Chapter 4

The baby she had looked forward to so much was cruelly killed by her own hands.

The moment we went in opposite directions, the last trace of love I had for Camilla disappeared.

Taking the detour almost doubled the time.

After the ambulance finally picked me up, it was again blocked by Camilla's convoy ahead.

The young nurse looked at my rapidly dropping blood pressure. She jumped out and shouted desperately.

"Someone is dying! Move out of the way!"

Jack and Camilla stayed where they were.

"It's my son's surgery today. Jack was right. We can't let someone else's bad luck ruin my son's good fortune!"

Jack said this, and Jack said that. Everything was up to Jack.

Was whatever Jack said a royal decree? He wanted her to kill our baby, so she killed him. He wanted her to block bad luck, and so she did.

A sense of anger rose from deep within my chest. It stabbed through me like a knife.

I struggled to sit up. I then screamed with all the strength I had left. "Camilla, you wretch!"

The woman who heard her name turned around with a dark expression. She kicked the ambulance and made it shake violently.

"Shut up! If you use Frank's voice to call me again, I'll kill you!"

I fell from the stretcher. I lay there with a blank expression. My entire body had already gone numb from the pain.

Eight years ago, the person who rushed me to the hospital during my asthma attack and fought to save my life was her.

Now, the person blocking my way and cutting off my only chance to survive was also her.

It was the same person and the same situation, but the person standing next to her had changed.

I lost the will to survive. 'If you want my life, then take it.'

By the time the ambulance reached the hospital, I had already gone into shock from blood loss. My breathing could stop at any moment.

Doctors ran through the hospital with blood bags.

Only after fresh blood was transfused into my body did the numbers on the monitor finally stabilize.

The doctors collectively sighed in relief. They were about to stitch up my wounds, but the operating room door was suddenly slammed open.

It was Camilla again.

She looked down at me from above. It looked like she was inspecting a pig carcass at the butcher's.

"I want one of his hearts. To prevent any accidents during my son's surgery, I'll buy it at a high price!"

As expected, it was Jack's idea again.

Through blurry eyes, I looked at my son wrapped in a white cloth by the nurse. My teeth chattered uncontrollably.

Camilla pulled out a case of money and poured it all onto me.

"Lower-class people like you only care about money, don't you? Is 100 thousand dollars enough? It's not?"

She retrieved another case and poured all the money onto me. "Let's make it 200 thousand dollars!"

The light pieces of paper covered my body, but they felt like a crushing weight that could kill me.

After a long silence, I used all my strength and nodded. "Okay."

I couldn't stop wondering. If Camilla knew the heart she was taking belonged to me, and the baby who needed it was already dead, what kind of expression would she have on her face?

The doctor still wanted to persuade her otherwise, but Camilla had already dragged the cold storage box with my heart away.

"The deal is done. Whether he survives or not has nothing to do with me."

The moment the operating room door closed, I heard her calling Jack.

"Thank goodness I had you. Now my child is completely safe.

"Once I get through this critical period with the child, I'll come back and spoil you rotten. Be good."

I laughed bitterly and slowly closed my eyes amidst the ever-spreading pool of blood.

Outside the operating room, Camilla suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest.

At that moment, her assistant appeared. Camilla softened her expression.

"Did you find which operating room it is? Let's hurry and wait outside!"

Her assistant didn't dare look up. Fear filled his eyes. He stood still and didn't dare to move.

Just as Camilla was about to lose her patience, her assistant finally spoke in a trembling voice.

"O-Operating Room Three. I-It's this one."

Camilla suddenly looked up. The light above Operating Room Three went out.