Todos os capítulos de When the heart breaks twice: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

ADELINE'S POV Maybe he was right. Maybe I was just being paranoid. That night, I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about the surgery. About the baby. About Blake somewhere back home, looking for me. Did he want to find me to hurt me more? Or did he finally realize what he had done? I would never know. Around midnight, Nurse Sarah came back into my room. "How are you feeling, Mrs. Rhodes?" "I can't sleep." "That's normal before surgery. I have something that might help." She pulled out a small syringe. "This will help you relax." "What is it?" "Just something to help you sleep." Something felt wrong. I looked at the syringe more carefully. "I don't want anything right now. Thank you." "Mrs. Rhodes, the doctor ordered this for you." "Which doctor?" "Dr. Mu

Adeline's POV I woke up to the sound of machines beeping. Everything hurts. My whole body felt like it was on fire. "She's awake," someone said. I tried to open my eyes, but they felt so heavy. "Adeline? Can you hear me?" It was Matthew's voice. I tried to speak, but my throat was too dry. "Don't try to talk yet," he said. "You just had surgery." Surgery. I remembered now. The cancer. The baby. I put my hand on my belly. It felt different. Flatter. "The baby," I whispered. Matthew didn't answer right away. "Matthew, where's my baby?" "Adeline, you need to rest." "WHERE IS MY BABY?" I tried to sit up, but pain shot through my entire body. Dr. Mueller appeared next to my bed. His face was serious. "Mrs. Rhodes, the surgery went well. We removed all

"Dr. Mueller, please. Don't listen to her. She's trying to hurt me." "Why would I want to hurt you, Adeline? You're my stepdaughter." "Because you hate me! You've always hated me!" "I don't hate you, dear. I'm disappointed in you. I tried to raise you properly after your mother died. But you were already too corrupt." "You didn't try to raise me. You tried to destroy me." "Did I? Or did I try to teach you right from wrong?" Patricia turned to Dr. Mueller. "Doctor, I think you should call the American police. They can sort this out." "No!" I said. "Dr. Mueller, please. If you call the police, they'll send me back to America. And the people who want to hurt me will find me." "What people?" Dr. Mueller asked. "Drug dealers. They want money that my mother owed them." "See?" Patricia said. "More lies. More excuses." "It's not

When I woke up, I was lying in the grass next to the ambulance. My head was bleeding, and my whole body hurt. "Hope!" I screamed. "Where's Hope?" I looked around frantically. The ambulance was on its side. The back doors were open. Hope's incubator was gone. "Matthew!" I yelled. "Matthew!" He was lying nearby, unconscious but breathing. The driver and the doctor were both hurt but alive. But Hope was gone. And so was Patricia. I tried to stand up, but my legs wouldn't work. "Help!" I screamed into the darkness. "Someone help us!" But we were in the middle of nowhere. No cars. No houses. No help. Patricia had taken my baby. And I didn't know if Hope was still alive. I crawled over to Matthew and shook him. "Matthew, wa

ADELINE'S POV "How expensive?" "Maybe fifty thousand dollars. Maybe more." Fifty thousand dollars. I didn't have fifty dollars. "What happens if I can't pay?" "I don't know. This never happened before." Great. So I was trapped in an expensive hospital with no money and no way to pay. The next day, a man in a suit came to see me. "Mrs. Miller, I'm from the hospital billing department." "My name is Adeline Rhodes." "According to your ID, you are Sarah Miller." "That ID is fake." The man looked confused. "Fake ID is illegal." "I know. I'm sorry. I was hiding from dangerous people." "This makes the billing situation more complicated." "How complicated?" "We cannot bill insurance with fake information." "So what do I do?" "You