Chapter 5
After turning on my phone, I was met with a barrage of accusatory messages from Ginger Franklin.
“Nina Davis, do you have any idea how scared Sophie is? She’s been crying non–stop.”
“How can you be so vicious, unable to stand seeing others happy?”
“Even a child in the womb is a living being. How could you do such a thing?”
“If you don’t get down on your knees and apologize to Sophie, don’t even think about my forgiveness.”
I numbly scrolled through the messages.
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The first thing I did after joining the teaching volunteer group was to remove my SIM card.
In the evening, the hospital called Ginger Franklin.
“Excuse me, are you the family member of Nina Davis, the patient? We can’t find her at the moment and wanted to ask if you’d like to handle the embryo yourself or if you’d prefer we take care of it?”
Ginger Franklin, who was in the middle of cooking a nourishing soup for Sophie Mitchell, accidentally dropped his ladle into the pot.
The splash hit Sophie Mitchell, who was sitting nearby.
Normally, Ginger would be frantic if Sophie
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so much as coughed, but this time, he didn’t even seem to notice her reddening hand.
He stood there, stunned, for what felt like an eternity before he finally found his voice, croaking, “Did you call the wrong number? I performed the surgery myself. She… she couldn’t possibly be pregnant.”
The doctor on the other end fell silent.
There was the sound of papers rustling and a keyboard clicking.
“Sir, I’ve checked the records. The patient is indeed Nina Davis. She registered at our hospital a week ago. The father’s name
listed is Ginger Franklin. Are you Nina Davis’s husband, Mr. Franklin?”
“Yes… I am.”
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After hanging up, he stood there,ffrozen.
Sophie Mitche!!, clutching her blistering hand, looked at him with amexpression of grievance.
Since Ginger hadn’t put the call om speaker, she hadn’t heard the conversation cleanly.
But given the nasty things she’d beem whispering into his ear these past few days, she had a pretty good idea who the call was from.
She blinked her long eyelashes, letting a few tears roll down her cheeks.
“Ginger, I’m fine. After all, you and Nina Davis. are married. I don’t want to make things
difficult for you.”
“Even though she tried to hurt my baby, it
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was Josh Walton and I who wronged her first. Maybe she still can’t let go of Josh Walton…”
Usually, when she played the victim like this, Ginger would comfort her, telling her she was innocent and hadn’t done anything wrong.
But this time, his brow furrowed deeper and deeper, and he barely paid her any attention.
He couldn’t wrap his head around how this could have happened.
He grabbed his coat from the sofa and rushed out the door, ignoring Sophie’s calls after him.
He sped to the hospital, his mind replaying the scene in the stairwell that day.
When he arrived, the four–month–old fetus,
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along with the placenta, was placed in a tray by the nurse.
It was a bloody mess, but the tiny, not–yet–fully–formed hands and feet were faintly visible.
The nurse looked at Ginger with deep regret.
“The baby was perfectly healthy. When your wife came for the check–up alone and found out she was pregnant, she was so happy she cried in the hallway for a long time, saying she could finally have a child with you. She even wanted to tell you right away. Honestly, family members should be there more for expectant mothers. Otherwise, accidents like this wouldn’t happen.”
“When we found her, she was lying at the bottom of the stairs, covered in blood, with almost all her amniotic fluid gone. It’s such a
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pity…” The nurse kept shaking her head and sighing as she spoke.
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