Chapter 227

Nicole did not expect that her phone would vibrate in her pocket. Nicole took it out. There were nearly two hundred missed calls, eighty percent of which were from Daniel, Gloria, and her brothers, and a few messages from Austin and others, asking her when the tuition would continue. 'What's going on?' she wondered. Just as Nicole was about to call home, the phone in her hand vibrated again. It was Daniel. She picked up the call. Daniel was used to hearing the unreachable tone when he called Nicole. He could not react for a moment when he first got through to Nicole until she answered in a flat voice. "Nicole, you finally answered the phone," he said, sounding stupefied. Gloria, who was beside Daniel, heard what he said and abruptly looked up at her husband, her eyes full of eagerness. Nicole heard the exhaustion and anxiety in her father's voice, and she could not help but frown. "Is something happening at home?" Daniel had been in the hospital for days, feeling distressed when