Chapter 51

Aurora stood at Daniel’s bedside, her eyes cold and distant.
“Daniel, meeting you is the one thing I regret most in my entire life.” She spoke the words with finality, then turned on her heel and strode out of the room.
A loud thud echoed behind her.
Aurora spun around to see Daniel collapsed on the floor, utterly unconscious.
He’d fainted from sheer anger.
In the end, Aurora didn’t make it out of the hospital.
Daniel’s collapse sent the entire place into chaos. Doctors rushed in at once, wheeling him straight into the ER and running every test imaginable.
Yet after multiple examinations, the doctors could only confirm that the slap he’d received to the back of his head hadn’t caused any real harm-certainly not enough to knock someone out.
They questioned Aurora about what had happened.
Unwilling to admit she’d argued with Daniel and literally made him pass out, she simply shook her head and claimed ignorance.
Slumped on a bench outside, Aurora regretted not biting her tongue and showing mercy, if only because Daniel was still a patient. Now, with something happening to Daniel, she’d have to face the full wrath of the Chambers family.
Mrs. Chambers stormed into the hospital yet again, barking orders for the doctors to get to the bottom of Daniel’s collapse.
If they couldn’t find the cause, it was a sign of their incompetence, she insisted.
She threatened to fire every last doctor in the place.
This was the Chambers Group’s private hospital, after all, and as the primary investor, Mrs. Chambers had every right to make that call.
The entire hospital was on edge.
The administrators fawned over her, bowing and scraping, trying to placate her in hopes that she might show mercy or that Daniel would wake up soon and save them all.
“It had nothing to do with us. Mrs. Chambers and Mr. Chambers were arguing, and she made him faint.” One of the younger nurses finally cracked and blurted out the truth.
She’d happened to walk by and overheard the heated argument between Aurora and Daniel, curiosity getting the better of her as she lingered by the door for quite some time.
At once, Mrs. Chambers’ steely gaze shifted to Aurora, her eyes sharp as knives. “So it was you?”
Aurora didn’t deny it. “Yes. It was me.”
She’d kept silent at first, knowing that when Daniel woke, he’d surely defend her from his mother. The staff would be safe. She never expected someone would rat her out.
Mrs. Chambers crossed the room in a few quick strides, stopping right in front of Aurora. “You really are something, aren’t you? First, you hit my son, and then you make him pass out with your insolence. Is this how you care for Dan?”
Without another word, Mrs. Chambers slapped Aurora hard across the face. “You should be grateful every day that Dan even married you, but you dare raise your hand against him?”
She turned to the staff. “Go fetch that old woman from the Quinn family. I want to know exactly how she raised Aurora.”
Everyone in the Chambers family knew Daniel’s wife had been raised by Grandma Grace in the countryside.
With a daughter-in-law from such humble origins, Mrs. Chambers had endured more than her share of ridicule and gossip, and she’d always refused to acknowledge Aurora as family. Only after Aurora achieved real success in the company’s fragrance division, and Mr. Hogan Chambers himself formally recognized her, did Mrs. Chambers grudgingly accept her presence.
Now, finally, she had a reason to vent her pent-up resentment.
“Don’t,” Aurora pleaded, her voice softening.
Her cheek was already swelling from the blow.
She didn’t try to dodge it-she took it, fair and square.
Almost begging, she looked up at Mrs. Chambers. “It was my fault. I admit it. Please, don’t trouble Grandma. She wouldn’t be able to handle the stress.”
Mrs. Chambers narrowed her eyes, her voice dripping with disdain. “Aurora, you’re not fit to be Dan’s wife.” Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on.net
“You’ll kneel at Dan’s bedside until he wakes up. Do you understand?”
Aurora’s head snapped up in disbelief.
Mrs. Chambers let out a cold, triumphant laugh. “A girl from a family like yours? In
another era, you wouldn’t even be worthy to shine my son’s shoes.”
“And after a mistake this egregious? Today, I’ll teach you your place.”
“Kneel.”
All around them, the doctors and nurses watched-some with pity, some with barely concealed schadenfreude-as Aurora was put on display.