A Vengeful Girl novel Chapter 84

Linda bombarded Derek Xie with questions in a calm, but firm voice. Her challenge reduced him to silence.

"I am asking you, Uncle. What's your answer? You went out to gamble when Lily came down with a high fever. My mom had no choice but to carry Lily and walked about 3 miles in the midnight until they reached emergency room in the hospital. On top of that, you kept avoiding us when my mom got sick and fainted. We needed 2000 to have her admitted to hospital and asked you for help. And what did you do at that time? You didn't answer our phone and didn't open your door when we knocked. How can you do this? How dare you stand in front of me and ask me to call you uncle?

"Linda... Stop it."

Donna Xie could not bear to see her brother reprimanded by Linda like this. So she asked Linda to stop.

Linda relaxed her grip on Derek Xie's collar and then he fell on his rear. Derek Xie was struck dumb for one minute before coming back to himself.

People always got irritated when their lies were exposed. And Derek Xie, being a total scum, was no exception.

"You have got some balls now, eh?

You married a rich guy and now thought I am beneath you, right?"

He glared at Linda balefully with shifty eyes and his saliva was splashing all over, all of which were disgusting to Linda.

"Bun, throw him out."

"My Lady. What you just said is to THROW him out, right?"

Answered Linda with a nod.

"Understood."

Rubbing her hands, Bun watched Derek Xie through the corners of her eyes. She kept looking around in the ward until she found two used rubber tubes of a life support machine in the trash bin. She picked them up and used them to tie up Derek Xie's hands and feet up.

"Let go of me! What you do is illegal! You son of a bitch!"

"Who?"

"You!"

While tying him up, Bun replied with a smile on her face and said, "Why don't you run away? That's all you got? Call me names? Say that again and I will beat the hell out of you."

Linda shook her head with a smile. Bun was like a mischievous child.

But trashing Derek was also exactly what Linda wanted.

Derek Xie tried to fight back. He thought there's no way that a strong man like himself would lose to a little girl.

But Bun was not a little girl. She had been in the armed police force for many years.

Seeing Derek Xie intended to fight back, Bun beat him up and then dragged him by his belt and threw him out of the ward.

Donna Xie was struck dumb by what she just saw and asked, "Linda... Why was the girl... so strong?

Linda smiled, "Mom, she's a well-trained soldier. It's natural that she is stronger than ordinary girls."

"My Lady, I'll wait you outside. Call me whenever you are in need."

Bun dragged Derek Xie outside and closed the door.

"Mom, what's Derek Xie doing here? How did him get into the hospital? "

Said Linda as she picked up an apple from a fruit basket on the table and started to peel it.

"The nurse told me that a man claiming to be my brother came to me with a basket. I guessed it's probably Derek and he wants to visit me. So I told the nurse to let him in."

Linda found the middle of the apple was rotten when she's halfway through peeling it. Linda tossed it into the trash bin in disgust.

"Well, I am glad Derek still care about me and visit me with the fruit basket."

Linda was speechless. She glanced at the fruit basker in which most of the fruits were stale. Donna Xie was as simple as a child.

The fruit basket might be worth less than 20.

Linda thought she had to tell the security guards that Derek was not allowed to get into the hospital anymore.

Linda recalled that Bun held Derek Xie down as she walked in the ward.

Linda was sure that Bun would not resort to force without her order.

Then Linda turned to the door and called, "Bun, come in."

Bun opened the door and said, "My Lady, is anything wrong?"

"Why did you hold Derek Xie down when I came in the ward?"

"My Lady, you have no idea what that bastard did to Mrs. Xie. As I walked in the ward and was about give Mrs. Xie the dumplings, I heard the bastard yelling at her, threatening to beat her. I got pretty angry by what he said. So I teach him a lesson."

"Mom, what's all this about?"

"..." Donna Xie was reluctant to say anything. But, under the pressure of Linda's stern gaze, she eventually gave in and said haltingly, "Derek told me he wanted to make money and make a better life for Lily... But he can't find a job so he planned to run a hot pot restaurant. He's short of 400, 000 and asked me to borrow that money from you. He assured me that he will pay back the money as soon as the restaurant start making profits."

After hearing what Mrs. Xie said, Linda went ballistic and said, "Mom, he came to you to borrow 300, 000 last time. Now the amount increase to 400, 000. His requests get more and more unreasonable. He might as well rob a bank. It'll be quicker that way."

Linda did not have much money herself. Even though the Mu clan was rich, she had not had the right to use it yet.

"Mom, he won't get what he wants. Actually, he didn't pay me back the 300, 000 I borrowed him last time. How could him ask me to lend him money again? What does he take me for? A bank?

"Linda, don't talk about your uncle that way. Maybe he really wants to turn over a new leaf this time."

"Mom, did you promise to give him the money?"

"No, I didn't. So he said he's going to beat me. That's just like him, you know. He's just saying it and would not realy do what he said. I've been his sister for many years. I know him very well."

Of course Derek Xie would not really beat his sister.

Since Linda was Charles Mu's wife-to-be, Donna Xie had become a money spinner to him.

"Mom, I'm certainly not going to let him have the money. You remember what he has done to us before?

Gambling and drinking, deceiving and stealing. Derek Xie had done them all."

Donna Xie answered with a sigh, "Ok, Linda, it's all your call."

Donna Xie finally compromised. She knew Derek Xie didn't treat her well, but she had been brainwashed by traditional belief that men are superior than women.

So She believed it's her obligation to give Derek Xie everything he wanted.

But not Linda. She would never budge.

"All right, mom, my engagement party is due tommorrow. How about I have Bun pick you up tommorrow morning? This is my engagement ceremony we are talking about!."

"Linda, I told you before. I don't want to attend your party becasue I'm afraid my appearance might embarrass you. You are a Lady of the Xia Clan now. It's not right to let the public know that you have a foster mother like me. They will laugh at you. And remember it's not easy to be the daughter-in-law of a wealthy family."

Donna Xie turned around to avoid Linda's eyes.

Linda came here today to find out what had been bothering Donna Xie. So she would not let Donna Xie dodge this topic.

Linda demanded, "Mom, tell me the truth, do you have some concerns I don't know?"

"No."

"Mom, look at me."

"I'm sure I don't have."

"I see you are unwilling to tell me... It's OK. Tomorrow, I will come here with Lord Xia. He's been wanting to thank you for rasing me up, anyway."