Female Novel
Chapter 261 Shameless People (Part Two)
"Yes, definitely she will regain her consciousness." Johnson was also shocked as they were of thebelief that Harper would be sober in three days' time, but she didn't. They had waited for a whole night,and still, she showed no signs of waking up.
"Three days have passed." Mathew's voice was ice-cold.
"Your Highness, please give us three more days. Within these three days, Her Highness will beconscious!" Johnson pleaded in a low voice. Harper was unable to wake up owing to her weakness. Itwas not because of any mistake of them, but they didn't have the luxury of time. If they had more time,they could definitely make her come around.
Matthew sat silently on the bedside without uttering a word. His heart ached as he saw Harper still lyingunconscious.
"Harper, it's dawn. It's time for getting up. The nanny would be bringing you the ginseng soup. If youdon't get up now, she would laugh at you," Matthew said in a gentle tone.
Upon hearing this, Nina turned around and wiped off her tears secretly. Though she had often seenHarper getting injured, she had never witnessed her as cheerless as now. Harper was quietly lyingthere without comforting her or speaking tenderly to Anabel. Seeing this was upsetting for everyonearound.
"Your Highness, Her Highness will wake up." Denny boldly stepped forward. "She is sleeping justbecause she is too weak. We have tried our best to nurse her. Even if she wakes up now, she stillneeds to be nourished. I'm afraid her complete recovery may take a year or so. Don't worry, YourHighness. I will do my best to nurse her."
"Yes, Your Highness. Her Highness will be fine," Johnson said, wiping off the cold sweat from hisforehead. If at the beginning, Harper was herself willing to ask for a divorce and give up her position asnovelbin
a princess, then why would his daughter have taken the risk of drugging Matthew resulting in his poisonattack? Now that Johnson had tried all possible means for treating Harper, he was just returning goodfor evil!
"Take them away." Matthew no longer wanted to hear them. "Send Rena to the military camp!"
"Your Highness, you can't do this!" Johnson was irritated. "If you didn't' want the Tribulation Flower, Iand my daughter would never have come to your mansion. Now you have used the Tribulation Flower,but still want to execute us. You are too heartless!"
"Your Highness, Rena is innocent!" Denny insisted. "Since her childhood onward, she has always beenso kind-hearted that she wouldn't even kill an ant. How could she harm you? Your Highness, youshould believe her. She had no intention to hurt you."
Hearing this, Matthew sneered and said, "Even Rena herself acknowledged her guilt, but you are stilldefending her. Don't you think it's too late?"
"Your Highness... You... What do you mean?" Denny asked doubtfully.
"I've already interrogated Rena. She admitted about putting poison in my medicated bath. Take themaway and lock them up," Matthew ordered. "I am not going to allow you to die so easily. Rena is justthe beginning." He didn't want to prolong the conversation.
"Your Highness, for the sake of our friendship in the past years, please let Rena go. I beg you, YourHighness." Denny knelt on the floor begging Mathew for mercy.
Matthew, however, had no response. "It's too noisy here."
The guards dragged out the two men, but Denny refused to leave. He grabbed the door frame andasked, "Your Highness, are you really going to be so cruel? You have even disregarded our friendship.
If it were not for me, you would have died long ago. But now, you are treating me like this just becauseof a woman. Your Highness, where is your conscience?"
"Conscience? How dare you talk to me about it?" Matthew looked at him, his eyes cold and ruthless,without the slightest trace of affection. "When you took advantage of my power to eradicate the peoplewho were against you in society and made enemies for me all around, why didn't you accuse me ofbeing heartless? When you took a great deal of gold and silver from me, you didn't say that I'm cruel.You treat me and I pay you back for the treatment. It's nothing less than a win-win deal. Does it haveanything to do with the conscience?"
"I... All I did was just for you!"
"For me? It's ridiculous. You have made enemies for me everywhere and cheated me out of my money.You also tried to murder my wife. Why don't you acknowledge that you would kill me for my own good?"Matthew had tolerated Denny all the while as he had never crossed his line. However, Denny neverbothered to correct his mistakes due to the prince's tolerance for him. Instead of standing down, hebecame even more excessive. He actually blamed Matthew for not protecting him anymore because hehad no conscience.
"Your Highness, even if you and Denny made a deal, I and my daughter have no grudge against you.Why would she want to poison you? It must be a false charge by someone." Johnson knew that Dennywas unable to help him anymore. At this moment, all he wanted was an excuse to get away or else, hisdaughter's life would end up in misery.
"You know better if somebody had framed her. I know your intention very well. But you'd better give upthe idea. Even if I am going to die, I don't want your daughter!" Matthew said coldly. "A woman like heris a scourge to others! No matter how long both of you argue with me, the fact is that she is going to besent to the military camp. You'd better worry about yourselves instead ofher!"