Love Is Fair by Kerri
Chapter 202

Chapter 202

Owen suddenly recalled that three years ago on the highway, when he learned of the Brown family's accident, he hurriedly rushed from the branch office to North City. However, halfway there, he received a breakup call from Eliza. She said in tears, "Owie, I'm sorry, I love you very much, but in order to save the Brown family, there is no way for me to be with you anymore. You can ask Auntie Polly to cut us some slack Let's break up." Without waiting for him to say anything, Eliza hung up the phone and when he called back again, it was switched off. In fact, he wanted to tell her that even if they were to break up, he wanted it to be done face-to-face to show respect to each other. At that moment, his girlfriend's abandonment, and thinking of his domineering mom, both made Owen feel like he reached the lowest point in his life. When he reached the fork in the road, he didn't slow down, and a lorry, also without slowing down, crashed straight into him -

Bang! Dazed and confused, he saw himself as a child. His parents arguing endlessly, his father slamming the door, his mother shaking with anger, breaking everything in the house that she

could, and the loud crackling outside like firecrackers on New Year's Eve....... If this was New Year's Eve, then his family, every day, was New Year's Eve. When it came to home education, his father had no say in the matter. His mother was very strict with him, and he didn't know if she was

going to take it out on him, but after every fight with his lather, she would come to check his homework. If he got a word wrong, or a question, he would be severely chastised. After a beating, his mother would throw the cane aside, hold him by the shoulders and order him in an extremely stern tone that he must excel. "You must do whatever it takes to become the best in the Moore family and get back all the face I lost with your father! Do you hear me? My son, Owen Moore, must be a dragon among men!" As a child, Owen longed for his father's love and feared his mother's. As he grew up, he had no idea what love was, no one loved him and he could not love anyone. The only woman who loved him had also abandoned him for the sake of her family. In the end, he was still the one who can be abandoned at will. To die, in fact, was not such a difficult thing to do. He was badly injured, resuscitated three times and given more than a dozen of critical illness notices until Dr. Grace arrived and turned

everything around. His body came back to life, but his heart did not. He was lying in bed, unconscious and unable to care for himself like a living dead man, thinking that it would be better to die than to live with such a broken body. But his family refused, and so did his care worker. After he once suffered from urinary incontinence, he pleaded with his care worker, almost red-eyed. "Please let me be euthanised, so that I can be relieved and so can you." The carer, whose name was Hailey Byrne, replied to him like this, "Do you think death is a relief? No, death is just an escape, because everyone knows that it is the living that is the hardest." She not only reasoned with him but also began to read books for him. She read Stray Birds, To Live, and Ordinary World, and other poems, depending on her mood. Her voice was clear and pleasant, not an announcer's voice, but very rich in emotion, and when she read, she could always convey her

emotions. Owen didn't know if the experiences of the characters from the book gave him some strength, but he saw a glimpse of the dawn in those dark years. Those difficult days passed unnoticed. When his mother had forced him to marry, he had married her out of kindness and gratitude; he thought she had married him out of pity and money He did not know that the woman he had left out of his life for three years had taken a lot of effort to bring him up from the bottom of the cliff, inch by inch. The scene before hini was so déjà vu that it was as if yesterday had come back to haunt him and the old time had started all over again. While lost in thought, the lights in the operating room finally went out. Harrison was pushed out, Louise was the first to jump on him, and Matthew also helped push him into the ward. Owen sat on the bench

and didn't move, watching Hailey dragging her tired feet to be the last to come out.

He was about to get up and step forward when a figure flashed past him, bypassing the crowa, ana noiaing Haley with unerring precision The gentleman, also wearing a white lab coat, half-carried her in his arms and carried her to the lounge. Owen stood up at some point, but just stayed where he was, silently gazing at her back. That man was her fourth brother, and also a doctor. With him looking after her, she would naturally be in the best of hands. It was true, as she said, "I, Hailey Newman, have had a smooth ride for over twenty years, my parents spoiled me, my brother protected me, and I have never been made to suffer half a bit...... the biggest storm in my life was brought to me by you." Owen's heart suddenly sank, like being clutched hard by a large hand, hurting so much that he sucked in cold air, barely able to stand up and sit down again. His head felt like he had been hit in the boxing ring and his soul was out of his body. He sat on the recliner and took a long time to slow

down before the dizziness faded away. Two nurses who happened to be passing by saw that he was almost transparently pale and came forward to ask, "What's wrong with you, sir? Are you all right? Would you like a doctor to take a look?" "No, thank you very much." Owen politely declined, slowly stood up and left the place Two nurses stared at his departing figure, and one nurse said, "This man looks lost in thought, his face is so pale, he can't be suffering from some terminal illness, can he?". "So young, how could it be? He looked more like a lost love to me, could he have been dumped by some female doctor?" "Huh? That's even more unlikely. Didn't you see how handsome he was? What woman would dump him, he's more like dumping someone else ......" "No way! How can a scum bag be so affectionate?" ".............. You won, I have no words to say."

Harrison's surgery was a success, but it also came at a huge cost, with bones all over his body, which basically amounted to breaking and reshaping Recovering from paraplegia was a long battle with little hope and a lot of elfort, and how much recovery could be achieved depended on the patient's own perseverance, the money and the emotional support given to him by the outside world, It was almost like a war. After the operation, Hailey felt liberated. She was only responsible for the physical aspect, as for the psychological aspect, Harrison had a girlfriend, so she didn't have to worry about it. After a trip to Berny Hailey went to see her fourth father at the Watson family's home. Germio was so happy that he gave his son an unprecedented three days off, allowing Kyle to take Hailey for a good stroll. They went to quite a few sights, ate quite a lot of food and were in the middle of an Instagram-worthy location when Nicholas video called Kyle. After greeting Hailey briefly, he told Kyle that he had agreed to an invitation to a wine tasting party before his business trip and originally wanted to take him there, but as a result, he couldn't go now. "You take Hailey with you, and when you replace something nice, remember to bring me some fine wine." Kyle readily agreed and said OKAY in a long voice, and then hung up the phone after a few more words. Hailey got goosebumps, witnessing the public display of affection. Kyle ignored his sister's expression and laughed, "The wine tasting party in Berny is quite classy and interesting, I take you there to have some fun?" Hailey knew that Kyle and Nicholas were alcoholics and could not walk away when they came across wine. She rolled her eyes at Kyle. "You've already agreed, can I say no?" "Then of course you can't." Kyle gave a grin and pulled Hailey outside, stopping a car and heading straight to the reception venue. "There are a lot of foreigners at the reception, all they speak is aliens' language, I can't even understand them, so it's good to have you as a human translator, I'm counting on you to pick out some good bottles of wine for us tonight." "Okay," Hailey lazily agreed, "I'll pick the wine, you pay for it." Kyle smiled graciously. "No problem." He raised his phone again. "It's our Nicholas's card that's being swiped anyway." Hailey once again witnessed the PDA and felt that if she didn't pick out a few more bottles of fine wine for the couple's wallet to bleed out tonight, she would be sorry for all the PDA she had watched all day! However, after seeing two familiar figures at the reception, she suddenly felt the urge to escape. Looking at Matthew, who was waving at her from a distance, and Owen, who was next to him, shaking a red wine glass and dressed in a

suit, Hailey's bright face disappeared. Did these two dogs have radar on her? How could they run into her wherever she went? They were like a ghost haunting her! Before she could curse, a slender figure waved her dress and walked towards Owen, smiling slightly, and Hailey recognised that it was Eliza Brown, whom she had not seen for a long time. Well, it turned out that he was here to date his ex-girlfriend. She had made a fool of herself.