Christine's POV
Emma is holding her mind on her stomach, as if she wants to protect her child from hearing the words that my father just spoke.
"She is your daughter? There must be a mistake! I am sure Christine is not your daughter. I am sure you are just making this up. Dr Baxter, this is not funny. Christine has never been a very good doctor. She has always worked at an unknown hospital. Sacred Heart Hospital Center is for doctors who do not have anything to offer a hospital like West View!" Mike says.
"If I were you, I would keep my mouth shut. Young man, I do not want to hear anything from you. I do not want you to call my daughter and bad doctor because we all know that she is not a bad doctor. She is one of the best doctors in the city. Some even call her the doctor with the magical hands. So if you have anything to say about my daughter, could you please keep it to yourself? I told you that I do not want to speak about this any longer. We are here to celebrate, and we are not here to fight. However, if you're going to insult my daughter one more time, I am going to throw you and your whole party out," My father says.
"Dr Baxter, I'm really sorry. We did not realize that Christine was your daughter. She never said anything. She never told us who she truly was. If she had told us who she was, we would have treated her better. I know that we were not the best parents to your daughter, but I promise you that we will do better in the future. Mike, you need to apologize to Christine right away," Maureen says. So all of a sudden, I am good enough for them, now that they know who I am.
"Do not bother to apologize, Mike. I do not think that we have anything to say to each other. I am sure that you and Emma will be happy with your baby. Now, if you will please excuse us, there are a lot of other guests that we have to greet. Also, I will not need you to treat me any better in the future. Maureen and John, there is nothing that we have in common anymore. You are no longer my in-laws, and I am happy about it. Do not call me your parents because you have never been parents to me. As the Hostess helping my father tonight. I have other duties to do. I am sorry, I cannot talk to you any longer. I hope you enjoy the rest of your night," I say.
I walk away with my father and Professor Stevens as we go to create some of the other doctors and people of importance. I also want to talk to a few of the other people around here to give some donations to Sacred Heart. That hospital has always been very close to my heart. Here are a lot of wealthy people who can donate money to Sacred Heart. I know my father is willing to give a great donation to Sacred Heart, but it comes at a cost. He wants me to come and work for him, and I have agreed. As long as I can still perform surgeries at Sacred Heart, I will do it for free. Just like Professor Stevens. I can only look at him with admiration in my eyes. He is not only my mentor, but he is also a man who takes his job as a doctor very seriously, and I admire him for that. I have always admired him for that.
We will be doing a lot of fundraising tonight for the hospital. I know that I need to be there when my father is talking to some of the influential people in this city, and I will just whisper in their ears that I am the benefactor of Sacred Heart. Many of them will follow my lead because they know that they know who my father is. They will donate because a lot of people in this city want to win my father's favour.
I cannot help but look back at Mike, Emma, Maureen, and John, who stand in one corner. Nobody wants to talk to them as if they have the plague. I do not care. I don't care about them anymore, and I do not care what they think about me. All I know is that I am happy that they are out of my life. I am happy that I have seen the way they truly are. They are not worthy of my attention. They are not worthy of everything I have put into Mike.
Mike is nothing but a coward. He is also a gold digger. He thought that Emma was the one with the money, and that is why he. Went after her. But there is a secret that he does not know about, something that is going to destroy him in the future, and that is a weapon that I will keep close to my heart until the day I am ready to reveal why I am happy that he is with Emma.
It is a secret that I am willing to keep close to my heart, a secret that I do not want other people to know about until I am ready to reveal it to the world.