"Both of you stay right there!" Stella cried out madly.
Zoey frowned and looked at her with icy-cold eyes."Stella, you better stay still if you don't want your uterus to bleed profusely again."
If only she wasn't the person in charge of taking care of Stella after her labor, she wouldn't have been bothered whether Stella was acting like a maniac.
"Do you think you can rekindle with Xavier once you're back?" Stella stopped flaring as she glared at Zoey and gasped.
Zoey drew her lips and smiled coldly."Stella, what are you afraid of? Do you think you're less attractive than me?"
Her words were cold, stabbing Stella like a knife."I guess so, too. You're less pretty than me, and your figure is not as good as mine. It's perfectly understandable for you to be afraid that you will lose your man to me."
Although Xavier Lewis was a bad guy whom she would never want to get back together with, it didn't stop her from using him to provoke Stella.
She still remembered the day that these two scoundrels chased her away from her hometown, forcing her to survive on her own in a foreign land. She was already being kind to Stella by only saying a few harsh words.
This was not the end of it. She must make them pay a huge price in the future.
She would not let her father die in vain, and she would take back the Fuller Corporation.
"Shut up!" Stella fixed her reddened eyes at Zoey like a trapped beast.
Suddenly she seemed to have thought of something and burst out into thunderous laughter. As she did, she accidentally triggered the pain from her wound. She gasped, but still chuckled with some arrogance.
"Zoey, so what if you're prettier than me, or sexier than me? Didn't you lose to me back then? You even caused the tragic death of your moron father. I bet you didn't know how he died. It was so—"
Just when she was proudly describing the death of Zoey's father, Zoey went up to her with a terrorizing look and gave her a slap.
The crisp sound snapped Stella back to reality as she finally regained her sanity.
"Zoey, how dare you slap me?" she gritted her teeth, her makeup-less face twisted and hideous.
"You earned it yourself. A slap isn't even enough to seal your filthy mouth," Zoey replied, cold and condescending.
Stella touched her face as she glared at Zoey."Do you think I can't do anything to you because you're my gynecologist?"
She paused and sneered with a cold smile."I thought you'd have grown up and gotten smarter after running away for six years. Little did I know, you're still as dumb as before. I'm a VIP of this hospital. Do you think you can keep your position if I complain to the director that you, as a doctor, hit me and seduced my husband while I was having my operation?"
"Do whatever you want," Zoey said completely fearlessly.
She was sure the hospital would not fire her just because she slapped Stella.
After all, the connections she had accumulated over the years were not completely useless.
Stella fixed her cold eyes on Zoey, who was standing there without fear or anxiety.
This time, she had to bring Zoey down completely and stop her from ruining her marriage.
"Dad, I want to see the director and sue one of the doctors under him for deliberately hurting me and my daughter," said Stella, aggrieved, on the phone while she continued to endure the pain of her wound.
As the daughter of the Lynch family and the wife of Xavier Lewis, she believed she had enough authority to bring Zoey down.
An hour later, Dr. Ziegler came over along with Mrs. Lynch and a group of roly-poly ladies who looked like fearless warriors. With cold and tough expressions on their faces, they stood behind Mrs. Lynch.
"Mommy!" Stella, whose wound had been bandaged by a nurse, cried out as soon as she saw her backing, Mrs. Lynch. She pointed to Zoey and complained,"She's the one who slapped me and seduced Xavier!"
Mrs. Lynch had learned of Zoey's return while on her way to the hospital. Hence, she was more disgusted than surprised when she saw Zoey in her white gown.
"Who gave you the guts to hit my daughter?"
She dashed up and raised her hand to slap Zoey, but Zoey was fast enough to dodge it. She even grabbed Mrs. Lynch's wrist in mid-air."Mrs. Lynch, mind your behavior."
Before the Fuller downfall, Mrs. Lynch treated her with kindness and gentleness. She was unlike this unreasonable woman before her, who now acted like a rogue from the market.
Mrs. Lynch glared at Zoey and cursed,"Zoey Fuller, you're just a jinx. You must be tired of living. How dare you grab my hand!"
She pointed her other free hand at Zoey's face, nearly poking her nose.
"Back then, you stooped so low as to give birth to a pair of twins from an unknown man. As a result, your father died of rage, and you fled with your children without even attending his funeral. If not for Stella and Xavier, who lent their helping hands, your dad wouldn't have died in peace. We don't expect you to be grateful, but how dare you ruin their marriage?"
Zoey's cold stare made Mrs. Lynch swallow her words briefly.
But once Mrs. Lynch remembered that Zoey had no backing, she straightened up again. Nothing to be afraid of.
"If you don't want to disgrace yourself, get out of here now!" Mrs. Lynch commanded.
Zoey smiled coldly."What if I refuse?"
She wanted to see whether Mrs. Lynch had made any improvements over the past six years.
"Refuse?"
Mrs. Lynch turned to Dr. Ziegler."Dr. Ziegler, the doctor in your hospital slapped my daughter and openly seduced her husband. What are you going to do about it?"
Dr. Ziegler frowned."Mrs. Lynch, I suppose there's a misunderstanding."
The Lynch family was rich and influential in Onaton City, and Stella was the daughter-in-law of the Lewis family. The Lewis Group had risen to the top 20 local dignitaries in the past six years. He, on the other hand, was just an insignificant hospital director.
As for Zoey…
He glanced at her. She had been personally recommended by his long-time classmate. If he dismissed her over a few words from Mrs. Lynch, he'd owe his classmate an explanation.
"Misunderstanding?"
Mrs. Lynch turned Stella's swollen right cheek to him and yelled,"Dr. Ziegler, look at the evidence! Look at how badly she hit my daughter! And…" she took out a stack of photos."Someone took these and sent them to us. If she wasn't seducing Xavier, why would she be hugging him in the hospital?"
Dr. Ziegler examined the photos and then turned to Zoey."Dr. Fuller, can you please explain this?"
If the photos were real, he couldn't allow Zoey to stay. The hospital's reputation was at stake.
Zoey glanced at the photos, her eyes sharpening.
Xavier and she were indeed in them, but the pictures had been taken when she returned to the hospital for a debrief — and Xavier had hugged her by force.
"Dr. Ziegler, I request to see the hospital surveillance to prove my innocence," Zoey said."They claimed I seduced Mr. Lewis, but he was the one who harassed me. Before I can even sue him for that, his family members are now accusing me."
"You still have the audacity to speak after seducing my daughter's husband? I'll tear your mouth apart!"
"Seize her!" Mrs. Lynch ordered.
About six women came forward to grab Zoey.
But Zoey was not someone who waited helplessly. After years abroad, she had learned how to protect herself — even Taekwondo. A few women with brute force? No problem.
She swiftly grabbed the wrist of the first woman who lunged at her and landed a low kick to her abdomen. The woman flew back, knocking down the rest like dominoes.
"Whoever dares to mess with me again will get more than just a kick. You might leave this place with broken hands and legs," Zoey warned coldly.
The women, now groaning in pain, cringed and looked at one another, unsure if they wanted to continue. No amount of money was worth this.
The woman before them was simply terrifying.