Don't Try to Escape, My Wife!

"Maia will be fine. Don't worry."

Nicole gestured.

"Fine? She's basically drenched in blood."

Tim sat on the bench, battered out of his senses.

He clutched his hair and kept pulling it.

How could he be drunk?

How could he leave Maia facing all this alone?

But it was too late now, no matter how much he regretted it.

Tim was so guilty, while Nicole didn't have a good time, either. She wanted to set Maia up with Tim, but now that Maia was like this, she was so sorry, despite that she knew that it had nothing to do with her.

Gabrielle didn't know how to comfort them, so he could only wait there quietly.

As time passed, the lights in the emergency room finally went out.

Yet, Tim was somehow a little scared.

Neil looked at them as he came out, and whispered, "The patient's not very well now."

"How is she?"

Tim asked hurriedly.

He could feel that his hands were trembling, so was his heart.

Nicole also looked at Neil, nervous.

Neil sighed and said, "The patient suffers multiple fractures. Three ribs were broken, and serious congestion is detected all over the body. Fortunately, she was delivered in time. Otherwise, it is very likely that the blood may press her nerve and cause much worse effects. But, most importantly, the patient's uterus is injured."

"What did you say?"

Tim and Nicole opened their eyes wide on hearing this.

"Neil, is that a confirmed diagnosis?"

Gabrielle was also at a loss.

Neil nodded and said regretfully, "Whoever did this was so ruthless. Uterus is the most vulnerable part of a woman. From the looks of it, it may take a long time to recover, which of course, could only be achieved by applying traditional Chinese massage and acupuncture. Western medicine, I assume, may not work. As for how long it will take, I cannot be sure. Maybe a couple of months, or about a year, or perhaps even longer. And it is possible that when her uterus finally recovers, she's already passed her child-bearing age. That's why I need to see her immediate relatives. I need them to sign on some papers."

Tim was completely dumbfounded.

He knew better than anyone how important uterus is to a woman.

Maia had not been married, and she didn't even have a boyfriend. The best of her life was still yet to come; but now she ended up like this just because of him, a douchebag.

No matter how sorry and regretful he felt, he couldn't turn back time.

Tim's silence broke Nicole's heart.

She took out her phone to look for Maia's info, but found that Maia didn't leave any number of her immediate family.

"What's wrong?"

something wrong

gestured, "Maia didn't write down any immediate

Tim frowned.

which village is

gave Maia's information

report on Maia

the report on his phone and was

"What's wrong?"

Nicole asked.

gave his phone to

years ago, leaving Maia with her 15-year-old brother, who was still in school. Maia didn't use a cent of her parents' savings, saying that she would leave the money to her brother to get married in the future. Her current income was perfectly enough to

Nicole's eyes were

girl should have been cared and protected from all harms,

time holding back his tears. He looked at Neil and said, "I'm her immediate family. I'll be

"You?"

at Gabrielle and

a moment before she heard Tim say, "Yes, I am her fiancé! I will be

at Nicole, then turned around and ran

the glance, Nicole felt so

become a

"I'll go see him."

to Gabrielle and ran

out far. He stopped in the

people in the backyard. Tim squatted among the flowers

violently that though he was 6-feet tall, from behind, he

over and sat

to comfort him. After all, with what had happened,

crying at

tears and raised his head to look at the

stretched out her hand and patted his

"I'm fine!"

whispered, "Nicole, I'm afraid I can't love you in the

again after saying

child now, but

of his life, that even if

the vows had vanished into the

with Nicole and that his life would no longer be centered on her was wrenching

is already grey by then, I don't care. But now I know

covered his face in pain

of his feelings for her, but she

know, I've always hoped that you could live

Nicole gestured.

her life shouldn't have been like this. It was all because of me that she's like this now. I want to be responsible for her, but Nicole, if I'm gonna do that, I will have to give up my love for you. I can't fail her. If I keep having you in my heart, it will be the greatest insult and injustice to her. I want to try to take back my love for you, to try to love Maia, and to try to give her everything that a girl should have. But my heart hurts. It really hurts. Letting go isn't as easy as I thought, but it is

a child. Then he got up

hot tears burned Nicole's shoulder

be

shouldn't be

but found that words were so pale and

her. She thought that Tim would forget about this "love"

couldn't give Tim the love he