CHAPTER 178: CHAPTER 178: A PERILOUS MOMENT

Lucy Eaton put on a hooded jacket and mask, quickly descended from the balcony using a rope, took out a small umbrella from her bag, and hurried to the back door.

After leaving the Palmer Family residence, Lucy Eaton got into a car by the roadside and drove away.

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"Excuse me, does Mia Townsend work here?"

Robert Langley looked the other person up and down, "Who are you?"

The middle-aged man eagerly said, "I’m her uncle, I have urgent business with her."

"I’ll go call her." Robert Langley turned and went upstairs, calling Mia Townsend down.

Upon seeing her, the uncle immediately said, "Mia, I don’t want to get involved in your family’s mess, but now your dad has been sent to the hospital in a coma due to terminal cancer. Are you really going to stand by?"

"Terminal cancer?" Mia Townsend was surprised, "How can this be? He seemed normal when I last saw him."

"He fainted this afternoon and was taken to the hospital, that’s when we found out. Your mom fainted from crying when she heard the news. There’s no one in charge at home now. No matter what he might have done to you, he’s still your dad, he gave you life. And now he doesn’t have long to live, are you still unwilling to care for him?"

Mia Townsend wavered a bit, "Which hospital is he in?"

"The small hospital near our home."

Mia Townsend considered for a moment and said, "I’ll go with you."

She brought along her two bodyguards and instructed them to drive her and her uncle to the small hospital in Riventide.

The car stopped inside the hospital. It was small, but despite its size, it had all the necessary departments.

The uncle led Mia Townsend’s group to the inpatient ward.

The rain outside was getting heavier as the uncle took her into the hospital room.

Upon entering, she saw her father lying on the bed, with an IV drip attached to his hand.

There was no sign of her mother or Mia Townsend’s brother in the room.

Her father did not speak harshly, he just gasped and called her name, "Mia..."

"My uncle found me and said you’re terminally ill. What disease is it?"

"Lung cancer."

"Where’s my mom?"

"I asked your brother to take her home."

Her uncle said, "Your dad insists on being discharged and going home, what should we do now?"

"You want to be discharged?"

"The doctor said it can’t be cured, staying in the hospital is just a waste of money. I want to go home for conservative treatment."

Mia Townsend nodded slightly, "Alright, then let’s go back, I’ll take you home."

In view of the fact that he doesn’t have long to live, Mia Townsend came to see him, but it didn’t mean she softened and was willing to interact with her parents as before.

On the way back, her father kept trying to start a conversation, but she only responded with indifferent tones.

Since participating in the life-or-death trial, it was the first time the father and daughter had a calm conversation.

Mia Townsend felt uneasy, after all, from childhood to adulthood, he had rarely spoken to her so gently.

She didn’t know if it was because he was terminally ill and aware of his impending death that made him like this.

Just as the car reached the Riventhal near the village entrance, almost without warning, her father and uncle slit the necks of her two bodyguards with knives.

One bodyguard was driving, the other was sitting between Mia Townsend and her father.

The two were killed instantly, not having a chance to fight back. Fortunately, the driving bodyguard managed to stop the car before his last breath.

This sudden moment shocked Mia Townsend, and only then did she realize that her father’s cancer was a lie, the purpose was to lure her out and kill her.

She pushed the car door hard, but it was locked.

Her father didn’t hesitate and stabbed her with a knife, chanting, "Since I brought you into this world, I have the right to kill you. Such a heartless and ungrateful daughter like you is better off dead. Ever since the news came out, do you know how people look at us?! Your mom doesn’t even dare to step outside! Who would marry your brother in the future?!"

Mia Townsend was stabbed once in the back, and because a dead bodyguard was between her and her father, the cramped space prevented her from fighting back. She tightly gripped her father’s hand, the fear in her heart expanding infinitely. She regretted not listening to Lucy Eaton’s advice, and not bringing more bodyguards.

The uncle in the front passenger seat turned around, trying to tie her hands with a rope he had prepared in advance. Mia Townsend extended her left hand to the side of the seat, pushed the seat back completely, then leaned backward and kicked the uncle’s head.

Seeing this, her father and uncle went even crazier, swinging their knives at Mia Townsend in the cramped car cabin, determined not to stop until she was dead.

Mia Townsend’s eyes reddened, the pain in her back was like burning, her mind was blank, driven by a primal instinct to survive and resist with all her might.

At this moment, her phone rang from her bag.

But she had no time to answer.

In her attempt to snatch the knife from her father, her uncle took the opportunity to stab her in the shoulder, the excruciating pain pushing her to snatch the knife from her father’s hand with all her strength.

The moment Mia Townsend grabbed the knife handle, she didn’t hesitate for a second and stabbed the uncle in the front passenger seat, who held a knife in his hand, viciously plunging it into his neck.

Her father tried to strangle her by wrapping his arm around her neck.

Mia Townsend reflexively stabbed her father’s heart with the knife in her hand.

Her hand trembled as she stabbed it in and trembled as she pulled it out, "Die! Die! You go to hell!"

She stabbed three times in succession, confirming her father’s death, before stopping.

Outside, the rain poured heavily, accompanied by the ringing of the phone, Mia Townsend covered her bleeding shoulder, and took the phone out of her bag with a bloodstained hand.

The screen flashed with the words ’Husband,’ tears flowing from her eyes as she turned off the phone and put it back in her bag, taking the cash from her wallet and putting it into her trouser pocket.

Enduring the pain, she crawled to the driver’s seat, started the car, opened the door, but didn’t push it open.

She pressed on the gas pedal, turned the steering wheel with both hands, and drove towards the reservoir.

The car swiftly plunged into the water, continuing to sink.

Mia Townsend emerged from the car, closed the door, and swam with all her might towards the shore, climbing up barefoot.

Her shoes were left in the car.

This was a rural area, the village paths had no surveillance.

She walked away along the path unsteadily, holding her shoulder.

Just as she entered the woods, the faint sound of police sirens reached her ears.

She knew, John Green called the police when he couldn’t reach her.

After all, unable to contact her, he would surely worry greatly.

Of the five people in the car, four were dead.

The deaths of her two bodyguards were likely to be pinned on her because the killers were dead and couldn’t testify.

She would have to bear the weight of four lives, one of which was her biological father.

Even if the police found that the bodyguards were killed by others, she couldn’t escape responsibility for the other two deaths.

No one would believe it was self-defense.

The Green Family is wealthy and powerful, she believed resolving this case wouldn’t be an issue.

But her biological mother and brother were still alive.

And so were her uncle’s wife and children.