Chapter 1787: Chapter 1790: Dying with Eyes Open
The blood was flowing quickly, Tara Hammond fell onto the bed, feeling her body temperature dropping, consciousness gradually blurring.
Aside from squeezing out a couple of cries from her throat, she could no longer control herself.
At this moment, countless past memories swiftly flashed across Tara Hammond’s mind.
Not yet twenty, she met Theodore Lucas.
At twenty, she schemed to have a relationship with him.
At twenty-one, she aborted her first child.
At twenty-three, she drove a woman insane, took her son to replace him. Meanwhile, she also forced another woman to a dead end, leaving her with a husband who felt like having none.
At twenty-five, to relieve her loneliness, she slept with Ross Bright, and gave birth to the only blood relation in her life.
Her Evelyn, clever and sensible from a young age, almost like a replica of herself at the same age.
She loved her daughter dearly, everything she had taken, everything she had monopolized, she wished she could give to this daughter.
But she would never have thought.
One day, her life would be ended by her own daughter’s hand.
Tara Hammond widened her eyes, using an unwilling gaze, stared intensely at the daughter she had personally raised.
Even in death, she couldn’t figure it out, couldn’t accept, how could her life end with this outcome.
“Mom, rest assured… I’ve remembered all your words in my heart.” Evelyn Lucas watched Tara Hammond’s pupils, gradually diluting.
She leaned down, lowered her head, using a voice filled with unwillingness and a sobbing tone, whispered in her ear.
“Aidan Lucas, Lily Redington, Theodore Lucas… the people you hate, I will eliminate them one by one for you. You were killed by them, don’t be afraid, I will avenge you…”
After saying the last word, Tara Hammond finally stopped breathing.
Even in death, she did not close her eyes.
Just like that, with a shriveled and distorted right eye, and the only intact left eye, she stared fixedly at Evelyn Lucas.
Evelyn Lucas avoided looking at her, took out a suicide note she had prepared in advance from her bag, and placed it under Tara Hammond’s pillow.
After finishing everything, she walked out.
As she reached the doorway, she suddenly stopped.
Evelyn Lucas’s hand gripped the doorknob, her hand bones and knuckles faintly turning white.
She wanted to turn back, to look at Tara Hammond once more.
But the enormous guilt and fear forced her to stand there immobile.
Unsure how much time passed, the doorknob was suddenly turned.
Evelyn Lucas ultimately did not turn back, and directly left the ward.
Outside the ward were seven or eight subordinates brought by Robbie Bright.
Evelyn Lucas instructed: “Guard the door well, no one is allowed inside.”
“Miss, what about the doctor and nurse…?”
“The doctor and nurse can’t enter either, my mom’s condition has stabilized now and she needs to rest. There are many paparazzi reporters outside who are trying to sneak in; they might disguise themselves as medical staff here. In any case, guard the ward door tightly and discuss it tomorrow morning.”
The subordinates dared not have any opinions, obediently guarding the main entrance.
*
The next day, at Lu family’s mansion.
Aidan Lucas was discussing with Lily and Emily Taylor about attending Frank Chamberlain’s wedding in a few days.
When Sebastian Lucas VII suddenly entered, looking anxious.
“Mr. Lucas, something has happened.”
Aidan Lucas’s eyes narrowed slightly, Sebastian Lucas VII immediately explained, “It’s Tara Hammond; she suddenly committed suicide last night, leaving a suicide note.”
At that moment, Sebastian was also unclear about the details, so he turned on the television for them to see for themselves.
The news channel was broadcasting the matter.
“In the much-publicized mistress-versus-wife dispute case, there have been new developments. Late last night, the much-maligned Miss Hammond succumbed to the torment of rumors and committed suicide by slitting her wrists in her hospital bed. Before passing away, Miss Hammond left behind a suicide note…”