Chapter 378 The Fetus Has Formed
Either she or I, one of us always had to get off this car called friendship.
She looked at me, opened her mouth, but in the end, she didn’t say a word.
I couldn’t point at her and curse, call her shameless, call her despicable, nor could I pull her hair and hit her. So, looking at her, I just said in a pale voice, “Goodbye.”
Left the hotel and hurried to the hospital.
Emma was rushed into the emergency room, the hallway was filled with people. William followed, he was without a jacket, standing out starkly in the crowd.
The old lady was so frightened that she became disoriented, and was helped to sit down on a rest chair.
Walter’s hands were covered in blood. After watching the door to the emergency room close, he turned around. His gaze fell on William, calm yet incredibly gloomy.
He approached William, his voice calm, “Big brother, let’s talk outside.”
These words were spoken so calmly that nothing could be discerned.
William looked at him, opened his mouth, said nothing, and finally just nodded.
The two brothers, just like that, walked towards the staircase, one in
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front of the other.
“Tabatha!” The old lady suddenly called out to me, her face full of
worry.
I looked back at her and responded, “Grandma.”
She seemed to age significantly in an instant, her voice growing increasingly frail as she looked at me and said, “Go check on them, don’t let the brothers fight, go quickly.”
I pursed my lips, nodded, and followed along.
At the staircase, by the time I arrived, the two brothers were already fighting. To be precise, it was a one-sided fight. Walter was choking William, pressing him against the wall, beating him almost to death. William did not fight back, like a piece of rotten wood, allowing Walter to punch his face again and again. Even though his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, blood was seeping from the corner of his mouth.
“Stop it.” I spoke up, pulling Walter away. William was released, sliding down the wall to sit on the floor, like a pile of sludge.
Pulling Walter aside, I knew he was angry, and said, “Grandma doesn’t want you guys to fight.”
Walter withdrew his gaze from William, took off his coat, and emotionlessly tossed it onto William’s bare upper body.
Afterwards, he left without saying a word.
I looked at William squatting on the ground, an indescribable feeling in my heart. In the end, I said nothing and turned to leave.
The thing that shouldn’t have happened, eventually did happen.
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Emma’s child was three months old, already formed. The people in the hospital didn’t dispose of it directly, but sent it out instead.
Looking at the formed life in the container, I felt numb all over, my breath almost stopped. The old lady was crying, repeatedly saying, “Retribution, it’s all retribution!”
“The pregnant woman said to leave this to you, the hospital will not handle it anymore, your family members should take care of it,” the doctor said, before re-entering the emergency room.
That formed object was just left there on the ground, no one picked it up, and no one dared to.
In the end, it was William, beaten black and blue, who picked it up. He stared at the lump of flesh, silent, but the pain in his eyes was impossible to hide. After all, it was his child, even if it was just a tiny lump of flesh.
I felt suffocated, as if I couldn’t breathe. I turned away without looking at William’s expression again, and walked alone to the end of the corridor. I looked at the scenery outside the window to soothe my emotions.
Why did everything end up like this in the end?
Mingming, everything was fine just yesterday.
When Emma woke up, it was already noon. Her face was still pale. Seeing me, she pulled a slight smile at the corner of her mouth, as if nothing had happened. She looked at me and said, “Scared you, didn’t J?”
My nose tingled, I shook my head, my eyes stinging uncomfortably, and said, “No, sister-in-law, are you hungry? Grandma just had someone make some porridge, it just arrived, you should eat some.”
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