Wife is a Lawyer

Chapter 28 The Company Went Out Of Business

After this call, Adriana knew what Anne felt about this and she didn’t say anything more.

Then she just FaceTimed with Helen but at that time Helen was sound asleep and she didn’t want to

wake her up.

After she hung up the phone, Adriana left the company and went to a bar to have a drink.

She felt sort of dizzy and didn’t dare to keep on drinking. She was afraid that if she drank too much, her

stomach would hurt.

She grabbed her purse and walked to the front door. Then she saw a crowd of people were gathering

not far away.

“Geez, that man hurt really bad. I feel bad for him.”

“Yeah, who did this to him? This is so cruel.”

“I don’t know.”

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Hearing their words, Adriana walked up out of curiosity. Through the crowds, she saw a man was lying

on the street. His face was covered with blood and somehow looked familiar.

This was…?

“Jenkins?!”

She tilted her head and took a look at that man and suddenly found out that this was her foster

mother’s son, her brother, Jenkins Hale!

“Brother, are you alright?”

Adriana went sober all of a sudden. She pushed those people who were blocking the way aside and

dashed towards him, “Brother, wake up!”

She squatted down and held Jenkins up. She patted his face but he didn’t seem to wake up for a while.

She took out her phone and wanted to call 911, only to find out that her phone died. She hurriedly

asked the people around for help, “Could you please dial 911? My phone died. Please, help us.”

“That’s your brother?”

“Don’t panic, we’ve already called 911 and they’re on the way.”

“Yeah, we called minutes ago. Wait for a sec. Don’t worry.”

…

The people were gossiping about what happened but Adriana didn’t have a clue. Who did Jenkins

offend?

She stayed by Jenkins’ side and the ambulance arrived later. She got into the ambulance and

accompanied him on the way to the hospital.

After she paid the fees, she started waiting outside the emergency room anxiously.

She wanted to contact Jenkins’ friends and family but his phone was broken and she had to wait

outside.

Time passed by slowly. After two hours, the door of the emergency room finally opened.

“Doctor, how’s my brother?” Adriana couldn’t be more worried and she went straight to the doctor to

check up on Jenkins.

“Please don’t worry. He has a broken left hand, a slightly fractured right hand, multiple serious injuries,

a slight concussion, and needs to be hospitalized. Please pay the pees first.”

The doctor simply told her his condition and urged her to pay up.

“Okay, I’ll pay the fees right away.” Adriana ran to pay one more grand and waited outside the

emergency room.

After a long time, they finally pushed out his bed.

“His broken bones have been treated and he should stay in bed for several months,” the doctor

carefully said.

“Okay, got it. Thank you doctor, thank you so much.”

Adriana thanked the doctor and went to the ward with the nurses. The she stayed outside the ward.

Seeing how mature her brother had gotten after all these years, Adriana had mixed feelings.

Back in the day, she tried surrogacy to save his brother who had cancer. She hadn’t reached out to

them after she came back but she didn’t expect to see him like this.

The next day.

Adriana had been staying by his side for the whole night. Right now she fell asleep by his bed.

Someone pushed her and she was awakened.

“Hmm?”

Adriana mumbled and opened her eyes. Then she found that Jenkins was awake.

And she was finally relieved.

“Jenkins, you’re finally awake. You scared the hell out of me. Do you feel better now?” she asked

concernedly.

“Adri, is that really you?” Jenkins was lying on the bed and was quite excited to see her, “where have

you been all these years? Do you know how many years I’ve been searching for you?”

God knows how hard he was trying to find her after the surgery. But he never found her.

“I…”

Adriana shook her head and said, “What happened to you?”

“Answer my question first.” he was quite persistent.

Adriana couldn’t find any excuses and told him about what happened all these years but she

deliberately didn’t tell him anything about Helen.

Jenkins also told her what happened to him.

Adriana then knew that Jenkins had been working for years and had saved some money to open his

own law firm.

It was because Jenkins was studying to be a lawyer that she became interested in it. She eventually

passed the bar exam, too.

“No, I have to get back to the law firm. The firm has just been established. I’ve got a case and I have to

finish it. I can’t afford to lose.”

Jenkins struggled to get out of bed but then he pulled a muscle in his broke arm. He was in enormous

pain and his face distorted and went pale.

“Jenkins, what are you doing? Your arm is broken and you still want that case? Are you nuts?”

She glared at Jenkins and was pissed off by him.

“Adri, to be honest with you, this is the first case we have since we started this firm. The client offered

us 10 grand and I have to win.”

Adriana frowned and looked into his eyes. His pretty face looked more masculine now and his glasses

made him look like a scholar.

And the wounds and bruises on his face made him look a bit funny.

Adriana also started her career from a law firm. Of course she knew how important the first case was.

She thought about it for a while and said, “Fine. Have a good rest. I’ll help you with this case.”

She had no choice but to help Jenkins handle this one.

“But what exactly happened to you? Who did you offend? Why did they hurt you this bad?” Adriana

asked puzzledly.

Jenkins shook his head and said, “I have no idea. There’s a great chance that it was the defendant of

this case. He threatened me over the phone before but I didn’t think too much about it.”

Hearing that, Adriana felt that it wasn’t that simple.

This was the first case for his law firm. Why would anyone pay him 10 grand? Something was up.

“What’s the case about?”

Facing this interrogation, Jenkins didn’t plan to hide anything from her and became completely honest

with her, “Actually, this case is kind of tricky and the plaintiff had gone to a lot of other firms but none of

them dared to take it. I…I figured that the attorney fee was good so I took it.”

“Where are the files of the case? Let me see.” Other people might not know anything behind it but

Adriana knew.

As an attorney, the defendants of some cases had backgrounds and she couldn’t do anything about

them.

“The files are at the firm.”

“Give me the key. I’ll check it out myself.”

Seeing that Adriana was persistent about this, Jenkins told her that the key was in the pocket of his

blazer.

Adriana took the key and left the hospital right away. She drove to Jenkins’ law firm.

She found a folder on the desk in his office. She opened it and found out the plaintiff was…

Peter!