Chapter 3

My numb heart began to ache once more, far surpassing the tearing pain below.

Seeing me regain consciousness, the doctor who had spoken up for me earlier looked at me with a complicated gaze, his eyes full of pain.

Suddenly, I let out a mocking laugh. Even someone I had only known for ten months felt sorry for me, yet the man who had stayed by my side for ten years cared nothing for my life.

There is no grief greater than a dead heart. Along with the cries of newborn infants, I slipped into unconsciousness once more.

I had no idea for how long I slept, but when I opened my eyes again, the babies were nowhere in sight.

There was no time to feel guilty for not watching over the babies properly. I dragged my torn body out of bed and bolted out of the ward.

A voice in my mind was screaming frantically: I must find my children!

Blood dripped down, leaving a long crimson trail behind me. The pain below pulled at me so intensely that I could barely stand.

Right before everything went black, I finally found my children in the nursery.

Standing outside the window, my heart instantly turned cold.

Why are there only two?

They were covered in tubes. Blood flowed from the tubes, connecting to Jessica on one side and to her own baby on the other.

Both my babies were deathly pale, their cries so weak they were almost inaudible.

My heart was gripped by a sharp pain, and a surge of blood rushed to my head.

I charged into the room and recklessly pulled out every single tube, my hands trembling violently out of fear that I would hurt them.

I wanted to pick up the two babies and tell them that "Mommy's here".

Instead, my hair was violently yanked back by Jessica. She smiled triumphantly, as if she had been waiting for me. With a few swift moves, she knocked me to the floor and heavily stepped on my head.

It was then that I finally realized she was no innocent, delicate college student. Her strength was far greater than mine, even though I had spent years fighting and killing.

"Lisa, you found your way here so quickly!" She had purposely let me witness this scene. "Shouldn't you thank me? If it weren't because my baby needed a heart, you wouldn't even get to have babies with Chris~

"I merely gave him a little push, and he immediately injected you with fertility drugs so that you could breed a litter like a broodmare to serve as a donor pool for my baby.

"Unfortunately, animals are animals in the end. If it weren't because I had no other choice, their hearts wouldn't even be fit for my baby. Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach, so I can only trouble these two to die~"

With that, Jessica raised her hand and pressed down on the head of one of the infants. With a slight exertion of force, the baby's weak cry was silenced forever.

"Jessica, I'll kill you!!"

My entire body shook uncontrollably. How could she snuff out a life so easily?!

I glared at her, my tears mixed with blood.

Hearing my frantic cries, Jessica grew even more excited.

Lifting her hand again, the other baby dropped right before my eyes.

Even though it was only dropped from a height of half a meter... the baby was smashed into a pulp right in front of me.

Blood and flesh splattered onto my face, and in an instant, the entire world went silent.

I felt as if my blood suddenly ran in reverse. I scrambled up and knocked Jessica to the floor.

Yet Jessica only smiled even more triumphantly. Before my hands could even touch her, I was kicked away with immense force.

Before I could make out who it was that kicked me, Jessica burst into frightful tears.

"Chris, save me! I brought Lisa's children to the nursery to stay with our baby because they looked so pitiful, but Lisa got upset and said she was going to kill the children first and then kill me! I'm so scared."