7
My dad was already unconscious when he was loaded into the ambulance, but he was still calling out my brother’s name.
My mom had also passed out from extreme shock.
As the red light of the operating room lit up, I stood alone outside.
My brother Lucas and Olivia walked up to me, arm in arm.
“What happened! It’s one thing for you to make trouble normally, but how could you let Dad get hurt!”
I looked at him coldly, without any energy to argue.
I just said flatly, “The kidnapper did it.”
My brother Lucas immediately started jumping up and down.
“How dare the actors you hired actually hurt someone! What do you think our Bailey family is? Mom and Dad must have been blinded to bring you back!”
Olivia looked quite smug beside him.
“You’ve really messed up this time, haven’t you? I told you you’d end up hurting yourself sooner or later.”
“Blood relation or not, I’m still better than you even though I’m adopted.”
Lucas’s hand caressed her face, looking very sweet, without any concern for our parents.
Even now, they still thought I was acting, and kept insulting me.
The police officer in charge of the case walked over from not far away.
“Mia, sign this statement. Don’t worry too much, your uncle will be fine.”
Lucas snatched the statement, and the police officer was also surprised to see him.
“Lucas Bailey! Where have you been? Do you know what your parents have been through? Your sister almost got caught up in it too!”
Lucas read the statement and still looked disbelieving.
“You’re not going to say these were actors I hired too, are you? This colleague of yours sees you every day.”
I stood up and glared at Lucas.
“You’d better pray that Mom and Dad are okay, or I’m not done with you!”
All the anger and resentment accumulated over two lifetimes exploded.
Lucas clearly showed a hint of panic, but quickly covered it up with a facade of calmness.
Olivia stepped in front of him, trying to show off.
“Don’t blame him, blame me if you must. Anyway, Mom and Dad won’t scold me, you’ll be the one getting yelled at in the end.”
Olivia had a look of certainty on her face.
“How could you compete with me? I think you were deliberately abandoned when you were two years old. You’re the unwanted child that Mom and Dad didn’t want!”
I couldn’t hold back anymore and stood up to slap her.
“Slap!”
The crisp sound stunned everyone present.
“I won’t argue with you about what you say about me, but Mom and Dad would never deliberately abandon me.”
I have to thank the kidnappers for this. In the face of life and death, the wall between my parents and me came crumbling down.
I understood their guilt for losing me and their deep, inexpressible love.
Lucas angrily stood in front of Olivia to protect her.
“You’re just…”
He said a few words and suddenly stopped, as if he remembered some consequence and held his tongue.
“The surgery is over, family members please come over.”
Lucas and I both rushed towards the doctor at the same time.
