In A Wheelchair, They Still Can Only Look Up to Me Chapter 04

In A Wheelchair, They Still Can Only Look Up to Me Chapter 04

A cold, unfamiliar male voice came through the 

receiver. “Hello, are you a family member of Isolde 

Vale? This is the Emergency Room at the Northern 

Federation Special Research Personnel Transfer 

Center.” 

“Isolde has developed a severe infection due to 

improper care of her bone marrow puncture 

wound. We’ve issued a critical condition alert.” 

“What?” 

Selene’s face went pale in an instant. The phone 

nearly slipped from her hand. 

“What kind of joke is this? She’s the healthiest kid 

in our family!” 

“I’m only calling to notify you. I’m not obligated to 

answer your questions,” the man said coldly. 

“Under special policy, her records have been 

moved to classified files. Under the law, she no 

longer holds any relation to any of you.” 

“What? How dare you take my child away?” Selene 

shot to her feet. 

But the man had already hung up. 

Evren stood frozen, his lips trembling 

uncontrollably. “Septic shock. Critical condition.” 

Garrick stared at the handwritten letter on the 

table. It read, 

[Forget about me. I’m going somewhere far away. 

I’m not your family anymore.] 

His legs gave out, he only stayed upright by 

gripping the edge of the table. 

He slammed his phone down on the table and 

forced a cold, brittle laugh. 

“This is all just a stunt! She’s always been clever, 

and she’s got plenty of friends! Getting someone 

to pretend to be federal staff would be easy for 

her!” 

“Walk away from the Vale family? She couldn’t 

even make it past the gate, how could she 

possibly walk away?” 

Selene’s face was ashen. She stared hard at the 

trail of blood smeared by the rain outside the front 

gate, her voice trembling beyond her control. 

“But the blood out there…” 

“That’s chicken blood she planted! Or she just 

scratched herself somewhere to freak us out!” 

Garrick tried to mask the panic in his eyes with 

arrogance. 

“She’s always been independent and tough. She 

barely even catches a cold. How could a little 

bone marrow extraction cause a severe infection?” 

“Septic shock? Critical condition? That’s 

ridiculous!” 

Evren picked up the apple that had fallen on the 

floor, hurled it into the trash can, and echoed 

through gritted teeth. 

“Dad’s right. She saw us taking Maelis to the 

bonfire party today and cooked this whole thing 

up just to mess with us.” 

Selene took a deep breath and forced down the 

rising panic. Her wolf paced restlessly at the edge 

of her consciousness. 

“Fine. If she wants to play hardball, then let’s just 

ignore her!” 

The family reached a consensus. No one called the police. No one went to the medical center to 

look for Isolde. 

But life didn’t return to the peace they’d expected. 

In just three days, the order in their household 

began to unravel completely. 

At dinner, Selene had barely taken one spoonful of 

the shellfish chowder Maelis had so proudly 

brought to her when she suddenly dropped her 

spoon, clawed at her neck, and turned purple in 

the face. 

“Mom! What’s wrong with you?” 

Evren jumped up in terror. 

Selene gasped for air. 

“Allergy… the firstaid kit… get the antihistamine.” 

Maelis stumbled frantically toward the first–aid 

cabinet in the living room, rummaged through it 

for what felt like forever, and came running back. 

with a bottle in her hand. 

“Mom, take this! It’s for allergies!” 

Evren snatched the bottle from her, checked the 

label and date, and exploded with rage. “Maelis, 

are you blind? This expired a year ago!” 

Maelis burst into tears and backed away in 

distress. 

“Isolde used to handle all of this for every meal! 

She never let me set foot in the kitchen. How was I 

supposed to know where the medicine was kept.” 

Selene collapsed back into her chair. 

Her vision blurred from the lack of oxygen. 

It hit her then, every single meal before, Isolde had 

always meticulously avoided her allergens. The 

moment she coughed or showed any sign of 

discomfort, Isolde would have warm water and an 

epinephrine pen at her fingertips within seconds. 

She thought to herself, Isolde had been as caring 

as her own flesh and blood. 

And now, her actual biological daughter didn’t 

even know her dietary restrictions, let alone where 

the emergency medicines were kept. 

Selene was rushed to the Pack Medical Center ER 

that very night. 

At the same time, Garrick’s corporation was struck 

by a disaster of its own. 

“Mr. Garrick! That multi–million dollar contract with 

Cragstone Group, the core dateset are all coming 

back with errors!”