Chapter 3

After what felt like forever, I finally managed to regain some strength and rolled to the ground from the bed.

I couldn't stay another minute in this basement. Otherwise, I would just be a sitting duck waiting for them to come back again whenever they needed more of my blood.

At the very least, I needed to keep my child alive.

I used up all of my energy to crawl toward the door. Just then, the door suddenly opened, and my maid, Joanne, walked in. She had always been quite close to me. When she saw me, she let out a loud shriek because I was currently covered in blood and sweat.

I looked as pale as a ghost as I crawled along on the ground. I was a sorry sight.

When I saw that it was her, I did my best to produce a sound from my throat. "H-Help me… Please…"

Joanne got a huge scare. "What happened, Mrs. Lohan? Why were you locked up in here?"

"I'm about to give birth… Please send me to the hospital…"

Joanne quickly picked me up from the floor and helped me up. She immediately took out her phone to call the ambulance. However, after thinking for a while, she decided to call Aldrich instead.

"Mr. Lohan, Mrs. Lohan looks like she's about to give birth. I'm going to send her to the hospital now. Is that okay?"

Aldrich's tone was impatient. "Why bother? Chrissy is still in danger at the hospital. We're going to need her around in case we need more blood. And there's no need to send her to the hospital. I've already told Orlando to give her a tocolytic injection. She won't give birth now," he said.

Then, he ended the call before Joanne could get another word in.

I subconsciously gripped Joanne's shirt hem even tighter, silently begging her not to abandon me. Joanne gave me a long, meaningful look. In the end, she still called the ambulance for me.

"I'm also a mother. I've given birth before, and I know that you're in a lot of pain now."

I was so touched the moment I got wheeled into the ambulance that I nearly cried tears of relief. I thought that I would finally be saved, but as soon as we arrived at the general hospital, there was no available medical equipment for me to safely give birth.

It was all Aldrich's doing. He had ordered all the hospitals in the city to transfer their birthing equipment to the hospital where Chrissy was.

The hospital called Aldrich again, since he was my next of kin and had to be informed.

"Hello, is this Ms. Kelsey Raine's family member? She's currently experiencing dystocia, and her life is in great danger."

However, Aldrich just started yelling from the other end of the line. "Kelsey Raine! How dare you leave the house? And how dare you get someone to lie to me like that?

"I'm warning you, you'd better go back right now to where you came from. Chrissy is still in the operating room. If something terrible happens to her, I'll never let you off the hook!"

My attending doctor just sighed. Seeing that my life was in critical danger, he immediately arranged for me to be transferred to the nearest private hospital.

But even that took another hour, and the private hospital ended up being the same one that Chrissy had been admitted to. No matter how much the doctors tried to persuade Aldrich otherwise, he just refused to release any of the bookings he made on the rest of the medical equipment—not even a single one.

I listened to the argument inside the room and fell to the ground helplessly.

Just then, someone suddenly popped their head out of the room and made eye contact with me in the hallway for just a brief moment. I immediately recognized the person as Edgar.

He went looking for Aldrich, albeit hesitantly, and said, "Mr. Lohan, that bloody woman out in the corridor looks a lot like Mrs. Lohan…"