In the office, seeing that Ellsworth had given her everything he

    could, even his overseas assets.

    Harriet suddenly couldn’t figure him out.

    He was clearly afraid she’d take his assets, but in the end, he

    gave her so much.

    Looking at the documents in her hand, the office, door was

    suddenly knocked on: “Ms. Chavez, Mr. Zuniga and the others

    are about to leave. Are you ready?”

    Harriet quickly snapped out of her thoughts, put down the

    documents, and looked up at the girl who had opened the door,

    saying, “Yes, I’ming downstairs now.”

    With that, she locked the property deed and various documents

    in her personal safe, shut down herputer, and went

    downstairs with her phone and bag.

    There was a system test in the afternoon, and they were all

    going to theb together.

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    Meanwhile, at the Townsend Group.

    In the office, after hearing thewyer’s report that the property

    deed and documents had been delivered to Harriet, Ellsworth

    grabbed his car keys and phone and headed to a government

    meeting.

    A little after three in the afternoon, while the meeting was still

    ongoing, Ellsworth’s phone, which was on the table, rang.

    It was an unfamiliar number, but thest digits looked familiar-

    he seemed to have seen Harriet answer this number at home

    before.

    Without thinking much, he picked up his phone and walked out

    through the side door to take the call outside.

    At the emergency exit in the stairwell, Ellsworth answered the

    call.

    On the other end, Jonas’s voice quickly came through: “Mr.

    Townsend, I’m really sorry. While Harriet was helping move

    things in theb, she identally hurt her leg. We’re heading to

    the hospital now. Mr. Townsend, do you have time toe to

    the hospital?”

    Harriet didn’t want him to make the call, saying it wasn’t a big

    deal, but Jonas felt her family should know about it.

    So, he called Ellsworth.

    Otherwise, he couldn’t possibly bother a man in his seventies.

    With his left hand in his pocket and his right hand holding the

    phone to his ear, Ellsworth frowned and asked, “Which hospital?

    How is Harriet now?”

    “Shoreworth Hospital.” As he spoke, Jonas added, “We’ll only

    know the specifics after the hospital examination.”

    “Alright, I got it.”

    After hanging up, Ellsworth took the phone from his ear and

    dialed Noel, telling him he had to leave early and asking him to

    help pack up the meeting materials.

    As soon as Noel igot /ithe call, he drove over right away.

    Over twenty minutester, a ck Maybach stopped in the hospital’s open–air parking lot. As Ellsworth strode toward orthopedics, Harriet was already in the doctor’s office for a

    consultation.

    At that moment, she was sitting on a chair, with her right foot

    resting on another chair.

    The top of her foot and her ankle werepletely bruised and

    swollen, and the swelling was severe, making it look painfully

    ufortable.

    Harriet’s brows were tightly furrowed, her lips bitten, with a fine

    sheen of sweat on her forehead and neck, her hair damp with

    sweat and sticking to her skin.

    Her face was much paler than usual.

    At this moment, the doctor was looking at the scans while

    saying, “There are two bone cracks on the top of the foot. But

    there’s a lot of bruising, and just anti–inmmatory injections

    won’t help it dissipate quickly. You can go to Dr. Dudley to have

    some of the blood let out, then get it bandaged.”

    He added, “For injuries like this, aside from rest, there aren’t

    really any special treatments.”

    “Mr. Townsend.”

    “Mr. Townsend.”

    With both hands gripping just above her knees, Harriet heard Jonas and the others suddenly greet someone, and she

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    immediately looked up.

    Seeing Ellsworth suddenly appear before her, Harriet was taken

    aback.

    She froze on the spot.

    She stared up at Ellsworth for quite a while before finally asking

    in surprise, “Why did youe?”

    Then, she quickly said to him, “I’m fine, you should go take care

    of your work.”

    In three years of marriage, whenever she had minor illnesses or

    difort, she always drove herself to the hospital for

    checkups.

    Evenst year when she had her appendix removed, or when

    she picked up her depression medication, she never bothered

    him.

    She had long since stopped being used to disturbing him.

    After all, in the three years since their marriage, she had

    be even more independent than before.

    Over these years, she had developed a stress response to

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    Ellsworth.

    Every time she took up his time or affected him, she would be very alert, react strongly, and instinctively distance

    herself from him, trying not to disturb him.

    She would do her best to avoid him, not see him, not disturb,

    not dy.

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