Her Grumpy Neighbor

"Breaking news, the only son of the Moore family, Dalton Moore, was involved in a ghastly motor accident last night. He was immediately rushed to the hospital, but his condition remains unknown. Nobody knows if he is dead or alive”

"You see that, Charlotte? I told you that you should not worry. I would be fine, some other people are lying on the hospital bed and no one knows whether they are going to survive or not” Emily reached out to pat her daughter on the hand.

Charlotte really wanted to mention to her mother that this incident happened five months ago and that Dalton did not die. He was alive until today though no one knows of his condition.

Many people said that he was now scared, and his face was hideous, some said that he was now crippled and some said he was disabled.

Many rumors were flying up and down but no one from the Moore family never stepped out to clear these rumors

Since the Moore family controls the economy in their country and was the wealthiest and powerful family, no one dared to question them about their son. They could only spread rumors, though discreetly

Before the accident, Dalton Moore was said to be the most eligible bachelor in the country. Everyone wanted their daughter to get married to him, but he never showed any interest whatsoever.

He rarely came out to attend public events, he was a very private person, but the people who have caught a glimpse of him from the little events he has attended said he was a very handsome and charismatic man

Charlotte knew that her mother was just trying to ask her to stop thinking too much, but she could not help but worry, her mother was the only person she had left in this whole world but now her mother was sick and needed money for surgery, but her family refused to help.

She even went as far as to kneeling in front of her family's house when her mother collapsed one day, but they left her there kneeling under the rain until she fainted and went down with a high fever

Charlotte shook her head to clear her thoughts, she did not want to think of her family. She has no one now after she and her mother were thrown out by her father.

She needed to work hard and take care of her mother. She also needed to work hard to pay back her boss who borrowed her money when her father turned his back on her.

"I know that you are better than those people but still, I have to look for money for your surgery” Charlotte smiled thinly at her mother who lay on the hospital bed with a pale face and with a drip connected to her hand

"Why don't you just ask your father for help? If you tell him how critical my condition is, maybe he will help us, huh?" Emily tried to smile at her daughter and cover up the sadness on her face as she remembered her ex-husband

Charlotte shook her head, she did not tell her mother what exactly happened that day she knelt outside her father's house, but she did tell her mother that her father refused to help, even if her mother kept on insisting that it was because her father did not know how critical her condition was.

She knew that her mother was still so much in love with her father. After all, her mother and father were betrothed to each other from the age of five and her mother was trained to love and always support her father.

She really wanted to shake her mother and tell her to stop having hope about her father and her family as they wanted nothing to do with them