Chapter 461: Chapter 461
Avery had just fallen asleep when her phone rang.
With her eyes closed, she reached for the phone and put it to her ear. "Hello?"
The female bodyguard and driver she had just hired said, "Miss Carter, Isaac is on the roof of the new department store. He threatens to jump down from the pf if he doesn’t see you within half an hour.
"Many media outlets and internet celebrities are broadcasting this thing. The television station has sent reporters here. Are you going to see him?"
"Ha!" Avery opened her eyes and her jaw almost dropped.
Isaac was not getting any younger, yet he was as childish as to threaten her.
Avery knew Isaac’s intention was for her to support the Murphy family and keep it wealthy and luxurious.
"I’ll go." Avery looked at the time and smiled faintly as she put on her clothes. "Tell my family not to go to the scene in case Isaac takes advantage of them." At this moment, on the roof of the new department store.
Isaac sat on the cement fence with a loudspeaker in his hand. He faced the sea of people below and cried hysterically, "How can Avery treat me like this?
"We’ve raised her for 18 years. Look at her when she was 18 years old. You can tell she was raised well and taught well! "However, she’s been pretending in front of us. She never told us she inherited the V Group, nor did she ever say she was a famous doctor and writer. We thought she was just an ordinary middle school student.
"Even when we were sick, and her grandmother, who had doted on her since she was young, was dying, she didn’t help...
"Isn’t she doing this to guard against us? She’s afraid we’ll ask her for benefits after knowing her identity?
"We’re her parents. How could she do this to us?"
The loudspeaker amplified Isaac’s cries. They sounded so tragic, forlorn, and heartbroken.
Everyone who heard this was moved.
After all, Isaac was indeed crying and angry.
If Avery refused to help the Murphy family, the family would go bankrupt.
Two days ago, the Murphy family’s building in the east of the city collapsed.
Dozens of workers under construction were injured to varying degrees.
It was checked that the procurement department had imported a large amount of poor quality steel and cement to save money, causing the building to collapse during construction. Fortunately, this batch of materials was inferior and did not cause any deaths.
The Murphy family promptly withheld the news by paying a large sum of hush money.
Now, those workers with more serious injuries were preparing to jointly sue the Murphy family, intending to settle subsequent treatment and living expenses through legal means.
This matter could not be concealed.
The Murphy family did not have that much money to continue keeping the news from being known, let alone supporting the construction of that building. Avery was the family’s only hope.
Isaac resorted to climbing to the top of the building and crying without caring about his dignity. He threatened Avery to help the Murphy family with his life.
Downstairs, one of the onlookers who heard something said, "I know a little about the Murphy family. That adopted daughter’s biological parents were very poor in the first place. Yet, after their daughter returned and gave them money and helped her brothers start a business, they ended up the richest family in Rosemont City with around 1 billion dollars of assets..."
One who was unaware of the situation echoed, "1 billion dollars? That’s too much. The adopted daughter is heartless. Her birth parents abandoned her and her adoptive parents raised her. She should know whom she should be grateful to. I can’t believe she gave her birth parents so much money and made her adoptive parents jump off a building..."
Someone who knew more about the situation said, "The Murphy family has never hidden their wealth from Avery and made her suffer a bit. Yet, Avery hid the huge amount of wealth that someone gave her. This is enough to show she has never taken the Murphy family as her family since she was young. She’s going so far..."
Someone else guessed, "Is it possible that Avery kept it from the Murphy family because she knew she was not their daughter since she was young and was afraid the family would be greedy for her money?"
"If that’s the case, the Murphy family doesn’t wrong her. She’s an ingrate..."
This was what the Murphy family wanted to see.
Regina and the rest of the family of three wore-masks and hid among the crowd.
They sneered in their hearts, ’Avery, do you have any shame?
’If you’re shameless, don’t appear. Or if you appear, don’t do anything and watch your adoptive father jump off a building!
’If you want to keep your dignity, promise to help the Murphy family in front of everyone. Otherwise, you’re be a target for all.’
Amidst the lively discussion, someone shouted, "Look, Avery is here!"
Avery was now the top celebrity of Rosemont City, known by anyone who watched the news often, surfed the Internet often, and had some knowledge.
Coupled with her outstanding looks, she attracted everyone’s attention the moment she appeared.
The onlookers made a way for her.
"Isaac? Isaac, how are you?" Avery was panting from running, her face covered in sweat and her eyes filled with worry. She cried and shouted, "Don’t do anything stupid. Let’s sit down and talk..." She ran to the bottom of Isaac and bent down. She placed her hands on her knees and panted as she shouted, "Come down first. We’re family. We can discuss!"
"Avery!" Isaac was excited to see her. "Tell me! In front of everyone, did you admit the Murphy family raised you for 18 years?
"Did you hide from the Murphy family the fact that you inherited the V Group and its huge wealth?"
"Also, now that the Murphy family is in trouble, are you going to help us or not?
"If you don’t want to help, leave. Let me jump down from here and end my failed life!"
"Isaac, can you come down?" Avery cried hysterically, her face covered in tears. "I’m scared to see you like this."
She coughed until her face was red and she couldn’t speak.
Regina and Andrew quickly elbowed their way through the crowd. They took off their mask from both sides. "Avery, hurry up and promise your Dad, or he will jump down..."
"I-"Before she could finish, Avery coughed hard.
After coughing for more than a minute, her eyes suddenly rolled back, her body went limp, and she fainted on the ground.
It was true that Avery fainted.
That was because she had secretly applied some medicine that would make her faint and cause many adverse symptoms more than ten minutes ago.
Regina patted her face anxiously. "Avery, wake up. Your father is about to jump off a building. How can you fall asleep at a time like this?"
At this moment, Avery’s assistant came over and carried Avery’s body. As she checked her pulse and eyelids, she said, "Miss Carter didn’t sleep last night and she’s been working on her graduation thesis during the day. She was exhausted. "When she heard about Isaac jumping off the building, she immediately went out and got out of the car at the intersection. She ran all the way here. Her body probably can’t take it anymore."
The assistant took out her phone and called the ambulance. "Hello, someone fainted downstairs in the new department store. She’s in a bad state. Please send an ambulance over."
Regina was so anxious that she stomped her feet. "How could she faint at a time like this? Her father is about to jump off a building..."
Andrew also muttered at the side.
However, Avery remained unconscious no matter what they said.
The onlookers found Avery’s face pale, her head covered in sweat, and her eyes tightly closed. She looked like she was seriously ill. The female assistant was doing CPR for Avery.
Avery, however, remained unresponsive.
Fortunately, there was a hospital nearby. The ambulance arrived at the scene in a few minutes and picked up Avery.
Many media and reporters left with the ambulance.
On the roof, Isaac was dumbfounded.
Avery fainted and was sent to the hospital just like that, leaving him at a loss.
He didn’t know whether he should jump or not.
He didn’t know if he should continue scolding Avery.
Avery was so anxious to see him that she fainted. If he still scolded Avery, wouldn’t he be criticized?
However, Avery had yet to give him any promises. If he went downstairs just like that, he didn’t know if Avery would help him later.
Isaac didn’t want to play the same scenario a second time.
For a moment, he was in a dilemma.
And then, due to excessive distraction and anxiety, his body swayed and he lost his balance. He fell from the roof...
At this moment, in a hospital.
Ruby, who was scrolling through the Rosemont City’s news on her tablet, saw the news.
She immediately screamed in panic. The tablet in her hand fell to the ground and she fainted.