clutched Mrs. Sinclair’s arm tighter and quickened her pace to leave.
Mrs. Sinclair noticed her unease and patted her hand, "It’s okay, I’m here."
...
Back in the ward, Elias Langley was reluctantly made to change into a hospital gown and lay face down on the bed.
The doctor treated his wound again and sighed, "If you hadn’t snuck out of the hospital, it would have scabbed over by now."
Hearing this, Juliana immediately said to Raine Kane, "Get the strongest chain possible, one that can lock him securely to the hospital bed."
Elias Langley turned his head in surprise, looking at his wife who had a serious expression, his arguments lacked the courage to come out, and he softened his tone, "Juliana, I promise, without the doctor’s and your permission, I won’t leave this room, don’t lock me up."
Juliana looked at him lightly, her gaze repeatedly saying, "Your bail isn’t worth much."
Elias Langley’s face took on a pleading smile, "Really, as long as you’re here watching me, I’m not going anywhere."
Juliana stopped looking at him and gestured to Raine Kane to let it go.
Elias Langley’s demeanor changed instantly, directing his annoyance towards the blunt doctor.
"Were you a husky in your past life? Specializing in disrupting couple’s harmony and ward peace?"
"Elias Langley!"
Juliana scolded him.
The man closed his mouth.
The doctor smiled awkwardly and found an excuse to slip away.
Juliana watched this man regain his ’ground’ quickly, showing a hint of an almost imperceptible smile.
She didn’t expect such a childish side from Elias Langley.
"Raine, you can step out," Elias Langley instructed.
Raine Kane immediately closed the door for them.
"Juliana," Elias Langley lay on the hospital bed, raising an eyebrow, a hint of coaxing in his voice.
"Come over and give me a kiss."
"Stop it."
This side of Elias Langley made her somewhat unaccustomed.
"My back hurts, a kiss from you works better than an anesthetic."
In the end, Juliana couldn’t resist his antics and walked over to the bedside with resignation.
Seeing this, Elias Langley immediately wanted to turn his body.
"Don’t move."
Juliana was afraid he’d strain his wound and hurriedly leaned down to press on him.
In that instant, the man lifted his head, and his warm lips came up insistently...
Elias Langley, immersed in the joy of success, when the door was suddenly pushed open from outside.
