“Averie!” Elyette’s eyes welled up as he rushed over and carried Averie out of the tub. “Averie! Don’t sleep! I’ll take you to the hospital right away! You’ll be fine! You have to be fine!”
Averie’s body was as cold as a block of ice.
He could not feel a trace of life in her.
Once they were on the helicopter, the doctor they brought along immediately began to tend to her bullet wound.
Then, he reached out his finger and placed it under her nose.
The doctor’s action provoked Elyette.
“She’s alive. She has to be alive! She can’t be dead! She can’t!” Elyette growled.
The doctor retracted his hand, then looked sympathetically at Elyette and said, “It doesn’t look like she’s breathing, Mr. Foster.”
Elyette’s eyes were instantly filled with a menacing aura!
The doctor quickly corrected himself and said, “I’m not saying she’s dead. She’s possibly in shock after losing too much blood. Ahem, it could be hypovolemic shock!”
Elyette’s lashes fluttered as he took a deep breath. He held Averie so tightly in his arms that it was like he wanted to absorb her into his own body.
Moments later, the helicopter landed at the hospital, and Averie was rushed into the emergency room.
As Elyette stood outside of the emergency room doors, it felt like someone had hit a pause button on him.
It was as if his entire heart and body had been sucked dry!
What would he do if anything happened to Averie?
His phone rang, interrupting his agonizing thoughts.
He pulled out his phone and answered it.
“How’s Averie?! I’ve dealt with Grimes!” Mike said gleefully. “That old b*st*rd! I knew he would escape through the door… We caught him the moment he walked out!”
Elyette’s Adam’s apple rolled in his throat, and he croaked, “She was shot in the arm. She’s in the emergency room right now.”
“Which hospital are you at?! I’m coming over right away!” Mike paused, then asked, “Was she conscious when you found a her?”
Elyette suddenly did not know how to answer his question.
“Say something!” Mike snapped. “F*cking say something, Elyette Foster!”
“She’s definitely still alive,” Elyette mumbled.
Mike understood.
Averie was either already dead, or she was close to death.
“Go home, Mike.” Elyette clenched his fists as he tried to keep his reason intact, then said calmly, “The kids are waiting at home. Go home and explain things to them.”
“Explain? How am I supposed to explain anything?! Do I tell them their mother’s dead?!” Mike mocked coldly. “Why don’t you go and do it?!”
“She’s not dead!” The final ounce of reason Elyette had left instantly vanished. “I said she’s not dead! She can’t be dead!”
It felt like an eternity before the doors to the emergency room opened.
A doctor rushed out and asked, “Are you the patient’s family, Sir?” Elyette approached and said, “Yes! I am!” “Is the patient pregnant? Her abdomen is protruding slightly…” asked the doctor.
“She is! The baby will be four months old soon!”
“I see. The current situation is…”
Elyette could not help but cut off the doctor’s sentence.
“Is she still alive?! Tell me she’s still alive!”
“She’s alive, Sir,” answered the doctor. “Her breathing was shallow when she arrived. After emergency resuscitation, her breathing is slowly getting back to normal. However, she’s got a high fever and she’s lost a lot of blood. We need to treat her fever, then remove the bullet from inside of her.”
Elyette’s eyes filled with tears as he muttered, “I knew she was still alive…”
“May I know your relationship with the patient, Sir? Can you contact her husband?” asked the doctor. “Since she’s pregnant, we can’t simply administer any drugs to her. Any type of medication could affect the baby.”
Elyette froze for a moment, then quickly said, “Treat her first. Use whatever medication you need. Her health is the most important.”
“Oh, are you her husband?”
Elyette’s eyes reddened as he said, “I’m the baby’s father.” The doctor was actually asking him to choose between saving Averie or the baby.
Of course, Elyette would pick Averie. He did not want to give up on the child, but he had no other choice. Their child was almost four months old. If this accident did not happen, they could see what the child looks like in the next maternity check-up!
“Okay, Mr. Foster, please sign this risk disclosure form.” The doctor took a form and passed it to him. “Does the patient have to be anesthetized for bullet removal surgery? Anesthesia would affect the child. If you’re thinking of keeping the child, we can forgo the anesthesia for the patient.”
“Wouldn’t that hurt a lot!” Elyette obviously wanted to keep the child, but at the thought of the surgery without anesthesia, Averie would definitely be in a lot of pain!
“Yes, it would hurt, but it would pass soon,” The doctor said.
“She’s already so weak right now, I don’t want her to suffer any further pain.” Elyette felt his heart torn into pieces. He was so heartbroken that even breathing hurt. “Please use anesthesia for her.”
“Okay.” The doctor accepted the signed risk disclosure form from him, turned, and headed into the emergency room.
Elyette quickly collected his thoughts. Although he might have to sacrifice the child, at least Averie would be fine.
If something were to happen to her, their child would not have survived as well, so the situation at that moment was already the best result possible for him.
In Aryadelle.
Wanda placed a copy of the newspaper in front of Zoe.
“David Grimes is dead.”
Zoe glanced at the newspaper. Her expressions turned cold. “I heard about it yesterday. What a pity! I thought he would be able to kill Averie!”
Wanda was a little disappointed. “Elyette sure is strong. Even David was defeated by him.”
“That’s not only thanks to Elyette alone,” Zoe said distractedly, “But Elyette spent a fortune in saving Averie this time.”
“Oh?” Wanda asked curiously, “Roughly how much did he spend?”
“At least one and a half billion.” Zoe did not know the exact number, but she could probably guess. “He is really devoted to Averie! I have initially given up on him, but seeing how he sacrificed himself for another woman, I’m falling in love with him again.”
“Wake up! No matter how great he is, he belongs to another person.” Wanda’s attention was on Averie. “Don’t tell me that Averie escaped unscathed?”
“How could that be possible? According to my friend, Elyette has been at the hospital for a long time. If Averie only had a small injury, she did not need to stay in the hospital,” Zoe said flatly, “I think she won’t be able to keep the child.”
“Even without this one, she still has the other two. She still could use them to elevate her status!” Wanda said in jealousy “It would be great if we could get rid of her two children.”
Zoe never thought that Wanda would be so cruel.
“Have you ever thought that if you were exposed for doing this, you would be dead!” Zoe warned her, “Let’s just put our focus on money! Averie won’t be able to get up so quickly.”
Three days later, Averie came around. When she woke up, she looked at her strange surroundings, trying hard to think back about what had happened.
It was until her gaze fell onto the drip connected to her, that she instinctively reached out and tried to rip it off.
She remembered that she was still pregnant. She could not touch any medication at all.
“Averie, what are you doing?” Mrs. Scarlet saw that she was woken up. She immediately tried to stop Averie. “You are currently sick. You need to be on the drip. Averie, don’t move. I’ll go get the doctor!”
Mrs. Scarlet immediately went to look for the doctor. Soon, the doctor arrived.
“Miss Tate. You have been shot in the arm. You’ve done the surgery. Today is the fourth day in the hospital,” The doctor patiently explained.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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