In the darkness, Lily heard John's voice, as gentle as usual, “Santa Claus will definitely give you the gift.”
Lily knew he was coaxing her and closed her eyes to sleep.
In a daze, Lily felt sweaty all over and woke up from the heat. She felt some pain and wetness at her lower body.
She struggled to reach down between her legs and felt hot liquid, so she woke John up immediately, “John, my water just broke… call the doctor…”
John instantly woke up with a start and hurriedly went next door to call for a doctor.
There were doctors on duty these days, so when they heard the call, they immediately went to the sterile room to change into surgical gowns and transferred Lily from the bedroom to the special delivery room, and shut John out.
Five doctors accompanied Lily, extremely cautious, and they kept a close eye on her throughout.
“Get ready for surgery!”
John was walking around anxiously outside the delivery room.
When he thought of the miserable and painful face of Lily just now, his heart was like being gripped by a hand, so hard that he couldn't breathe.
He had no religion, but at this moment, he began to pray to God, hoping that Lily would be safe and sound.
The butler whispered, “Please calm down, sir. There are five doctors inside with Madam, she will be fine. And you need to be with her after the birth, so you can't panic.”
John breathed deeply and tried to calm himself down, “I don't panic, I'm just a little scared. It's not easy for a woman to give birth even by cesarean section, and my heart aches for my Lily.”
He then asked the butler, “Is five doctors enough? Should we bring in more?”
“That’s enough, sir,” the butler said, “A few more doctors to stay in there would be redundant, please have some water and calm down.”
John took the glass of water from the butler and drank it all in one go. However, he still walked around in front of the door of the delivery room and occasionally put his ear to the door, very nervous and restless.
He stood right in front of the door for an hour and didn't go anywhere.
After a long wait, the door to the delivery room was finally pulled open and the nurse came out pushing a trolley.
John immediately walked over and saw the three little babies wrapped in blankets, each with eyes still closed.
“Sir, all three children are perfectly well, one boy and two girls.”
John only looked at the children for a moment before moving his eyes away and looking into the delivery room, but he could not see anything.
“How’s my wife?”
The nurse said with a smile, “The doctor is stitching up her wound, don't you worry.”
After learning that Lily was also okay, John's heart finally fell relieved and a smile appeared on his face.
He was just about to ask the nurse to take the babies to the nursery when suddenly there was the sound of gunfire from the living room.
Before he could react, there was another clear sound of gunfire in his ears, and then the butler standing next to him fell down.
John caught a glimpse of a man in a night suit coming upstairs.
The man held a gun in his hand and came with deadly fury.
John immediately pushed the nurse into the delivery room along with the trolley and woefully rolled on the floor as a bullet exploded right where he had just stayed.
He quickly fished out the compact anesthesia gun from his pocket and poked his head out, aiming at the man's forehead.
The man just pulled the trigger but the anesthesia bullet went into his forehead. He then fell to the ground almost instantly.
And the bullet he fired hit the wall.
Luckily John changed his position quickly, or his eyes would get shot.
John took two breaths and then took advantage of the few seconds to quickly climb out. He then asked the doctor in the delivery room to block the door while fishing for the man's gun, but he found it had only one bullet.
He dismantled the gun to prevent it from being picked up by the man's companion, rolled to the room and then quickly pulled open the closet. There was a box under there. He opened it, and took out the parts from it to assemble.
Because his hands were shaking, so the assembling was a little bit slow.
When taking Lily here, he only told a few people about this location. And since he secretly changed places in the early morning, he did not expect such a covert location to be found by Jonathan.
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