My Mommy’s Brave Heart (Adina and Duke) novel Chapter 3

While lying on the blood-drenched floor, Adina did not even have the time to grieve for her twins since the pain of another contraction crashed into her.

She was all too familiar with this pain by then. It had come right before she gave birth to the twins earlier.

She touched her abdomen, but didn’t sense anything strange.

Could it be… that she hadn’t yet given birth to all the children?

Adina’s eyes went wide.

She did not dare to delay anymore and pushed again, which made blood gush out of her body.

Pain flooded her body, as if she was being torn apart, but determination kept her conscious. Otherwise, she would have fainted a long time ago.

But Adina knew that she could not faint.

If she did, her babies would die of asphyxiation.

She bit the tip of her tongue and drew blood. That was the only way she could remain awake.

“Waaaahhhh…”

Faint cries rose in the air.

Adina’s tears mixed with blood as they slid down her face.

Her eyes lit up, and with great effort, she pushed herself up to take a look.

Two babies!

She actually gave birth to quadruplets!

It was no wonder her stomach had been so big!

And it was no wonder that her appetite had grown so much!

So, she had been carrying four babies all along? God had blessed her with four children…

But her first two babies were gone…

If Dew had delivered them to the hospital, there was no doubt that they would have survived.

Adina had never hated the sister she loved for years as much as she did at the moment.

When she was locked in the warehouse for eight months, she thought she deserved it, because she had become the embarrassment of her family.

But it was only at this moment that she knew that it was all actually the set up of her sister.

Dew had done something so incomprehensible just to steal the position of the heiress of the Daugherty family.

Adina would not spare the Daugherty family, who let it happen…

She forced herself to crawl to her babies.

They were a boy and a girl.

The two babies were covered in blood, but it could not hide their beautiful eyes.

They were her babies, and Adina swore to protect them with all she had.

She carefully hugged them to her chest.

Soon though, she noticed that the warehouse was getting uncomfortably warm.

She looked around and saw the entrance up in flames.

Flames mercilessly charged through the gaps in the metal door and surged into the warehouse. There was furniture near the entrance, and it was on fire in a few moments.

“No… Someone! The warehouse is on fire! Help!”

Adina struck the door in a frenzy.

But no one came to help.

It took her a moment to understand what was going on.

Someone had set the warehouse on fire!

Dew had indirectly killed her first two children, and she wanted to kill her, too, because most of Daugherty Corporation’s shares were still in her hands.

As long as Adina was alive, she would be the greatest shareholder of Daugherty Corporation and threaten Dew’s heiress position.

Hence, she had to die.

The situation was great for it, too. If Adina burned alive in a warehouse after being unable to escape due to major blood loss from childbirth, no one would question it.

Adina was forced into a corner because of the fire. Her babies sucked on their thumbs while they lay in her arms, completely unaware of the looming danger.

“I won’t let any harm come to you, my dears…”

Adina narrowed her eyes and looked at the window; it was two meters up.

……

The Daugherty family’s warehouse went down in flames in the middle of the night.

There were a lot of flammable items in the warehouse, so with the help of the wind outside, the flames quickly ate up the whole building.

Firefighters were called right away, but the fire grew quickly, and it spread so fast that half of the mansion was affected. The damages it caused reached hundreds of millions.

The firefighters only managed to put out the fire at dawn.

A servant went to the master of the house and reported the situation. “Master, the firefighters have cleaned up the area, and they said that someone had started the fire intentionally.”

Aaron Daugherty, the master of the family, slammed his fist on the table. “Someone set us on fire? Who would dare to do that?! How brave of them! Find out who it was!”

Dew was standing next to her father, and a thought sprung into her head at that moment. She whispered, “Father, this isn’t the time to look for the perpetrator. We should first check if anyone is injured. We have dozens of people in the mansion, and if anyone died in the fire…”

The servant shook his head. “The fire started from the warehouse. It was empty at the time, so we have no casualties.”

‘What?! No one died?!’