From the anxiety in Carter’s tone and statement, Madeline could hear how much he wished Shirley and the child in Shirley’s stomach to be fine.

However, what he got was the doctor’s remorseful shake of his head.

“What’s your relation to the patient?” the doctor asked him.

Carter seemed to be stunned by the question. Who was Shirley to him?

Was he her husband? No.

However, she was pregnant with his child. Her sweetheart?

Not even that.

He had never given her any promise as sweethearts would.

The relationship between them could no longer be described in simple words.

when he saw Carter not speaking for a long

her… lover.” ‘Is that

me, right?’

heard this, he interpreted this as them being husband

tell you that the child in your wife’s

cold after

and his eyes lost focus. It took a good few seconds before Carter, not entirely present, continued to ask, “What

that her legs seem to have already lost their ability to function. Coupled

about this! I only want to know if she can

control

shocked,

not in any danger, but she won’t be able to live like

can’t? As long as I’m by her side,

at the doctor, he walked straight into

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