The corridor of the hospital was filled with people moving about.
Unlike them, Maisie West was crying her heart out where she sat on a bench, uncaring about anything else. Other than tears, her thin face was full of despair.
"You still need 200,000 dollars for your daughter's operation. Hurry up and get the money. If the operation is delayed, her life will be at risk."
The doctor's words shot through Maisie's heart like arrows.
Maisie clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. "200,000 dollars! I need another 200,000 dollars. Where am I supposed to borrow another 200,000 dollars?!"
Her daughter, Kiara West, had a strange disease. Whenever she had an attack, she started coughing to the point of suffocation. Every time, it seemed as though she was on the verge of death. The medicine could only alleviate the condition. However, it was now getting more and more serious. This was the third time that the doctor had asked her to collect the money for the operation. However, Maisie's savings had long ago been used up to treat this disease. No matter how frugal she was, all her money would be used up for the hospital costs in the blink of an eye.
As for loans, she had already borrowed from any platforms that she knew about.
Now, she didn't even have a few hundred dollars on her, let alone the 200,000 dollars needed for the operation.
When she thought of this astronomical figure, Maisie's vision went black and filled with despair. However, how could she give up on her precious daughter?
To her, her daughter was as precious as her life!
Borrow money. She must borrow more money!
Her life had been ruined, but her daughter was still young and had a beautiful life ahead of her. For her daughter, any indignity she might suffer was nothing.
Maisie first came to her eldest uncle's house and knocked on the door.
Her uncle opened the door expressionlessly while her aunt drummed her fingers on the table wearing a frigid look.
"You, what are you doing here? I gave you 1,000 dollars last time, wasn't it enough? Don't you think you should be trying your luck with someone else?"
Maisie lowered her head and said desperately, "Auntie, I really have no other choice. Kiara needs another 200,000 dollars for her operation. She's my life. Please help me..."
"You want more money again? What do you think we are? ATMs? And so much too! We have nothing left!"
"How unlucky we are to have such a beggar of a relative like you..."
"Auntie, isn't your old house going to be bought out for development? Look..." Maisie forced herself to speak.
"Get lost. My family doesn't even have enough money as it is. Where am I supposed to find the money to give to you?"
Maisie's uncle was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He stood up and roared. He reached out to shove Maisie towards the door and slammed it closed. Inside, he cursed, "200,000 dollars! How dare she even ask for so much money? Does she think we're made of cash?"
When she heard these sarcastic words, Maisie was so angry that she could only tremble. She knew that her uncle's old house was about to be sold off. The real estate developer had already measured the place, and her uncle would soon be getting a sum of 5 million dollars for the property.
It was just that they didn't want to save Kiara. They didn't want to lend the money!
Maisie had no choice but to try her other relatives. However, she considered it lucky if they only slammed the door in her face. Others even left her on the street as they cursed her out.
"Your adoptive father doesn't even consider you his daughter anymore. We're not related. You're so shameless. You don't even know who your child's father is. Get out of here! What the hell is this?"
Maisie was in a dire strait.
She gritted her teeth and made a phone call to Greyson Travis. She was risking everything by doing this.
She had been married but had then gotten divorced. Greyson was her ex-husband, but... Kiara was not his child.
When she married Greyson, she had already had Kiara. It had been Greyson who claimed that he didn't mind and loved her, regardless. However, a year ago, after her doting adoptive mother died, he said that she had cheated on him and hooked up with a man. He even used a DNA test as proof. Her adoptive father had also denied his relationship with her, and she was driven out.
Then, Kiara got this strange disease. That was how Maisie had gradually arrived at this point.
In reality, she used to be the heiress of the West family and a gifted lady renowned in all of Boupling!