There was a faint stench in the ward.
It was the smell of pus and blood on the wound.
Lying on the sickbed, Brenda Warner was pale and bony. Her pair of dark eyes were almost out of focus.
It hurts...
Those pale lips moved gently, as if she was yelling silently.
The smelly wound was on Brenda's belly, dripping with pus and blood, which dyed the dirty striped hospital gown.
A kidney was missing under the wound.
"Brenda, I'm very satisfied with this kidney of yours. The rejection after the surgery doesn't have much of a reaction, as if this kidney was originally mine." Madeline Warner wore a pair of sterile gloves and pressed it maliciously against Brenda's wound.
Every time she pressed down, this bony body, which was so weak that it looked as if it would die at any time, could not help trembling.
It was very interesting.
Brenda's eyes were so painful that they were covered with tears. She looked at Madeline pleadingly.
Madeline was her aunt and was seriously ill.
Elmer Warner was her father and enjoyed the reputation of a miracle-working doctor. He had a wide network of connections.
Brenda had promised to give Madeline a kidney in order to find someone...
Madeline was in her early forties, but her face was still young and beautiful. She even had the innocence of a young girl.
She smiled at Brenda, "Oh, I remember. I promised you that as long as you give me your kidney, I will tell you where Alfredo is."
Alfredo Kiley was Brenda's husband.
After she had been wandering around for half of her miserable life, he had given her a home.
That silent man made her understand what it felt like to be loved and cared.
But three months ago, he suddenly disappeared.
A look of expectation appeared on Brenda's thin and pale face as she looked at Madeline.
Since Madeline had come to see her today, she would not go back on her word.
She would soon be able to see her beloved husband.
Madeline looked at Brenda. Although Brenda was skinny and there were even tiny wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, she was still very beautiful.
She bent down and whispered in Brenda's ear, "Three months ago, Alfredo was already dead. That scarred-faced man thought that he was the king of the special forces and overestimating his own abilities. He wanted to bring down the Warner family and avenge you.
For your father, he is like a time bomb. Of course, your father has to get rid of him. Do you know how he died? He was blown to pieces, leaving only a broken finger. Here is the broken finger. I don't break my promise."
Madeline took out a palm-sized glass bottle from her bag.
In the bottle, there was a broken finger soaked in formalin.
On the broken finger, there was a simple silver ring.
Brenda was too familiar with Alfredo, so she immediately recognized that it was Alfredo's finger.
She suddenly sat up and snatched the glass bottle from Madeline's hand.
She stared blankly at the broken finger.
The violent emotional impact broke her whole body.
Sorrow, pain, and anger were all expelled.
A few seconds later, she slowly digested what Madeline had said.
Alfredo, was dead.
He was killed by Elmer.
However, she had changed her kidney to Elmer's most beloved sister.
Brenda's chest rose and fell rapidly, but she exhaled more than she could breathe. There was a strange sound in her throat.
Madeline knew that Brenda was about to die.
She received a call from the doctor, who told her that today was Brenda's last day.
She smiled sweetly. "Since you're going to die anyway, I'll tell you one more thing. I'm not your aunt, but your half-sister.
You and your b*tchy mother took my father away. I could only call my father brother. I hate you. As long as it belongs to you, I will rob it. If I can't get it, I will destroy it.
Thirty years ago, I knocked your mother unconscious. I stripped her of her clothes and let her sleep with a retard. She was caught by all the villagers and they forced her to jump into the river to commit suicide."
After Brenda's mother was rescued, because she had been suffocated in the water for too long, it caused permanent depression.
She became an adult with an IQ of a three-year-old child.
On the other hand, Elmer drove her and her mother out of the house because his mother didn't remember anything and said that Brenda was not his biological daughter.
Every time she went out with her mother, the villagers would spit and throw stones.
They called her a b*stard, while her mother was a sl*tty wh*re.
Her mother had not lived past her forty.
Before her mother died, she held Brenda's hand tightly and said sadly, "I didn't, I didn't sleep with that..."
Everything that happened in the past flashed through Brenda's mind as if she was looking at a movie.
Brenda looked at the broken finger that was soaked in the formalin. She only felt that the hatred was like a burning red blade, twisting back and forth in her heart, poking and stabbing.
Her hand loosened and with a clang, the bottle fell under the bed and broke into pieces.
Brenda pounced on Madeline and threw her onto the bed. Her hands, which were as thin as claws, grabbed Madeline's neck tightly. "I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"
Madeline had never expected Brenda to be able to jump on her even when she was about to die.
Her beautiful face turned purple because she couldn't catch her breath. The blue veins on her forehead almost cracked her skin.
When she was about to be strangled to death by Brenda, she saw the door of the ward open out of the corner of her eye.
