Semua Bab Too Late to Want Me; I chose your Billionaire Brother: Bab 1 - Bab 5

“Mrs Dawson, your son needs a blood transfusion soon, or he might not make it.”“Then take my blood, doctor, please,” Benita pleaded, “Do everything to save him, please.” “We’re doing our best, Mrs Dawson. We need a blood that matches, and yours doesn’t.”“What about my husband? Can you check? One of us has to match.”“We’re still running the tests, but if you want him to live, you have to find someone else just in case. Gaby doesn’t have much time left.”Benita froze beside her son’s small, pale body. Gaby was a healthy six-year-old until three weeks ago. Everything took a different turn— the doctor diagnosed him with anemia. An aggressive one, progressing rapidly.Benita pressed her hands to her mouth stifling soft sobs that didn't do justice to the desperation in her heart.“My baby,” she kissed his forehead, “You’re going to be okay, I promise. Mommy will do everything to make you well again. Just hang in there, okay? Hang in there for mommy and daddy.”But daddy- Ben- hadn’t v

Benita hadn’t slept. All night, she sat curled on the edge of Gaby’s hospital bed, watching the soft rise and fall of his chest. The doctors said he was stable now. Despite the ominous aura around Cilian, she couldn't help but be grateful to him.Gaby's tiny hand rested in hers, still warm, still with her.She kissed it. “You held on,” she whispered, brushing hair from his forehead. “You held on for me and daddy.”Well, he held on for her. Just her.A soft knock at the door pulled her out of her thoughts.A nurse stepped in with an apologetic smile. “Mrs. Dawson… I’m sorry, but when can you make payments?”Benita stood, apologetic, “With everything happening… it skipped my mind for a moment, I’m sorry.”The nurse smiled, “I understand ma’am” she said, handing her a slip of paper.Benita stared at the paper.The longest three weeks of her life. Long, lonely days. Emergency care. Blood transfusion. ICU. Ben never came. Even though she had called him a million times. Begged him. Explain

The hallway outside the hospital ward was still. Sterile. Too peaceful for the kind of news Benita had just received.The world had already moved on. They weren’t aware she had lost her world. Her joy, her happiness.“Gaby didn’t make it.” clanged like iron bars crashing against each other in her mind She watched his lifeless body through the glass door. Unable to go in. She slumped to the floor, shaking her head violently as if the motion could undo the truth, but it didn’t, no matter how many times she prayed it away. A wail tore from her throat into the silent hallway. Grief split her open.At that moment, she was nothing but a mother who had just lost her child. Not a Bellington. Not a Dawson. Just a hollow shell.People passed by. A few glanced over. No one stopped. No one could touch the raw pain pouring out of her like blood from a wound.Gaby was gone.Her baby. His soft giggle, his tiny hand clutching hers in sleep, his voice shouting, “Mommy! Mummy!” all over the house w