Resent Reject Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 51 She Was Jailed on Your Behalf

Regardless of how painful the kick was, Steven remained silent and kneeled on the ground. Brendan showed him the medical report on his phone with an intimidating, apathetic expression. "Look at this. Explain yourself."

This was expected, so Steven had long prepared an explanation. He stooped low as he said, "I'm sorry, sir. I wanted to tell you at the time, but I know you very well. If you had found out that Ms. McKinnon lost her sight in jail, you would have definitely done whatever you could to take her out of jail. However, because we were under the watchful eye of the public, your actions would have certainly led to an unintended negative impact on the Brighthall Group. Therefore, I couldn't say it. I took the liberty not to tell you immediately. I am sorry!"

"You took a liberty indeed." Brendan laughed instead when he got to the point of extreme anger. He looked down at Steven with his ice-cold gaze. "It seems that I've been too kind to you. So much so that you can't tell who's the boss anymore. From this day onward, you are fired. Get out of here! Don't you ever come back without my permission!"

'What?' Charlene covered her mouth, feeling incredulous. She couldn't believe that Brendan would fire Steven just for the sake of Deirdre.

"Brendan, think about it!" Charlene moved toward Brendan in her wheelchair. "Steven has been working for you for so many years. Don't you understand that he meant well? It wouldn't have been helpful to tell you since Ms. McKinnon had already lost her sight at the time. Besides, he did it for you and for the sake of the Brighthall Group!"

"For me and the Brighthall Group?" Brendan smirked. " Deirdre's eyes clearly still had a chance to be healed at the time! She could have regained her sight! It's because you guys hid it from me that she is totally blind! Since you two have been telling me that Steven did it for my sake, you're implying that I'm the one who blinded her with my own hands, aren't you!"

Lips trembling, Charlene blurted, "It's just a pair of eyes. Are they more important than the entire Brighthall Group? Do you wish to place the entire Brighthall Group in a crisis just for Deirdre McKinnon?" Charlene instantly met his terrifying gaze. His black, ice cold, unfathomable eyes silenced her in an instant.

"Charlene McKinney," Brendan said. It was the first time he had addressed Charlene in such an indifferent manner. "She was jailed on your behalf."

Tears welled up in Charlene's eyes, and she choked from fright. "I-I know... When I learned about Ms. McKinnon. losing her sight in jail, I felt sorry for her too. But because

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it had already happened, it couldn't be undone...'

Charlene acted meticulously, but Brendan's eyes remained ice-cold. It was amid this suffocating atmosphere that the door of the emergency room was flung open.

Looking drained, the doctor walked out of the room and said regretfully, "You guys should be the patient's family, right? I am sorry, but we have done our best. The patient's condition is truly critical, and she doesn't have any desire to live whatsoever. Hence, this is the best we could do... We'll give you some time to tell her goodbye."

'Goodbye?' Brendan was startled, and a chill rushed up from his feet, moving through his organs and his head. He shivered uncontrollably and lunged to grab the doctor's shoulder. "What are you saying? I want you to save her, not say that you have done your best! She will live, I'm sure of it!"

"Sir, calm down!" Steven stepped forward to stop Brendan.

Brendan had been trembling so far. Calm down? How could he calm down? Deirdre was dying... The same Deirdre who was once infatuated with him and full of admiration for him was going to die! Brendan admitted that he didn't like Deirdre. He didn't like her character or her behavior. Hence, he wouldn't want to be with her forever.

However, he had thought it through thoroughly.

Deirdre had lost her mother and everything else because she had been jailed on Charlene's behalf. Therefore, Brendan had thought he would take care of her in the future.