บททั้งหมดของ ICU Showdown: Do Me Dirty and I'll Do You In: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 9

After reading the messages in the group chat, I immediately called our family driver, James Lowe, and had him take me to the hospital. However, he told me, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Kensington. Something came up at home today. I've already asked Mr. Kensington for a day off. If you don't mind, I'll have Chris go with you instead?"James had worked for us for a decade now. He had always been diligent and had never made a single mistake, which was precisely why I had no idea how someone like him ended up getting involved with a woman like Lyra Fairfield.I was at a loss for words, but there was nothing I could do. Thus, I asked Chris Baker to pick me up instead and bought plenty of imported supplements. …By the time I finished the compatibility test for the donation drive, a crowd had formed at the entrance of the VIP ward. Everyone swarmed Lyra, showering her with flattery. "Lyra, you truly live up to your reputation as the class beauty. You're gorgeous, capable, and even snagged you

The next second, Elizabeth greeted Lyra warmly. "What's going on here, Lyra? You're about to become the wife of the hospital director. How could you still be so careless?"Lyra slipped right back into her sweet, gracious persona and looped her arm through Elizabeth's affectionately. However, when she looked at me, her eyes were full of contempt. "I'm not the problem here, Mrs. Warren. Mira is the one with no shame. "She knows she's STD-positive, yet still acts as if she were clean and came for the compatibility test. She's basically trying to infect Mr. Warren!"Elizabeth's expression changed in an instant. "You've gone too far, Mira!" she snapped at me. My classmates chimed in, "Exactly! She did the same thing back then. She contracted an STD and tried to pin it on Lyra.""I'm telling you, people like her never change. Garbage like her should just die!"Elizabeth's gaze flickered.I hoped she would tell the truth. After all, she was the one who had examined Lyra in the first

Lyra was dumbstruck. "Honey, you must've mistaken her for someone else. She was my high school classmate. Who are you calling Mrs. Kensington?""Exactly! She impersonated Lyra and insists that her husband is the director of Waverly General Hospital.""If you ask me, a habitual liar like her needs to be slapped to knock some sense into her!"My former classmates murmured in agreement.Beads of sweat gathered on James' forehead, and he looked like he had just been dragged out of a lake. His lips trembled, and he looked like he wanted to explain himself, but I beat him to it. "James, you told me you wanted to hold your wedding ceremony at my family's hotel. I went out of my way to reserve the venue for you and even waived the banquet fee. Yet, this is how you repay me?""Cut the crap! What nonsense are you spouting? That hotel belongs to my husband's family! "Why do you fake every little thing? That's it. I'm teaching you a lesson today!"Noticing that I still dared to talk back

I was rushed to the hospital's intensive care unit.Lyra and our former classmates had not held back. I couldn't even count the bones they'd shattered. The doctors said I'd have to lie in the hospital for at least three months.My classmates waited outside for as long as I was in the hospital. Every day, they showed up with expensive fruit baskets and even dropped to their knees to plead for my forgiveness. "We had no idea you were the hospital director's wife, Mira. If we had known, we wouldn't have dared to lay a finger on you!""That's right. We were all classmates once. For old times' sake, please ask your husband to spare us!"Elizabeth, too, got down on her knees and wept. "I know you've always had a kind heart, Mira. My husband is still lying in the ICU. If something happens to me, he won't last. Please… I'm begging you—spare me!"All of them tried to look more pitiful than the last, as if the ones who cornered me and played judge and executioner that day were someone els

The paternity test results came out much faster than I expected. The good news was that Lyra was pregnant with twins. The bad news was that neither of the babies belonged to James.The moment the results were revealed, James pinned Lyra against the wall and demanded to know who the real father was. When she refused to come clean, he beat her up. The twins died because of the kicks he'd delivered to her stomach.Lyra started hemorrhaging and was rushed into the emergency room. James, however, did not care whether she lived or died. He ran straight to my ward, dropped to his knees, and begged me to forgive him."I must have been out of my mind to ever trust a woman like her, Mrs. Kensington. I'm so sorry. I never should've gotten involved with her."Considering how many years I've worked for the Kensingtons, please don't let Mr. Kensington fire me. I'm begging you!" I fell silent. The truth was, ever since Lyra posted that photo of herself sitting in the passenger seat of o