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Chapter 197 Down the Stairs
Howard immediately gave chase, seizing Grace’s arm just when she was about to make a
turn at the corner. “Stop right there! I’m going to expose your true nature to Elias so he
will never fall for a woman like you ever again.” Upon saying that, Howard reached for his
phone to call his grandson.
Howard’s words immediately sent Grace’s emotions down a thought spiral of
hopelessness, filling her with despair, as she didn’t want Elias to see her true nature.
Although Elias already had a bad impression of her, she didn’t want him to hate her even
more because that would not end well for her. If Elias found out who she really was, not
only would he refuse to see her, but he would also send her away to some place where
she would be trapped forever. “Let me go! I didn’t do anything! Now, let me go!” Grace
struggled to free herself from Howard’s grasp, but he wouldn’t budge. At the same time,
Howard was searching for Elias” number through his contact list with the other hand.
“Don’t even think about running away! I must make Elias see through your hypocrisy. If
you hadn’t interfered back then, Elias wouldn’t have divorced Amanda, and neither would
my great-grandson have to be away from me for four years. All this is your fault…” Before
Howard could finish his words, Grace hit his hand, causing him to drop his phone as it fell
down the stairs. “Grace!” Howard angrily called out to that woman. “Somebody! Oscar!
Capture this woman! She infiltrated Elias’ room and tried to drug him, yet neither of you
noticed her. Are you guys blind or something? Or are you tired of keeping your jobs?!”
Panicky, Grace struggled even harder in a desperate attempt to escape, but Howard
showed no signs of letting her go. “Let! Me! Go!” Grace used all the energy from her body
to shake the older man off, whereupon she fled down the stairs.
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The next moment, Howard slipped and lost his footing, falling forward as his eyes widened
in horror on his face. In the meantime, Grace, who was making her escape, turned around
and took a quick glimpse of what happened behind her, only to see Howard rolling down
the stairs. While the sight of that left her stunned and frozen in place, Howard continued
to roll down the flight of stairs until he hit the ground and bled from his head. Looking at
the unconscious old man, Grace blanched in her face without knowing what to do. A
minute later, she slowly approached Howard while trembling uncontrollably, gently
nudging him. “Um. Grandpa…”
Nevertheless, Howard simply continued to lie down there in the stillness, just like a dead
man. At that moment, Grace’s heart raced like a jackhammer, as if it was going to burst
out of her chest. As her eyes widened, she shivered from head to toe, sticking out her
finger right in front of Howard’s nostrils. When she didn’t feel his breath, she nervously
retracted her arm, her face turning even paler. What? No way! No way!
At her wits end, Grace went weak in her knees and collapsed onto the ground, backing
away from Howard in fear. If Elias finds out I’m the one who’s responsible for Grandpa’s
death, he is going to kill me! Haunted by her wild imagination, Grace didn’t dare to think
about the ways that Elias would use to torture her. No! No! No! She struggled to get on her
feet and stepped back in horror, unable to take her eyes off Howard, who was lying in the
pool of blood. Shortly after that, she ran away without looking back.
Meanwhile, Amanda arrived at Winters Estate and learned from the butler that Howard
was waiting for her inside the house. However, after entering the house, she still didn’t
see any signs of the old man. Just when she was about to search for him elsewhere, she
noticed what seemed like bloodstains on the floor. Seeing that, she knitted her eyebrows
and curiously followed the trail that led her all the way to the stairs. before she started
seeing more blood on the ground.
The sight of that put a worried look on Amanda’s face. As she slowly conto follow the
bloody trail,
she saw Howard lying in a pool of blood. Stunned with her eyes wide open, she froze for a
few seconds before she headed over to Howard and crouched down to hold his head.
“Grandpa! Wake up, Grandpa! Wake up!” Despite Amanda’s desperate effort to wake
Howard up, Howard remained silent and still, his face still looking pale. Due to profuse
bleeding from his head. Howard looked nothing much different
from a dead man.
“Help! Somebody! Grandpa fell off the stairs! Help!” Amanda shouted in tears.
As Amanda’s cry drew the butler’s attention, the latter followed the voice and rushed to
the scene, which left him stunned. “What happened to Old Mr. Winters?! How did he end
up like this?! This…”
“Cut the crap now! We need to rush him to the hospital! Can’t you see he is bleeding
profusely?!” Amanda demanded while holding the back of Howard’s head with one hand.
Sensing the urgency of the situation, Oscar quickly prioritized Howard’s condition by
taking him to the hospital without spending too much time thinking about how he fell off
the stairs. Was Amanda the first person who found Old Mr. Winters in that state? This is
too much of a coincidence, isn’t this?”
Meanwhile, Elias was unhappy after receiving a call from Oscar, who told him about
Howard’s condition. Upon hanging up the call, he got into his car and sped to the hospital
without wasting too much time.
On the other hand, Amanda waited outside the operation theater, shuddering at the sight
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmof the bloodstains on herself. After all, she was still haunted by the sight of Howard’s gory
scene because it looked like he was already dead.
“No! No! That’s not going to happen…” Amanda shook her head and tried her best to put
a stop to her wild imagination. Grandpa is going to be fine! He’ll be fine! Despite her
desperation for Howard to recover from his injury, she was soon overwhelmed by her
pessimism. Grandpa is pretty old, and falling from a flight of stairs must have hurt him
pretty badly.
While Oscar was anxiously waiting aside, hasty footsteps could be heard coming from the
other end of the corridor. Nevertheless, Amanda didn’t hear that because she was too
disturbed by the thought of Howard lying in a pool of blood earlier.
When the butler turned around and saw Elias, he quickly walked up to him and greeted
him. “Mr. Winters. However, Elias was seen with a pair of bloodshot eyes, which suggested
that he might have suffered a sleepless night from the night before. At the same time, he
was radiating an unfriendly aura, speaking with an unfriendly tone.
“I’m not really sure what happened. All I heard was Miss Bailey shouting for help and
saying Old Mr. Winters falling off the stairs. By the time I got there, he was already lying in
a pool of blood…”
Elias stood there and fixed his gaze on Amanda. Dispirited and disappointed, he walked
closer to her and clamped his hands on her shoulders. “What happened, Amanda?”
It wasn’t until Amanda heard the man’s voice that she snapped out of her trance and
stared blankly at him. “I don’t know, Grandpa was already lying down on the floor when I
got there.”
Oscar expressed his doubt. “Miss Bailey, did you get into an argument with Old Mr.
Winters and accidentally push him down the stairs?”
“Nonsense!” Amanda lost her cool.
“Shut up!” Elias responded almost at the same time as she did.
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