Not One, But Two!
Chapter 236

Chapter 236

Chapter 236

Philip? Abigail wondered, never imagining that the person who showed up here would be him. Why didhe come here? Is he here to look for me or Teal?

Confused, she hurriedly opened the door and wanted to go out, but she remembered that she couldn'twalk now. However, she didn't close the door and simply sat in the wheelchair while eavesdropping onthe conversation next door.

Philip's arrival brought Teal out of the room.

"That's rare, Mr. Kain."

Because of what Quinn did, Teal didn't have a good impression of Philip, but she still treated him with alittle politeness because he was Abigail's father.

With a glum face, Philip scanned his surroundings before saying, "Ms. Reeve, I'm here to ask for apersonal favor from you."

"You can forget it if it's about Quinn. He has already been handed over to the authorities, and all of hisbusiness has nothing to do with me from now on," she said while guessing the reason he came over.

However, he said anxiously, "Then, did he mention anything about the thing I asked him to do?"

Instantly, Teal's voice turned cold. "Mr. Kain, I don't know what deal you made with him, but it was atthe cost of my health and life. Do you really think this is a good idea? I don't want to hold some thingsagainst you for Dr. Kain's sake, but that doesn't mean I won't take any offense. I don't think anyonewould still be kind to the person who wanted to kill them."

As though not seeing the stoic look on her face, he took a step forward and clarified, "I'm not explainingmyself, and I was the one who gave him the medication. It doesn't matter to me how you'll have yourrevenge on me, but I just want to know the results of his investigations. If this is a deal, I've alreadylived up to my end of the deal, so he has to give me an answer."

"Have you lost your mind?"

It was impossible for Teal to understand Philip's logic. For the sake of an answer, he was using a life asthe stake.

However, since Quinn was no longer related to her, even if Philip wanted an answer, he shouldn't askher for it.

"Philip Kain, if you want to know anything, you can visit him at the lockup and ask him. I'm sorry, but Idon't have the answer that you're looking for."

After speaking, she tried to usher him out the door, but he grabbed her wrist and growled maliciously,"What happened to him came as a surprise, so the result of his investigations must still be here. Takeme to the study; it has to be there."

Looking like he was possessed by demons, he dragged Teal and wanted to head to the study, but shescreamed in terror, "Philip, let me go! Somebody, help!"

After she found out what Quinn was doing to her, she had hired some bodyguards and when sheencountered something like this now, she couldn't help but be afraid.

Seeing how the situation was unfolding, Abigail couldn't eavesdrop anymore and she rolled herself outin the wheelchair.

"Dad, are you done?"

Her words struck Philip like a bolt of lightning, and he gawked at her in surprise, then he saw that shewas sitting on a wheelchair.

"What happened to your legs?"

This was the first time in so many years that he was so concerned about her and she couldn't help butbe taken aback.

No matter how Sasha and Emma had walked all over her in the past, he had always turned a blind eyeto it, and his concern now struck Abigail as surprising. In retrospect, she thought that his attitudetoward her had changed a lot ever since they cleared their ambiguous relationship.

He became much friendlier and warmer, and although there was still a little forbearance, it wasdefinitely different from before.

Abigail regained her senses soon enough and knitted her brows. "Dad, just give it up. You've beenstubborn about this for way too long, and it's not necessarily a good thing to keep looking for ananswer."

"What the hell are you talking about? Haven't you always wanted to know your mother's whereabouts?Now that there's a lead, why did you stop looking? Abigail, did you replace out something?"

Releasing Teal, Philip wanted to head upstairs to Abigail, but before he could do that, he stumbled andfell, after which he winced in pain.

Abigail's heart skipped a beat. She knew that he was injured, and for whom he sustained the injury.Hurriedly, she rose to her feet and went down the staircase while enduring the pain in her legs.

Standing in front of Philip, she extended her hand to him. "Your injury requires an operation quickly. I'llfree up some time in the next few weeks to operate on you."

"No, I'm not getting a surgery. The person who owes me this injury knows who they are, and I wantthem to know that they owe me, and that they can never get rid of me in this life."

Philip's voice was menacing, but there were tears in his reddened eyes, making Abigail sad.

"Why are you doing this? It's miserable to cling onto someone who doesn't love you back. Furthermore,you have Sasha and Emma now. You can live a happy life too."

She no longer wanted to hate him. All these years of persistence and obsession had worn him downand there was no other punishment which was more unbearable than this.

In spite of that, Philip refused to listen to anything she said. Tolerating the pain, he rose to his feet andstared at her as he hissed out each word, "I'll definitely replace them! Definitely! Even if you don't tell me,I'll use my own ways to replace them."

"Are you going to continue working with others to harm others and yourself? Dad, Teal decided to letyou off the hook for my sake, but nobody can save you next time."

At this point, she really wanted to pry his head open to see what he was thinking.

However, he simply replied nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter as long as I can replace them. I don't care whathappens to me."

"And what are you going to do after you replace them? They've been together for more than two decades.Are you going to break them up and take my mother for yourself?"

In that instant, Abigail was mad and furious. How sad her mother's life was to have the liking of such anextreme person, and now she was more confident than ever that she had made the right choice not tolook for her mother.

"What do you mean by take? She's my wife! She's mine!" he shouted before he passed out thereafter.

Quickly, Abigail called and asked someone to bring Philip back. When Sasha arrived, she met andgreeted Teal.

Teal seared Sasha's face in her mind. She had been told that the poison was provided by Sasha, andshe wouldn't swallow this grudge silently.

Appearing timid, Sasha had an unnatural expression on her face when she looked at Abigail. "Why didyour father come here out of the blue and even pass out here? Did something happen?"

Peering at the woman icily, Abigail answered, "He has a severe migraine. If it's possible, advise him togo for an operation where I'll be the main surgeon."

There were some things which she didn't want to tell Sasha, and neither could she do it.

A frowning Sasha lowered her voice and clarified, "He might not listen to me. If you're going to be themain surgeon, why don't you speak to him instead?"

"Do you think he'll listen to me?" Abigail snorted, thinking that Sasha was just asking for the sake ofdoing so.

When the ambulance left, so did Sasha. The children only trotted downstairs after seeing thateverything was over.

"Mommy, who was that guy? We heard you calling him "Dad". Is he our grandfather? But why haven'twe heard of you mentioning him before?" Alissa asked, blinking her huge eyes.

Even though Arianna said nothing, curiosity was written all over her face.

Abigail didn't know how she should explain Philip's identity to the children, but luckily, Greg showed upat this time.

"I saw the ambulance outside. What happened?"

The moment he walked in, he saw Abigail standing on the floor, and he knitted his brows unwittinglybefore marching forward to carry her.

"What are you doing? I told you that you should rest. If you can't do this, then come back with me."

His anxious look and tone sent a warm rush through her all of a sudden.

"I just got out of the wheelchair."

"Aren't you aware of your own condition? Even if the sky falls, you'll have to remain seated in thewheelchair."

While Greg was talking, Alissa ran upstairs and brought the wheelchair downstairs. "Daddy, here's thewheelchair."

"Good girl."

Then, he carried and placed Abigail into the wheelchair. Suddenly, Teal felt that her presence hereseemed especially redundant and she returned to her room quietly. Anyway, Abigail would speak withher about what happened today sooner or later, so she decided to give some space to the family of fournow.

Feeling a little speechless, Abigail watched as Greg checked her legs from the left to the right. Heclearly didn't know anything, but the way he was taking it so seriously and anxiously really moved her.

"I'm really fine. You're giving the kids a scare."

"I think you're the one giving us a scare." Rolling his eyes at her, he lifted his head and caught his twoprecious daughters watching them with a gossipy stare, so he cleared his throat and asked, "What are

you two doing there?"

"Mommy said to tell you to bring us home. Are you here to bring us home, Daddy?" Alissa asked in asensible manner.

The sight of his kids being active again made him happy and he said, "Yes, I'm here to take you home."

"Oh, yeah! We're going home!" Alissa leaped in joy while Arianna broke into a smile.

Seeing how delighted her children were, Abigail couldn't help but feel a little jealous because thebabies whom she had exercised so much effort to bring up harbored so much love for Greg.

With her acute senses, Arianna noticed Abigail's disappointment and held her mother's hand as shesaid with a smile, "Mommy, do you want to come home with us? Just get Daddy to drive you here everyday for Ms. Reeve's treatment."

Immediately, Greg went along with her idea. "That's a good point. My dear, why don't you come homewith me as well?"

Only then did Abigail realize that Teal was nowhere around and she said in a low voice, "The treatmentfor the next few days is crucial, so I can't leave. Go home with the kids first and replace a kindergarten tohave them transferred there. After being away from school for such a long time, I'm worried that itwould be almost impossible to get them to focus again."

Greg definitely didn't have any objections. "Okay, head upstairs and pack your stuff. I'm going to speakto your mom for a while." At his command, the children scurried upstairs and left the room to both ofthem.

"What happened earlier?"

"Philip was here," Abigail answered and told him what happened.

When he heard that she wasn't searching for her mother anymore, he asked in astonishment, "Didn'tyou always want to replace out news about her?"

"So what if I do replace out? The entanglement between her and Philip is simply inextricable. If we reallymeet up, given Philip's obsessive character, nobody knows what would happen next. If they had morethan two decades of peace when I didn't meet them, then why should I go ahead and destroy thispeace?"

Despite what Abigail said, a look of disappointment flashed in her eyes and Greg caught sight of it eventhough it was only there briefly. My wife is really too kind, he thought. Such a kind person should beblessed, right?