Satan recalled how Jude had given him a call about three to four months ago. Her call was unexpected, and he didn’t pick it up during then. He returned her phone call the next day, but she didn’t tell him what she wanted to say. Satan had found the incident rather suspicious as Jude would not initiate a call with him for no reason. It seems like she must have been trying to tell me about her pregnancy during that call. Yet, I missed it. Why? Twice—I only found out about her pregnancy after she lost the baby twice! He found it hard to imagine how terrible Jude must have felt when she lay on the operating table and allowed the doctors to take their baby away.
“We usually tell our patients to wait for at least half a year after the abortion to get pregnant again. I’m afraid she didn’t manage to recover well after the first surgery. Furthermore, after all the blood she lost this time…” The female doctor paused before she continued in a quiet voice. “I’m afraid it’s going to be hard for her to get pregnant again.” Her eyes were glistening with tears as she lowered her gaze. The female doctor no longer said anything after that—she didn’t want to interact with the cold-blooded man before her eyes at all. She wouldn’t have ever spoken to him if it hadn’t been part of her job to do so. Soon after the female doctor left, Jude was wheeled into a VIP ward. Satan felt tears trickling down his cheeks when he saw how pale Jude looked.
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The next time Jude opened her eyes, she felt light and weightless in her body. She felt as if someone had dug out her insides. She blinked a few times before she managed to focus her vision on a bag of liquid that hung above her head. She could see the liquid trickling down a tube into her body. Right then, the nurse walked over to check on the drip and adjust its speed. “Are you awake? How do you feel?” the nurse asked. Jude blinked a few times—she couldn’t seem to form words in her mouth.
“Get some rest. You can always have another baby in the future,” the nurse said.
“My baby…” Jude parted her lips to mouth the words without making a sound. The nurse heaved a long sigh. “You poor girl. That man was too violent with you that day. You should really leave him if you can afford to. There are only two possibilities when it comes to domestic abuse—it either happens none of the time or all of the time. You can’t feel sorry for that man.” This nurse was the same nurse who had stood up for her and criticized Satan outside the emergency room. The nurse had a lot of sympathy for Jude.
“My baby…”
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