Alexis was the first to run out. When she saw her sister lying unconscious on the ground at the gate, her heart skipped a beat.
"Come help, Dad, Mom, Avery is injured, there's so much blood, she's bleeding so much..."
As she spoke, she bent down and picked up Avery from the ground.
Seeing the large amount of blood on her body, Alexis felt a special pain in her heart, and tears flowed out instantly.
"Avery, tell me, who did this to you, how did it happen? If I had known, I would have come out to stop Mr. Blackwood..." Two servants saw the young lady struggling and hurried over to help carry the little miss into the house.
Compared to their anxiety, the faces of the couple did not show any worried expressions when they saw Avery, who was seriously injured.
Victoria clasped her hands in front of her chest and said with glee, "It must be that Mr. Blackwood had someone beat her up. She's so fierce, daring to drug him, it's lucky she wasn't beaten to death."
"Mom, it's already such a serious situation, how can you say such cold words? Avery is like me, she's also your daughter!" Alexis carried her sister inside, looking at her mother dissatisfiedly.
Victoria said, "What kind of daughter is she? She's an ungrateful person who takes advantage of us. She broke off relations with us that day, she's no longer our child."
Knowing it was impossible to make her mother stop talking, Alexis glared at her and ignored her afterwards.
With the help of two servants, they carried Avery back into the room.
Although Harrison didn't like Avery, he didn't say anything at this moment since she was seriously injured and had the protection of his eldest daughter.
Looking at Avery being carried in with her eyes tightly closed, Harrison's face was calm, as if the injured person was not a member of his family or his daughter. As for this, the old man sitting in the wheelchair had long been accustomed to it.
Among his three grandchildren, the old man loved his youngest granddaughter the most.
Seeing his granddaughter being carried back covered in blood, the old man's face tightened again.
He slid his wheelchair and followed them into the room, asking the servants to call the family doctor to treat his granddaughter first.
After the family doctor arrived, it took a lot of effort to separate the skin and tissue from the blood-stained pants since the wound on Avery's buttocks had already started to coagulate. After that, they applied medicine and bandaged her, which took more than an hour in total.
"Miss .Wells was beaten too hard, and there are obvious signs of infection in the wound. I'm just doing emergency treatment now. If you really want her to recover, you'll have to send her to a big hospital tomorrow."
The family doctor couldn't help but sigh after examining her.
"Who on earth did this? They were so ruthless to beat Miss. Wells like this. Even if she doesn't die this time, she'll lose half of her life. She'll probably have to lie in bed for at least ten days or half a month."
"Thank you, Doc," said Alexis as she saw off the family doctor. She stayed in the room alone, watching Avery's pale face, her eyes turning red with heartache.
She held her sister's hand and muttered to herself, "Avery, if he really hit you, even if you refuse to leave him, I won't give up easily."
This marriage must end, for he had beaten her beloved sister to this extent.
Tomorrow, it won't be the Wells family receiving a lawyer's letter from Ethan Blackwood, but Ethan himself receiving divorce papers.
Alexis thought angrily as she quickly drafted a divorce agreement on her computer.
During the drafting process, the masked face of that man occasionally flashed through her mind. That face that was half devil and half angel...
Alexis should have been angry, but she couldn't help but recall the scene of the drugged man holding her so closely, his heavy breathing echoing in her ear, as if it had just happened.
Her face turned red, but quickly, Alexis shook her head and forced her brain to remain calm and clear.
...
The next day, Avery woke up in pain from her wound.
Because the injury was on her buttocks, she was lying face down on the bed.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Alexis sitting by her bed. "Avery, you finally woke up," Alexis said with a smile, holding Avery's hand. "The doctor said your wound is infected, so I'm taking you to the hospital to treat it."
"Sister, how did I end up here?"
She clearly followed Ethan's aunt to the Blackwood mansion last night. Later, she was beaten in the ancestral hall of the mansion. The beating was only halfway through when she couldn't bear the pain and passed out.
How could she see her sister, Alexis ,now?
Avery held her forehead, feeling a throbbing headache.
But what was worse than the headache was the pain on her buttocks from the beating yesterday. As she accidentally touched her wound when she half sat up, she pulled and tugged at it, causing a sharp intake of breath from the pain.
"Be careful, don't move around. I'll will bring some people to help you soon."
Alexis pressed Avery's back and then immediately went out.
Avery didn't know how her wound was, she only knew that it was tightly wrapped in layers, making it hard to breathe, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
Two minutes later, several maids came over and, like last night, lifted her up and sent her to the car that had already been prepared outside. When Avery regained consciousness, every movement of her body was particularly painful.
But she gritted her teeth and didn't make a sound, so as not to worry her sister.
At the hospital, after the gauze was torn off, Avery's wound was obviously more serious than yesterday.
After disinfection and applying the medicine prescribed by the hospital to the wound, the situation improved slightly.
After buying breakfast outside and feeding it to Avery herself, Alexis sat in front of the sickbed and told her sister firmly, "Avery, after thinking it over all night, I've decided to let you divorce Mr. Blackwood."
"Divorce? Why?" Avery naturally thought of her injury and assumed her sister had misunderstood.
She hurriedly explained, "Sis, I think you might have misunderstood. The injuries on my body weren't caused by Mr. Blackwood."
"If it wasn't him, then who did it?" Seeing her sister still speaking up for Ethan, Alexis became angry. "You were fine when you left last night, and now you're like this after being brought back."
"You may not believe me, but it wasn't him who caused my injuries. Sis, please don't be angry. I won't divorce him," Avery shook her head.
No matter what, he had stood up for her when she was wrongly accused. She didn't mind his appearance and wouldn't leave him.