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Chapter 544 Being Threatened
Chapter 544 Being Threatened
She used to have to work long hours, so every time she came, she just talked to her mom briefly and
went straight home.
Today she had some time. She had to have a good talk with her mother, who had lost a lot of weight
because of her illness.
Laura felt sorry for her.
At the hospital
"Why are you so early today?"
Laura usually didn't come to the hospital until late at night, but today she came over in the evening. Her
mother was very curious.
"Today is our last day, so I came early to see you and talk to you. I was afraid you'd be bored."
Laura said with a smile.
Seeing that Laura was in the mood to chat with her today, her mother also decided to have a good chat
with her.
"You come here every day in the middle of the night. Since you got off work early today, why don't you
just go home and rest? I'm in the hospital every day. I'm afraid you'll be tired of coming here every day."
She knew Laura had been busy.
"It's okay."
She wasn't tired at all. Her mother was suffering from illness 24 hours a day.
She couldn't do anything for her mother right now. The only thing she could do was to take good care
of her.
"You don't have any time for yourself. You come to the hospital once you get off work."
Laura's mother took her hand.
"Who can I share my time with? You've been in poor health. All I can do is come over to see you."
"I'm happy that you came, but you're not young. You should have a boyfriend. I don't know how long I
can stay with you. If you do have a boyfriend, I would like to meet him."
Laura's mother didn't know how long she would live. She was afraid that there would be no one to take
care of Laura after she died, so she wanted Laura to have a boyfriend. In that case, even if she died,
she believed someone would take care of Laura.
"Mom, you can't rush into this."
Hearing her mother's words, Laura wanted to run away.
And she inexplicably thought of Max.
She had long been disappointed in him because of that last incident. Why did she immediately think of
him today when her mother talked about her boyfriend?
Did she really fall for him?
No way.
She kept thinking about Max, but she kept telling herself not to think about him and the fact that he was
a playboy.
"Well, don't think too much. It's getting late. Go back and get some rest."
Laura's mother saw that it was getting dark, so she urged Laura to go home.
Because Laura was not very well right now.
"Okay, I'm off tomorrow. See you tomorrow."
Her mother looked a little sleepy in bed. NôvelDrama.Org holds © this.
Laura picked up her bag and was going home.
At the bus stop
Laura was waiting for the bus.
"Buzz."
Her phone vibrated in her bag.
"Hello?"
It was an unfamiliar number. Laura was curious as to who was calling her at this late hour.
"Hurry up and transfer some money to me."
The man's voice on the other side of the phone was disgusting.
Laura felt disgusted and frowned at the sound of the voice.
"I've told you many times not to contact me again. If you call me again, I won’t answer your call."
The man on the phone was Diego, Laura's foster father, not her biological father.
Laura's mother was a good person.
But her foster father was a gambler and an alcoholic.
When Laura was little, her foster father would beat her and her mother whenever he was in a bad
mood. He never had any respect for his wife and daughter.
In the eyes of Diego, his wife married him to another man's daughter and the girl was useless, so he
always despised her.
Laura remembered her childhood as miserable.
In addition, Diego had been asking her for money again and again over the years and never felt
satisfied.
She needed to raise money to treat her mother and was short of money now. How could she possibly
have any more to give him?
What's more, she didn't like him at all.
"Give me money right now or these people will kill me. Do you want your father to be killed? I've raised
you for more than twenty years. How can you do this to me?"
The man's voice on the other side of the line got louder and louder and he almost roared in the end.
Laura hated his personality the most.
He always felt that others should give him whatever he wanted.
"Didn't I make it clear to you before? I said I would never mind your business again. Don't make me
deal with your mess again! OK?"
In fact, ever since Laura's debut, Diego had been asking her for money again and again.
She grew up hating him.
But she was soft-hearted.
She believed that no matter how bad Diego was, he was her foster father and that if she gave him
enough money, maybe he would change.
Laura gave him money again and again, but she despaired again and again.
Diego gambled or hired prostitutes whenever he got money.
When the money ran out, he would call Laura again.
For a long time, as soon as Laura got paid, her paycheck would be taken away by him.
So she hated Diego and didn't want to help him at all.
Especially, in the last two years, she had become popular again. Because her income had increased so
much, Diego was even more greedy and swallowed money like a bottomless pit.