James and announced, "If you kneel before Debbie and apologize, I'IL spare her corneas."
James was stunned into a daze for a short moment. Then he nodded vigorously. The gag in his mouth was removed.
Once he was brought in front of Debbie, a bodyguard gave him a hard kick in the back of his knee, and he thumped to the floor on his knees.
His face went pale from the pain in the knees, and his forehead was filled with beads of sweat.
Stephanie saw all this from the operating table, but she was nonchalant, Like an emotionless machine.
Debbie wasn't going to let James off so easy. She glanced around the operating room and saw a bottle of antiphlogistine.
She strode over, grabbed it, and smashed the bottle in front of James.
The glass bottle broke into pieces. The drug spilled all over the floor and splashed onto James. Debbie's shoes were stained too, but she didn't care.
"Your apology wasn't sincere at all. Kneel over the broken glass. Then, we'll talk about forgiveness."
Carlos was surprised by Debbie's act. He grinned and thought, 'My wife is meaner than me. She is so cool! I'm so proud!' James gasped and his eyes rolled in their sockets uncontrollably. He was about to faint.
Niles was quick to run over to him and fumbled around his coat for his medicine. He found the pills for his high blood pressure. He looked at the label to confirm, took out five pills and gave them to James.
A minute later, James felt better.
He took a deep breath and sneered at Debbie, "Don't push me!"
"Push you?!" Debbie was enraged. She shook off Carlos' hand and kicked
James in the chest.
He groaned painfully on the floor.
But Debbie was not done. She lifted her right foot and stamped on his chest mercilessly. Looking down at him, she asked, "I'm pushing you?
Did you forget what you did to me three years ago? After Carlos' accident, you tied me to an operating table and coerced me into signing the divorce papers. You should have known this day would come."
Overwhelmed by emotions, Debbie raised her voice and yelled at him,
"You hit me, forced me to leave Carlos' and my home, staged his death and tricked me to a fake funeral. You ruined my happiness and destroyed my life. You pushed me into severe depression. What do you say about all that?" Debbie's eyes reddened at the thought of her painful past.
Hearing her words, Carlos felt even more guilty.
Debbie removed her foot from James' chest and squatted down beside him.
She grabbed his collar and pulled him up into a sitting position.
"You're a murderer. I'll sue you and make you rot in jail!"
James struggled a little and smiled contemptuously at her.