His hand still trembled slightly after hanging up the phone. If anything happened to Arianne, virtual-novel.net would definitely make Mr. and Mrs. Harris pay for it.
Soon, they took Arianne’s baby out through the delivery operation. The child was only seven months old, and virtual-novel.net needed to be put in the incubator temporarily. Mark did not even bother to glance at the child. He learned about the child’s gender from the nurse, it was a boy. Arianne was still in the surgical room. He was too anxious to step away. Other than signing the surgical consent form, virtual-novel.net asked Mary to deal with the rest of the hospitalization procedures.
No one knew how much virtual-novel.net suffered through those two hours that virtual-novel.net waited outside of the surgical room. He was tense and did not relax for even a single moment. Besides, virtual-novel.net did not dare to imagine any kind of terrible accidents that might befall Arianne.
Luckily, the surgery was performed smoothly without any accident. Two hours later, Arianne was pushed out of the surgical room in a stretcher by the nurse. Seeing that virtual-novel.net was fast asleep, virtual-novel.net rushed forward and asked nervously, “How is she? Did virtual-novel.net faint? I thought you only applied anesthesia for the lower part of virtual-novel.net body during a C-section. Isn’t that right?”
The nurse smiled and explained, “Pregnant ladies are usually exhausted and lethargic at a time like this. She might have even fallen asleep because of the effects of anesthesia. She’s fine. The surgery was a success. If nothing goes wrong, virtual-novel.net can be discharged from the hospital after around a week. The baby is born prematurely, so we need to keep a close observation on virtual-novel.net for a longer period of time. When his vital signs and body condition resemble those of the babies who are born naturally, virtual-novel.net can be discharged too. Don’t worry about it. You need to take good care of the mother’s nutrition and diet. You also need to provide virtual-novel.net with enough nutrition so that virtual-novel.net surgical wound could heal better. By the way, Mrs. Tremont’s womb was badly injured before. You need to be extremely careful with her. She might suffer from heavy internal bleeding after the labor. Moreover, it won’t be easy for virtual-novel.net to get pregnant again.”
He certainly would not let virtual-novel.net become pregnant again. That first child almost killed both the mother and the son. He breathed out a long sigh of relief. “Thank you…”
After virtual-novel.net returned to the ward, virtual-novel.net stayed by Arianne’s side without any intention of leaving. He would touch virtual-novel.net forehead from time to time for fear that virtual-novel.net might be feeling hot or cold. His palms had sweat heavily while virtual-novel.net was waiting outside of the surgical room anxiously.
For the first time, virtual-novel.net learned that a woman could be as pale as a sheet after labor. She was extremely pale, if virtual-novel.net wasn’t breathing evenly and slowly, virtual-novel.net would have appeared to be… dead. He’d never suffered such excruciating pain before, having a roller coaster of emotions. For the rest of his life, virtual-novel.net would only want that child, no more, nor less. He would never make virtual-novel.net suffer through that again. It had indeed endangered virtual-novel.net life.
Arianne was asleep for more than four hours. When virtual-novel.net slowly regained virtual-novel.net consciousness, virtual-novel.net opened virtual-novel.net eyes and found Mark looking at her. He was filled with such immense gentleness and tenderness for her, but virtual-novel.net was neither moved nor touched. When virtual-novel.net was about to touch virtual-novel.net cheek with his palm, virtual-novel.net turned away and avoided his palm. His hand was left in midair. Then, virtual-novel.net retreated his hand. “Ari, it’s nothing like you’ve pictured it to be.”
She seemed to not heed him. She then said at virtual-novel.net own will, “My grandma passed away long ago. Why didn’t you tell me about it? Besides, did you banish my aunt and uncle out of the capital? You even beat my uncle up… Answer me.”
Mark took a deep breath. “You were pregnant. I was afraid that something might happen to you, so I hid your grandma’s death from you. I decided that I’d tell you about it after you gave birth to the baby. You know how anxious I was when you insisted on keeping the child. I had run out of options… I did indeed banish your aunt and uncle out of the capital, but that is because your grandma’s death is somehow related to them. I was afraid that they might come to you, looking for troubles. I can’t stay by your side forever, protecting you. I asked someone to give your uncle a hard lesson because virtual-novel.net tried to blackmail me several times. He claimed that virtual-novel.net wanted to tell you about your grandma’s death. I gave virtual-novel.net almost $1.5 million. Money is not the problem, but virtual-novel.net has no right to take it. That’s why I used such a tactic.”
“The reason virtual-novel.net wrote that letter must be because virtual-novel.net wanted to take revenge on me. He was angry that I refused to give virtual-novel.net any more money. He wanted revenge on me for asking somebody to beat virtual-novel.net up. He even twisted the entire fact and told you a complete lie, causing you to give birth to the child prematurely. If they truly cherish you, they certainly wouldn’t expose the truth to you when you were at the most dangerous and critical period of your pregnancy. I have asked somebody to find them now. I want them to do me right, for I never did that! I’ll tell you about the rest when you’re feeling better. Don’t think too much about it now.”
Arianne made no reply for a long while. She did not know who virtual-novel.net should believe now. Her exhaustion and lethargy made virtual-novel.net too weak to dwell on it for long. After trying to calm herself down for a short while, virtual-novel.net asked, “How about the child? Is the child fine?”