"Doctor!"
Eddy lunged forward, scooping Blanche into his arms and racing out of the hospital room. His voice thundered through the hallway as he shouted at the nurses' station, "Help my wife! Please, you have to save her!"
A wave of panic swept through the medical staff as they rushed Eddy and Blanche into the operating theater.
Inside, voices overlapped, tense and urgent.
"She's hemorrhaging badly—we need to operate, now."
"Get anesthesia ready."
"Mr. Simmons, you'll have to wait outside!"
Blanche felt her consciousness fading, a knife-like agony twisting in her lower abdomen. Memories of losing Lara flooded back—a pain that seemed to hollow her out from the inside. Tears streamed from her reddened eyes.
She clung to Eddy's hand. She'd never begged him for anything before, but this time...
"Please, save our daughter. Don't make me go through that loss again, Eddy."
With those words, darkness swallowed her vision as anesthesia washed over her. Her hand slipped from Eddy's grasp and her eyes fluttered shut.
But she could still hear.
"Mr. Simmons, trust us—we'll do everything we can for your wife and your child," Dr. Smith reassured him, his voice gentle. "But you need to leave now. We can't delay."
Eddy's icy gaze lingered on Blanche. His hands curled into fists at his sides, his voice cold and unyielding. "No. Terminate the pregnancy. Do whatever it takes to save my wife."
"But… that's not what your wife wants—" Dr. Smith hesitated. The patient's wishes should come first.
"I'm her husband. Her legal guardian. I have the right to decide what's best for her," Eddy insisted, staring at Blanche's unconscious form. Whether he was trying to convince himself or Dr. Smith, no one could say.
When had Eddy Simmons ever cared about anyone else's opinion?
Blanche heard his words. The heartbreak was too much; she slipped into true unconsciousness.
"Do what I say," Eddy snapped, voice sharp as ice. "I expect my wife to leave this operating room unharmed. If not, none of you will work in Novandria again."
Dr. Smith and the others could only relent.
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