Chapter 659



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Charles was stunned. Then he said excitedly, “Do you know me? Young lady, how do you know me, how do you know my name is Charles? Haha, do you know, I was very lucky today. The bus overturned and everyone on it was injured, but I didn’t get a scratch. I must have saved the world in my previous life.”

That the fifty-year-old should say such things, Nora couldn’t help but find it rather odd. Many older people, even if they surfed the Internet a lot, rarely said things like that in real life.

She frowned. “Do you know who I am?”

Charles didn’t seem surprised at all. “It doesn’t matter who you are. Isn’t what matters the fact that I dodged the bullet today? Do you know how dangerous it was? The brakes on the bus had suddenly failed and it was hurtling straight into a mountain in front of us, you know! The woman in front of me kept screaming in fear, and even I thought she was dead meat. But, unexpectedly, even though the bus overturned, I turned out okay!”.

Nora frowned as she listened to his description of what happened. “How come you’re okay?”

Charles replied, “I don’t know. I was very lucky. The bus overturned and quite a few people were killed outright, did you see that? You don’t even have to try to save some of those people who were pushed just a moment ago…geez, you know?”

His expression turned a little nostalgic. “I’m not really a good person. Of course, I’m not a bad person either. I just did some bad things in the past and helped some bad people in the past. Over the years, I’ve devoted myself to the heavens. And look! The results are showing. The heavens must have watched over me this time, that’s why I managed to escape…..”

The more he spoke, the more excited he became. In fact, he looked like he was going to cry bitterly. He said, “When I return, I must be even more pious. I will donate all my money to the church.”

None of the other nurses paid any attention to him. Also, apparently because he had met Nora, someone who was willing to listen, he was very emotional.

Nora watched him silently.

It was no wonder Jessica said he was a lunatic. Indeed, something was wrong with his mental health, and he seemed to be crazy.

She narrowed her eyes and asked slowly, “How much money do you have?”

The man suddenly lowered his voice, but he couldn’t seem to control the volume. So, even though he had lowered his voice, it was actually still very loud. He said, “Don’t be fooled by my ordinary clothes. I am not an ordinary man. I have a lot of money. I used to work for a very impressive person. More than twenty years ago, he came to pay me as much as $15,000 a month!

“$15,000 a month! Do you know how much $15,000 was worth over twenty years ago? It was worth even more than $150,000 today! It sure paid well then.”

Charles seemed caught up in his memories. He said, “After that, I made a lot of money, but I didn’t dare spend it. I would have felt guilty if I had spent that money…”.

He burst into tears and said, “I got five million dollars, but I hid the money at home. I didn’t dare to spend it, you know? But after this accident, I have ordered my thoughts. Do you know that a person has epiphanies in near-death moments? Why didn’t I dare to spend that money? All that money belongs to me.”

Nora frowned.

Even if her mother had given her $15,000 a month, that would only amount to $180,000 a year. For her to have five million dollars, she would have had to work for thirty years! And even then. As far as she knew, after her mother passed away, she hadn’t given any more money to those three people.

So how was it possible for Charles to have five million dollars in cash!

Also, why did he say he didn’t dare spend the money? Where had that money come from? Were they benefits that his mother had given to those people, who had worked under her for years?

But if that was the case, why didn’t Old Maddy get any?

She frowned and asked, “Who gave you the money?”

Charles looked at her and then laughed. “I can’t tell you, young lady, I just can’t. I went against my conscience for that money, so I can’t tell you….. heavens!”

She went against her conscience for that money…..

Nora narrowed her eyes.

By this time, all the victims’ relatives had arrived at the hospital. Some rushed to the operating rooms, while others rushed to the bodies of the people, who had been declared dead, and began to cry bitterly.

Suddenly, the hospital was in chaos again.

As Nora was about to ask Charles something, a voice approached, “Charles, are you okay?”

She turned to see a man in his fifties approaching them. He was standing in front of Charles and looking him up and down. “You have no family, so they called me instead!”

Charles replied, “What can be wrong with me, I’m fine, I’m totally fine! Brother, let me tell you, I’ve been very lucky today…” Charles then began to recount again in detail what had happened that day.

Nora: “…”

The man was very neurotic.

He rolled his eyes and approached the two of them. Just as he was about to ask a question, Charles’ friend suddenly said, “Okay, okay, I understand. I know you’ve been through life and death today, you’re sooooo lucky. But, why are you suddenly so chatty?”.

Nora paused and looked sharply at the two men.

Charles was still chattering on and on in a neurotic manner. “Because I’m agitated and excited. I thought I could only be a longshoreman for the rest of my life, did you know that? I thought I didn’t deserve happiness anymore. I thought I could only be like you for the rest of my life, Just be a day laborer!”

His friend’s expression changed, “What do you mean by that, who are you looking down on?”

Charles was still babbling. In fact, he had even burst into tears, as if emotions he had long kept bottled up were finally bursting forth. He said, “Stevedores, of course! Not only is the work backbreaking, but the pay is very low. You may be uneducated, but do you know who I am? I graduated from Hamlin Medical School, you know?”

Hamlin Medical School?!

Nora narrowed her eyes.

Her friend, however, had never heard of that school. “Why are you freaking out? You must have hit your head, right? Why are you behaving so strangely today? Never mind you chattering on, but all of a sudden you’re talking about a medical school? If you were a high-achieving student, would you have been working as a laborer with us?”

Charles sneered and said, “Yes, I am different from you. You see, the heavens are still looking out for me. Even when I had a traffic accident, I didn’t get hurt at all…”

Nora’s heart suddenly sank as she listened to his conversation.

She took a big step forward and suddenly asked, “Excuse me, are you usually very quiet?”

Charles’ friend nodded. “Yes. Ramsey talks very little. It’s odd that he’s so excited. It must have gone to his head.”

As soon as he said that, Nora held Charles’ hand. Suddenly, she shouted to the doctor standing next to her, “Get a CT scan on him immediately!”.

The doctor was stunned. “What?”

The man looked at Charles sharply. “But he doesn’t look hurt!”

Charles also said, “Yes, I’m not hurt. I’m not going to do a CAT scan, are you a doctor? You just want my money, don’t you?”

As soon as he said that, Nora looked at him seriously with a horrible look on her face. He said, “You graduated from medical school, didn’t you? Then let me ask you this: what are the symptoms of intracerebral hemorrhage?”

Intracerebral hemorrhage….

Charles unconsciously answered, “Excessive secretion of adrenaline, which makes people overexcited. After that, they will bleed from their seven orifices…”

At this point, he suddenly realized something.

Nora’s expression became even more serious.

Yes, that’s right!

If there was too great a change in Charles’ personality, he must be suffering from a hemorrhage in the brain!

Internal bleeding was a very serious condition. There was a high probability that it would block blood vessels and form congestions. By the time it was discovered, it would be too late for diagnosis and treatment.

Nora had not immediately discovered Charles’ abnormal behavior because she had thought he was crazy. After all, according to Jessica’s description, Charles was a madman. But through talking with his partner, it was known that this was not normally the case. Just from her partner’s description of him being a quiet man, it fit the personality of the man who had called her. That was how she had suddenly become aware of Charles’ abnormal behavior.

However, the doctor next to her frowned. “Who are you, why do I have to give you a brain CT scan? Don’t you know that people who undergo a CT scan are exposed to radiation? It’s better for healthy people not to do it…”

After saying that, Nora immediately said, “I’m Anti!”.

The doctor immediately shut up and looked at Charles. Then, suddenly, he picked up his phone and called the upstairs CT department to make arrangements for the man to jump the line.

Nora looked back at Charles.

Charles’s jaw dropped. He touched his head. At that moment, he could faintly feel something warm coming out of his nose.

He touched it and discovered it was blood.

Only then did he realize something.

His eyes snapped open and he suddenly said, “I get it, I get it now. It’s them. They’re here to silence me…”

Nora grabbed his wrist tightly. “Tell me, who is trying to silence you, the mysterious organization?”

At the words ‘mysterious organization’, at last, Carlos focused and looked at Nora. In his excited state just now, after crossing paths with Nora, he had immediately started chatting with her. He had not noticed Nora’s gaze at all.

But at this very instant, he clearly saw Nora’s face.

Her face was 90% similar to Yvette’s back then.

Her eyes snapped open. “Miss Yvette?”

Nora’s eyes blinked faintly with a sharp glint. “I’m Nora Smith.”

Nora Smith!

The name made Charles’ pupils shrink.

Unconsciously he said, “You look a lot like Miss Yvette now that you’ve lost weight.”

After she’d lost weight?

This meant that Charles had definitely seen her a few years ago.

Was it when she was pregnant?

Had her mother made her arrange her pregnancy?

The thoughts flooded her mind.

However, Nora found Charles’ pupils beginning to dilate. It didn’t give her time to ask all the questions she wanted to ask. She could only ask one: “Tell me, did I have twins or triplets back then?”.

Charles’ eyes were beginning to unfocus, as if he could no longer think clearly.

He stared at Nora blankly.

Twins or triplets?

His eyes suddenly reddened and he said, “Miss Nora, I have let you down. I betrayed you then, and I also betrayed Miss Yvette…. For so many years, I have felt guilty about it…”

But that was not what Nora wanted to hear.

She asked again, “Tell me, was she pregnant with twins or triplets?”

Charles’ eyes were red. Suddenly he smiled and said, “Yes, the mysterious organization threatened and bribed me. They gave me five million dollars, but because I betrayed Miss Yvette, I have never spent that money in all these years. I’m sorry I conspired against you, now I’m going to repay your kindness! They wanted to silence me, but they did not expect me to meet you before my death…”

However, what he said next made Nora’s eyes widen in disbelief, but also with enlightenment.

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