Mr. Smith immediately rose from his seat, leaning on his cane as he hurried out of the room, instructing the guards inside, "Keep an eye on her. Don't let her take a single step out of this door. Isn't she counting on living a good life with some other man? If anything happens to Barrett today, I'll make sure she accompanies him in death!"

With those words, he left the room, the door slamming shut behind him with a resounding "bang."

As he reached the emergency room in another wing of the hospital, a doctor rushed out with a critical condition notification. Seeing that Mr. Smith seemed reluctant to receive...