Chapter 5

I calmly took the phone from the doctor, whose face was growing increasingly grim, and spoke coldly:

"He's the doctor who saved my life."

"Liam, I'm not dead. Are you very disappointed?"

Liam's voice, previously full of accusations, suddenly caught in his throat. After a long silence, he nervously lowered his voice:

"Eleanor, don't tell anyone you're alive yet."

"I… I need a favor from you. I'll come find you later."

With that, Liam abruptly hung up.

The doctor and nurse watched all this, speechless. Then they both pointed at the TV behind them:

"Liam, your husband, is he *that* pilot from the crash?"

"How could he leave his pregnant wife on a crashing plane, and he… how could he tell the rescue team that all the passengers safely escaped?"

Yes, how could he tell the rescue team that all passengers had safely escaped?

It turned out my husband not only shamelessly took the last life vest but also sealed off all my chances of survival!

I lowered my eyes, my heart heavy with bitterness. My hands clenched into fists, but I didn't know how to speak.

Seeing my distress, the nurse realized she had said the wrong thing.

She covered her mouth and helped me close the door to the room.

I buried my face in the crisp white bedding and finally burst into tears.

That afternoon, Liam didn't come. Instead, Brenda, the chief flight attendant who had been so disdainful of me on the plane, arrived.

She pushed the door open. Seeing my haggard face, a flicker of embarrassment crossed her features, but she still lowered her gaze and walked over, placing a pile of various health supplements on my bedside table:

"Eleanor, Liam can't get away right now, so he asked me to come check on you first."

I managed a faint smile, too tired to even lift my eyelids:

"Is he busy accompanying Serena?"

"What, in your crew's eyes, am I—the pregnant woman who gave up her parachute and miscarried in a plane crash—still worth less than your former colleague?"

Brenda kept her head down, not daring to meet my eyes.

After a while, she suddenly tried to speak in a low voice:

"Eleanor, you know, ever since Liam became captain, I've been his chief flight attendant. I watched him like he was my own younger brother."

"Now he's… he's committed a grave error, hiding your death…"

"Because Serena wants to rejoin the crew. If it's found out now that she boarded illegally, then…"

Brenda's voice trailed off, finally falling silent.

I lifted my head and stared at her for a long time:

"You knew it was Liam who illegally brought someone onto the plane, and you knew I suffered all this because of Serena."

"But now, you, as the chief flight attendant, a position second only to Liam on the plane, have come to persuade me… to persuade me to act like nothing happened, is that right?"

Brenda, who had once been so proud and biased towards Serena over me, quietly listened to my questions, her head bowed deeply. She didn't speak for a long time.

Since she wasn't speaking, I simply closed my eyes to rest.

This chief flight attendant was a capable woman, and also Liam and Serena's love bodyguard.

Ever since Serena was dumped and returned, Liam always found excuses to go out.

We often argued. Sometimes, when he was annoyed or too lazy to explain to me, he would push the blame onto Brenda:

"I'm with Brenda."

"Brenda called for us to hang out, it's rude not to go."

"It's not just the two of us; Brenda is there too. She's always fair and impartial, what's there to worry about?"

I thought about Liam's past excuses and suddenly laughed aloud:

"You know, whenever Liam went to meet Serena in secret, he always told me you were there too."

"He also said you were the most fair and impartial, and asked me what I had to worry about!"