ENCHANTED LOVE, VOLUME 3 - Season 12 Episode 48

When the director of the hospital received Charles’ call, he accepted his request immediately in a humble tone. It only took him a few minutes to come to Nancy’s ward. “Mr. Taylor, you didn’t have to come here for such a trifle matter. I would have arranged everything for Nancy if you had just called me earlier,” he addressed with a flattering smile.

He wasted no time trying to suck up to Charles.

“I asked you to prepare a better ward. Is it ready?” Charles cut to the chase, oblivious to his flattery.

“Rest assured, Mr. Taylor. We have prepared the best VIP ward available and Nancy would be transferred to that room right away. Besides, I have our best medical team on stand by, and they will do a general check-up on her to figure out what had happened to her,” the director beamed.

Then he told the medical team outside the ward, “Come in and meet Mr. Taylor.”

The team entered the ward instantly. With a smile, they bowed to Charles and greeted him in chorus, “Good evening, Mr. Taylor.”

“If your only focus is on how to please others, then I have serious doubts about the future of your hospital,” Charles snapped in a defiant tone. Since some doctors and nurses had spoken ill of Sheryl, he was very upset with the medical workers of the hospital. The longer he looked at them, the more annoying he found them to be.

Charles’ statement aroused the director’s anxiety. He had no idea what was on the CEO’s mind. If they ended up offending him, he knew that it would be a disaster for his hospital.

“What are you waiting for? Transfer the patient to the VIP ward!” Charles shouted at the confused medical team.

“Yes! Transfer the patient immediately. Hurry up!” the director urged, gesturing to his employees to take quick action.

“Yes, Sir,” they nodded as they approached Nancy’s bed.

A few minutes later, Nancy had been transferred to the VIP room. After she had received a full check-up, Charles took Sheryl and the children back home. Before leaving, he gave Ben a sum of money which was more than enough for him to pay off his mortgage and lead a comfortable life.

When Ben saw the check, he burst into tears of joy.

He didn’t know when Nancy would wake up. But he could solve all his financial problems with the money he had received.

The couple returned to Dream Garden. After Sheryl gave a bath to Clark and Shirley, the two kids fell asleep the moment they climbed onto bed. They had had a tough day and they were exhausted.

Sheryl left the children’s room and retired to their bedroom. However, she didn’t see Charles in there. She went straight to the study and spotted her husband fixing the desktop monitor which he had brought from the Cloud Villa.

“It’s late, Charles. Aren’t you coming to bed?” Sheryl asked with knitted brows. She felt sorry for him as she watched him try his best to make the monitor work.

She knew that he couldn’t tolerate all those fake videos and rumors about her, and that was why he was trying to fix the monitor at such an odd hour.

‘Although he doesn’t say anything out loud, it must have been a blow to him. After all, he is the CEO of Shining Enterprise, the biggest enterprise of this city.

The rumors about me must have had a bad influence on him and the company,’ she mulled.

“You go to bed. I will join you later,” Charles replied flatly. He gave Sheryl a quick glance and got back to work.

“Charles…” Sheryl opened her mouth to say something, but stopped short.

She didn’t know how to bring up the topic. She wanted to comfort him. After some hesitation, she sighed and said, “All right then, good night.”

“Good night.” He didn’t sense the hesitance in Sheryl’s voice. All he wanted was to prove to the public that his wife hadn’t cheated on him so that people would stop misunderstanding her. He couldn’t help but boil with anger at the thought of others defaming Sheryl and the sight of their scornful glances towards her. He couldn’t stand others treating her like that. He felt like he was the one being bullied when others judged his wife.

‘She is my woman. I can’t let others treat her like this any longer,’ he decided.

Sheryl went back to their bedroom, took a shower and threw herself onto the bed. Lying in the king-sized bed, she shut her eyes attempting to get some sleep. A long time had passed, yet she still couldn’t fall asleep. She had no idea what was waiting for her tomorrow.

While Sheryl and Charles were troubled by the rumors, Holley and Rachel gloated over it and celebrated their victory in a fancy bar.

“Thank you, Holley. If you hadn’t come up with this idea, I might have failed to frame Sheryl,” Rachel said. After Charles and other reporters had left, she had gone to the place where the press conference had been held. She had to see the evidence which Charles had planned to show the media. And it had been true that he could have proved Sheryl’s innocence with that evidence.

“Ms. Turner, please. I told you that I would help you. I keep my promises,” Holley replied with a fake smile. ‘Thanks to that idiot Duncan, everything has gone so smoothly,’ she snickered to herself.

But when she thought about Duncan, concerns crept up on her. With a worried look, she asked, “What if Duncan gives in and rats on us? What should we do?”

“Don’t worry about that. Duncan has no guts to sell me out. He will keep our secrets for the sake of his son,” Rachel assured her.

The moment she had learnt that Duncan had gotten arrested, she had bribed some officers and met him at the police station. Although they had a very short meeting, she had made herself pretty clear to him.

As long as Duncan kept his mouth shut about their involvement, she agreed to let Duncan enjoy retirement benefits like the other staff at Tarsan Corporation. She also promised him that she would let his son, who hadn’t even passed his college, work at the headquarters of Tarsan Corporation while he was in prison.

Duncan had tried to help his son several times. His son was not only a loser in his educational qualifications, but also in his career. Duncan had used some of his connections to get him jobs in several companies, but he never worked anywhere for long. Either he hadn’t liked his jobs and quit or he had gotten fired for his poor performance and negative attitude.

Duncan was worried about his son’s future, but he couldn’t do anything about it. When he had a talk with his son earlier, he had told him that he wanted to work in Tarsan Corporation. Although Duncan was a manager in Tarsan Corporation at the time, he was still Rachel’s employee. Besides, Rachel had specifically declared that only well-educated, competent people had access to her company. Considering his son’s educational background, Rachel would never have allowed his son to work in her company. She hated it when her employees sought private gain through their position in her company.