With reddish eyes, he looked up at Cormac, who was at the door. He continued while weeping, “The woman lying here under the white cloth is your birth mother.”
Then, he emphasized, “Your birth mother who carried you for nine months and endured the severe labor pains during production.”
Cormac still didn’t look up, his body faintly trembling.
Jayden stood up. His turbid eyes had lost their colors. He carefully put down Victoria’s hand with reluctance and concern. Finally, he released it. Looking over at Kevin, he said, “Let’s go out and let him see her for the last time. He should call her… she has been expecting it for all the lifetime…”
Kevin wiped his eyes, walked out of the ward first. Outside the door, Boyce was frozen in the corridor. He had heard what Kevin said just now, feeling quite shocked. He didn’t expect that Victoria turned out to be Cormac’s birth mother.
Right then, he was worried, wondering what Cormac should do.
How would he face the situation?
Jayden passed by Cormac and paused. Raising his hand, he put it heavily on Cormac’s shoulder. “Don’t let her go with the regret.” After that, he walked out of the ward, closing the door. As soon as the door was closed, the outside was isolated as well as the air. The whole ward was quiet without any single sound.
Faintly, Cormac trembled more than earlier. Gradually, he bent over against the wall, sliding onto the ground.
His arms were on his knees. With his head between his arms, his expression wasn’t shown. No one could see that he was crying.
Tears streamed along his cheeks, dripping on the ground.
Right then, he even had no guts to have a look at her.
When Loredana woke up, her nose was fulfilled with the smell of disinfectant. She found that she was in a patient’s gown. She recalled that Victoria had sheltered her from the danger so that she could be safe and sound. Victoria was injured seriously at that time. Loredana wondered if she was fine now.
She lifted the quilt, feeling sharp pains on her legs. She rolled up the trousers and found that her legs were wounded. During the car accident, her legs were trapped somewhere, and couldn’t move.
She guessed that they might have been wounded at that time, but the doctor should have dealt with them.
She slowly walked out of the ward. Since there was no one in the surgery room, she stopped a nurse passing by. “Excuse me, Miss. How is the patient of the car accident now?”
The nurse took a look at her and pointed to the other direction of the corridor. “She’s in that ward.”
“Thank you, Miss.” Loredana breathed a sigh of relief. Since Victoria was in the ward, she believed that Victoria should be fine now. Feeling relieved, she walked over to the ward, seeing Boyce standing there. She quickened her paces.
“Hi, Boyce.”
Boyce walked over to help her up. “Are you all right?”
She shook her head and asked, “Has he come here?”
Boyce hummed in a low voice to answer.
Loredana sensed something wrong from his voice, looking up at him.
“You’ve known it, haven’t you?” he asked.
“What is it?”
“Victoria Forbis is Cormac’s birth mother.”
A bad hunch surged in Loredana’s heart. By instinct, she grabbed Boyce’s arm. “Has he got to know it?”
Boyce hummed.
Meanwhile, Loredana breathed a sigh of relief. She didn’t think it was a bad thing. Even if Cormac found it difficult to face it, his knot needed to be untied sooner or later. Besides, Victoria was injured, and she needed someone to accompany her.
“I’ll go check on her.” Loredana walked to the ward.
Boyce stopped her. “Cormac is in there.” His voice was quite hoarse. “The doctor failed to save Victoria. Right now, he should need a private space.”
Loredana gaped. “What… What did you say?”
Boyce’s words were reechoing in her mind.
Suddenly, a wave of sharp pains attacked her, making her twitched all over and her stomach tightened. She felt quite sickened all of a sudden.
She covered her chest, squatting down on the ground.
Boyce was startled. Holding her shoulders, he asked, “All you OK? Do you need a doctor?”
Loredana shook her head. “I just feel so sorry for him… What should he do?”
She looked up to look at the closed door, tears dropping. She asked between sobs, “Boyce, what should he do?”
If Cormac had got to know the truth at another time, it was fine. However, he knew it at this critical moment. Loredana wondered how much he was suffering now.
She grabbed Boyce’s arm and her nails subconsciously sank into his flesh. In his embrace, she burst into tears.
Boyce ignored the pain on his arm and tried his best to comfort her. “Loredana, calm down. You are pregnant now. You can’t get too emotional.”
Ignoring him, Loredana couldn’t control herself at all. Her mind was fulfilled with the scene that Victoria had tried her best effort to protect her above to avoid the billboard from smashing on her. The red blood flow along Victoria’s neck, dripping, and she gradually exhaled more than inhaling, at her last gasp…
Covering her chest, Loredana choked with sobs.
Boyce couldn’t do anything. Failing to convince her, he let her cry out.
When Loredana got tired, he carried her back to her ward.
Lying on the bed, Loredana peered out of the window aimlessly. She looked in distance, but her eyes didn’t focus. Her eyes were blurred.
Boyce didn’t dare to leave her alone, worried that she might be over-excited to harm the baby in her belly. After all, she had a sign of miscarriage before.
“If she weren’t to save me, she might not die…” Her voice was so hoarse and rusty.
Boyce was standing aside in silence.
“If I could have another chance, I must tell Cormac who she was as soon as I got to know the truth so that she wouldn’t have any regret. Cormac wouldn’t also face the situation that before his birth mother passed away, he hadn’t called her yet.”
Victoria said she had no regret in her lifetime, but all mothers would expect their own children to call them Mom.
“Don’t blame yourself. No one would know such an incident would happen. Besides, you did that for his own good. This matter was relevant to the grudge of the elders. What does it have to do with you? What you should do right now is to take care of yourself and let him deal with Victoria’s funeral. We should respect the dead, letting her rest in peace,” Boyce whispered to convince her while standing in front of the bed.
He heaved a sigh. “Take a good rest. If there’s anything, I’ll inform you. Cheer up and help him deal with things coming next.”
Loredana knew what he meant. Although the news that Victoria was Cormac’s mother hadn’t gone public, as Cormac’s wife and Victoria’s daughter-in-law, Loredana must attend the funeral and other relevant events.
“I know,” she answered hoarsely, gradually closing her eyes. Probably she had cried too much, her eyes were dried out. She felt it cozier when closing them.
Later, she heard that Boyce walked out of the ward. She didn’t open her eyes. However, her tears streamed across her nose bridge, dripping again.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.