Elizabeth shouted.
Armand said, “Do as I said, throw it away.”
Elizabeth shivered angrily. “What do you want to do?”
Armand ignored her anger, led her into the room, and closed the door.
“Is she unwilling to drink…”
“Grandma, what’s in the soup?” Armand could tell that the reason why Theresa couldn’t accept the soup was some raw material that she couldn’t take.
He didn’t know what it was, but he could feel the smell of it.
“I used some help to get the placenta from the hospital. And that cost me a lot…”
Before Elizabeth had finished speaking, Armand interrupted her, and his eyes popped widely because of astonishment. “What?”
“That is very difficult to acquire.” Elizabeth still didn’t think she was wrong. She just wanted Theresa to get better soon.
The placenta was only available in hospitals. After the mothers gave birth to their children, most people would not take them home. They would just give them to the hospital. And the hospital would keep them and sell them to those in need.
Of course, these buyings and sellings are always conducted in secrecy. You can’t simply go into a market and buy a placenta with money. The placenta can only be bought using a special method and relationship.
Armand was about to go mad. How could Elizabeth be so crazy and reckless?
“Grandma, are you willing to eat this thing?”
“I am fine and I do not need this.”
Armand took a deep breath and felt almost suffocated. He tried his best to hold back his anger towards Elizabeth and didn’t lose his mind, “Even I can’t accept eating such thing, let alone Theresa.”
Armand knelt in front of Elizabeth while speaking. His eyes were covered with a thin layer of tears. He put his hand on Elizabeth’s lap and sobbed with his head lifted, “Grandma, if you keep messing around like this, Theresa and I might break up because of you. She has already promised you, what else do you want to do? Huh?! Will you be happy if I break up with her? Is it what you want? Do you know how painful I am? You are my beloved grandma and she is my beloved girlfriend. I don’t want to hurt anybody. We all behave carefully and follow your requests just to cater to your will. But why can’t you consider our feelings for even once?”
Elizabeth looked at him, “Armand…Armand…”
Armand covered his face, “I am begging you, please stop it, okay?”
There were tears in Elizabeth’s eyes. She just wanted to help them, but why couldn’t they see her efforts?
Did her kindness and efforts bother them?
Elizabeth also felt wronged.
“Alright, fine, I will just leave you alone, OK?”
Armand sat down on the ground, speechless.
It took him a long time to get up and go to Theresa.
Theresa was still in the room. Armand led Elizabeth to her room and closed the door, so Theresa didn’t know what he said to Elizabeth.
“Grandma has promised that she won’t ask you to drink that soup in the future.” He walked over and said, “Theresa, I’m sorry.”
Theresa knew it was difficult for him to deal with the relationship between her and Elizabeth, so she wasn’t upset.
The more tolerant Theresa was, the more embarrassed Armand Bernie felt.
“Do you know? I’m very weak. I don’t want you to suffer, but I can’t do anything. It feels so bad.” He sat on the edge of the bed, with his elbows against his knees. His back bent down and Theresa couldn’t see his face.
“I know, and I didn’t blame it on you,” Theresa said gently.
“You don’t blame this on me, but I blame myself for being so weak. If I can be more …”
“Be more rough-hearted? Abandon your grandma who raised you?”
Armand smiled bitterly, “Yeah.”
Theresa patted his head, “I would not love such a man. How can I trust a man who abandons his beloved grandma and his humanity?”
Armand put his head on her lap and looked out of the window.
Theresa stroked his hair, “What are you thinking?”
After a while, Armand said, “I had a dream a few days ago.”
“What kind of dream?” Theresa asked.
In that dream, Theresa had left him. After he woke up in the fear of losing her, he couldn’t fall asleep again that night.
He said, “I had a dream about you.”
“What did I do in your dream?” Theresa asked.
She really wanted to know what she would be like in his dream.
“You said you want to spend the rest of your life with me.” Armand turned to look at her.
Theresa got speechless.
“Why are you keep flirting …”
From that day on, Elizabeth had never let Dora Clifford cook any soup again.
Theresa went to the hospital for medical checkups and injections every day.
Loredana kept writing popular science about the process of extracting human follicles. Unlike men, women have limited follicles.
In Theresa’s case, just taking a few follicles was not enough for artificial insemination. Later, medicine would be used to accelerate the process of the maturation of follicles, and then they would be taken out. As we all know, only one follicle is released every month, and only twelve follicles a year. Extracting more than one follicle at a time is a reckless move and will obviously have negative impact on females’ body. She once saw a case on the Internet. A woman who wanted to be pregnant had taken 60 follicles before and after for IVF (In Vitro Fertilization). The whole procedure was conducted again and again for twelve times. She was even injected with different medicine for hundreds of times. Even in the last time, when she was so close to had a baby, pregnancy was terminated for abnormal hormones levels.
How desperate the pregnant women would be when she still can’t have her baby after all these suffering!
The whole procedure was painful and everlasting, and it had even greater crush on the spirit.
If god blesses, everything will be fine and you can have your baby within a year.
There are also people out there who had never succeeded throughout the whole process and eventually gave up in the end.
She continued to scroll the screen.
“What are you reading?”
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