Chapter 233

"What happened to you? Did you hurt yourself? Why are you covered in blood?" Yvonne asked frantically after seeing Abigail return to the car reeking of blood. She noticed that Abigail's dress was torn and that there were bloodstains all over her. Yvonne's eyes immediately welled up with tears as she instructed Jorge, "Get us to the hospital now!" Abigail, feeling slightly exhausted, said, "I'm fine, Mom. I'm not hurt at all, so please calm down. I just happened to come across an accident after getting out of the car. This blood isn't mine. It's someone else's." Abigail thought that she made the right call by telling Yvonne to stay in the car, as no mother would have allowed her child to do something so dangerous. She gave a brief, watered-down version of events, deliberately omitting the heart-pounding parts. She saw no point in dredging it up—unless she wanted to scare Yvonne all over again. Yvonne still furrowed her brow, saying, "You shouldn't have gotten this involved, even if