"Honey," Percy walked over and affectionately called out.

Nina heard his voice. She lifted her head, let out a sigh of relief, and walked toward him. "Let's go home."

"No." Percy shook his head.

"What's wrong? Do you have something else to do?" Nina had forgotten the lie she told Percy.

"Weren't you feeling unwell? Let me take you to the emergency room." Percy held her hand, pretending to take her to the emergency room. "If your stomach hurts, don't endure it. Let's go for a check-up first, and then we can go back."

Nina became anxious. She did not expect that she would have to see a doctor after telling a lie.

However, since the lie had been told, she could not tell him it was just to avoid him meeting his mother, right? She had to continue the fabrication. "I just ate too much. I'll go back and deal with it. There's nothing serious."

"Are you sure there's nothing wrong?" Percy pretended to furrow his brows with concern. He was just worried about her.

This silly woman must have run into his mother just now, but he was not sure if there was a fight.

Still, Nina looked fine now. Percy thought to himself that everything should be fine.

"Really, there's nothing wrong. Let's go home,” replied Nina, pretending to hold her stomach in pain again. "I know my body well enough."

"It's quite far back home. Let's deal with it here at the hospital first." Knowing she was not really in pain, Percy teased her again.

"Oh, I’m concerned about the hygiene here. Let's go home, let's go home." Nina pulled his hand toward the car.

Percy stopped. He knew that as long as he did not move, Nina would not be able to pull him. "No, let's go see the doctor. Listen to me."

As he said this, he saw how desperately Nina was trying to maintain the lie. A smile could not help but creep onto his face.

Nina turned back and saw his smile. She suddenly understood. "You knew I was lying?"

"I met my mother at the elevator, so I guessed it." Percy smiled, no longer insisting on going to see the doctor. Instead, he opened the door to the passenger seat and let her in.

After Percy got into the car, Nina looked at him puzzledly. "I just didn't want you to run into her. That’s why I lied. I didn't expect you to run into her anyway. It's strange. I thought the timing wouldn't coincide."

Percy explained, "She bought some fruits."

Nina suddenly realized. "Oh, I see. She got delayed downstairs... But wasn't she worried you'd harm Pierre? Why would she still have the time to buy fruits?"

"Who knows?" Percy started the car. "But you didn't have to do that. Even if she got angry, I wouldn't argue with her in public, so it wouldn't matter even if I ran into her."

"Just because you won't argue with her doesn't mean she won't argue with you,” muttered Nina. She saw through things very clearly. "Forget it. We've bumped into her anyway. Let's just go home."

"Alright. Yes, Madam." Percy chuckled. Nina always thought of him in everything, even this time.

She even fabricated such a lie just because she was worried that he might have a conflict with Karen.

With such a wife, what else could he be dissatisfied with?

Percy drove Nina home.

Meanwhile, in Pierre's hospital ward, the atmosphere plummeted to absolute zero.

Even though Percy came under the guise of concern, Pierre believed he was just being arrogant and domineering.

Percy was the winner, whether it was the shareholders' meeting or the series of events that followed.

As for himself, not only did he become the butt of everyone’s joke at the shareholders' meeting, but he was also kidnapped and had his leg broken. After being rescued, he became disabled...

In every aspect, he felt like a complete failure.

If it were not impossible for Percy to be associated with that organization, Pierre would have suspected that all his current experiences were related to Percy.

Pierre was already feeling very unhappy. The atmosphere in the hospital ward had been bad all along.

As soon as Karen stepped into the hospital ward, the temperature dropped to subzero, casting an icy chill over the atmosphere.

Karen approached his bedside and asked with concern, “Pierre, are you okay? Did he do anything to you?"

"You ran into Percy?" Pierre knew that the two had already crossed paths when he heard that.

Karen nodded and said in an angry tone, "Not only did I run into him, but I also ran into that little bitch, Nina, waiting in the parking lot. When I saw that little bitch, how I wished I could scratch her face! If it weren't for her, our family wouldn't have ended up like this."

Pierre let out a cold snort. "What has become of the Mallory family now?"

Karen immediately burst into tears and complained to her son, "Your grandfather has kicked me out. Pierre, you have to get better quickly and help me regain my position. Otherwise, the two of us will never have a chance to rise."

"All because of Nina?" Pierre could not be bothered about Nina at the moment.

Due to his leg injury, he now dreamed of walking normally again instead of being a cripple.

"Of course, it's all her fault. Otherwise, you wouldn't have ended up like this." Karen pulled out a tissue and wiped away her tears. She was worried that her tears would ruin her delicate makeup.

"You were kicked out of the Mallory family because of your own doing. Even if you don't tell me anything, I already know what you did at the press conference today. Did you disable that man?" asked Percy.

Karen was startled for a moment. She had not intended to reveal this, but Pierre unexpectedly knew about it.

She had not told him about the press conference either.

She planned to tell him after dealing with it, hoping he would not be angry about what she had done.

Pierre always gave her the cold shoulder every time when she came here because of the incident.

"You know about it? I didn't expect things to turn out like that..."

"Your situation has already died down. Why would you do something so foolish and bring up this matter again? Do you know how my friends are ridiculing me because of you?" Pierre had the urge to slap her across the face.

Even though he looked a lot like Daryl, those people kept harping about Karen's affair.

Most likely, they talked about Pierre not being Daryl's biological son but rather Karen's child with that guy, Silas.

Otherwise, Daryl would not have left the Mallory family and gone abroad.

Who would be willing to raise someone else's son? Only someone cruel enough to abandon their own child.

"I-I didn't mean to. I just wanted to clarify the matter. I never thought it would backfire..." Karen's eyes grew redder. At first, she only wanted to confide in her son about her grievances. When she heard her son accuse her like this, it made her feel even worse.

"Hmph, indeed it backfired. People lead you on, and you fall for it every time. What's wrong with you? I never realized you were so stupid." Pierre did not see Karen as his mother at all. He questioned her sentence by sentence, piercing her heart. Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

As Karen listened to his words, she felt like her whole being was falling apart.

She did all that not only to prove her innocence but also for Pierre's sake.

However, she never expected things to turn out like this.