"Sir! Sir!!"

...When Sheldon Rhodes arrived, he found Tristan Grayson lying in a pool of his own blood.

Just as Sheldon Rhodes carried Tristan Grayson away, Mika Summers, a hundred meters away, could no longer stand. She collapsed and fainted in the middle of the road. The cars around her seemed to deliberately swerve around her, not one of them willing to stop.

A few minutes later, a black Mercedes-Benz pulled up beside Mika Summers.

The driver got out and respectfully opened the back door. A pair of impeccably polished black leather shoes emerged, moving slowly in Mika Summers’ direction.

The man’s brow furrowed slightly. He undid his cufflinks, then bent down and scooped the woman up from the ground.

「Anhurst Hospital.」 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Every top doctor in Tridell had been summoned.

Mae Lynch watched as nurses rushed in and out of the operating room, too frightened to even cry.

’What did we do to deserve this? Why does our son have to endure such calamities...?’

Half an hour later, Aiden Avery and Cassian Jennings also arrived.

Even Ian Shaw and Archie Summers showed up.

The moment Archie Summers saw Sheldon Rhodes, he rushed forward, grabbed him by the collar, and demanded, "Where’s Mika? Where did Mika go?" ’Tristan Grayson went after my sister, so why isn’t she here? Why is only Tristan Grayson here?’

"I don’t know where Miss Summers is. I only know that because of her, my master is in that operating room fighting for his life right now." Sheldon Rhodes’s expression turned cold as he pried Archie Summers’s fingers off one by one.

Archie Summers pointed at Sheldon Rhodes for a long moment before turning away in a fury. "Howard Rhodes, come back to the Lockwood estate with me now!"

"Yes."

"I’ll go with you," Aiden Avery said hurriedly as he saw Archie Summers about to leave.

Archie Summers turned, gave him a complicated look, and nodded.

「The Lockwood Estate.」

When Archie Summers entered the Lockwood living room, he saw Eleanor Bishop was there as well. His gaze instantly turned icy.

The moment Eleanor Bishop saw him, her eyes reddened. She stood up and ran toward him. "Archie, you’re finally back."

Just as Eleanor Bishop was about to reach him, Archie Summers’s cold eyes narrowed. He raised his hand and swung it, slapping her hard across her pretty face.

Eleanor Bishop’s face immediately turned red and swollen. She clutched her cheek, staring at Archie Summers with tear-filled eyes, full of disbelief. "Archie, why... why did you hit me?"

"Why did I hit you? Don’t you know? Eleanor Bishop, with this slap, we are over. There is nothing between us anymore."

"Archie, why are you saying that? You must have misunderstood something. I... I really haven’t done anything to wrong you. I... I only came here today to find Mr. Lockwood and explain everything." Hearing Archie Summers’s words, Eleanor Bishop became frantic, gripping his arm in a panic as she explained.

Seeing Archie Summers stir up trouble the moment he returned, Julius Lockwood angrily banged his cane on the floor. "Archie, you’ve gone too far! Even if Eleanor was in the wrong, you shouldn’t have hit her."

Archie Summers then looked up at Julius Lockwood, his hands clenching into tight fists at his sides. He walked toward him. Just as he reached Julius Lockwood, he suddenly bowed deeply. His gaze was heavy, filled with a bleak sorrow. "Mr. Lockwood, I am willing to return to the Lockwood family."

"What... what did you say?" Julius Lockwood’s hand, the one gripping the cane, trembled with excitement, though he tried his best to maintain his usual commanding aura.

"Mr. Lockwood, I said I’m willing to do as you ask and return to the Lockwood family. However, I have three conditions."